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SPRING 2019 LONDON table of contents 1 Introduction Fiction: 2 Edgar Cantero 4 Elizabeth Church 5 Lynn Cullen 6 Alex George 7 Sara Gruen 8 Beth Gutcheon 02 9 Brady Hammes 10 Elizabeth Hardinger 2 7 11 Vanessa Hua 13 Alka Joshi 14 Roland Merullo 15 Colleen Oakley 17 Jill Orr 18 Nina Sadowsky 19 Carol Wallace 20 Gina Wohlsdorf 10 15 Non-Fiction: 11 21 Galit Atlas 22 Kim Bendheim 23 Wendy Doniger 24 Duncan Hannah 25 Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche 26 Helen Scales 26 25 27 Philip Short 28 Richard Snow 22 Young Adult Fiction: 29 Megan Cooley Peterson 30 Kylie Schachte esa 245 East 80th Street, Suite 7E 31 Backlist New York, NY 10075 (646) 827-4381 | [email protected] 35 Co-agents www.emmasweeneyagency.com P . 1 W e're excited to share with you our If you would like additional information latest rights guide (Spring 2019), which about any of the titles, please contact ESA includes new titles from New York Times rights coordinator, Hannah Brattesani bestselling authors Sara Gruen and ([email protected]). Mi ngyur Rinpoche, Colleen Oakley, a A list of our foreign co-agents can be Spring/Summer buzz book from Elizabeth found on the last two pages of this guide. Hardinger, and highlights from our backlist. We wish you an enjoyable book fair! All best, Margaret Sutherland Brown Emma Sweeney Hannah Brattesani P . CANTERO,EDGAR 2 A D T H I S B O D Y ' S U L N O T B I G T E N O U G H F O R F I C B O T H O F U S T I O Doubleday: July 31, 2018 N Translation: ESA Finished copies: Available “AUDACIOUS, CLEVER, AND RIDICULOUSLY ENTERTAINING AT EVERY PAGE TURN… EXTRAORDINARILY ALLURING.” - SYFYWIRE A brilliantly subversive and comic thriller celebrating noir detectives, Die Hard, Fast & Furious, and the worst case of sibling rivalry, one that can only come from NYT Bestselling author HTS Edgar Cantero. RIG BLE ILA AVA Adrian and Zooey are a genetic chimera —a brother and a sister sharing one "THE FUNNIEST PRIVATE brain and one body. When the siblings INVESTIGATOR THIS SIDE OF PETER aren't fighting each other--or spending SELLERS.” - NEW YORK their time locked away in a mental JOSH MALERMAN, institution--they run a successful PI TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BIRD BOX business. Zooey and Adrian are hired to solve the murder of a drug lord's son which threatens to set the corrupt city "FEW WILL BE ABLE TO RESIST of San Carnal alight with gang warfare; CANTERO’S BROAD, QUIRKY in this world of luxury villas, vintage HUMOR.” muscle cars, and an eleven-year-old - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY femme fatale, we find out once and for all if two heads really are better than “IT PACKS MORE REFERENCES, one. ASIDES, CALL-OUTS AND SIDE-EYES INTO A SINGLE PARAGRAPH THAN Golkonda/Germany, A&E Rights Sold: ANYTHING YOU’VE EVER READ." Studios/Film, Titan Books/UK - NPR P . CANTERO,EDGAR 3 A D M E D D L I N G U L K I D S T F N E W Y O R K T I M E S I C B E S T S E L L E R T I Anchor Books: May 29, 2018 O Translation: ESA N Finished Copies: Available 1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club haven’t seen each other since their fateful, final case in 1977. Now, the time has come to uncover the source of their nightmares and return to where it all began. Meddling Kids is in development with Amazon Studios. It was an Indie Next HTS RIG Pick and, Barnes & Noble Discover BLE ILA pick. AVA Rights Sold: Insolita/Spain, Editora “MEDDLING KIDS IS THAT RAREST Intrinseca/Brazil, Fumax/Hungary, OF THINGS: A BRILLIANT IDEA Titan/UK, WME-IMG/Film WEDDED TO BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECTLY-PITCHED EXECUTION.” EDGAR CANTERO is a writer and - NPR cartoonist from Barcelona working in Catalan, Spanish, and English. He is “DEVOUR IT IN ONE PLEASURE- the NYT bestselling author of This SPIKED RUSH.” Body's Not Big Enough for the Both of - THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE Us, Meddling Kids and The Supernatural Enhancements. Edgar “AN ADVENTURE THAT MESHES lives and writes in LA. LOVECRAFT-LIKE ELEMENTS WITH AN ECO-CATASTROPHE THRILLER, PROVIDING CHILLS AND CHUCKLES IN EQUAL MEASURE.” - FINANCIAL TIMES P . CHURCH,ELIZABETH 4 A A L L T H E D U B E A U T I F U L L T G I R L S F I C T Ballantine: March 6, 2018 I UK/Translation: ESA O N Finished Copies: Available In a childhood of tragedy and betrayal, Lily Decker finds solace in dancing, eventually receiving a “scholarship” to practice her passion —courtesy of a mysterious benefactor. Now grown and ready to leave home for good, Lily changes her name to Ruby Wilde and head to HTS RIG BLE Las