More for You Every Day PublishersMarketplace.com continues to gain momentum and members every week. New deals include a home for Legally Blonde author Amanda Brown (and features include an optional daily deal e-mail for members). Every day brings more new proposals and rights on offer, including a fact based novel on honor killings in Middle East and the after effects on young girl. New and updated member postings run the gamut of talented designers, freelance editors, writers, and more. To find dozens of talented (and published) writers looking for agents, go to “search” and click on the “looking for an […]

Deals Have a deal to report? E-mail to michael@caderbooks.com, or just use the form at PublishersMarketplace.com Report a deal using the online form Contardi Goes Out on His Own Another change in the agenting world: Bill Contardi is leaving the William Morris Agency, where he spent the last 11 years selling film and television rights for literary properties. Variety says, “But Contardi’s job became less important to the agency as it rebuilt in the wake of lit division co-topper Robert Gottlieb’s 2000 departure.” While still finalizing his plans, Contardi plans to continue agenting in both publishing and film: “What appeals […]

The Latest On the 25th anniversary of Alex Haley’s ROOTS, travel writer and former college professor (and PublishersMarketplace.com member) Pearl Duncan is covered at MSNBC.com for her book-in-progress, DNA DAWNS BRINGING DAYLIGHT. Duncan “has combined extensive DNA testing with years of research to trace her lineage back to Ghana,” and is pictured in the article with one of her “ancestral cousins” from Ghana. For film and book rights, see Duncan’s Marketplace page. In deals, there’s a multi-book contract for What to Expect co-author Heidi Murkoff, lots of first fiction, and more. Our new simplified registration procedure seems to be working […]

Deals, Proposals, and More Big deal news includes three film deals and a film that’s finally becoming a book, plus an anthology of new material from bestselling authors, and an international bestseller coming to America. Plus, there are a number of new proposals and manuscripts on offer, and a number of talented writers, editors, and illustrators with new member pages, including people looking for agents. And our script to help members track their books’ online sales and bestseller positioning draws more clicks every day. Check it out all by trying a membership at PublishersMarketplace.com. Register at the home page Members […]

One Letter Off My announcement yesterday of simplified registration procedures at PublishersMarketplace.com was slightly hampered by the typo in the embedded link — sorry about that. While you’re there, check out a batch of new deals just since last night, lead by Scott Turow’s latest. Or view a number of new proposals and rights offerings, including “a short and delicious fact-based literary novel about Shakespeare’s daughter.” And browse our ever-growing ranks of talented writers and book publishing professionals in a variety of fields. Register at the home page Members can see new deals every day (and/or get a daily deal […]

A Realization and A Change As I often like to point out, one of the best things about electronic media is that you can experiment, observe what people respond to, and continue to refine what you’re doing. This weekend I finally took my own advice as we made a significant change in how memberships are structured at PublishersMarketplace.com. It finally became clear that we had confused a lot of people by providing two different ways of registering for the site — which meant a lot of people came by and registered, but they signed up for a type of membership […]