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Frankfurt 2014 Rights Guide Frankfurt 2014 Rights Guide www.apub.com For Foreign Rights Inquiries, please contact: Jennifer Bassuk Alexandra Levenberg Director, Global Rights Associate, Global Rights Amazon Publishing 1350 Avenue of the Americas, 17th Floor New York, New York 10019 [email protected] Rights Guide Table of Contents Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards . 3 47North . 7 AmazonEncore . 34 Amazon Publishing . 39 German Language Titles—Amazon Publishing . 56 Grand Harbor Press . 66 Jet City Comics . 71 Lake Union Publishing . 75 Little A . 101 Montlake Romance . 114 StoryFront . 146 Thomas & Mercer . 151 Waterfall . 190 For Media Inquiries, please contact: [email protected] 2 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Winners 3 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Winners 2014 Grand Prize Winner — Mystery & Thriller 2014 Winner — Romance 3/31/2015 2/17/2015 The Dead Key The Bluestocking and D. M. Pulley the Rake Norma Darcy Rights Available: All Languages Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: Audio Rights Sold: Audio It’s 1998, and for years the old First Bank of Cleveland has The Earl of Marcham has decided to put the excesses of his sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only colorful youth—or the most egregious of them, at least— speculated on by the outside world. firmly behind him in order to procure an heir. Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and As he begins his search for an appropriate wife, a straight-laced allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland’s largest bank spinster releases a morality pamphlet exposing some of the earl’s in the middle of the night, locking out customers and employees, and most scandalous misdemeanors. Not one to shirk an offense, thwarting a looming federal investigation. In the confusion that Marcham decides that the most appropriate way to avenge himself is followed, the keys to the vault’s safe-deposit boxes were lost. to seduce her . In the years since, Cleveland’s wealthy businessmen kept the truth Miss Georgiana Blakelow had long given up any hope of marriage. buried in the abandoned high-rise. The ransacked offices and Instead, she has resigned herself to serve as governess to her siblings forgotten safe-deposit boxes remain locked in time, until young and to save the family estate from complete ruin—if only that cur of engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey. an earl who won the estate in a poker game would be reasonable. What begins as a welcome break from her cubicle becomes an obsession as Iris unravels the bank’s sordid past. With each haunting As the sparks fly and Marcham finds himself unexpectedly attracted revelation, Iris follows the looming shadow of the past deeper into the to this most unusual spinster, Miss Blakelow becomes more vault—and soon realizes that the key to the mystery comes at an determined than ever to keep him at a safe distance, despite the risk astonishing price. to her family’s home and legacy. The closer he comes, the more likely the earl is to discover that his bluestocking is not all that she seems. 2014 Winner — General Fiction 2014 Winner — Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 2/24/2015 3/10/2015 A Pledge of Silence The Mengele Effect Flora J. Solomon Chuck Grossart Rights Available: All Languages Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: Audio Rights Sold: Audio In this sweeping historical novel, a young American nurse, A single raindrop opens a Pandora’s box of horrors when stationed in Manila at the start of WWII, must survive the the spawn of perverse genetic research performed during horrors of a Japanese prison camp. World War II—refined by Cold War enemies and perfected by nature—are unleashed on an unsuspecting world. When Margie Bauer joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1941, she is delighted to be assigned to Manila—the Pearl of the Orient. Though By dawn, only a dead city remains, eerily quiet and still, except for the rumors of war circulate, she feels safe—the island is fortified, the mutant beasts who hide from the light, multiply, and await the airbases are ample, and the Filipino troops are well-trained. shadows of day’s end. But on December 8, 1941, her dreamworld shatters. Captured by the Ordered to investigate the unfolding crisis, bio-warfare specialist invading Japanese, Margie ends up interned at Santa Tomas, an Carolyn Ridenour barely escapes the creatures’ nocturnal onslaught, infamous prison camp. There, for the next three years, while enduring saved in the nick of time by Colonel Garrett Hoffmann, who has lost brutality and starvation, her bravery, resourcefulness, and faith are hundreds of his troops to the mutant army that neither bombs nor tested and her life forever changed. bullets can break. At once an epic tale of a nation at war and the deeply personal story of As Carolyn and Garrett race to stop the plague, a battered and broken one woman’s journey through hell, A Pledge of Silence vividly US government is preparing to release the fury of America’s nuclear illustrates the sacrifices the Greatest Generation made for their arsenal on its own soil. country, and the price they continued to pay long after the war was over. For information about the 2014 winner of the Young Adult Fiction category, check out our rights guide for our children’s imprints! 