Better In Beige So it turns out, all previous Reed studies notwithstanding, that people like spring, and it’s a good time to come to London for business. The good weather and abundant blossoms of lilac and cherry and profusion of other colors and smells is just another bonus. It turns out that people like having the book fair in the same basic part of central London, in the same type of space as Olympia, only larger and with more amenities (including everything from “salt beef carvery” and a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream stand to short taxi cab lines manned […]

Pulitzers and More Prizes Among publishers, Knopf was the big winner with three awards (fiction, history and general nonfiction): Fiction: THE ROAD, by Cormac McCarthy History: THE RACE BEAT, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff Biography: THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA, by Debby Applegate Poetry: NATIVE GUARD, by Natasha Trethewey Nonfiction: THE LOOMING TOWER, by Lawrence Wright They used to announce the (yawn… ) Orange Prize longlist at the London Book Fair. (Longlist is British for a collection of books we like that won’t win, except for one.) Now, with the April timing of the fair, it’s shortlist time […]

Tenet Angry; Will Take On Cheney Author and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius has some “special knowledge” of what’s in the forthcoming George Tenet book (we heard recently just how special, but you didn’t hear it from me) and he provided a few details to Chris Matthews on CNN. “George Tenet has been doing a slow burn ever since he left the CIA. He’s been angrier and angrier as he saw himself being essentially made the fall guy on WMD in Iraq. And he’s gonna come back saying he and his agency, the CIA, were pushed, again and again, by […]

Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up FICTION Tupelo Hassman’s GIRLCHILD, in which a young girl fights for survival against crippling […]

London Schedules and Reminders Next week we’ll be reporting live from the London Book Fair at PublishersMarketplace.com, and lunches will be dispatched regularly — though they could arrive anywhere from breakfast to tea time depending upon where you are (and how we’re holding up). As always, deals, jobs, and all other PM.com site functions will hum along smoothly. As noted earlier this week, if you’re at the fair, come by the Publishers Lunch “news desk” in the Rights Center to report deals, say hello, and with luck help yourself to an afternoon cookie. Perseus to Combine Sales Force with PGW; […]

End of the Morgan Road Broadway announced that they will “focus, going forward, on those imprints that most strongly reflect the diversity of our core publishing program, and will be discontinuing Morgan Road Books.” Publisher Amy Hertz and two other editorial staff members will leave the company shortly as a result. Executive director of publicity David Drake says, “Morgan Road Books was an experiment, one we tried very hard to make work, as did Amy and her team, but we concluded that it does not make business sense to continue with the imprint.” The line will have published 17 books […]