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THE INVISIBLE EMPEROR Napoleon on Elba from Exile to Escape
By Mark Braude
US publisher: Penguin Press (North American rights) To publish: October 2018
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THE INVISIBLE EMPEROR is a gripping narrative history of
Napoleon Bonaparte’s 10-month exile on the Mediterranean island of
Elba.
In the spring of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. Having overseen an empire spanning half the European continent and governed the lives of some eighty million people, he suddenly found himself exiled to Elba, less than a hundred square miles of territory. This would have been the end of him, and Napoleon for a time seemed resigned to a quiet retirement in this idyllic setting. But soon enough Napoleon imposed his preternatural What emerges is a surprising new perspective on one of history’s most charisma and historic ambition on both his captors and the very island consequential figures, which both subverts and celebrates his legendary itself, plotting his return to France and to power. After ten months of persona. THE INVISIBLE EMPEROR is both a riveting story and an exile, he escaped Elba with just of over a thousand supporters in tow, original examination of how preposterous, quixotic, and grandiose ideas landed near Antibes, marched to Paris, and retook the Tuileries Palace—all can suddenly leap from the imagination and into reality. without firing a shot. Not long after, tens of thousands of people would die fighting for and against him at Waterloo. Mark Braude is the author of Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Los Angeles Times, Braude dramatizes this strange exile and escape in novelistic detail, Globe and Mail, and other publications. offering sharp new insights into a largely overlooked moment. He details a terrific cast of secondary characters, including Napoleon’s tragically noble Praise for THE INVISIBLE EMPEROR: British minder on Elba, Neil Campbell, forever disgraced for having let “Boney” slip away; and his young second wife, Marie Louise, who was “A history of Napoleon’s short first exile, rendered in short, punchy twenty-two to Napoleon’s forty-four at the time of his abdication. chapters… It’s great fun reading…and those anecdotes reinforce our
knowledge of the emperor’s great talents.” – Kirkus
GOLDEN HANDCUFFS The Secret History of Trump’s Women
By Nina Burleigh
US publisher: Gallery / S&S (North American rights) To publish: October 2018
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New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist, Nina Burleigh, explores Donald Trump’s attitudes toward women by providing in-depth analysis and background on the women who have had the most profound influence on his life—the mother and grandmother who raised him, the wives who lived with him, and the daughter who is poised to inherit it all.
Has any president in the history of the United States had a more fraught relationship with women than Donald Trump? He flagrantly cheated on all three of his wives, brushed off multiple accusations of sexual assault, publicly ogled his eldest daughter, bought the silence of a porn star and a Playmate, and proclaimed his now-infamous seduction technique: “grab ’em by the pussy.”
Golden Handcuffs is a comprehensive and provocative account of the Nina Burleigh is the National Politics Correspondent at Newsweek women closest to Trump—his German-immigrant grandmother, Magazine, an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling Elizabeth, the uncredited founder of the Trump Organization; his author. She has written for numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Scottish-immigrant mother, Mary, who acquired a taste for wealth as a Businessweek, The New Yorker, Time, and The New York Times. She has maid in the Andrew Carnegie mansion; his wives—Ivana, Marla, and appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Melania (the first and third of whom are immigrants); and his eldest Hours, MSNBC and CNN, on NPR and numerous radio programs. daughter, Ivanka. Also examined are Trump’s two older sisters; his often- overlooked younger daughter, Tiffany; his female employees; and those he Nina has been based in Washington, D.C., New York, and Paris, traveled calls “liars”—the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. and reported extensively in the Middle East and lived in Italy and France. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Of these women, Burleigh writes, “Where they come from and what they do now and in the future matters because they have or have had the ear of the most powerful man on earth.”
THE UNWINDING OF THE MIRACLE A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
By Julie Yip-Williams
US publisher: Random House (North American rights) To publish: January 2019
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As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living.
That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Born blind in Vietnam, she narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of her grandmother, only to flee with her family the political upheaval of her Motherhood, marriage, the immigrant experience, ambition, love, country in the late 1970s. Loaded into a rickety boat with 300 other wanderlust, tennis, fortune-tellers, grief, reincarnation, jealousy, comfort, refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and then America, where a surgeon pain, the marvel of the body in full rebellion—this book is as sprawling at UCLA gave her partial sight. She would go on to become a Harvard- and majestic as the life it records. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, and a life she had once assumed and shattering. It is a book of indelible moments, seared deep—an would be impossible. Then, at age 37, with two little girls at home, Julie incomparable guide to living vividly by facing hard truths consciously. was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began. With humor, bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final THE UNWINDING OF THE MIRACLE is the story of a vigorous miracle: the story of her life. life refracted through the prism of imminent death. When she was first diagnosed, Julie Yip-Williams sought clarity through the experience and, Julie Yip-Williams died in March 2018 of colon cancer. She was born in finding none, began to write her way through it—a chronicle that grew Tam-Ky, Vietnam, grew up in California, and graduated from Williams beyond her imagining. College and Harvard Law School. At her death she was 42, and lived in Brooklyn with her husband, Josh, and their daughters, Mia and Isabelle.
PIETY & POWER Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House
By Tom LoBianco
US publisher: Dey Street / HarperCollins (World English rights) To publish: March 2019
Material available: Edited MS available in December 2018
A revealing, in-depth biography of Mike Pence, the most secretive and ingratiating vice president in modern history, from a reporter with remarkable access. PIETY & POWER provides insights and answers as it sheds light on this ambitious Midwestern politician, his past, and his possible future.
No journalist has covered Mike Pence for as long or as closely as Tom LoBianco. The seasoned political reporter was at the first campaign rally governor Pence held in his hometown of Columbus, Indiana. He was there when Pence returned to Washington as Donald Trump’s vice president. Drawing on his deep connections, as well as reams of research and high-level access to the vice president and his staff, LoBianco offers a revealing portrait of the devout Christian who shocked many of his closest followers when he joined the campaign and became one of the strongest PIETY & POWER cuts to the core of the nation’s most enigmatic champions of Donald Trump. He also explores the rumors—much politician and unearths new, important, and fascinating anecdotes about debated inside the Beltway and among pundits in the media—surrounding Pence’s faith, his marriage to Karen Pence, his bizarre, obsequious the Vice President’s ambitions to succeed and even "overthrow" Trump. relationship with Trump, his deeply buried personality, his ascent to power under John Boehner, and his presidential aspirations and plans for LoBianco dissects Pence’s entire political life, from his detours in the ’90s, America’s future. PIETY & POWER demonstrates it is vital that not just to his rapid ascension through the first decade of the twenty-first century, Americans, but all global citizens know more about the man who could to the White House. He provides an inside account of how Pence nearly ascend to the Oval Office. crashed and burned his career while governor, only to miraculously rise from the ashes thanks to the unlikely election of Trump. He also gives a Tom LoBianco covers the Trump Russia investigation and the White rare look inside the "shadow government" Pence has built—a conservative House for the Associated Press, and is a regular political analyst on CNN, machine at Trump’s call for now, but one that could just as easily step in if Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, and other broadcast outlets. In more than a Trump is removed from office. decade covering politics, he has unearthed scores of groundbreaking stories. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME A Family’s Inheritance of War
By Mieke Eerkens
US publisher: Picador / Macmillan (North American rights)
To publish: April 2019
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An engrossing, epic saga of one family’s experiences on both sides of
WWII that questions our common narrative of the conflict and our stark notions of victim and perpetrator, while tracing the lasting effects of war through several generations.
In March 1942, Mieke Eerkens’ father was a ten-year-old boy living in the Dutch East Indies. When the Japanese invaded the island he, his family, and one hundred thousand other Dutch civilians were interned in a concentration camp and forced into hard labor for three years. After the Japanese surrendered, Mieke’s father and his family were set free in a country that plunged immediately into civil war. Across the globe in the Netherlands, police carried a crying five-year-old girl out of her home at war’s end, abandoned and ostracized as a daughter of Nazi sympathizers. Mieke Eerkens teaches creative writing for UCLA Extension’ Writers This was Mieke's mother. She would be left on the street in front of her Program. Her work has appeared in various places such as The Atlantic, Los sealed home as her parents were taken away and imprisoned in the same Angeles Review of Books, PEN America, Pank, and Guernica. camps where the country’s Jews had recently been held. Many years later, Mieke’s parents meet, get married, and move to California, where she and her siblings are born. While her parents live far from the events of their past, the effects of the war are still felt in their daily lives and in the lives of their children.
ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME moves from Indonesia to the Netherlands to the US, and spans generations. ALL SHIPS FOLLOW ME is a deeply personal, sweeping saga of the wounds of war, and the way trauma can be passed down through generations.
SERVING THE SERVANT Remembering Kurt Cobain
By Danny Goldberg
US publisher: Ecco / HarperCollins (North American rights) To publish: April 2019
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On the 25th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time—and the only book written by someone who knew him that provides a portrait of an icon unlike any that has come before.
In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle. He had no idea that the band’s leader, Kurt Cobain, Drawing on Goldberg’s own memories of Kurt, files that previously have would become a pop-culture icon with a legacy arguably at the level of that not been made public, and interviews with, among others, Kurt’s close of John Lennon, Michael Jackson, or Elvis Presley. Danny worked with family, friends, and former bandmates, SERVING THE SERVANT Kurt from 1990 to 1994, the most impactful period of Kurt’s life. sheds an entirely new light on these critical years. Casting aside the common obsession with the angst and depression that seemingly drove This key time saw the stratospheric success of Nevermind, which turned Kurt, SERVING THE SERVANT is an exploration of his brilliance in Nirvana into the most successful rock band in the world and made punk every aspect of rock and roll, his compassion, his ambition, and the legacy and grunge household terms; Kurt’s meeting and marriage to the brilliant he wrought—one that has lasted decades longer than his career did and but mercurial Courtney Love and their relationship that became a lightning will last decades more. rod for critics; the birth of their daughter, Frances Bean; and, finally, Kurt’s public struggles with addiction, which ended in a devastating suicide Danny Goldberg is the author of In Search of the Lost Chord, Bumping into that would alter the course of rock history. All throughout, Danny stood Geniuses, and How the Left Lost Teen Spirit, and coeditor of It’s a Free Country. by Kurt’s side as manager, and close friend. He is currently president and owner of Gold Village Entertainment, an
WATCH ME EAT THIS SANDWICH NO WALLS AND THE RECURRING DREAM A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons A Memoir
By Ben Folds By Ani DiFranco
US publisher: Ballantine / PRH (North American rights) US publisher: Viking / PRH (World English rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: May 2019
Material available: Proposal available Material available: Edited MS available Edited MS available in December 2018 A Grammy-award winning artist, Ani DiFranco put out her first Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (S&S Australia) album in 1990, at age twenty and on her own Righteous Babe Records label. At forty-six she has become a celebrated feminist The debut book project from singer-songwriter Ben Folds that will leader whose songs fearlessly address difficult issues, and serve as a broadly appeal to not only his millions of fans, but also readers of lens for the women’s movement at large. Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, and Nick Hornby. Since the ‘90s, Ani has worked tirelessly for reproductive rights, racial For the past 23 years, Ben Folds has been revered as an influential and justice, ecological sanity, gender equality and prison reform. She's an critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the adventuress—breaking the rules in an industry that has often exploited trio, Ben Folds Five, producing such evocative hits as the breakthrough artists, banished the idiosyncratic, and pandered to audiences who are only indie phenomenon “Brick,” the hilarious “Battle of Who Could Care valued as "consumers." (AnsdAs an ‘anti-capitalist entrepreneur,’ she is Less,” the self-mocking “Rocking the Suburbs,” and the perennial closing in on 6 million album sales. With songs about failed relationships romantic hit “The Luckiest,” among others. Although Ben’s genre- and government policies, gender, family, and abortion, Ani has travelled bending music includes bestselling collaborations with icon William the country, playing wherever she can, and serving as a model for young Shatner, esteemed writers Nick Hornby and Neil Gaiman, and such women who strive to be as brave, as naked, and as serious as her. musical luminaries as Regina Spektor, Amanda Palmer, Sara Bareilles, Kesha and others, Ben is best known to his millions of fans as a rock anti- Making herself vulnerable is a risk, and Ani takes it, looking deep, re- hero, a shrewd observer and passionate storyteller writing with humor, experiencing her life from a place of hard-won wisdom and maturity, and vulnerability and candor. combining personal expression, music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, motherhood, and much more In WATCH ME EAT THIS SANDWICH, Ben takes the astute into one inspiring whole. reflections that has made his songs so memorable to create a hilarious, insightful, semi-autobiographical collection of interrelated stories that will Ani DiFranco is a Grammy Award-winning singer, multi-instrumentalist, appeal to literary readers and his fans. poet, songwriter, activist, and businesswoman. She has released more than 20 albums, and is one of the first independent musicians to create her own label, Righteous Babe RecordsDiFranco has received eight Grammy Ben Folds is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter. Before he went solo, Award nominations, and won the Best Recording Package Grammy for Folds was the front man and pianist of the alternative rock band Ben the album Evolve in 2004. Folds Five from 1995 to 2000.
