First SARS Books and Much More By the time I finish loading them in we’ll have 20 new deals since Friday, including the first SARS books, a memoir about father, golf, and Scotland, a good deal for new historical fiction, and a number of new deals from one those houses a trade magazine thinks isn’t acquiring including new books from John Feinstein and Herman Wouk, and lots more. Constant access to new deals (and searchable archives of almost 5,000 past deals) is one of the big draws for lots of members of PublishersMarketplace, but the site is packed with so […]

Following Blair, New Historical Theories, and More Another 15 new reports from yesterday (and 60 so far this week), including British journalist Peter Stothard’s remarkable up-close look at Tony Blair during the Iraq conflict, the first biography of Mary Todd Lincoln’s family (which fought on both sides of the Civil War), a revisionist history of the World War era as an American campaign to destroy the British Empire and replace it with an American Empire, another fresh historical perspective on the Revolutionary War through the perspective of Native American woman Molly Brant, more movies deal, a six-figure fiction sale, a […]

The Latest Deals Another 14 new ones, including an NPR contributor’s comic novel, the UK auction for a real-life (if slightly goofy) quest for the Holy Grail, two big WWII books (including one that tells the story of the single most decorated American unit in the war and their miraculous stand during the Battle of the Bulge), lessons from maverick advertising titan Donny Deutsch, a new look at the life and letters of St. Patrick, a journalist turns a magazine article into book about how he accidentally shot his best friend, and plenty more. Constant access to new deals (and […]

Williams, Dreyfuss, Hegi and More in Big Deal Day We mailed out over 20 new deals last night to PublishersMarketplace members who get our daily deal e-mail: highlights include seven figures for Tad Williams’ new trilogy, another big auction purchase for Warner to defy a certain speculative story yet again, a novel from Richard Dreyfuss, Ursula Hegi’s next, an unusual deal for a radio host, a new PBS tie-in, and still plenty more. Constant access to new deals (and searchable archives of almost 5,000 past deals) is one of the big draws for lots of members of PublishersMarketplace, but the […]

More Big Deals As is the case on many days the real headlines are in the deal reports: One of the reporters jailed for over a week in Iraq recently signs for a harrowing account of his incarceration combined with the larger story of decades of oppression, a bestselling author jumps from a small house to mid-six figure deal, the rise and fall of the WWF, and contrary to PW’s ridiculous finding last night of “an unusually small number of sales to AOLTW over the last two months” Warner bags a big business book, along with many other new deals. […]

Lots of New Deals As you can imagine, we’ve got over 20 new reports since our last Lunch, including a young snowboarder’s novella for Knopf, a pre-empt for a new thriller author, Susan Orlean’s next book, new research on how enzymes help heal, a memoir from “the funny guy from The Bachelorette,” Bono’s benefit book, political activism for a new generation, former House majority leader Dick Armey’s axioms for success, a novel about the “dark heart of Hollywood” with lots of pre-pub praise, and still plenty more. Constant access to new deals (and searchable archives of almost 5,000 past deals) […]