Ever More We’ve got 20 new deals that didn’t get packed into last night’s catch-up Lunch Weekly at PublishersMarketplace, including the winners and losers in the Bush economy, a major mystery deal, punk rock aerobics, a soap star reflects, two successful novels from other countries, the story of a black helicopter gunship pilot and his white racist captain after they were shot down over Vietnam, and lots more (not to mention full access to our 5,000-plus deal archive). Plus you get all of our other great features — an optional daily e-mail, our addictive book tracker to follow your books’ […]

Dozens of New Deals We’ve got over a dozen new deals from yesterday — the battle with the Holocaust denier, a major thriller sale, a big sale on both sides of the Atlantic for a bestselling British historian, why failure and success in business are “not episodes but trajectories,” plus another 10 that I need to post once Lunch goes out, and lots more. Join us now as a member and besides all the deals you get all our great features (including the “addictive” book tracker, the unique book review database, the most up-to-date contact database in the business, postable […]

Deal Lunch, and Deals Update I’m still catching up from BEA so Deal Lunch won’t be ready until later this week. In the meantime, as ever, we are logging new deals all the time into PublishersMarketplace, including among the latest: a mystery writer moving houses, at least one BEA advance reader’s copy that sparks a big foreign rights deal, a self-published success that gets a traditional publishing partner, behind enemy lines with Special Forces in Iraq, and lots more. Join us now as a member and besides all the deals you get all our great features (including the “addictive” book […]

Thrillers, Unlikely Heroes, Opening Your Heart, and More There’s lots of new deals to catch up on, including an interesting take on a new kind of heroes of the Revolutionary War (by General Patton’s grandson), John McLean’s new book, a multi-book deal from the bestselling team of Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt, a big commercial fiction sale in the UK and a major deal for a thriller writer, a funny novel about how to figure out who to date, and much more. As usual, deals are available and updated all the time for members of PublishersMarketplace.com — where you get […]

The Rumor of the Show — Is It True? The word throughout BEA has been that Bertelsmann is indeed acquiring the AOL Time Warner Book Group, but by Sunday, with little else of note happening, it acquired the nod of certainty from many convention goers. If an announcement is to be made it’s expected tomorrow (June 2), and reportedly the New York Times has been readying the story for the last few days. People Wake Up for Moore as Albright Captivates Fireworks from Saturday’s political lunch still resonated at this morning’s author breakfast, as moderator Walter Isaacson told the audience, […]

The Political Debate at the Luncheon Report by Mike Shatzkin The MediaTalk lunch was full of fireworks. Originally conceived as a “fair and balanced” presentation with two on the left, Molly Ivins and Al Franken, facing off against two on the right, Bill O’Reilly and Tucker Carlson, was thrown off-center by Carlson’s absence. Former Democratic Congresswoman and AAP head Patricia Schroeder, who moderated, said, tongue in cheek, that it was perfectly fair and balanced to her. Ivins, whose “BUSHWHACKED” is coming soon from Random House, kicked off the conversation talking about her new tool to analyze the health of the […]