HOUSE OF STICKS LIFE IN THEORY A Memoir By Toph Eggers By Ly Tran US publisher: Crown / PRH (North American rights) US publisher: Scribner / S&S (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019
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Ly Tran recounts an extraordinarily powerful story about the Rights sold: Germany (Piper) Holland (Signatuur) immigrant experience that evokes The Glass Castle. Italy (Giunti) UK / Commonwealth (Oneworld) Ly Tran and her three brothers were born in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Ly and her family emigrated to New York City. They arrived in February 1993, leaving rice paddies, Toph Eggers, the younger brother of Dave Eggers who was mango trees, and a hut for a towering building in Brooklyn. Ly had her prominently featured in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering first job in America at the age of four, doing sweatshop labor at home with Genius, is now thirty-three years old. LIFE IN THEORY is his her family. In time, she and her mother eventually opened up their own candid memoir of the surreal trajectory of his life and the toll of nail salon. being defined by a persona he did not create.
It was during Ly's time working in the nail salon that she began to The publication of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Toph’s understand her own past. On days when it was just Ly and her mother, older brother Dave had profound consequences Toph could not have they would practice on fake nails as she relayed stories about Ly's brothers foreseen. It was required reading for his freshman class at college, in Vietnam before she was born, how she swam across the Mekong to students came to interview him “for extra credit.” A girlfriend broke it avoid a lurking matchmaker, or how Ly's grandmother was sold to a off with him on the advice of her therapist. What followed is the Cambodian family in exchange for three pigs. trajectory of a vulnerable young man who increasingly steeled himself against any pain. HOUSE OF STICKS is in part about poverty and getting by, and hope. As Ly takes us through her journey as a young immigrant, the In many ways, LIFE IN THEORY fills a gap in the world of memoirs. obstacles she faced as a female in her family and in Brooklyn, she reveals Toph’s memoir reaches out to the fans of those book with a candor the mechanisms by which she shielded herself against her harsh reality, and rarely found in memoirs by men. the faith that carried her through. Toph Eggers is a writer, director, and screenwriter. LIFE IN Ly Tran graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Creative THEORY is his first book. Writing and Linguistics. She is a recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and an Arts Omi residence.
DID I DO GOOD? THE PRIEST, THEY CALLED HIM William S. Burroughs & the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll By Owen Benjamin By Casey Rae US publisher: W.W. Norton (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 US publisher: University of Texas Press (North American rights)
To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Up-and-coming comedian Owen Benjamin’s DID I DO GOOD? Edited MS available in Spring 2019 will appeal to readers of Aziz Ansari’s Modern Love and Amy Schumer’s The Girl with the Lower-Back Tattoo! THE PRIEST, THEY CALLED HIM is poised to be the definitive biography of a Beat-era legend, whose legacy carries into present-day Owen Benjamin is your everyman. He’s good at following directions, rock music. enjoys putting his body and mind through unnecessary pain, and loves naps and high fives. He’s aggressive and determined, and if he’d been William S. Burroughs is well known as a pivotal writer of the beat brought up in a different setting he’d probably be working in a lumber generation, but his lasting and critical influence on rock music and its yard moving heavy things or playing third string tight end in the Canadian formative musicians is a story that hasn’t been told. Burroughs altered the Football league. destinies of an astounding array of musicians in the latter half of the 20th century—such as Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Patti Smith, and In other words, Owen’s not a PhD or a personal relations counselor; he’s a Kurt Cobain, among many others—and Casey Rae has outlined a guy like any other guy–just a hell of a lot funnier. In DID I DO GOOD? compelling case for Burroughs’ powerful impression on rock music, which he’ll use wit and historical evidence to take on the big, age-old questions: will be supported by interviews, research, and original reporting. Why do men with caring girlfriends think their single lives would look like AXE Bodyspray commercials? Why do women fantasize about Ted Bundy Casey Rae has written op-eds for Los Angeles Times, New York Times, types and not the nice guy at H&R Block? And, why doesn’t glue stick to Billboard, and The Hill, among other publications, and has appeared on the inside of the bottle? NPR, CNBC, Bloomberg News, and SiriusXM. He teaches courses on music at Georgetown University and Berklee College of Music in Boston. DID I DO GOOD? will be as practical and constructive as Aziz Ansari’s He’s a sought-after speaker who’s given talks at SXSW, Consumer Modern Love; as weird and sincere as Rob Delaney’s Rob Delaney; as sensitive Electronics Showcase, CMJ, Aspen Institute, and on the university circuit as Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me; as personal as Justin Halpern’s I Suck at Harvard University and Harvard Law School, Columbia University, At Girls; and as manly as Nick Offerman’s Paddle Your Own Canoe. NYU and NYU Law, University of California, Berkeley Law School, McGill University, University of Toronto, and many other institutions. Owen Benjamin is a comedian and actor. He’s performed his unique stand-up sets on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Chelsea Lately, Inside Amy Schumer, and Comedy Central Presents: Owen Benjamin. DID I DO GOOD? is his first book.
THE EQUIVALENTS THIS REALLY HAPPENED The Untold Story of the Five Friends Who Started a A Memoir Personal, Political, and Artistic Revolution By Isaac Mizrahi By Maggie Doherty US publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan (NA rights) US publisher: Knopf / PRH (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Edited MS available in Spring 2019 A memoir from the multitalented and omnipresent Isaac Mizrahi, THE EQUIVALENTS will tell the moving and momentous story of a household name in the fashion world for over two decades. the first all-women’s artist colony, at the Radcliffe Institute in the early 1960s, where the writer Tillie Olsen, poets Maxine Kumin and Famed fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi’s memoir THIS REALLY Anne Sexton, painter Barbara Swan, and sculptor Marianna Pineda HAPPENED weaves together recollections, pronouncements, opinion, all became friends, collaborators, and conspirators. and anecdotes that at once entertain and enlighten.
All the five Equivalents were wives and mothers who refused the domestic From Isaac’s tortuous childhood in an Orthodox community of limitations that those fixed Mad Men-era identities implied. First and Brooklyn to his adolescence spent on the dance floor at Studio 54, his foremost, these women were artists who, given money and rooms in time at Parsons School of Design to the heady 1990s, when his friends which to write and think, articulated in prose, sculpture, poetry, paint— and muses, supermodels such as Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, and and above all in their friendships—what so many of their silenced sisters Naomi Campbell ruled the runway, Isaac tells the story of coming into could not. And it was the all-too-rare community at Radcliffe that assured his own and becoming a fashion celebrity, all with his beloved wit and their ascendancy and continuing relevance. voice.
THE EQUIVALENTS will introduce readers to these five women as Isaac Mizrahi is an American fashion designer, TV presenter, and they worked and suffered in isolation, narrate vividly how they entered the creative director of Xcel Brands. He is best known for his eponymous Radcliffe Institute and why it changed their personal and professional fashion lines. lives, and trace their trajectories back into the wider world as their careers took off, their friendships frayed, and the women’s liberation movement reached a fever pitch. In its combination of the personal and the political, the story of these five women and the history of the American woman,
Maggie Doherty is a historian, literary scholar, and critic. She received her BA from Yale University and her PhD in English from Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in Dissent, The New Republic, the Boston Review, n+1, and the Times Literary Supplement.
AUGUST WILSON I REGRET I AM ABLE TO ATTEND The Kiln in Which He Was Fired By Jessica Craig-Martin By Patti Hartigan US publisher: Spiegel & Grau / PRH (World English rights) US publisher: 37 Ink / S&S (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Edited MS available in Spring 2019
Famed photographer Jessica Craig-Martin chronicled New York The first and fully authorized biography of August Wilson by City’s society gatherings (uptown and downtown) for fifteen years. veteran theater critic, Patti Hartigan, who has covered August Like Marilyn Minter, Lauren Greenfield, and Nan Goldin, Jessica Wilson for three decades. has used her lens to burst the bubbles of fashion, wealth, and social
Playwright August Wilson’s story begins with his birth in a two-room status. tenement in Pittsburgh. Wilson’s mother, Daisy, a daughter of sharecroppers, was a spirited and disciplined mother who made time A stealth, gimlet-eyed sociologist masquerading as a party photographer to play dodgeball and baseball with her children. Wilson’s father, whose work appears in the permanent collections of The Guggenheim, German-born, left the family when he was a young boy. These two The Whitney, The New Museum, The Saatchi Collection, among others, themes of abandonment and a loving, but strict mother play out in Jessica’s visual talent for observing and documenting human behavior and Wilson’s life and art. society is matched equally by her talents as a writer. In her memoir, she turns the lens on herself, and recounts a latchkey bohemian childhood in Jazz saved him and by the time he was 37, Wilson was accepted by the 1970s as the precocious offspring of two free spirited artists (her father the National Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater is the acclaimed painter Sir Michael Craig Martin). Her account of growing Center. Soon, his plays were produced on Broadway and he was up between London and New York’s Soho is a vivid social and cultural receiving Pulitzers and Tony’s. Most important, Wilson changed history of 70s and 80s bohemia. American theater and culture. He set out to write a series of plays chronicling the experience of African Americans in the 20th Century, She offers a snapshot of a now almost mythic moment in New York City and his American Century Cycle is the true attempt at an American history that she witnessed almost by accident, from selling seafood to Jean epic in the vein of Homer, Virgil, and Dante. It is an unprecedented Michel Basquiat in the early days of Dean & Deluca to working for Anna achievement. But demons bubbled underneath this Wintour as an assistant at British Vogue. Her social satire follows in the achievement. Hartigan tells a fascinating, complicated, page-turning footsteps of Nora Ephron and Fran Liebowitz, barbed yet deeply human; biography of extravagant success, internal vulnerability and an ability this is the story of a clever yet self-doubting young woman trying to find to grow. her place in the world with little adult instruction or supervision.
Patti Hartigan was a fellow at the Pew Charitable Trust National Jessica Craig-Martin is a photographer whose work appears in Arts Journalism Program and won the Paul Tobenkin Award from permanent collections. Her photography has appeared in Vogue, New York, Columbia University’s School of Journalism. Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.
