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 […]

Deal Reports Have a deal to report for Deal Lunch? Just e-mail to michael@caderbooks.com, or use the form at PublishersMarketplace.com Report a deal using the online form Yes, Of Course Houghton is For Sale As you’ll recall we never did believe that “internal e-mail” from new Vivendi Universal CEO Jean-Rene Fourtou that was supposed to “prove” Houghton was not for sale. Earlier today it was confirmed that yesterday the board agreed to a plan that makes Houghton Mifflin the first of the conglomerate’s units that is officially for sale. Vivendi needs to raise about 10 billion dollars from selling off […]

The Latest Deals An award-winning poet’s memoir finds a new home after a long search, a big biography of Clarence Thomas, talking to animals (for a lot of money), big rights sales for Jonathan Safran Foer’s next novel, and much more (about 15 new ones just since Deal Lunch yesterday) every day — reported live all the time, for members who sign up at PublishersMarketplace. Plus, there’s a searchable archive of nearly 3,000 deals, great for researching agents, editors, houses, seasons, topics, and more. Join Marketplace here and enjoy full benefits Go directly to the latest deals Deal Reports Have […]

It Wasn’t the Heat Thanks and apologies to the 5,912 HTML users who noticed that that version of Friday’s Lunch went out scrambled instead of sunny side up. Today’s should be clearer. And the title of Greg Baer’s book should have been REAL LOVE. Tatum, AOL, Dirty Girls on Film, Weisbach’s First, and Lots More On a pretty quiet August Monday the main news is all about deals made and in the making. Tatum O’Neal was serious when she talked about riding the success of former husband John McEnroe’s book to tell her own story. Variety says she’s close to […]