As warned, short and early wins. Otherwise we’d be serving Lunch for bedtime. Deals Lead the News Yesterday we confirmed the sale of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s memoir to Harper, and a full day of over a dozen reports also includes Amy Tan’s first book of nonfiction, Steven King’s children’s book, a former NPR commentator’s inside look at building a democracy in Kandahar (and a movie option for a book about the early days of the US attach on Afghanistan), a big first fiction buy for little MacAdam/Cage, a 500-year look at classifieds, and even a book of funny […]

Tomorrow I’m going on a third grade field trip all morning, so Lunch will either be really early and short or really late. The Latest 10 new reports from yesterday, including a Giller winner’s GARBO LAUGHS, a reprint deal for a German house’s word-of-mouth success and Book Sense 76 pick, America adrift, all about the four technological revolutions of modern warfare, the rector of St. Paul’s on his church’s post 9/11 efforts in caring for personnel at the nearby World Trade Center site, and as usual much more. Members can even get a daily deal e-mail to make it easy […]

All the Latest Deal reports are flowing again, with the newest including Context Books rushing a look at “the propaganda that has pushed the US to the brink of war” hoping for another quick bestseller, a six-figure memoir of the “last black widow of the Civil War,” the UK auction for Rene Chun’s Bobby Fischer bio, a US auction for solving your child’s eating problems, and as usual much more. There won’t be a full Lunch Weekly until next week, so to following everything as it develops join us as a member now at PublishersMarketplace.com, where you can still try […]

Plenty of Deals An official welcome back and Happy New Year to everyone. There are lots of deal reports to catch up on, with many new ones recently arrived, including film deals for fiction and non-fiction, a big first fiction sale in the UK already sparking worldwide interest, our times as seen through the lens of Today Show, the Wiseguy’s sequel, a bio of the man the FBI considered the most powerful lawyer around, fiction from a Paris Review Discovery winner, and much more. Take yourself up on that New Year’s resolution to join PublishersMarketplace and take full advantage of […]

Canadian Author Challenges US Copyright in Peter Pan Emily Somma, author of AFTER THE RAIN: A New Adventure for Peter Pan, recently published in Canada, has filed a pre-emptive suit in Calfornia to protect her book, asserting that the characters in Peter Pan are now part of the public domain. The question is whether Sir James M. Barrie’s copyright, which he gave to the Great Ormand Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, would have expired 50 years after his death, in 1987. A lawyer for the hospital says the 1976 copyright extension act protects the work until 2023. Somma […]

Canadian Author Challenges US Copyright in Peter Pan Emily Somma, author of AFTER THE RAIN: A New Adventure for Peter Pan, recently published in Canada, has filed a pre-emptive suit in Calfornia to protect her book, asserting that the characters in Peter Pan are now part of the public domain. The question is whether Sir James M. Barrie’s copyright, which he gave to the Great Ormand Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, would have expired 50 years after his death, in 1987. A lawyer for the hospital says the 1976 copyright extension act protects the work until 2023. Somma […]