Editor’s Note Please chalk up any intemperate remarks or excessive typos today to a rare combination of a lot of snow, two extremely excited boys, and a confused puppy. The Latest Deals Among the 20 new ones since yesterday: a major fitness deal, a first novel from an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, all about Hezbollah (and a longstanding cell operating out of North Carolina), a number of big foreign sales, lots of fiction and chick lit, and plenty more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where […]

Lots of New Deals We’ve got over 20 new deals so far on top of last night’s weekly deal round up, including a children’s book for soccer star Mia Hamm, a former book editor who sets out to captain her own boat in a transatlantic rally, a recent award-winning Iowa grad’s memoir of liberating herself from the war her father fought, the confessions of a Mafia doctor, fiction from a 19-year-old Nigerian, a book pitched as Running with Scissors for fat (on submission in the US and UK soon), learning from Wal-mart, and plenty more. The best way to stay […]

Lots of New Deals Among the nearly 20 new ones since last Friday morning: A recent discovery that may revolutionize biology, Kenneth Pollack’s new look at one of our most troubled international relationships, Christopher Kennedy Lawford’s “tell-all” memoir, children’s books from director Luc Besson (and another six-figure YA deal), a big sale for The Girls Guide to Everything, inside the art market, more chick lit, and still plenty more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where you can get a daily deal e-mail, see them […]

The Latest Deals As usual we’ve got about 15 new deals so far since yesterday; what’s more unusual is that they’re almost all fiction. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where you can get a daily deal e-mail, see them live, and search our unparalleled database of over 7,000 deals to analyze by editors, agents, houses, trends and more. Our memberships are month-to-month, so you’re never committed for very long. Once you try it, you’re going to use it. Register here for PublishersMarketplace.com Go directly […]

Today’s Sales Another big deal for a literary agent as author, a significant deal for a forensic scientist as thriller writer, the latest science on lefties, “an East Coast Confederacy of Dunces,” and still plenty of others. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where you can get a daily deal e-mail, see them live, and search our unparalleled database of over 7,000 deals to analyze by editors, agents, houses, trends and more. Our memberships are month-to-month, so you’re never committed for very long. Once you […]

“Pearl” Publisher Rushes Another French Connection Small press Melville House is becoming the publisher of choice for French journalists who want to engage American readers. After last year’s success with Bernard-Henri Levy’s WHO KILLED DANIEL PEARL, Hoboken’s leading independent publisher has signed Le Monde editor Jean-Marie Colombani and The International Herald Tribune executive editor Walter Wells for DANGEROUS DE-LIAISONS. Written as a dialogue between the two, they examine the strained relationship between France and America, now and going forward as well as in historical context. The book will release March 1 (which is part of why publisher Dennis Loy Johnson’s […]