Woody Or Won’t He? The most interesting Frankfurt deal is looking like Woody Allen-in progress, though it’s not clear whether it should really even qualify as a “Frankfurt book.” As best we can cobble together, here’s what has happened: ICM submitted a brief proposal on Friday, in which Allen says that “he is a breaker of taboos — the taboo of family, the taboo of race.” He’s also breaking one or two dealmaking taboos, and has indicated that he’ll only actually write the book if publishers give him enough money, without specifying what’s enough of course. HarperCollins UK has officially […]

Deals, Of Course With Frankfurt underway there’s lots of deal news, of course; most newsworthy is the signing of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, at the heart of the controversy over whether the Bush administration leaked news revealing his wife as a covert intelligence agent in retribution for his statements regarding faulty intelligence about Iraq that found its way into Bush’s State of the Union speech — but there’s also a look at Louisa May Alcott and her father (a well-known transcendentalist and Utopion idealist), a book on ballet from a top practitioner, a biography of Amerigo Vespucci, how to prevent […]

Generals (and a British office), CEOs, and Lots More General Tommy Franks’ big memoir sale is drawing the headlines today, but B.K.S. Iyengar’s new yoga book got seven figures (and a bio of General Wesley Clark is on the way) — as other deal news includes a big UK buy for a self-published novel, the Saatchi and Saatchi CEO looks at the future of brands, boardroom lessons from the woman who founded Parenting Magazine, new insights drawn from the papers (and granddaughter) of the British officer in charge of the camps which built the bridge on the River Kwai, a […]

More Pre-Frankfurt Deals Catch on all 70 from this week so far, including the 15 or so from just the last day. There’s a big UK fiction auction that’s being submitted in the US now, a golf writer chronicles life in St. Andrews, Scotland, a new look at Thomas Jefferson’s final years, Trevanian’s return, Michael Eric Dyson’s next two books, foreign sales for Audrey Niffenegger’s hot novel, and as always, plenty more. They’re all viewable right now at PublishersMarketplace.com, where members can view deals as they are reported, get a daily deal e-mail, and search our archive, now bursting with […]

Correction I knew better, but yesterday’s report on the changes at Palm accidentally called the original Peanut Press founder and Palm Digital Media director Dave Strobel — it’s really Jeff Strobel (an error amusingly compounded when it was repeated in PW’s quick crib job of my story last night). Lots of Deal News The wave of pre-Frankfurt deal announcements continues, with another 25 new posts since yesterday. Among the highlights: a big fiction sale about girls at an elite Jewish summer camp, the story of the man who was trapped in a canyon for five and half days and saved […]

Lots of Deal News Another 18 new deals since yesterday include Jodi Picoult’s latest, a big historical fiction by and lots more first fiction, a bio of C.S. Lewis, future gazing, another Robert Heinlein film option, and lots more. They’re all viewable right now at PublishersMarketplace.com, where members can view deals as they are reported, get a daily deal e-mail, and search our archive, now bursting with over 6,000 deals. Plus when you join PublishersMarketplace you also get all of our other great features — our addictive (and now faster-than-ever) book tracker to follow your books’ sales positions and cross-reference […]