23 New Deals Among them: Bestseller Robert Harris changes houses, the “end of the liberal monopoly,” a major deal for film rights to a psychological thriller that’s being submitted to publishers now, a revealing memoir from the chief of Saddam Hussein’s uranium processing program, why “George Steinbrenner is a Big, Fat Idiot,” a translation of “arguably the greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century,” advice from Deepak Chopra’s daughter for teaching children beliefs and values, a civil rights crusader’s memoir, and of course plenty more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it […]

Lots of New Deals Among the 17 new deals since yesterday: a major deal for a chronicle of suburban life, a new thriller writer from the UK, the Bush-Hater’s Handbook, getting toddlers to sleep, a season-long account of professional bull riding, and as always, lots more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where you can get a daily deal e-mail, see them live, and search our unparalleled database of over 7,000 deals to analyze by editors, agents, houses, trends and more. Our memberships are month-to-month, […]

Lots of New Deals Deal reports are back up with full force again — highlights of the many latest include a former Life Magazine managing editor’s adventures in high stakes poker, a biography of late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, a new house for a PEN/Hemingway winner’s second novel, a romance author moves to a trade publisher, the book version of a popular Aspen Institute seminar series, the Purpose-Driven Life for kids, and lots more. The best way to stay on top of deal news all the time as it happens is by joining PublishersMarketplace — where you can get a daily […]

Welcome Back It’s a bit of a long catch-up Lunch today. Plus, we’ve got about 25 new deals since our last weekly round-up posted over at PublishersMarketplace — I’m not sure yet whether we’ll send out a full round-up this week or wait for next Monday. Our unique database now officially has over 7,000 transactions archived and ready to search by editor, house, author, agent, and more. Available only to members of the site, it’s part of the package that includes all of our great features — including Who Represents, the Book Tracker, Amazoom, the Book Review Index, the most […]

One Last Lunch Before 2003 is over. Below is an assortment of accumulated items that may be of interest. There’s a modest number of new deals posted over at PublishersMarketplace, and as announced previously, we’ve brought our trial period back out one more time over the holidays, when many of you may actually have a little time to explore all we have offer. If you join, you can view our first-ever list of forecasts for the year, and in a day or two we’ll also post a look at the some of the things that went right in 2003. Sign […]

Monday, December 22 FAMOUS LAST WORDS Will the NYTBR really change? Is Sonny really getting fired? Those are the easy ones. I’ve never been the prognosticating type, but ’tis the season, and I’ve learned from Michael Wolff that it’s often most interesting to be blatantly wrong. With that in mind here’s what you can think about looking forward to in book publishing in 2004: Agency Madness The conventional press rarely covers them, but these days the action is with the literary agencies more than the publishers. And oh the changes we’ll see. Small shops will partner up in all kinds […]