LAUGH LINES THE DAYS OF HELEN FRANKENTHALER Forty Years of Making Funny People Funnier A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
By Alan Zweibel By Alexander Nemerov
US publisher: Abrams (World English rights) US publisher: Penguin Press (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019
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In 1975, 25-year-old Alan Zweibel was brought onto Saturday Night THE DAYS OF HELEN FRANKENTHALER will take readers on Live, a TV show that not only changed the course of comedy history, a cinematic tour of eleven eventful days in the early artistic life of but also launched Alan’s stratospheric comedy writing career that Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011). The narrative will follow this has lasted for more than forty years. astonishingly self-possessed, shrewd, and vibrant heroine as she navigates the art world. In LAUGH LINES: FORTY YEARS OF MAKING FUNNY PEOPLE FUNNIER, Zweibel takes the reader on a tour of the cultural THE DAYS OF HELEN FRANKENTHALER will be about being history of the past forty years of comedy and, in particular, comedy young and being an artist, evoking the same romantic feeling for readers as writing, using his personal experience as someone who had to endlessly Patti Smith’s Just Kids and Anatole Broyard’s When Kafka Was the Rage. But twist, tweak and contort himself to not only understand what comedy not only will Alex craft the eleven chapters to serve as snapshots of days in audiences were looking for, but to always be on the cutting edge. Frankenthaler’s life, he will also focus them to consider different dimensions of the creative life, what it means to be a young artist, reveling Appealing to fans of Judd Apatow’s Sick In the Head and Billy Crystal’s Still in the peculiar joys and sorrows of devoting oneself wholly to art. In Foolin ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going and Where the Hell Are My Keys?, Chapter Two, “Revelation,” Frankenthaler will ride arm and arm in an Zweibel’s hilarious trip down comedy memory lane demystifies the life of elevator with her new boyfriend, preeminent art critic Clement Greenberg, a working comedy writer (explaining the day-to-day in writer’s rooms, for to see the new show of Greenberg’s finest discovery—Jackson Pollock— example) not just through his own experience, but also through detailed initiating Frankenthaler’s transfiguration as the wide canvases suddenly interviews with such friends and legends as Carl Reiner, Larry David, Billy open new creative vistas in her mind. In Chapter Eight, “Self-Promotion,” Crystal, Judd Apatow, and others. Frankenthaler will take control of her public image on May 13, 1957 by appearing in Life magazine, striking that delicate balance of keeping her true self hidden even while advertising herself and her art. Alan Zweibel is a TV writer, playwright, bestselling author, and an original Saturday Night Live writer. He has won multiple Emmy, Writers Guild of America, and TV Critics awards as well as the Writer’s Guild East Alexander Nemerov is a professor at Stanford. THE DAYS OF Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in television and the stage, HELEN FRANKENTHALER is his first book. which includes It’s The Garry Shandling Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and 700 Sundays with Billy Crystal.
RECESS THE EDUCATION OF KIM JONG-UN A Memoir of Education By Jung Pak By Tony Wagner US publisher: Ballantine / PRH (North American rights) US publisher: Viking / PRH (World English rights) To publish: Spring 2020 To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available
Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Rights sold: Finland (Otava) Germany (DuMont) Rights sold: Romania (SC Publica) Holland (Prometheus) Norway (Pantagruel) Evoking Frank McCourt’s Teacher Man, education expert Tony UK / Commonwealth (Oneworld) Wagner’s memoir RECESS tells the story of his boyhood and difficult school years, and Tony’s ultimate realization that his experiences In THE EDUCATION OF KIM JONG-UN, former CIA analyst were in fact his best possible education for what he does now. and current Brookings Scholar Jung Pak will write the definitive work on North Korea’s enigmatic leader. Tony Wagner has a fascinating personal history: he is a multiple high school and college dropout who has become one of the world’s top The mysterious, brutal, and calculating Kim Jong-Un has captured the education experts. Tony wasn’t happy at all for most of his school years world’s attention. He now possesses weaponry capable of threatening and he felt that his most important learning experiences took place outside America and its allies, and his actions have already significantly changed of organized education instead of inside the walls of a school. Yet, today, global politics. It’s believed that Kim Jong-Un is in his early thirties, still he travels the world, advising many of the world’s governments, and only a few years into what will likely be decades of leadership. He is in the keynoting at the most important international education conferences. news almost every day, and yet we know almost nothing about him and how he became the supreme leader of the hermit kingdom. At its heart, RECESS asks the “big questions” about schools and education, from the importance yet damaging nature of failure, to how Jung Pak’s analysis has informed the highest levels of U.S. policymaking much freedom students should be given, and how we can best engage on North Korea. She has been at the forefront of the entire U.S. students by allowing them to follow their passions. intelligence community’s strategic plans from the beginning of Kim Jong- Un’s rule. For the first time, this book puts together the vast amount of reporting on North Korea and provides insight from the mind of a CIA Tony Wagner is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy analyst who has been through the past seven years with Kim Jong-Un. Institute. Tony’s influential and widely read books on schools and education include The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators. Jung Pak has held senior positions at the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). She is now a senior fellow in at Brookings Institution’s Center for East Asia Policy Studies. THE EDUCATION OF KIM JONG-UN is her first book.
GUCCI TO GOATS THE GLASS OF FASHION A Lifetime of Lessons in Style By Jake Keiser By Hamish Bowles US publisher: The Dial Press / PRH (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2020 US publisher: Knopf / PRH (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2020 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 GUCCI TO GOATS is an enchanting, poignant memoir by a city girl who leaves behind a six-figure salary to move, by herself, to a Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Little, Brown UK) farm in the middle of rural Mississippi. Jake Keiser’s story is for folks who dream of reconnecting with nature, like readers of The Hidden Mixing encyclopedic knowledge and boundless curiosity, Hamish Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben and On Trails by Robert Moor. It’s Bowles brings us into a world where fashion, style, and history for people who are looking for inspiration and flock to memoirs by collide. powerful, risk-taking females, like Cheryl Strayed or Elizabeth Gilbert. Hamish Bowles began his storied fashion career by creating a makeshift fontange at age four. He then won a British Vogue talent contest at age Jake Keiser was living the high life in Tampa, Florida, running a high- fourteen and went on to become the youngest fashion director ever at powered PR firm and juggling drinks dates, shopping sprees, and charity Harpers & Queen at age twenty-two. Now International Editor at Large at galas. But at age 38, following a failed marriage, a series of painful Vogue, THE GLASS OF FASHION is Hamish’s collection of the miscarriages, and a blistering breakup, she begins to suffer from extreme equivalent of four PhDs in fashion, interior design, decorative arts, and anxiety. Hit with the realization that no amount of Botox can fill the hole architecture. in her heart, she longs for something money can’t buy. Which leads her to the impulse purchase of a lifetime: a farm of her own. In THE GLASS OF FASHION, Hamish will take the reader on an Through trial by fire, Jake learns to fix a well, weatherproof a house, and international journey narrated through a pastiche of people, places, muck out a stall. She learns to haul wood, shoot a gun, and kill a snake. personal moments, and professional opinion. Wielding his erudite, yet And she learns to care for over 75 animals—hens, geese, chickens, turkeys, playful writing, Hamish keenly explores the spaces between style, fashion, goats, and quail. But scarred by a fresh heartbreak and haunted by the and culture. Not just for fashion insiders, this is a book aimed for the accumulated pain of her past, Jake hits rock bottom. With nowhere left to culturally curious, creatively ambitious, and style obsessed—from a man run, she’s finally forced to confront a bracing reality – the farm can’t save who has learned from the most significant tastemakers of the last several her. Only she can save herself. decades.
Jake Keiser moved to Mississippi in November 2012, and shortly Hamish Bowles has been the editor-at-large for Vogue since 1995. thereafter began her blog documenting farming life. GUCCI TO GOATS is her first book.
REBEL TO AMERICA UNTITLED MEMOIR A Memoir of an Uprising By Barry Sonnenfeld By Kareem “Tef Poe” Jackson US publisher: Hachette Books (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2020 US publisher: W.W. Norton (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2020 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 In the style of David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day, comes famed film and television director (the nine feature films he’s directed have REBEL TO AMERICA is the story of a young man coming of age in grossed over $2 billion) Barry Sonnenfeld’s hilarious, wacky memoir, the beating heart of Saint Louis, Missouri. It’s a generational story which also broadens out from Barry’s upbringing as the smothered about black culture between the coasts; about the clash between only-child of neurotic, oppressive Jewish parents in the Washington youths and the police; about loving families and dangerous gangs; Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, to recount his singular about hope and hip hop and a new civil rights movement coming experiences with many of the most famous people in the world. alive in the American Midwest. The basic narrative arc will take Barry from childhood (which is Through his story, Tef explores the history of the community from which reminiscent of something out of a Woody Allen movie) and into early he came. He delivers a rich portrait of a city divided by race. He captures adulthood in Manhattan of the ‘60s and ‘70s—up to the afternoon in 1982 stories about his brothers, his ride-or-die friends, his girlfriends who made on which he had his first inkling of success: the debut (with Joel and him into a man, the golden age of open mics in the U-City loop, a Ethan Coen) of Blood Simple at the New York Film Festival. legendary destination for aspiring artists, and the spirit of revolution that culminated in the uprising in Ferguson and the dawn of a new black But his stories also take you places you don’t necessarily expect to go, and consciousness. that is the key to their entertainment value and their power. It’s Barry’s (sometime lengthy) asides—apparent tangents from the main story line— in which both comic delights and the surprising emotional depths of his Rapper and 2018 Nasir Jones Fellow at Harvard University, Tef Poe’s story are found. work has been featured in Time, Vice, XXL, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Atlanta Black Star, and The Source. Barry’s storytelling ability arises from both the unusual life he’s lived and his irrepressible perspective on it. And the breadth of his experience of Hollywood is reminiscent of the memoirs of many of the titans of the entertainment industry.
Barry Sonnenfeld is a film and television director. Among his film credits are the three Men in Black movies; the two Addams Family movies; and Get Shorty. For television he has directed and produced Pushing Daisies and A Series of Unfortunate Events, among many others.
UNTITLED MEMOIR THIS IS BIG
By Betsey Johnson By Marisa Meltzer
US publisher: Viking / PRH (North American rights) US publisher: Little, Brown (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2020 To publish: Fall 2020
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Throughout her decades-long career, inimitable fashion designer Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Chatto & Windus / PRH UK) Betsey Johnson has taken pride in producing fun but rule-breaking clothing at an accessible price and also running her own company while turning down multiple offers to sell. THIS IS BIG is a charming and candid reported homage—in the style of Julie and Julia—about fashion and beauty journalist Marisa Betsey Johnson means different things to different generations: to older Meltzer's obsession with the late, legendary Jean Nidetch, gals she’s the renegade single mother who palled around with Warhol, the overweight housewife from Queens, NY who in 1963 Edie Sedgwick, Twiggy, and The Velvet Underground and built an empire founded what would become a billion-dollar international from scratch. To the younger crowd she’s the designer of their prom wellness empire: Weight Watchers. dresses and the line of clothing at Macy’s based on the recent Dreamworks movie Trolls. Betsey is and has always been the quintessential designer for Before Oprah, Martha, and Gwyneth there was Jean Nidetch. With the the odd ball, the eccentric, and the girl willing to take risks. founding of Weight Watchers, Jean became one of the most influential and th consequential figures of the 20 century, helping to open a Pandora's Box Though Betsey’s public image is that of the playful, colorful iconoclast, her of possibilities and expectations for women's bodies that still book will take the reader behind the tutu and delve deeply into what it reverberate today. took to go from a white picket fence childhood in Connecticut to graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Syracuse University to becoming an THIS IS BIG will tell Jean Nidetch's unlikely, thrilling Cinderella story, internationally known force in a tough, competitive business. Betsey talks from her modest childhood in Queens to her dizzying heights of fame in insightfully about Manhattan’s downtown scene in the 60s, starting her Hollywood and Vegas, to her twilight years in a retirement home in own company from scratch after designing successfully for multiple other Florida. The biography will also follow Marisa Meltzer, a clear-eyed but companies, body image, love, divorce, single motherhood, and her bout still hopeful journalist, through one year of Weight Watchers in the heart with breast cancer. Her book will also include stories of her business ups of New York City. She's the same age as Jean was when her life radically and downs and reinventions (including bankruptcy), and finally leaving her changed—39. Marisa hopes her life and body will change, too. She will be beloved New York behind for the life of a Malibu grandmother. Betsey unstintingly honest about it all, in the spirit of Lindy West’s Shrill. has been approached by publishers about a memoir for many years but wasn’t ready to look back until now. Marisa Meltzer is a columnist for The New York Times Styles section. She is the author of Girl Power: Feminism, Music, and Marketing in the Nineties. Betsey Johnson is an internationally renowned fashion designer.
