More Pre-Frankfurt Deals Catch on all 70 from this week so far, including the 15 or so from just the last day. There’s a big UK fiction auction that’s being submitted in the US now, a golf writer chronicles life in St. Andrews, Scotland, a new look at Thomas Jefferson’s final years, Trevanian’s return, Michael Eric Dyson’s next two books, foreign sales for Audrey Niffenegger’s hot novel, and as always, plenty more. They’re all viewable right now at PublishersMarketplace.com, where members can view deals as they are reported, get a daily deal e-mail, and search our archive, now bursting with […]

Correction I knew better, but yesterday’s report on the changes at Palm accidentally called the original Peanut Press founder and Palm Digital Media director Dave Strobel — it’s really Jeff Strobel (an error amusingly compounded when it was repeated in PW’s quick crib job of my story last night). Lots of Deal News The wave of pre-Frankfurt deal announcements continues, with another 25 new posts since yesterday. Among the highlights: a big fiction sale about girls at an elite Jewish summer camp, the story of the man who was trapped in a canyon for five and half days and saved […]

Lots of Deal News Another 18 new deals since yesterday include Jodi Picoult’s latest, a big historical fiction by and lots more first fiction, a bio of C.S. Lewis, future gazing, another Robert Heinlein film option, and lots more. They’re all viewable right now at PublishersMarketplace.com, where members can view deals as they are reported, get a daily deal e-mail, and search our archive, now bursting with over 6,000 deals. Plus when you join PublishersMarketplace you also get all of our other great features — our addictive (and now faster-than-ever) book tracker to follow your books’ sales positions and cross-reference […]

Lots of Deal News We’ve got 18 new pre-Frankfurt deals just from yesterday that didn’t make last night’s big Lunch Weekly, posted over at PublishersMarketplace.com — including lots of fiction, three different big “chef books” led by Mario Batali, solutions from “Father Oprah,” and lots more. They’re all viewable right now at PublishersMarketplace.com, where members can view deals as they are reported, get a daily deal e-mail, and search our archive, now bursting with over 6,000 deals. Plus when you join PublishersMarketplace you also get all of our other great features — our addictive (and now faster-than-ever) book tracker to […]

Big Deals Lining Up for Frankfurt Can you really be getting ready for Frankfurt without monitoring the new deal reports every day (as well as contributing your own to stoke pre-Fair interest)? Among the many big deals just posted, a big sale for another British historian, a hot detective series in the UK, a TV writer/producer’s “Reluctant Tuscan,” the U.S. sale for the British sensation PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS, “Sex in the City meets Misery,” a biography of Secretariat, and still plenty more. More than ever in these pre-Fair days, we’ve got new ones reported live all day, […]

Rapper, Reprint, and Revised History Hans Blix’s book is set up around the world, as Rapper Jay-Z tell his story, plus there’s a reprint for the author who says the DaVinci Code borrows from his book, a revisionist history of President Andrew Johnson, and plenty of fiction are among the dozen latest, and as always more, plus new ones live during the day and our unique archive of recent book deals, now with over 6,000 transactions, ready to search by editor, agent, house and more. Plus when you join PublishersMarketplace you also get all of our other great features — […]