Greetings As far as I’m concerned today really ought to be Labor Day, but since the calendar says it is not it’s time to resume our daily Lunch. Please indulge me if it takes a little while to restart the engine, particulary since I have to deliver two books over the next two weeks. But I hope everyone had a nice end to summer. There will be no Lunch on Wednesday, September 11 and on Monday, September 16. Deal Lunch will be published some time this week, but not today (as usual, to stay on top of all the most […]

Notes and Links As noted before, this is our last regularly scheduled Lunch for as much about the next two weeks. If possible we’ll at least get out a Deal Lunch somewhere in the meantime, so feel free to continue to reporting. These handy links will still work even while the e-mail side is quiet: Report deals here View new deals live here, if you’re a PublishersMarketplace.com member Join PublishersMarketplace.com View new job postings Post a job ad Look at new proposals and rights offerings here (new ones appear every day) Sign up to get Publishers Lunch once we resume […]

A Scheduling Note As noted yesterday, Lunch will finally take a little vacation starting later this week — I’m not sure of the final schedule, but Wednesday will be our last daily for at least a week, and maybe for as much as two weeks, though I could resurface for a day or two in the middle there. Clear enough? In any event, deals will continue to be logged (posted right away at Marketplace, and distributed when I’m back through Deal Lunch), and everything else at Marketplace and the job board will stay active. The Latest Deals New just since […]

A Scheduling Note Lunch will finally rest a little bit starting later this week — I’m not sure of the final schedule, but Wednesday will be our last daily for at least a week, and maybe for as much as two weeks, though I could resurface for a day or two in the middle there. Clear enough? In any event, deals will continue to be logged (posted right away at Marketplace, and distributed when I’m back through Deal Lunch), and everything else at Marketplace and the job board will stay active. The Latest Deals You could have caught one big […]

Race and Medicine, Poetry for the People, and More A controversial book on the racial divide in medical care and a chronicle of medical experimentation with African Americans, an anthology from Billy Collins, a poker champion’s colorful memoir, how to eat like a Republican, a big biography, a new option for Philip Pullman, and a lot more — reported live all the time, for members who sign up at PublishersMarketplace. Plus our deal database is about to hit 3,000 transactions — great for researching agents, houses, topics, seasons, and more — and our other resources at PublishersMarketplace.com continue to grow. […]

Big Auction for Current Bestseller, and More It’s finally sounding a little bit more like August in our deal reports, but new ones still include a big paperback sale for a current bestsellers, learning from dogs, pain-free arthritis, and more. Plus our deal database is about to hit 3,000 transactions — great for researching agents, houses, topics, seasons, and more — and our other resources at PublishersMarketplace.com continue to grow. Have you tried the e-mail contact database, or the Lunch archive, or our innovative book tracker, or our rights and proposal posting board? It’s all still open for trying with […]