BLACK AND WHITE CONQUERING ALEXANDER How Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison Defeated Slavery By Elizabeth Samet
By Linda Hirshman US publisher: Liveright / W.W. Norton (World English rights) To publish: Winter 2022 US publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2020 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2021 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2020 CONQUERING ALEXANDER will trace the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic world conqueror, of which he is the historical The story of how two second-generation founding fathers, the unsung original. Elizabeth aims to write a comprehensive and subversive heroes of American history, wouldn’t stop fighting until all men were retelling of the many different lives of Alexander to be found in “forever free.” history, fiction, and popular culture.
BLACK AND WHITE will tell the interwoven stories of the iconic Obsessed with fame in an ancient culture where the battlefield was the orator and memoirist Frederick Douglass and the foremost white surest place to win it, Alexander spent his entire adult life on campaign. abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison by zeroing in on the almost thirty During its 13-year campaign, Alexander’s army marched over 20,000 miles, years during which the two men worked side by side, and then on different through most of the regions where the US has concentrated its military sides, to end slavery. energies since 2001. He was there before us.
By looking at these formative years—which begin when Douglass is in his In our present moment, so alive to the idea of “greatness,” an examination early 20s and Garrison is in his mid-30s—Linda animates the unexplored of Alexander and his myth can open a rich discussion about both the mentor/protégée dynamic and brings clarity and depth to the evolving personal and national ambition to be great. Alexander’s life is the template friendship-turned-rivalry. She also introduces a new character, the against which those of subsequent conquerors from Julius Caesar to aristocratic, self-righteous female abolitionist, Maria Weston Chapman, Genghis Khan to Napoleon have been compared. Alexander’s career, like whose commitment to the cause, and hostility toward Douglass, played a that of Caesar, became a lesson in the dangers of a military despot. hitherto unexamined role in the movement. However, political and cultural trends suggest a surprising hunger for latter-day Alexanders. Linda Hirshman is an American lawyer, pundit, and the author of Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution, Get to Work: A Manifesto For Women of An English professor at West Point, Elizabeth Samet received her BA the World, The Woman's Guide to Law School, and Hard Bargains: The Politics of from Harvard and her PhD from Yale. Soldier’s Heart won the Los Angeles Sex. Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was also named one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books in 2007.
UPCOMING SELF-HELP / MINDFULNESS
TITLES
LATE BLOOMERS
The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early
Achievement
By Rich Karlgaard
US publisher: Currency / PRH (North American rights) To publish: April 2019
Material available: Edited MS available
Rights sold: China (Beijing Mediatimes) Korea (Korean Economic Daily) Taiwan (Prophet Press)
A groundbreaking exploration of what it means to be a late bloomer in a culture obsessed with SAT scores and early success, and how finding one's way later in life can be an advantage to long-term achievement and happiness. There is a scientific explanation for why so many of us bloom later in life. The executive function of our brains doesn't mature until age 25--and later We live in a society where kids and parents are obsessed with early for some. In fact our brain's capabilities peak at different ages. We actually achievement, from getting perfect scores on SATs to getting into Ivy enjoy multiple periods of blooming in our lives. League colleges to landing an amazing job at Google or Facebook--or even better, creating a startup with the potential to be the next Google or Based on several years of research, personal experience, and interviews Facebook or Uber. We see software coders becoming millionaires or even with neuroscientists and psychologists, and countless people at different billionaires before age 30 and feel we are failing if we are not one of them. stages of their careers, Bloom reveals how and when we achieve full But there is good news. A lot of us—most of us—do not explode out of potential—and why an algorithmic acuity in math is such an anomaly in the gates in life. That was true for author Rich Karlgaard, who had a terms of career success. mediocre academic career at Stanford (which he got into by a fluke), and after graduating, worked as a dishwasher, night watchman, and typing Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes magazine, is an entrepreneur, temp before finally finding the inner motivation and drive that ultimately business thought leader, and the previous author of Soft Edge, Life 2.0, and led him to start up a high-tech magazine in Silicon Valley, and eventually Team Genius. to become the publisher of Forbes magazine.
ENERGY MEDICINE The Science and Mystery of Healing (previously titled THE ENERGY THAT HEALS US)
By Dr. Jill Blakeway
US publisher: HarperCollins (North American rights) To publish: April 2019
Material available: Edited MS available
Rights sold: Spain (Urano) UK/Commonwealth (Scribe)
In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Jill Blakeway shares her findings of the ways energy medicine is being used and harnessed today.
As the Founder and Director of the YinOva Center, the largest acupuncture and Chinese medicine practice in the U.S., Dr. Jill Blakeway is one of the most respected healers in the country. Energy medicine is the fastest growing area of alternative healing today, from acupuncturists, reiki masters, “hands-on” healers, craniosacral therapists, to other practitioners who claim to promote healing by removing blockage and restoring balance to the unseen energy field surrounding the body, otherwise known as “Qi.” Dr. Jill Blakeway is the founder and director of The YinOva Center in New York City and the author of the bestselling Making Babies: A Proven 3 Dr. Blakeway is a scientist and skeptic at heart who has made it her life’s Month Program for Maximum Fertility (Little, Brown 2009), Sex Again: work to try and understand and replicate the often-inexplicable energy Recharging Your Libido (Workman 2013), and is also the popular host of work she does. She has aligned herself with the world’s top healers, CBS Radio’s weekly podcast, “Grow, Cook, Heal”. Blakeway teaches researchers, and practitioners of energy medicine to understand and apply gynecology and obstetrics at the Doctoral Program at Pacific College of this powerful healing force. Dr. Blakeway takes the reader on a journey Oriental Medicine in San Diego and Chicago and founded the acupuncture from hard science to the spiritual and back again in a never-ending quest program at NYC Lutheran Medical Center. She is an authority on to get to the heart of this powerful mode of healing. alternative medicine and women’s health and has appeared in such media as The Dr. Oz Show, CNN, The Early Show, Good Morning America, NBC News, ABC News, The New York Times, Elle, Martha Stewart Living and more. She was also the first acupuncturist to deliver a TED Talk called “The Placebo Effect” at TED Global in 2012.
WAITING IN THE WINGS
By Tiffany Haas
US publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan (NA rights) To publish: April 2019
Material available: Edited MS available
The definitive guide to making a career in theater—to Broadway and beyond.
Tiffany Haas knows how to make it on Broadway. After 72 No’s in a row—72 auditions and 72 rejections—she finally landed a role in Broadway’s long-running smash hit Wicked and later became “Glinda the Good.” Now she wants to share her advice for starting and nurturing a career in the theater. WAITING IN THE WINGS is the essential guide for anyone who wants to have a theatrical career, whether they’re complete newbies or already have some professional credits.
Based on everything she learned on her journey to New York, including 10 years on Broadway, Tiffany shares the information that you need to succeed in theater. Everyone’s path is a little bit different, but the principles for success are always the same. With advice on auditions, how Tiffany Haas is a Broadway performer, concert vocalist, passionate to become the performer they want to hire, developing relationships with entrepreneur and designer. Tiffany has played Glinda in the Broadway cast mates, finding a reputable agent, the importance of reputation, and the production of Wicked. Tiffany regularly performs with symphony best way to shape and build your career, Tiffany covers every aspect of the orchestras, regional theatre productions and cabaret venues throughout business. You’ll learn what it takes to be successful and where to best the country. She also travels throughout the country teaching master spend your time and effort as you navigate the “great mystery” of pursuing classes at conservatories, performing arts schools and musical theatre musical theater. programs. Find her at www.tiffanyhaas.com.
In an industry that is famed for its insider secrets, Tiffany draws back the curtain, giving readers the knowledge and tools they need to follow their dreams. If you’re one of those people Waiting in the Wings for a big Broadway career, Tiffany Haas’s book is the one resource you need to land a big role, stand in front of those footlights, and let it go!
THE WEDGE AGILE AND ADAPTIVE Making Wise Decisions during Stress, Uncertainty, and By Scott Carney Change
US publisher: Harmony / PRH (North American rights) By Elizabeth Stanley To publish: Spring 2019 US publisher: Avery / PRH (North American rights) Material available: Edited MS available in November 2018 To publish: Fall 2019
Through a narrative combining in-depth research with personal Material available: Proposal available experimentation and investigating reporting, the goal of THE Edited MS available in February 2019 WEDGE is to offer readers all the tools they need to become stronger, healthier, happier, and more centered. Rights sold: China (CITIC) Taiwan (ACME) In his previous book What Doesn’t Kill Us, investigative journalist and anthropologist Scott Carney proposed that human health doesn’t rest on We are always on, and never entirely turn off. Mindfulness alone the twin pillars of diet and exercised alone, but also on an equally may not ameliorate these effects. What can we do? important third pillar: the environment. His new book THE WEDGE homes in on this third pillar to explore the concept of “The Wedge,” that Our biological wiring is the same as it was 200,000 years ago, when we is, how someone can consciously alter their environment in order to create were cavemen (and cavewomen) and our daily decisions had to do with predictable physiological and psychological outcomes. literal survival. Back then, we responded to stress with a brief surge of adrenaline, and then retreated to our caves to recover. Today, we respond With Daniel Schmachtenberger of the Neurohacker Collective as his to stressful decision-making with the same biological cocktail, and no medicine man, Scott Carney will undertake a quest to hack his body and longer allow our systems to properly recover. upgrade his consciousness through the environment. When Elizabeth Stanley began researching body-based trauma therapies Along the way, through the concept of “The Wedge” readers will explore she started to understand her nervous system in a way that mindfulness human sensation and health through the lens of psychedelics, lucid hadn't provided. She then combined nervous-system regulation techniques dreaming, tantra, heat, immune illness, light and sound, fear, anxiety, sex, with mindfulness training and began teaching the combination, called hunger, and more. Mindfulness-Based Mind Fitness Training, or MMFT, to her colleagues in the military and other high-stress professions. And now Liz is ready to Scott Carney’s work blends narrative non-fiction with ethnography. bring MMFT to readers with her book AGILE AND ADAPTIVE. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and a 2016-17 Scripps Fellow at the Center for Environmental Elizabeth Stanley is a military veteran, an associate professor of security Journalism in Boulder, Colorado. What Doesn't Kill Us is his most recent studies at Georgetown University, and the founder of the nonprofit The book; other works include The Red Market and A Death on Diamond Mind Fitness Training Institute. Mountain.
