FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE 2018 NEW & UPCOMING RELEASES (2) MEMOIR Agent: Joseph Veltre Editor: Roger Scholl Crown (tk) Poland (Agora SA) Territories Sold: World* Format: N/A Alpha Girls By Julian Guthrie Alpha Girls is the untold story of the real unicorns of Silicon Valley — the women who identified, dressed down, moved up and built the companies that changed the world. The book explores the rise of such companies as Microsoft, Facebook, Tesla, Oracle, Salesforce and more – all through the eyes of trailblazing “alpha girls” of Silicon Valley. **Film: Under Option To Welle Entertainnament (3) NON-FICTION Agent: Joseph Veltre Editor: Ben Hyman / Bloomsbury Territories Sold: World English Format: Book The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids By Alexandra Lange Parents obsess over their children's playdates, kindergarten curriculum, and every bump and bruise, but the toys, classrooms, playgrounds, and neighborhoods little ones engage with are just as important. These objects and spaces encode decades, even centuries of changing ideas about what makes for good child-rearing--and what does not. Do you choose wooden toys, or plastic, or, increasingly, digital? What do youngsters lose when seesaws are deemed too dangerous and slides are designed primarily for safety? How can the built environment help children cultivate self-reliance? In these debates, parents, educators, and kids themselves are often caught in the middle. Now, prominent design critic Alexandra Lange reveals the surprising histories behind the human- made elements of our children's pint-size landscape. Her fascinating investigation shows how the seemingly innocuous universe of stuff affects kids' behavior, values, and health, often in subtle ways. And she reveals how years of decisions by toymakers, architects, and urban planners have helped--and hindered-- American youngsters' journeys toward independence. Seen through Lange's eyes, everything from the sandbox to the street becomes vibrant with buried meaning. The Design of Childhood will change the way you view your children's world--and your own. (4) LITERARY FICTION Agent: Joe Veltre Editor: Brian Lam Arsenal (May 10, 2016) Territories Sold: North America Format: Book THE MERCY JOURNALS By Claudia Casper Most of us track the various headlines of the day, pondering their impact on our personal lives, but behind those thoughts looms a much darker cloud: we know we are unalterably changing our planet. The sheer scope of this pending drama makes its reality hard to comprehend or personalize. Claudia Casper’s new novel, THE MERCY JOURNALS, is set in that very world we fear is coming. It is March 2014. Allen Quincy is an ex‐soldier living in Seattle, who has managed to survive years of serious PTSD by shrinking his life down to the smallest, most banal existence possible. The story opens with Quincy beginning to write a journal in a desperate bid to regain his sanity. His estranged wife has died, and he hasn’t seen his children or brother in years. Into his world strides a woman wearing red heels who rips the lid off his careful and controlled strategy, putting his very life at risk. From the beginning, Casper deftly seeds the possibility of redemption for a man on the edge of his own destruction. **Nominated for 2017 Philip K. Dick Award** (5) YOUNG ADULT FICTION Agent: Joe Veltre Editor: Georgia McBride Month9Books (October 2017) Territories Sold: North America Format: Manuscript TUDOR ROSE By William H. Doyle Writing as W.H. Doyle, children’s author Bill Doyle has developed a proposed historical romance series for young adults. Two teenage best friends in 16th‐century England, Sybille and Rose, find themselves on an exciting journey to the Queen’s court in the hope of being named ladies‐in‐waiting. They aren’t the only girls, however, who have their sights set on attending Her Majesty. Upon arriving to court, the girls realize they are up against more “worldly,” chic girls, among them mean‐girl Avis. Soon, the grand hall is more like the hallway of a high school, with girls fighting for the attention of a dashing, young earl, amid parties fueled by drinking and sex. As the tension between Sybille and Avis heats up, the focus on Rose wanes, allowing her to turn her attention to more important matters – like getting close enough to the Queen to learn her secrets. Is she a spy? If so, for whom? Part mystery, part romance, TUDOR ROSE is an exciting new series. (6) FICTION Agent: Joseph Veltre Editor: Karen Kosztolnyik Scout Press (May 2017) Territories Sold: World English France (Sonatine) Poland (Prószyński) Italy (Casa Editrice Nord) Format: Book THE PARTY By Robyn Harding The Party takes us behind the façade of the perfect family, exploring the secrets, betrayals and moral lapses the neighbors don’t see. Sweet sixteen. It’s a coming of age, a milestone, a rite of passage… Of course Jeff and Kim Sanders would throw a party for their daughter, Hannah. She was a good kid with