New Deals, Proposals, and More Sizeable new deals include a former Andersen insider’s expose of the culture of greed that’s brought down accounting, the first seven-figure Enron book, a long-awaited Eloise book, a new legal thriller, the fetchingly titled ENTRE NOUS: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl, and more — plus find out about the UK novel that just went to Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella for film rights but has yet to be sold in the U.S. The latest rights board proposal that caught my eye was a published author’s pitch for a literary novel about […]
Lunch for February 12, 2002
Please Note I’m out of town at a conference tomorrow morning, so I’m not sure when it will be possible to serve Lunch. Not only that, but today’s events are a little bit more sugar-free than usual. Which Feature is Right for You? Is it the posted member pages that make it easy to bring the attention of the publishing community to your business or books? Is it the addictive tracking page that follows a whole list of books for you at BN.com, Amazon, 11 bestseller lists, and the Book Sense 76? Is it the live deal news and optional […]
Lunch for February 11, 2002
New Deals, Proposals, and More For all the latest deals in advance of Deal Lunch, including 14 new ones so far since Friday morning (including a paperback deal for the oldest man ever to have his first bestseller, at age 85), join us at PublishersMarketplace.com and click below. The latest rights board proposals continues to fill with new offerings every day, including a recent post for “the real-life account of the 1996 abduction of an airline pilot who was held hostage in Africa as a pawn in an airline deal gone sour.” Last week was one of our biggest ever […]
Lunch for February 8, 2002
New Deals, Proposals, and More New deals include two books that might star Tom Cruise, why the Yankees have ruined baseball, a first novel of baseball and beyond, and more. The latest rights board proposals include lots of new novels, including a Dickensian look at struggles inside a New England factory by a leading professor of law. And every day brings more traffic to our member pages (with over 40,000 page views so far this week), the addictive tracking page that follows books for you at BN.com, Amazon, and 11 bestseller lists, the contact and deal databases, and more. Try […]
Lunch for February 7, 2002
New Deals, Proposals, and More Fascinating new deals include a first fiction pre-empt for a twenty-one-year old student, a novel from Neal Pollack, a biography from Phoebe Hoban, stories of the OSS and the new green berets, global markets post 9/11, and more. The latest rights board proposals include an historical novel that’s sold over 2,000 copies through Xlibris in just a few months. And every day brings more traffic to our member pages, the addictive tracking page that follows books for you at BN.com, Amazon, and 11 bestseller lists, the contact and deal databases, and more. Try us with […]
Lunch for February 6, 2002
New Deals, Proposals, and More If you’re not part of our Marketplace than you missed news of 12 new deals just yesterday, including a brave trek through Antarctica, a booklover’s travel memoir, a pre-empted novel, a big deal for two TV doctors, a newsmaking memoir, and still more. Plus, every day is bringing lots of new proposals from agents and writers on our Rights Board (as I’m sure you noted, Deal Lunch has been carrying news of books discovered and sold through the board). Some of the latest entries include a book on a 1944 commando raid to destroy Japanese […]