THE YEAR OF KNOTS INVINCIBLE Projects, Inspiration, and Daily Commitment on the Path The Heart of Peak Performance to Becoming an Artist By Leah Lagos By Windy Chien US publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (North American rights) US publisher: Abrams (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Rights sold: China (Huazhang) Windy Chien is a former Apple exec turned artist whose inspiring UK/Commonwealth (Orion) 2016 Year of Knots project on Instagram (@windychien) was a hit with her followers and with national media, in which she learned a The key to peak performance, says Dr. Lagos, is to recognize that the new knot every day for a year. Her book THE YEAR OF KNOTS stress is not in your head, it’s in your body. Dr. Lagos’s unique will be a gorgeous mash-up of modern knot art meets stylish, how-to, program offers a vital process for both letting go and achieving inspirational titles like Julia Cameron’s The Artist's Way and Elle optimal health and performance. Luna's The Crossroads of Should and Must. In INVINCIBLE, Dr. Lagos reveals her unique 10-week, safe and At the heart of Windy's book is the simple yet powerful idea that a well- natural, scientifically proven program to alter the body’s physical baseline thought-out year is all you need to make an enormous creative leap. response to stress, working specifically with the most important muscle in Windy's art looks nothing like macramé from the 1970's or even today's your body—the heart—so you can fine-tune your reflexes and perform at macramé renaissance. your maximum potential. The key to Dr. Lagos’s success is that she recognizes the direct link between heart rhythms and stress, creating Windy is an artist on the rise with a wonderful career in the arts--her specific, clinically tested exercises and breathing techniques that allow you Instagram following has increased tenfold in less than a year and she's to physically control your body’s physical response. been featured in The New York Times, Wired, Martha Stewart Living, and Sunset. Knots are not her only medium. The classes Windy teaches in With INVINCIBLE, readers will gain the tools of elite athletes and San Francisco sell out immediately and she's becoming an in-demand CEOs, enabling them to respond more flexibly to stressful situations, let speaker on the topic of giving yourself permission to follow the creative go of negative thoughts and emotions, and ultimately be more focused and path. confident under pressure.
Windy Chien makes art that activates space and crafts objects that elevate Dr. Leah Lagos, Psy.D, B.C.B., works with some of the world’s top the daily rituals of life. Following long careers at Apple/iTunes and in the business and sports professionals including Olympic athletes, CEO’s, music industry, she launched her studio in 2015. Her work has been international hedge fund executives. She is a Licensed Psychologist in the covered by Wired, The New York Times, Martha Stewart and more. See her State of New York and Board Certified in Biofeedback. website at www.windychien.com.
YOU CAN’T F*CK UP YOUR KIDS THE HILARIOUS WORLD OF DEPRESSION
By Lindsay Powers By John Moe
US publisher: Atria / S&S (North American rights) US publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan (NA rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Winter 2020
Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Edited MS available in Spring 2019
In this disarmingly warm and upbeat handbook, Powers offers a John Moe, critically-acclaimed public radio personality is known for wealth of no-nonsense advice on the basics of raising newborns and his razor-sharp wit, incisive commentary and easy-going banter with toddlers even as she insists that readers shed the guilt, shame, anxiety top-tier talent in the world of entertainment. But behind the scenes, and judgment that too often characterize modern parenthood. Moe secretly faced a lifelong battle with depression.
YOU CAN’T F*CK UP YOUR KIDS is built around a simple yet As Moe came to terms with his own illness, he began to see remarkably powerful premise: Parents today—thanks to a surfeit of voices screaming similar patterns of behavior and coping mechanisms—ones he’d observed conflicting opinions from all corners of the Internet—tend to question in himself—surfacing in conversations with other high-profile comedians and overthink even the most basic childcare decisions. They are racked who’d struggled with the disease. Importantly, Moe saw that there was with fear that if they don’t achieve perfection in handling every aspect of tremendous comfort in the sense of community that resulted in an open raising their kids, they’re somehow going to destroy their children’s future dialogue about these shared experiences—and that humor had a unique lives. power.
But Powers shows us that parenting doesn’t have to be this way! In YOU In THE HILARIOUS WORLD OF DEPRESSION, Moe shares his CAN’T F*CK UP YOUR KIDS, Powers serves as a knowledgeable and own deeply moving, personal journey with depression even as he layers in comforting companion to cool the engines of stressed-out new and a treasure trove of poignant, laugh-out-loud stories and insights drawn prospective moms and dads. from years of interviews with some of the most brilliant minds in comedy, music and acting who faced similar challenges. Throughout the course of Lindsay Powers is creator of the #NoShameParenting movement, a viral this powerful memoir, depression’s universal themes come to light, among Internet. Before joining Sirius XM, she was the founding editor-in-chief of them, struggles with identity, lack of understanding of the symptoms, the Yahoo Parenting. Her clarion journalistic voice has been published in the challenges of work-life, self-medicating, the fallout of the disease in the New York Post, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Us Weekly, and the Hollywood lives of our loved ones, the tragedy of suicide and the hereditary aspects of Reporter, and she has appeared on Good Morning America, the Today the disease. Show and CNN. John Moe has served as host of national public radio broadcasts such as Weekend America, Marketplace Tech Report and from 2010- 2015, Wits. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Seattle Times, MSN, and he’s the author of three books.
UPCOMING NARRATIVE NONFICTION
THE WORLD OF LORE trilogy
#1: MONSTROUS CREATURES #2: WICKED MORTALS #3: DREADFUL PLACES
By Aaron Mahnke
US publisher: Del Rey / PRH (North American rights) To publish: October 2017; May 2018; October 2018
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A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, featuring both rare and best-loved stories from the hit podcast Lore. Now a series on Amazon! Aaron Mahnke is the writer, host, and producer of the podcast Lore, as well as the author of a number of supernatural thrillers. He has a deep love In this beautifully illustrated volume, the host of the hit podcast Lore of the mysterious and frightening. serves as a guide on a fascinating journey through the history of these terrifying creatures, exploring not only the legends but what they tell us about ourselves. Aaron Mahnke invites us to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, where the winged, red-eyed Jersey Devil dwells. He delves into Praise for the Lore podcast: harrowing accounts of cannibalism—some officially documented, others the stuff of speculation…perhaps. He visits the dimly lit rooms where “Truth can often be much scarier than fiction—something Mahnke proves séances take place, the European villages where gremlins make mischief, as he dives deep into the world of folklore and the darker side of history in even Key West, Florida, home of a haunted doll. a quest to root out the fragment of truth at the bottom of our fears.” – Entertainment Weekly In a world of “emotional vampires” and “zombie malls,” the monsters of folklore have become both a part of our language and a part of our “Unlike so much horror that needs over-the-top viscera to scare you, this collective psyche. Whether these beasts and bogeymen are real or just a podcast leans on history—folklore, myth, the stuff people once thought reflection of our primal fears, we kno that not every mystery has been was true—to tell its tales.” – The Atlantic explained and that the unknown still holds the power to strike fear. As
Aaron reminds us, sometimes the truth is even scarier than the lore.
THE MASTERMIND close, he would slip away. It would take relentless investigative work, and a shocking betrayal from within his organization, to catch him. And when Empire. Murder. Mayhem. Betrayal. they finally did, the story turned again, as Le Roux struck a deal to bring down his organization and the people he once employed. By Evan Ratliff Award-winning investigative journalist Evan Ratliff spent four years US publisher: Random House (North American rights) piecing together this intricate puzzle, chasing LeRoux's empire and his To publish: March 2019 shadowy henchmen around the world, conducting hundreds of interviews and uncovering thousands of documents. The result is a riveting, Material available: Edited MS available unprecedented account of a crime boss built by and for the digital age.
Rights sold: Japan (Hayakawa) Evan Ratliff is an award-winning journalist and founder of The Atavist Poland (Agora) Magazine. He is a longtime contributor to Wired, The New Yorker, National Romania (SC Publica) Geographic and others, and a two-time finalist for the National Magazine UK/Commonwealth (Transworld / PRH UK) Awards and the Livingston Awards. His 2009 Wired cover story "Vanish," about his attempt to disappear and the public's effort to find him, was selected by the magazine as one of the twenty best stories in its history. He The incredible true story of decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le also co-hosts the acclaimed Longform podcast, and was a founding editor Roux---the creator of a frighteningly powerful internet-enabled cartel, of Pop-Up Magazine, the country's most successful live journalism event. who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological He is the co-author of Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. World, about innovation and counterterrorism, and the editor of the collection Love and Ruin: Tales of Obsession, Danger, and Heartbreak. It all started as an online prescription drug network, supplying hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of painkillers to American customers. It would not stop there. Before long, the business had morphed into a sprawling, multinational conglomerate engaged in almost every conceivable aspect of criminal mayhem. Yachts carrying $100 million in cocaine. Safe houses in Hong Kong filled with gold bars. Shipments of methamphetamine from North Korea. Weapons deals with Iran. Mercenary armies in Somalia. Teams of hitmen in the Philippines. Encryption programs so advanced, government could break them.
The man behind it all, pulling the strings from a laptop in Manila, was a reclusive South African named Paul Calder LeRoux—a programmer- turned-criminal genius who could only exist in the networked world of the twenty-first century, and the kind of self-made crime boss that American law enforcement had never imagined.
For half a decade, the DEA played a global game of cat-and-mouse with Le Roux as he left terror and chaos in his wake. Each time they came
HAPPINESS FOUND IN TRANSLATION GRAY DAY (previously titled FRISSON) There Are No Hackers, Only Spies
By Dr. Tim Lomas By Eric M. O'Neill
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From Europe’s leading expert on positive psychology and the head of As GRAY DAY dramatically shows, The Soviet Union collapsed in the Positive Lexicography Project comes Dr. Tim Lomas’s new book 1991 but that didn’t end the Cold War. It simply moved the about how other languages can give us an untapped mine to probe battlefield to cyber. for new ways of appreciating life, new types of pleasure and—most In 2011, Eric M. O’Neill was working in the FBI when he was tapped for intriguingly—new routes to greater satisfaction, mindfulness and joy. the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the FBI’s top target, a man suspected of spying for the Russians for nearly two From terms like hygge, Schadenfreude and bon vivant, that have entered the decades—giving up nuclear secrets, compromising intelligence, and English language, to words like the Dutch queesting (to invite a lover into betraying US assets. With zero training in face-to-face investigation, Eric your bed for pillow talk) or the Brazilian Portuguese cafuné (the pleasure of found himself in a windowless, high-security cyber security department running your fingers through your lover’s hair), the world’s languages reporting to the most devastating spy in the FBI’s history, Robert provide a rich vocabulary of happiness, joy, desire, mindfulness and Hanssen. Over the course of two months, Eric’s self-esteem and marriage pleasure that is absent in English. unravel, and Eric questions the very purpose of his mission. But as Hanssen outmaneuvers the intelligence community, Eric learns the game In HAPPINESS FOUND IN TRANSLATION, Tim not only of spy craft. He just has to outplay his teacher if he wants to win. discusses many of the different “untranslatable” words in what will be a feast for language lovers, but he also examines what we can learn from A real-life drama of power, paranoia, and psychological them to become happier ourselves, appealing to fans of Eats, Shoot and manipulation, GRAY DAY is a rare look behind the curtain, as this page- Leaves and The Happiness Project. turning episode opens up hot-button issues such as the evolution of the FBI, its relationship with Russia, present day cyber-attacks, and the future Dr. Tim Lomas is one of Europe’s leading experts on positive of warfare. psychology and the program leader at the University of East London’s MSc in Applied Positive Psychology (the preeminent postgraduate course Eric M. O'Neill is the founder of The Georgetown Group, a premier in Europe). His first book, The Positive Power of Negative Emotions, has been investigative and security consultancy, where he specializes in published in Turkish, Spanish and Korean as well as in the UK by Tim’s counterintelligence and counterterrorism operations. Eric was formerly an regular publisher, Piatkus. FBI undercover operative, and he earned a JD from George Washington University Law School.
TWILIGHT OF THE FOOD GODS WHAT DO WE NEED MEN FOR? A Modest Proposal By Kevin Alexander
US publisher: Penguin Press / PRH (North American rights) By E. Jean Carroll To publish: Fall 2019 US publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan (NA rights) Material available: Proposal available To publish: Fall 2019 Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available After covering food for nine years for Thrillist, journalist Kevin Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Alexander traveled to thirty cities in nine months to understand the state of culinary America in 2016. When E. Jean Carroll, author of the longest-running advice column in America, realized that her eight million readers all seemed to The result is TWILIGHT OF THE FOOD GODS—the social history have one thing in common—problems caused by men—she hit the of what has been, for the last decade, perhaps the greatest culinary road. E. Jean stopped in every town named after a woman between moment our country has ever enjoyed. It was the golden age of dining, Eden, Vermont and Tallulah, Louisiana to ask the people she met which is also beginning to come to an end. one crucial question: WHAT DO WE NEED MEN FOR?