good grades and nice friends. And it wasn’t a big, indulgent affair. It was just four girls coming over for pizza and cake, movies and a sleepover. What could possibly go wrong? But things did go wrong, horrifically wrong. When a tragic accident leaves one of the young guests disfigured, Jeff and Kim’s picture‐book life in a wealthy San Francisco suburb begins to unravel. The injured girl’s mother, Lisa, files a lawsuit that turns friends into enemies, reveals dark secrets in the Sanders’ marriage, and exposes the truth about their perfect daughter, Hannah. Lisa’s determination to make the Sanders pay stems from a fierce love for her only child and Lisa’s own dark and damaged past. At school, Hannah must deal with the ugly aftermath as her peers turn on the victim, and she struggles to maintain her social standing while heeding her moral compass. Her popular best friend, Lauren, is losing herself to drugs, alcohol, and a relationship with an inappropriate older man. Then a shocking, horrifying act of desperation rocks their upscale world and brings the legal battle to a halt. And no one’s life will ever be the same… (7) Non- FICTION Agent: Joseph Veltre Editor: Territories Sold: Poland (Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal) German (Knopp Verlag) Spain (Urano) Format: Book SURVIVING DEATH: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife By Leslie Kean Leslie Kean’s impeccably researched, page‐turning investigation reveals stunning and wide‐ranging evidence suggesting that consciousness survives death. Here she continues her examination of unexplained phenomena that began with her provocative and controversial New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record. Kean explores the most compelling case studies involving young children reporting verifiable details from past lives, contemporary mediums who seem to defy the boundaries of the brain and the material world, apparitions providing information about their lives on earth, and ordinary people who recount some of the most extraordinary near‐ death experiences ever recorded. Kean's first book, and her credibility as a seasoned and well‐respected journalist, made people take notice of a topic that many considered implausible. This book will do the same—this time enriched by Kean’s reactions to her own perplexing experiences encountered while she probed the universal question concerning all of us: Is there life after death? (8) MEMOIR Agent: Joseph Veltre Editor: Julie Grau Spiegel & Grau (September 20, 2016) HarperCollins Canada Territories Sold: World English Format: Book BASED ON A TRUE STORY By Norm MacDonald Norm MacDonald is perhaps best known for his five seasons as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” (SNL). For three years, MacDonald anchored “Weekend Update,” SNL’s longest running recurring sketch. MacDonald also wrote for the popular ABC sitcom “Roseanne” and starred in “The Norm Show” from 1999 to 2001. Comedy Central named him #83 on the five part miniseries “100 Greatest Stand‐ups of All Time.” He is also noted as one of Conan O’Brien’s favorite and most frequent guests on his various talk shows. This is the story of his life in show business from his early days travelling the country doing stand‐up, to moving to Hollywood to write on “Roseanne,” to his 3 ½ years at SNL and ignominious departure, to writing and starring in the cult classic “Dirty Work,” to having his own sitcom, to his many talk show appearances, to “Roasting Bob Saget.” It’s an outsider’s inside account of show business. (9) YOUNG ADULT Agent: Joseph Veltre Editor: Sara Sargent Simon Pulse (July 4, 2017) Territories Sold: World English Format: Book BOMBSHELL By Rowan Maness Joss is a sixteen‐year‐old girl Catholic school girl who finds escape from her stifled and traumatic reality by creating multiple online personas, each of whom enchant unsuspecting men. Her carefully separated worlds of reality and illusion collide when an individual discovers her hobby, promising to make Joss pay. (10) FICTION Agent: Joseph Veltre Editor: Alexandra Cooper HarperCollins (March 6, 2018) Territories Sold: North America Italy (HarperCollins) Brazil (Pensamento) Russia (AST) Poland (Jaguar) The Netherlands (Image Group Holland) THE FINAL SIX Turkey (Epsilson) Russia ( Editura Art) By Alexandra Monir Romania (Editura Art) THE FINAL SIX imagines a present‐day world under a first‐of‐its‐kind Format: Manuscript coalition between the United Nations and the international space agencies, with a plot to send a team of six intrepid teenagers to create the first human settlement on Jupiter’s moon Europa. The high‐concept hook touches on aspirational and relevant themes of environmentalism, global unity, and leadership. ** Film: Under option to Sony ** (11) SCI‐FI/FANTASY Agent: Joseph Veltre Editor: Jennifer Gunnels Tor (February 21, 2017) Territories Sold: World English Format: Manuscript COLD COUNSEL By Chris Sharp SLUD of the Blood Claw Clan, Bringer of Troubles, has arrived.