…………………… FRANKFURT 2017 Rights Guide Counterpoint Catapult Black Balloon Soft Skull …… iUniverse Star Feral House Outpost19 Featherproof Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Press …… Dana Newman Literary Agency Sandra Bond Literary Agency …………………… JUDY KLEIN [email protected] 01.917.414.1578 ELIZABETH ROSNER SURVIVOR CAFÉ The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory COUNTERPOINT | NON-FICTION | SEPTEMBER 2017 Sold: AUDIO/Novel Audio “A rare blend of scholarly assessment and personal revelation… important and vital…with an elegance and eloquence that reverberates with both depth and nuance.” —Booklist, Starred “Combines moving personal narrative with illuminating research…Each page is imbued with urgency, with sincerity, with heartache, with heart."—San Francisco Chronicle “A thoughtful, probing meditation on the fragility of memory and the indelible inheritance of pain." —Kirkus "Rosner shines an unblinking light on the most horrific of 20th-century crimes and asks, what is the intergenerational legacy of trauma? … Rosner’s conclusions: that powerful suffering must be communicated before healing can occur and that the most profound of human atrocities must be acknowledged so that their like does not happen again."—Publishers Weekly "A beautifully expressed personal examination of how trauma is passed down through generations...An exquisite read."—The Daily Gazette “A breathtaking overview of events as varied as the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, the Rwandan genocide, and Japanese American internment….Survivor Café takes on important issues of atrocity, trauma, and memory, rendering them all with such great clarity and intimacy that the reader will not soon forget them, or this powerful book.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize As firsthand survivors of many of the 20th century's most monumental events―the Holocaust, the Killing Fields, Nagasaki―begin to pass away, award-winning novelist and essayist Elizabeth Rosner addresses urgent questions: How do we collectively ensure that the horrors of the past are not forgotten? How do we carry those stories forward? Rosner delves into how we speak about the unspeakable, and how we construct memory and memorials. She explores the echoes of legacies among descendants of holocaust survivors; descendants of Cambodian survivors of the Killing Fields, descendants of African American slaves, descendants of survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of Armenia, Rwanda, and 9/11. Rosner also examines current brain research, describing the efforts to understand the intergenerational inheritance of trauma, both emotional and physical, as well as the intricacies of remembrance in the aftermath of atrocity. Survivor Café becomes a lens for numerous constructs of memory―from museums and commemorative sites to national reconciliation projects to small-group cross-cultural encounters. Elizabeth Rosner’s novels include The Speed of Light (Ballantine 2001) translated into nine languages, short-listed for France’s Prix Femina, recipient of the Prix France Bleu Gironde, and awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize; Blue Nude (Ballantine 2006), named a Best Book by the San Francisco Chronicle; and Electric City (Counterpoint 2015) named among the best books of 2014 by NPR. Her essays and reviews appear in the New York Times Magazine, Elle, San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications. [email protected] Kleinworks Agency FRANKFURT 2017 Page 2 JODY REIN and MICHAEL LARSEN HOW TO WRITE A BOOK PROPOSAL, 5th Edition The Insider's Step-by-Step Guide to Proposals that Get You Published WRITER'S DIGEST BOOKS | REFERENCE | SEPTEMBER 2017 A perennial bestseller with over 200,000 copies sold since first publication With more than 25 years in print and sales exceeding 150,000 copies, the success of How to Write a Book Proposal is indisputable. Available for foreign rights for the first time, this classic bestselling handbook for prospective authors has been completely overhauled, updated and significantly restructured by two veteran industry professionals who provide a precise and clear roadmap to the ideal book proposal. They describe in erudite and accessible fashion exactly what agents and editors are looking for in a proposal and what makes for good outline/sample chapters/submission requirements. They also include examples of successful proposals that earned six-figure deals, strategies for proposals in the Digital Age, and a list of the "Top Ten Proposal Killers." Jody Rein, a former executive editor with Bantam Doubleday Dell and Morrow/Avon, is a highly successful literary agent and publishing consultant, generating millions of dollars in advances for her authors and prompting intense bidding wars. Michael Larsen is a publishing consultant and co-founder of the renowned San Francisco Writers Festival, which draws speakers and writers from around the world. JAVIER REGUEIRO AYAHUASCA: Soul Medicine of the Amazon Jungle 2nd edition/revised & expanded and SAN PEDRO HUACHUMA: Opening the Pathways of the Heart