TWILIGHT OF THE FOOD GODS is a rollicking, fun, important Spurred by the news about Harvey Weinstein and energized by the piece of cultural anthropology as it documents, glories in, and attempts to resulting Me Too movement, E. Jean interviewed scores of fascinating make sense of this watershed period in America when we began to obsess, individuals with humor, spunk, and enormous empathy about their trials glorify, and fetishize food, just as we’d done with love in the 1960s and and tribulation with the male sex. money in the 1980s. And as labor costs, cook shortages, immigration restrictions, unrealistic ambitions, and a glut of restaurants all attempting Intertwined with the voices of the women she meets along her journey are to do the same thing bring the zeppelin down, the culture of American E. Jean’s own personal stories of trauma—being strangled by her husband dining is about to undergo a profound change. And Kevin Alexander is in a Hamptons beach house, harassed by former boss, Roger Ailes, and, in the one who can tell you where we’re all going next. one particularly awful instance, attacked by a certain orange-haired, short- fingered vulgarian in a dressing room at Bergdorf’s department store. E. Kevin Alexander is the James Beard Award-winning Writer at Large for Jean’s own history is intertwined with the colorful, cheeky small-town Thrillist. He lives north of San Francisco. inhabitants’ stories: each town is a chapter, and each chapter reveals an assault that occurred in E. Jean’s past, rendering simultaneously a hilarious adventure with poignant self-reflection.
E. Jean Carroll has written the celebrated monthly advice column “Ask E. Jean” for Elle magazine for over twenty-five years. She has been a contributing editor at Esquire, Outside, and Playboy, and has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, and other publications.
TALKING FUNNY DANGEROUS WOMEN Comedians Tell Me About Their Lives, And My Life Too By Gail Caldwell By David Steinberg US publisher: Random House (North American rights) US publisher: Knopf / Penguin Random House (WE rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 DANGEROUS WOMEN is a series of stories that traces bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell’s evolution as a TALKING FUNNY is a tour de force through the greatest minds of writer, but also pays tributes to off-the-grid, strong female influences comedy, as David Steinberg blends his personal stories and a in her life, be they real or imagined: from the literary (Woolf or Tess selection of candid interviews with a cast of dozens of the best forces or Lily Bart) to the formative (her algebra teacher) and the familial. in comedy—Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Sarah Silverman, Chris At its heart, DANGEROUS WOMEN is a beautiful, literary Rock, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and Robin Williams, to name tapestry to the powerful female heritage that exists behind all of us. a few.
Gail grew up within the shadows and shelters of the early 1970s women David Steinberg came into stardom in the late ‘60s and ‘70s when stand-up movement—an era just barely beyond the world of Sylvia Plath, or, in her was still counter-culture, and often adversarial; when David’s Tonight Show words, “a living doll, everywhere you look/it can sew, it can cook/it can impressions of “Tricky Dick” became too popular, Richard Nixon’s gang talk talk talk.” The stories that emerge begin there, with an abortion in tried to kick the talk show off the air and had the FBI follow David Mexico three years before Roe v. Wade and a date rape in cowboy country around. It was an era when mobsters still prowled the streets of New that could have happened to any girl, anywhere. York; when David’s stage mates Burt Reynolds, George Carlin, and Richard Pryor doused themselves in heroin, cocaine, and liquor to fuel their genius before careening off the rails. Gail and her contemporaries are watching a generation of kids go off to college or have their kids of their own, and some of their inheritance is Though chaos swirled around his closest friends, David managed to stay liberating, some shortsighted. When she teaches, she’s often involved with on his feet, and he went on to become an instrumental force behind the young women whose ideas of creativity and freedom are wonderful and success of some of the most culture-shaping television of the next three vast, but also historically unearned, as youth is by nature. Sometimes all decades. He guest-hosted The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson 130 times she can give them is stories, and these stories feel important: The “once (more than anyone else) and as an in-demand director he directed upon a time” of memory and history, the dust bunnies of experiences she’s countless episodes of Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, and Curb Your tried to sweep into a life. This is a book “for all the girls.” Enthusiasm. Gail Caldwell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was the Book Editor of the David Steinberg is a comedian, director, and producer. He guest-hosted Boston Globe for twenty years. She is the author of Strong West Wind, the the Johnny Carson show 130 times, more than anyone else, and has directed NYT bestseller Let's Take the Long Way Home, and New Life: No Instructions countless episodes of Golden Girls, Friends, Seinfeld, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
BLOOD RUNS COAL YOU’RE NOT LISTENING The Yablonski Murders and the War for the Soul of the United Mine Workers of America By Kate Murphy
US publisher: Celadon / Macmillan (North American rights) By Mark A. Bradley To publish: Fall 2019
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BLOOD RUNS COAL will take readers deep inside those momentous In the spirit of Susan Cain’s Quiet comes a major new work entitled eight months of 1969, and the precipitous twinned decline of the coal YOU’RE NOT LISTENING, which will forever change the way industry and Appalachian region, recreating the hardscrabble, dangerous you think about listening. Based on prodigious reporting and a lives of Appalachian coal miners during the deeply divided decade of the brilliant survey of emerging science, Kate shows how listening is 1960s. This will be an emotional rollercoaster taking readers to the heights more important than ever—and yet, in this age of technology and of courage and to the depths of depravity. political division, more difficult than ever. In her accessible, polished style, she shows us how mindful listening can transform Mark A. Bradley is an award-winning author and national security expert your understanding of the people and the world around you. who served for years at the CIA and Department of Justice and, was appointed by President Obama to the Director of the Information Security Kate Murphy is a writer for The New York Times, The Economist, Agence Oversight Office at the National Archives. France-Presse and Texas Monthly, among others.
NOSTALGIA THE HUNT FOR HISTORY How the Emotion Shapes Who We Are and What We Believe By Nathan Raab
By Amanda R. Martinez US publisher: Scribner / S&S (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2020 US publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan (NA rights) To publish: Spring 2020 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 In THE HUNT FOR HISTORY, Nate takes us into the rarified world of historical documents in a major work of narrative Rights sold: Brazil (HarperCollins Brazil) nonfiction that is a fascinating detective story, a compelling portrait UK/Commonwealth (S&S UK) of a unique business and subculture, and a profound examination of
the role of history in our culture. NOSTALGIA is the first book to examine the emotion—and now, cultural phenomenon—in all its complex facets. THE HUNT FOR HISTORY explores the business of buying and It’s clear that a positive wave of nostalgia has taken hold as a cultural selling history. We learn how to authenticate an historical document and phenomenon, and it is a far cry from the dangerous manipulation by why provenance is not the signal issue it is in the art world, although demagogues who exploit the emotion to advance their populist agendas. In forgeries are. How does pricing work? Who buys these documents—it’s NOSTALGIA, Amanda R. Martinez crosses the globe where she meets not just institutions—and who sells them, and why? Despite working with people who shared anecdotes of their own golden age, and antique, if not ancient, materials technology has a role to play both in discovered nostalgia playing out in wondrous ways. She tours with a conserving and authenticating materials and we’ll get a behind the scenes Grateful Dead tribute band followed by thousands of fans; dines at a look at how some of the best in the business ply their craft. theme restaurant in Beijing, where patrons sit at schoolroom desks and “take” the menu as a multiple-choice test; and learns that the new hot Nathan Raab, recognized as one of the world’s most knowledgeable and commodity in Germany is a junker of a car produced during WWII. respected experts in historical documents, is the President of the Raab Collection, the sole high-end, old-fashioned, person-to-person dealer in In addition to an eye-opening and entertaining understanding of the historical documents still in existence in the United States. His column, universal experience of nostalgia, readers will gain insight into how to Historically Speaking, appears frequently on Forbes.com and his articles harness the benefits of nostalgia for their own well-being. NOSTALGIA and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times and the is a landmark book for readers fascinated by the best-selling work of Philadelphia Inquirer among other publications. Daniel Kahneman, Stephen Pinker, Daniel Gilbert, and Sherry Turkle.
Amanda R. Martinez is the previous author of Battle at the End of Eden. Her articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Scientific American.
THE WOMEN WITH SILVER WINGS MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE EARTH The Epic Untold Story of The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II By Julian Sancton
By Katherine Landdeck US publisher: Crown / PRH (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2020 US publisher: Crown / PRH (World English rights) To publish: Spring 2020 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available November 2019
Material available: Proposal available Rights sold: Germany (Piper) Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Holland (Hollandsdiep) Italy (Corbaccio) In the vein of Hidden Figures, The Girls of Atomic City, The Boys Poland (Media Rodzina) in the Boat, and Unbroken comes THE WOMEN WITH SILVER Romania (SC Publica) WINGS, a major new work of narrative nonfiction that tells the UK/Commonwealth (WH Allen /PRH UK) untold story of the America’s first female military pilots. MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE EARTH is a gripping The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, or the WASPs, were survival story of the world’s first adventurers to endure an Antarctic the first women ever to fly for the US military. These expert pilots flew winter aboard a sailboat trapped in ice. every type of plane the military had—and flew every mission, some extraordinarily dangerous, except for combat missions. Without the MADHOUSE opens with the recruitment of the Belgica’s eccentric if WASPs, the United States would not have had enough combat pilots to intrepid crew, which comprised more than twenty Europeans and a single win the war, and yet these pilots faced enormous resistance, American. The Belgica set sail in August 1897, and the crew were intent discrimination, and limitations every step of the way. They were forcibly upon becoming the first scientific expedition to reach the South Pole. But disbanded before the war was won, and then erased from US history by they soon realized the vessel would not reach the pole before winter, and the very military whom they so proudly served. knew that if they pressed on, they would encounter an unimaginably harsh climate. Yet, they courageously surrendered the ship to the pack ice, But the WASPs took none of this discrimination lying down. Their story is howling winds, sub-zero temperatures, and to months of total darkness—a an epic adventure brimming with audacity, inspiration, stunning reversals, fate that had spelled doom for past polar expeditions. and tear-jerking triumphs. The WASPs prove that great, sweeping social progress is rarely linear and that while battles may be lost, that is never Julian Sancton will movingly depict the crew members’ friendships and cause to give up the war. THE WOMEN WITH SILVER WINGS is conflicts, while dramatizing their triumphant escape. He will also explore an unputdownable, universal story about determined young women who the grim effects of darkness, cold, and isolation upon these survivors, and just wanted to fly. pay tribute to the pioneering resourcefulness of the ship’s doctor’s treatments and cures. Katherine Landdeck is an Associate Professor of History at Texas Woman's University, where the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Julian Sancton has worked as a reporter for Vanity Fair, Esquire, and archives are housed. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, an Emmy Award Departures. MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE EARTH is his first nominee, and the world's foremost expert on the history of the WASPs. book.