4 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Winners 2013 Winner — Mystery & Thriller 2013 Winner — Romance 10/22/2013 10/22/2013 The Hidden A Man Above Jo Chumas Reproach Rights Available: All Languages Evelyn Pryce Rights Sold: Audio Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: Audio, Japanese Unfolding in the city’s brothels, hashish cafes, and jasmine- In 1830s London, scandalous whispers surround the pub scented colonial mansions, The Hidden is a gritty, sensual known as the Sleeping Dove, a hidden bordello catering to tale of revolution, betrayal, and the lengths we will go to for nobles eager to shed the trappings of their stations. love—and truth. Josephine Grant knows the rumors are true—she plays piano at the A university professor is brutally murdered in Egypt’s Sinai desert in Dove and is known only as the “Bawdy Bluestocking” to the pub’s 1940, leaving behind his new bride, the beautiful young Aimee faithful. Ibrahim. As Aimee tries to unravel the web of lies and secrets surrounding her husband’s death, she unwittingly becomes a pawn in The reluctant Duke of Lennox is called “The Uncatchable” by society a revolutionary plot against Egypt’s king. With the discovery of a ladies, not that he cares for them or their nicknames. Elias Addison’s twenty-year-old diary, the mystery only deepens. As Aimee gets ever estate was thrust upon him when his father died, and it has been little closer to the truth, she discovers startling parallels between her own else but a burden. When a friend brings him to the Sleeping Dove in life and that of the mother she never knew. an attempt to lighten his mood, the Duke of Lennox finds himself at the Bawdy Bluestocking’s piano, and together they begin to play a dangerous melody. Though Elias cannot resist courting her, she has a past to protect, a shaky future, and no time for frivolous nobility with soft hands. When the duke uncovers the truth, will he wish he had never heard the tune? 2013 Winner — General Fiction 2013 Winner — Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 10/22/2013 10/22/2013 It Happened in Poe Wisconsin J. Lincoln Fenn Ken Moraff Rights Available: All Languages Rights Available: All Languages Rights Sold: Audio Rights Sold: Audio In an America ravaged by the Great Depression, a talented It’s Halloween, and life is grim for twenty-three-year-old but ragtag baseball team sets out to change the world. Dimitri Petrov. It’s the one-year anniversary of his parents’ deaths, he’s stuck on page one thousand of his Rasputin Barnstorming the back roads and dusty ballparks of the Midwest, the zombie novel, and he makes his living writing obituaries. Racine Robins rally fans to the populist cause, raising money for soup kitchens and strike funds even as they thrill small-town crowds and But things turn from bleak to terrifying when Dimitri gets a last- dazzle opponents on the field. Yet winning the hearts and minds of minute assignment to cover a séance at the reputedly haunted the people turns out to be easier for the players than facing the twin Aspinwall Mansion. seductions of love and money, conflicting desires that threaten to derail everything they are fighting to achieve. There, Dimitri meets Lisa, a punk-rock drummer he falls hard for. But just as he’s about to ask her out, he unwittingly unleashes malevolent After a sudden April snowstorm forces the Robins to find shelter in forces, throwing him into a deadly mystery. When Dimitri wakes up, the Rockefeller hotel, the team begins to pull apart. Tensions mount— he is in the morgue—icy cold and haunted by a cryptic warning given one player falls in love for the first time—and old friendships threaten by a tantalizing female spirit. to unravel as the men face temptations and ambition. Can this tough, tight-knit group stay true to its great cause when dreams and longing As town residents begin to turn up gruesomely murdered, Dimitri come knocking? must play detective in his own story and unravel the connections among his family, the Aspinwall Mansion, the female spirit, and the secrets held in a pair of crumbling antiquarian books. If he doesn’t, it’s quite possible Lisa will be the next victim. For information about the 2013 Grand Prize winner and winner of the Young Adult Fiction category, check out our rights guide for our children’s imprints! 5 This Way to the New Unknown 47North, whose name is based on the latitude coordinates for Seattle, offers a wide array of new novels and cult favorites for avid readers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
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