LIFESTYLE ENTREPRENEURS PRESS | SPIRITUALITY | SEPTEMBER 2017 In this revised and expanded edition of Ayahuasca: Soul Medicine of the Amazon Jungle, a master of ayahuasca (also known as an ayahuasquero), offers a guide for the ever-increasing number of people who approach this powerful Amazonian rainforest medicine for their own personal healing and development. Indeed, ayahuasca was recently described in The New Yorker as being as ubiquitous as "having a cup of coffee." Here Javier Regueiro provides practical and meaningful advice on how to use it, bridging the cultural gap between native use and the current use of ayahuasca by Westerners. He also shares his extensive knowledge of plant medicine, providing background about the plant, its history, how to engage with it and how to learn through its use. Regueiro includes stories of his own experience of transformation, and stories from many he’s guided over the years. ------ San Pedro (Echinopsis pachanoi), also known in South America as Huachuma, is a psychoactive cactus native to the Andes, but more importantly it’s an ancestral medicine that has been used for millennia for healing and ceremonial purposes. It is sometimes called a master heart opener and emotional healer, and has a very different impact from ayahuasca. In San Pedro Huachuma: Opening the Pathways of the Heart, Javier Regueiro discusses how our Western psychic and psychological make-up differs radically from that of Andeans, and how our needs differ just as much from the needs of Andean inhabitants and their ancestors. Regueiro intends to bridge the cultural gap in ways that honor the wealth of wisdom gathered through centuries and at the same time address our present day state of emotional disconnection and spiritual confusion, which are at the root of most physical, emotional, and mental diseases. -------- Javier Regueiro, a Spanish national who grew up in Switzerland, moved to Peru in 2004 to study Amazonian plant medicine and shamanism and has apprenticed with teachers in the Iquitos and Pucallpa areas. He is a Rebirther, Avatar Master, and a full-time ayahuasquero living in Pisac, Peru, where he created the Ayaruna Center, hosting retreats and conducting healing work. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. [email protected] Kleinworks Agency FRANKFURT 2017 Page 3 RICHARD BOCH THE MUDD CLUB FERAL HOUSE | MUSIC | SEPTEMBER 2017 The Mudd Club was a loud, dirty dream with a radical aesthetic born of Punk, No Wave and the celebrity-infused Downtown and East Village art performance and music scene. There was nothing like it and author Richard Boch, who was its doorman during much of its four and a half year run, saw and experienced all of it. The Mudd Club was filled with the famous and soon- to- be famous, from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, and Robert Rauschenberg to Johnny Rotten, The Hell's Angels, and John Belushi. Marianne Faithful, Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, William Burroughs, are just a few who stepped on stage. This book is a cornucopia of memories, images, and tales of how this famed wicked downtown club acquired a chic, often elitist reputation. The New York Times referred to Richard Boch as making “live or die decisions” as the club's “longtime alpha doorman. Today his is an artist and writer. He is currently editing Bobby Grossman’s Low Fidelity: Still Photographs 1975-1983 and recently contributed a sidebar to Tannenbaum’s Grit and Glamour. DAVID BIESPIEL THE EDUCATION OF A YOUNG POET COUNTERPOINT | MEMOIR | OCTOBER 2017 "Beguiling … Biespiel shows himself to be exhilarated as much by failure as by success … (he) will surely inspire other writers to embrace the bodily character of writing." ―Publishers Weekly starred "Lyrical, affectionate . Graceful reflections on creativity." ―Kirkus "A feast: of language, of memory, and of insights into how one young writer came into his own." ―Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root and Elegy for a Broken Machine This beautifully rendered memoir about creative beginnings, in the vein of Umberto Eco’s classic Confessions of a Young Novelist, offers a moving account of David Biespiel’s awakening to writing and to how language can shape a life. Impelled by the wonder and delight of the imagination, Biespiel, always restless with curiosity and enthusiasm, writes for every creative soul who longs to shape the actions of their world into art and literature. David Biespiel, an award-winning poet and longtime National Book Critics Circle poetry judge, is the author of A Long, High Whistle. He’s written five books of poetry, most recently The Book of Men and Women, named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation. He writes the Poetry Wire column for The Rumpus. Among his honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Lannan Fellowship. NICOLE YERSHON ROUGH DIAMOND Turning Disruption into Advantage in Business and Life LIFESTYLE ENTREPRENEURS PRESS | BUSINESS | OCTOBER 2017 “Somewhere out there is someone who already has a solution to your problem. You could spend months trying to find them.