CURE-ALL BE WATER, MY FRIEND Diagnosing the Modern Wellness Epidemic The Extraordinary Teachings of Bruce Lee
By Amy Larocca By Shannon Lee
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In CURE-ALL, Amy offers a nuanced portrait of the weird world of Rights sold: Brazil (Tordesilhas) wellness, its engines, its strategies, and its snake oil salesmen. She has China (Ginko) France (Tredaniel) found that beneath the surface, wellness expresses something thorny Germany (Piper) and profound about the modern world. Italy (Piemme) Russia (AST) Amy will peel back the layers of the wellness movement and reckon with Spain (Alfaomega) its promises and profits. Her mission is to combine cultural anthropology and memoir to entertain and enlighten anyone who’s tried an acroyoga Just as Bruce Lee himself authored a martial-arts / philosophy book class, contemplated cutting red meat out of their diet, or investigated the in 1975 that went on to sell more than 1 million copies, Shannon will benefits of healing crystals. CURE-ALL will take readers into the deliver a new bestselling modern classic with BE WATER, MY communities that swear by their activated charcoal toothpaste and green FRIEND: The Extraordinary Teachings of Bruce Lee to a new juice enemas. Throughout, Amy will hold a magnifying glass to alternative medicine and nouveau lifestyle prescriptions and present her incisive generation of readers who have flocked by the millions to Shannon to assessment of how the wellness industry embodies our (gendered, class- understand her father’s “secret sauce.” based, racialized) perceptions of care and self-improvement, and how it preys upon our unshakeable fear of the unknown. After the death of her older brother, actor Brandon Lee, during a tragic stunt accident on the set of The Crow, she stepped up and assumed Amy Larocca is the Fashion Editor-at-Large for New York Magazine stewardship of her father’s estate. The astoundingly large and deeply where she has identified trends and uncovered the machinations of the passionate following she has built is a testament to the authenticity of her zeitgeist in award-winning narratives, essays, and profiles. Her journalism message. It resonated with many, and it has inspired deep loyalty. For and essays have appeared in Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country, Allure, more than a year, fans have been asking Shannon when she will commit Glamour, Esquire, The Times of London, and The London Review of Books. She her lessons and her father’s wisdom in a book. She is excited to write that lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the theatre director Will Frears, and book. their two children. Shannon Lee is the daughter and sole surviving child of Bruce Lee and CEO of Bruce Lee Enterprises. BE WATER, MY FRIEND is her first book.
CHASING THE THRILL STRANGERS
By Daniel Barbarisi By Joe Keohane
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A fascinating look inside a little-explored subculture and an A simple question occurred to Joe Keohane late one night when a engrossing adventure, CHASING THE THRILL will appeal to the conversation with a cab driver turned out to be surprisingly readers of David Grann’s Lost City of Z, Douglas Preston’s The Lost meaningful. After the exchange, Joe began to ask himself a simple City of the Monkey God, and Robert Kurson’s Pirate Hunters. question: Why don’t we talk to strangers? And furthermore—what happens when we do? In 2008, a wealthy art dealer named Forest Fenn hid a treasure chest full of gold and jewels in the Rocky Mountains and then published a poem with There are many reasons. There’s fear or shyness or personal disinclination. nine clues to its location. Initially, Fenn’s treasure hunt was nothing but a There are technological reasons that have driven many of us into silos of local curiosity, but five years later, the hunt’s popularity exploded—tens of isolation. A century of science and social science has established that there thousands of people have undertaken the search, with author Daniel is a deep biological imperative in us to distrust, diminish and discriminate Barbarisi becoming one of the hunters. against people who are not “like us. Throughout the history of western civilization, the fate of cultures has been greatly impacted by their idea and CHASING THE THRILL takes us inside this obsessive, beguiling, and treatment of strangers. It’s a through-line—as Joe puts it, “from the Torah sometimes lethal world. With Daniel as our guide, we’ll get to know the to the Trumps”—that elucidates our shared history and offers surprising inimitable Forest Fenn himself—a showman, guru, and perhaps a criminal. and compelling insights into our own social and political moment, when Daniel will also follow four of the larger-than-life leading hunters out on nearly every morning we wake up to a news feed filled with instances of the trail, recounting their vastly different backgrounds, solves, and clever rising xenophobia, nationalism and racism. treasure-hunting strategies. STRANGERS is the kind of book that, like Sapiens by Yuval Noah Daniel will also document the epic tales of fortune-seekers throughout Harari, offers a unified theory of the life of humans and their societies. On recorded history—from Spanish Conquistadors in the 1500s, to English a fundamental level, it is a book that readers react to on an deeply personal treasure-hunters of the 17th and 18th centuries, and to our modern-day basis. There is a burgeoning crop of scientists studying interactions with treasure-hunting technology that has raised ancient galleons from depths strangers as an antidote to a serious social crisis. In the same way of the sea. that Quiet, by Susan Cain, used a big idea to make us understand something fundamental about our own emotional well-being, so too Daniel Barbarisi is the author of the acclaimed Dueling with Kings A will STRANGERS help us to examine and reconsider the way in which senior editor at The Atheletic, Dan was the Yankees beat reporter for everyday interactions with strangers can impact our lives. the Wall Street Journal for several years, has written for The Boston Globe and Joe Keohane is an Executive Editor at Medium. The Providence Journal, and is extremely well connected to the media.
OSCAR WARS
By Michael Schulman
US publisher: HarperCollins (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2021
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OSCAR WARS promises to be the definitive book on the Academy Awards, from a devotee and expert who has spent years covering the glitz, glamor, buzz, and drama for The New Yorker magazine.
In an era that has seen Hollywood’s de facto governing body reckon with itself and its choices—see the #OscarsSoWhite callouts of recent years, and Moonlight’s Best Picture coup during the 2016 ceremony—Michael will guide readers through the most contentious Oscar races and the most surprising Oscars lore. At once cultural history and character-driven story, the book will examine the moments, stars, and themes that have cemented the awards at the center of our cultural conversation, ensuring that whatever the context, the Oscars represent more than the Oscars.
Michael Schulman is the previous author of Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep. A journalist at The New Yorker covering culture and the arts, he has written features, reviews, and over 50 “Talk of the Town” pieces. He is also the theatre editor of Goings on About Town, and an ongoing contributor to the New York Times.
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TRANSFORMING NOKIA The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change
By Risto Siilasmaa
US publisher: McGraw-Hill (World English rights) To publish: October 2018
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Whether you lead a team, a massive organization, or a start-up, TRANSFORMING NOKIA provides everything you need to sharpen your foresight, expand your options, seize opportunities, and thrive—no matter what changes tomorrow brings. Risto Siilasmaa is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nokia Corporation. TRANSFORMING NOKIA is his first book. Nokia once dominated the smartphone industry. It was to mobile phones what Kleenex is to facial tissues. Then iPhones and Androids appeared out Praise for TRANSFORMING NOKIA: of nowhere and pushed Nokia off the cliff. In just four years, the company lost over 90 percent of its value. Revenues were in freefall; massive layoffs became common. Pundits predicted that bankruptcy wasn’t a matter of if, “Nokia's recent transformation is one of the most dramatic corporate it was a matter of when. Then something equally shocking occurred. In makeovers in modern history. Written like a thriller, Risto's story takes us record time, Nokia bounced back. With a vengeance. Nokia reinvented through the events that took place behind the scenes. His thoughtful itself and is now the second-biggest player in the $100 billion-dollar global reflections provide tangible lessons for any leader.” wireless market. – Rich Lesser, CEO, The Boston Consulting Group
In TRANSFORMING NOKIA, the man who orchestrated and led “Transforming Nokia is a must-read for business leaders as it serves as both Nokia’s comeback―Risto Siilasmaa―recounts the dramatic story. You’ll a warning and a practical playbook on how to identify and act on threats learn how to harness the power of what Siilasmaa calls “paranoid and opportunities… Buy copies for your executives and board members to optimism” and apply his winning entrepreneurial leadership model to rise kickstart the discipline of being ‘paranoid optimists.’" – Charlene Li, bestselling author of Groundswell and Open Leadership above any challenge and drive sustainable success.
WHY WE DREAM The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Reset
By Alice Robb
US publisher: Eamon Dolan Books / HMH (NA rights) To publish: November 2018
Material available: Edited MS available in May 2018
Rights sold: China (China Renmin University Press) France (Flammarion) Greece (Aiora) Holland (Karakter) Hungary (Libri) Israel (Matar) Italy (Rizzoli) Japan (Hayakawa) Korea (Rok Media) Poland (Agora) Portugal (Penguin Random House Portugal) Romania (Litera) Russia (Azbooka/Atticus) Serbia (Vulkan) Spain (Blackie Books) Turkey (NTV) dreams at an extremely opportune moment: just as researchers began to UK/Commonwealth (Pan Macmillan) discover why dreams exist. They aren’t just random events; they have clear purposes. In essence, we cannot learn without them, nor can we overcome Science journalist and lucid dreamer Alice Robb explores fresh, psychic trauma. revelatory research to uncover why we dream and how we can improve our dream life. WHY WE DREAM is a clear-eyed, cutting- Robb draws on fresh and forgotten research, as well as her experience and edge examination of the meaning and purpose of our nightly visions that of other dream experts, to show why dreams are vital to our and a guide to changing our dream lives in order to make our emotional and physical health. She explains how we can remember our waking lives richer, healthier, and happier. dreams better—and why we should. She traces the intricate links between dreaming and creativity, and even offers advice on how we can relish the While on a research trip in Peru, science journalist Alice Robb became intense adventure of lucid dreaming for ourselves. hooked on lucid dreaming. With practice, she mastered the uncanny phenomenon in which a sleeping person can realize that they’re dreaming Alice Robb is a writer based in Brooklyn. She writes a column for New and even control the dreamed experience. Finding these forays both York’s “Science of Us,” and has contributed to Elle, The New Statesman, puzzling and exhilarating, Robb dug deeper into the science of Foreign Policy, and The New Republic, where she was a staff writer.
SOLOMON’S CODE Humanity in a World of Thinking Machines
By Olaf Groth & Mark Nitzberg
US publisher: Pegasus Books (North American rights) To publish: November 2018
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SOLOMON’S CODE is a thought-provoking examination of artificial intelligence and how it reshapes human values, trust, and power around the world.
Whether in medicine, money, or love, technologies powered by forms of artificial intelligence are playing an increasingly prominent role in our lives. As we cede more decisions to thinking machines, we face new questions about staying safe, keeping a job and having a say over the direction of our lives. The answers to those questions might depend on your race, gender, age, behavior, or nationality. Olaf Groth is Program Director for Digital Futures at Hult International New AI technologies can drive cars, treat damaged brains and nudge Business School, a member of the Global Expert Network at the World workers to be more productive, but they also can threaten, manipulate, Economic Forum, a CEO and a contributor to the Financial Times, Harvard and alienate us from others. They can pit nation against nation, but they Business Review, among others. also can help the global community tackle some of its greatest challenges from food crises to global climate change. Mark Nitzberg is the Executive Director of the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley. In clear and accessible prose, global trends and strategy adviser Olaf Groth, AI scientist and social entrepreneur Mark Nitzberg, along with Praise for SOLOMON’S CODE: seasoned economics reporter Dan Zehr, provide a unique human-focused, global view of humanity in a world of thinking machines. “An elegant and accessible look at the power and promise of AI. Solomon’s Code is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of humanity’s most magnificent and fearsome creation.” – Brad Davis, CEO of Forensic Logic, formerly with Kissinger Associates
THE THREAT How the FBI Protects America in the Age and Terror of Trump
By Andrew G. McCabe
US publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan (NA rights) To publish: December 2018
Material available: Final MS available in December 2018
Important, revealing, and powerfully argued, THE THREAT tells the true story of what the FBI is, how it works, and why it will endure as an institution of integrity that protects America.
On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President Donald Trump celebrated on Twitter: "Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy."
