book deal
Noun
Meaning
An agreement between a publisher and an author, by which the author agrees to write a certain number of books to be published by the publisher.
An agreement between a publisher and one or more individuals to permit the publisher to publish a book, typically written by a different author, about events in the life of the individuals.
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Examples
People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.
I did not do it because I wanted to one day have a book deal...I did it because I loved it, and I enjoyed it, and I did not know where it was going to take me. I did it out of love of the art.
I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.
Success is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?
I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.
When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; "you should really consider this".