Once Again, Lots of Deals Another robust day for deal reports, including: a first novel from an 18-year-old Nigerian student (and lots more fiction, including an author called “reminiscent of Rohinton Mistry and V.S. Naipaul”), the memoir of a recently retired Army officer who concealed that he was gay while serving, a female neurosurgeon with “a kind of Kitchen Confidential for neurosurgery,” a City Journal editor on “the end of the liberal monopoly,” and even two narrative non-fiction books about birds (one about the scarlet macaws, the other about the marbled murrelet), plus plenty more — we’ve added 65 in […]

23 New Deals Among them: Bestseller Robert Harris changes houses, the “end of the liberal monopoly,” a major deal for film rights to a psychological thriller that’s being submitted to publishers now, a revealing memoir from the chief of Saddam Hussein’s uranium processing program, why “George Steinbrenner is a Big, Fat Idiot,” a translation of “arguably the greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century,” advice from Deepak Chopra’s daughter for teaching children beliefs and values, a civil rights crusader’s memoir, and of course plenty more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it […]

Lots of New Deals Among the 17 new deals since yesterday: a major deal for a chronicle of suburban life, a new thriller writer from the UK, the Bush-Hater’s Handbook, getting toddlers to sleep, a season-long account of professional bull riding, and as always, lots 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 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, […]

Lots of New Deals Deal reports are back up with full force again — highlights of the many latest include a former Life Magazine managing editor’s adventures in high stakes poker, a biography of late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, a new house for a PEN/Hemingway winner’s second novel, a romance author moves to a trade publisher, the book version of a popular Aspen Institute seminar series, the Purpose-Driven Life for kids, and lots 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 […]

Welcome Back It’s a bit of a long catch-up Lunch today. Plus, we’ve got about 25 new deals since our last weekly round-up posted over at PublishersMarketplace — I’m not sure yet whether we’ll send out a full round-up this week or wait for next Monday. Our unique database now officially has over 7,000 transactions archived and ready to search by editor, house, author, agent, and more. Available only to members of the site, it’s part of the package that includes all of our great features — including Who Represents, the Book Tracker, Amazoom, the Book Review Index, the most […]

One Last Lunch Before 2003 is over. Below is an assortment of accumulated items that may be of interest. There’s a modest number of new deals posted over at PublishersMarketplace, and as announced previously, we’ve brought our trial period back out one more time over the holidays, when many of you may actually have a little time to explore all we have offer. If you join, you can view our first-ever list of forecasts for the year, and in a day or two we’ll also post a look at the some of the things that went right in 2003. Sign […]