Vegas where she must learn to ILA AVA navigate the world of men—and to recognize real love. Rights Sold: Fourth Estate/UK “TRANSPORTS US TO A WORLD OF OSTRICH-PLUMED HEADDRESSES ELIZABETH J. CHURCH is the author AND PINKIE-RINGED MOBSTERS of The Atomic Weight of Love, which WHILE TRACING A TUMULTUOUS was a #1 Indie Next List selection and QUEST FOR ACCEPTANCE AND a Target Club Pick, and was LOVE.” shortlisted by the ABA Indies Choice - PEOPLE MAGAZINE Book Awards for adult debut book of the year and the Reading the West “CHURCH PAINTS AN UNFLINCHING, Book Awards for best adult fiction. All FREQUENTLY HEARTBREAKING the Beautiful Girls is her second PORTRAIT OF A RESILIENT YOUNG novel. She lives and writes in WOMAN’S COMING-OF-AGE SET northern New Mexico. AGAINST AN EXCITING, GLAMOROUS BACKDROP." “NO ONE CAPTURES THE - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY EXUBERANT PASSIONS AND INNER STRUGGLES OF WOMEN LIKE ELIZABETH CHURCH.” - MARTHA HALL KELLY, AUTHOR OF LILAC GIRLS P . CULLEN,LYNN 5 T H E S I S T E R S A D O F S U M M I T U L T A V E N U E F I C Gallery: September 10, 2019 T ESA I UK/Translation: O Manuscript: Available N From the bestselling author of Mrs Poe and Twain's End comes a powerful novel set in the Midwest during the Great Depression, about two sisters bound together by love, duty and pain. It’s 1934, at the height of the Dustbowl, Dillinger, and Depression years. The most beloved woman in America is Eleanor Roosevelt. The second most beloved is Betty Crocker. HTS RIG In their disparate homes in the BLE ILA AVA Midwest, two sisters have been locked in a lifelong competition. One sister, beautiful, adored, and wealthy, LYNN CULLEN grew up in Fort has been employed to portray Betty Wayne, Indiana and is the bestselling Crocker, gently tricking the legions of author of Twain’s End (Gallery fans who believe Betty is a woman 2015) and Mrs. Poe (Gallery 2013), rather than a flour company's mascot. which was named a Target Book Club The other sister is plain, difficult, and Pick, an NPR 2013 Great Read, and an poor--yet she is the one who married Indie Next List selection. She lives in the man who is the love of both Atlanta surrounded by her large sisters’ lives. Her luck, he has family. succumbed to Sleeping Sickness, an epidemic which has trapped millions of sufferers within their own bodies, able to hear and see but unable to act. When he is offered a cure, the sisters must decide with whom their allegiance truly lies. P . GEORGE, ALEX 6 A T H E P A R I S D U H O U R S L T F I 2020 Flatiron: C UK/Translation: David Higham T Associates I O Manuscript: March 2019 N Set in Paris over the course of a single day in 1927, we join an ensemble of four residents as they navigate the twenty-four hours that will, unbeknownst to them, realign the course of each of their lives. We meet Souren, an Armenian refugee, who puts on a daily puppet show, reenacting the tragic story of how he arrived in France; Guillaume Blanc, a struggling artist whose life is shackled to the memory of a muse, and whose survival depends on the ALEX GEORGE is the author of the sale of a single painting; JeanPaul national and international bestseller who is bound to the city by a similar A Good American (Amy Einhorn sense of loss; and, finally, Celeste the Books, 2012), which was named the maid, and friend, of the eccentric, Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and now deceased, Marcel Proust, #1 Pick for Indie Next, B&N Top Staff who must decide if selling Proust's Pick for Fiction and Spring Discover private writings is a venial action to Pick, one of Amazon's "Best Books of save her family from financial ruin. the Month," and received numerous other accolades. His latest novel, The streets sparkle with a crown of Setting Free The Kites, was published Jazz Age figures with appearances by by Putnam 2017 and reprinted in Josephine Baker, Ernest Hemingway, paperback this year. Born in England Gertrude Stein, all providing clever and educated at Oxford, Alex contrapuntal backdrops for each currently lives in Columbia, Missouri protagonist. with his wife and their four children where he also runs the Unbound Book Festival and indie bookstore Unbound Books. P . GRUEN, SARA 7 A U N T I T L E D D U L T 2020 Random House: F ESA Translation: I Manuscript: Fall 2019 C T I O A new historical novel from Sara N Gruen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants (translated into forty-three languages with sales of more than 10 million copies worldwide), a tale of love and intrigue that takes place on Black Tuesday, in October 1929, aboard the famous Orient Express.