Important, revealing, and powerfully argued, THE THREAT tells the true story of what the FBI is, how it works, and why it will endure as an institution of integrity that protects America. THE THREAT recounts in compelling detail the time between Donald Trump's November 2016 election and McCabe's firing, set against a page- McCabe started as a street agent in the FBI's New York field office, turning narrative spanning two decades when the FBI's mission shifted to serving under director Louis Freeh. He became an expert in two kinds of a new goal: preventing terrorist attacks on Americans. But as McCabe investigations that are critical to American national security: Russian shows, right now the greatest threat to the United States comes from organized crime—which is inextricably linked to the Russian state—and within, as President Trump and his administration ignore the law, attack terrorism. Under Director Robert Mueller, McCabe led the investigations democratic institutions, degrade human rights, and undermine the U.S. of major attacks on American soil, including the Boston Marathon Constitution that protects every citizen. bombing, a plot to bomb the New York subways, and several narrowly averted bombings of aircraft. And under James Comey, McCabe was Andrew G. McCabe is an American attorney who served as the Deputy deeply involved in the controversial investigations of the Benghazi attack, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from February 2016 to the Clinton Foundation's activities, and Hillary Clinton's use of a private January 2018. From May 9, 2017 to August 2, 2017, McCabe served as the email server when she was secretary of state. Acting Director of the FBI following James Comey's dismissal by President Donald Trump.
FROM RUSSIA WITH BLOOD Putin’s Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West
By Heidi Blake
US publisher: Mulholland Books / Little, Brown (NA rights) To publish: April 2019
Material available: Edited MS available in December 2018
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Taking readers on thrilling ride inside the high-rolling underworld of Russia's exiled oligarchs, award-winning Buzzfeed journalist Heidi Blake illuminates Putin's alarming assassination campaign and the West's shocking attempts to cover them up.
In 2014, Scot Young plummeted from the window of his London penthouse. Despite his repeated warnings to friends, family, and the police that he was being tailed by a Russian hit-squad, and the deaths of his eight Based on 250 boxes of documents, years of reporting, and interviews with associates, British police declared Young's fall a suicide and shut the case hundreds of associates, FROM RUSSIA WITH BLOOD tells this story, within minutes of arriving on the scene. revealing how the death of Berezovsky, Young, and countless others can be linked to Putin's assassination program--and how Western governments For years, Young was a high-rolling British fixer for a ring of exiled are failing to protect those living abroad against the threat. Russian oligarchs, most notably Boris Berezovsky, who brought with them extensive organized crime connections and came to the UK tailed by Heidi Blake is Buzzfeed's UK Investigations Editor, overseeing a multi- teams of Russian spies deployed to track their every move. Public enemies award-winning team of reporters. She was previously Assistant Editor of of Putin, these emigres extracted enormous wealth from Russia and openly The Sunday Times, the co-author of The Ugly Game, and has won 18 national criticized Putin's regime, using their power and influence abroad to raise and international media awards including Scoop of the Year, Investigation questions about an emboldened FSB. As tensions rose, bodies began to of the Year, and the Paul Foot Award for Campaigning and Investigative mysteriously pile up, yet any British investigations were uncomfortably Journalism. She was named Digital Journalist of 2016 by the London Press subdued and quickly shut down. Club and ranked on the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 list of the most influential young media professionals in Europe.
MISSION-DRIVEN LEADERSHIP My Journey as a Radical Capitalist
(formerly titled TAKE CARE)
By Mark Bertolini
US publisher: Currency / Random House (NA rights) To publish: April 2019
Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in January 2019
In MISSION-DRIVEN LEADERSHIP, Mark Bertolini, the long- time chairman and CEO of Aetna, the Fortune 500 health insurance company, reveals that genuine leadership is not about dollars and market share but about improving lives and communities.
Mark Bertolini didn’t get to the corner office through traditional means, growing up in a blue-collar neighborhood in Detroit. Early in his career, he was known for his bare-knuckled leadership and hard-driving competitiveness that helped him turn around several companies. But his ambition came at a cost as he ran roughshod over his colleagues and employees, while spending time away from his family.
Then Bertolini confronted two wake-up calls. First, his son Eric was diagnosed with incurable cancer, and Bertolini found himself confronting the healthcare industry firsthand—not as an executive, but as a parent Mark Bertolini has been the chairman and CEO of Aetna, a Fortune 500 determined to save his son’s life. Miraculously, after a year in the hospital, health insurance company, since 2010. He regularly appears in the national Eric recovered. Bertolini’s second wakeup call was a skiing accident several media to talk about high minimum wages, the importance of well-being in years later in which he broke his neck. As his life unraveled through years our lives, and the importance of universal health care. of chronic pain, therapy, and medication, he realized he had to reinvent himself emotionally, spiritually, and as a leader.
MISSION-DRIVEN LEADERSHIP speaks to the lessons Bertolini learned about empathy, about helping employees and Aetna’s customers take better care of themselves and each other, and the importance of meeting with employees and customers face-to-face to truly discover their needs and better serve them.
CHASING THE MOON THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS By Robert Stone and Alan Andres By Jing Tsu US publisher: Ballantine / PRH (North American rights) To publish: June 2019 US publisher: Riverhead / PRH (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in November 2018 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Harper UK) Rights sold: China (CITIC) Timed for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing missions, Holland (Spectrum) CHASING THE MOON will tell a vivid, dramatic, and inspiring Italy (Hoepli) story of mankind’s greatest adventure. Taiwan (Rye Field) UK/Commonwealth (Penguin UK) We think we know the history of the Space Race: the engineers who invented the machines that got us into space and the astronauts who went THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS follows the bold and cunning exploring there; the glory of missions like Apollo 13 and the infamy of innovators who adapted the ancient Chinese character-based script events like the Challenger disaster. Yet as told in the pages of CHASING to a 20th-century world defined by the West and its alphabet. It will THE MOON, we see that the Space Race is not just a story about rockets tell the story of how China was able to transform itself from a and astronauts, but also a narrative of how the quest to land a man on the marginalized country into one of the world’s most powerful and Moon was intimately linked to and affected by the political, social, and ascendant nations cultural scenes of the day. THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS will chronicle the dramatic Part of what will make CHASING THE MOON unique is that it tells events responsible for China’s unexpected linguistic and geopolitical this multi-faceted history through a combination of new first-hand triumph. How China went from a crumbling empire to a capitalist eyewitness accounts and invaluable primary source archive materials and juggernaut is as breathtaking as the revolution that the Chinese script has images, combining NASA’s enormous, yet neglected oral histories with undergone during that same time period, in large part because the one discoveries found in government, television, and international news film literally helped underwrite the other. Ingenious linguists, mathematicians, and radio archives that have been forgotten or hidden for decades. and poets risked their careers and reputations, and sometimes their lives, to tackle profoundly complex technological issues that opened the lines of Robert Stone is an Academy Award nominated director who Entertainment communication between the East and West and led to a new kind of Weekly called “one of our most important documentary film makers”. mutual dependency.
Alan Andres is a frequent collaborative writer for works of history, Jing Tsu is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, a literary scholar and cultural business, and psychology. historian of modern China at Yale University. She was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and raised in New Mexico, USA.
NOT TO SCALE GETTING COMPLEX How to Scale Incredibly Abundant Talent to Solve By Jamer Hunt Intensely Confounding Problems
US publisher: Grand Central / Hachette (North American rights) By David Komlos and David Benjamin To publish: Fall 2019 UK publisher: Nicholas Brealey Books / Hachette (WE rights) Material available: Proposal available To publish: Fall 2019 Edited MS available in Spring 2019
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Romania (SC Publica) Rights sold: China (CITIC)
In NOT TO SCALE, which immediately brings to mind landmark books such as Daniel Pink’s Drive, Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, or GETTING COMPLEX will revolutionize how groups of people Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow, thought leader Jamer make decisions. Hunt searches far and wide to find the subtle ways in which changes in scale are affecting the way every aspect of our lives and world The genesis behind GETTING COMPLEX was a chance meeting work. between the authors David Komlos and David Benjamin and Stafford Beer, a visiting professor at the Wharton School and an expert in From big data to quantum mechanics, and from looming ecological cybernetics who developed a patented system that, when administered, catastrophe to cyber-terrorism, NOT TO SCALE reveals a rarely guided organizations to make the best decisions possible in complex, considered force that is unsettling our everyday experiences and changing environments. challenging our collective ability to make positive change in our communities. Jamer Hunt highlights a bewildering paradox: at this precise Komlos and Benjamin bought Beer’s patents and have spent the past moment when we have at our fingertips—thanks to computers and decade refining his system and using it—to great success—in the Fortune information networks—a world of ideas and experiences, we are 100. The centerpiece of GETTING COMPLEX is a unique process simultaneously losing touch with the scale of the known world. Resilience called a Syntegration. This process brings together a group of specially in the face of surprising scale changes will be one of the key survival tools selected people and then asks them to play various roles, which shift and of the twenty-first century. It can help us to take great, small ideas and change in time according to rules, producing a “mega-brain” that can see make them bigger. It can provide us with a key for taking massive, every side of a problem and identify the best solutions for it. intractable problems and shrinking them down in size. But most of all, it can help us to understand why we don’t quite seem to “fit” in the ways we David Komlos is CEO and David Benjamin is CTO/Chief Architect used to. of Syntegrity, a global leader in Business Orchestration Solutions, which helps companies and organizations solve their most complex challenges Jamer Hunt is the founding director of Transdisciplinary Design at and clear the way for execution. Parsons School of Design, a program that uniquely combines design, technology, and social research. NOT TO SCALE is his first book.
FINDING NORMAL SOME OF MY FRIENDS ARE Sex, Empathy, and Taboo in the Wireless World The Untapped Benefits of Cross-Racial Friendships
By Alexa Tsoulis-Reay By Deborah L. Plummer
US publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan (NA rights) US publisher: Beacon Press (World English rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019
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This smart, original, and provocative book will offer a first-of-its- Following in the bestselling tradition of Cornel West’s Race Matters kind deep dive into our culture's changing perceptions of human and Beverly Tatum’s Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in love, relationships, and sexual behavior. It will immerse readers in the Cafeteria, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE will combine the lives of people whose experiences, attractions, and identities are original research, analysis, storytelling, as well as offer ideas and now entering the mainstream consciousness. strategies for creating healing among the races through the power of cross-racial friendships. Building on the wild success of her "What It's Like" series for New York magazine—see: “What It's Like to Date a Horse” or “What It's Like to In SOME OF MY FRIENDS ARE, Plummer argues that cross-racial Date Your Dad”, both of which spent an entire week as the number one friendships have a unique power and an important role to play; they allow articles on nymag.com—FINDING NORMAL will highlight the us to create new conversations about social change than can bridge the author’s pioneering work taking readers into rarely studied—and rarely racial divide, heal our society and make it stronger. In doing so, Plummer spoken about—subcultures. offers readers a better understanding of how racial identity influences our behavior and thinking in everyday life. She looks at how these questions Informed by cutting edge findings of psychologists and social scientists, play out among different generations and why it is that we seem to be and grounded in exhaustive reporting, this compulsively readable book will more able to see people of other races as colleagues or as spouses/lovers feature fascinating stories and timeless themes about people who are, by than we do as friends. choice or design, challenging once-immutable definitions of family, relationships, and desire, stories that are likely to push readers to the limits Plummer is optimistic that we can reach across our divisions us to forge of empathy. FINDING NORMAL will run the gamut from the curious friendships and lessen the obstacles between us, and this book shows us to the shocking, revealing that despite the real differences that distinguish how. She’ll share stories and examples of people who have worked one person from another, we are all trying to know and be ourselves, to through the challenges of cross-racial friendships and developed ways of find our place in this world. creating and maintaining common ground.
Alexa Tsoulis-Reay is a senior writer at New York Magazine, where she Deborah Plummer is the vice chancellor and chief diversity officer for started the hugely successful What It’s Like series online. Alexa holds an the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial MA in English from Melbourne University and an MA in Magazine Health Care, with a Ph.D. in psychology. She was the founding director of Journalism from New York University. Her writing has also appeared in Cleveland State University’s Master’s Degree Program in Diversity Management. Glamour, Slate, Vice, Bitch, and Newsweek.
TOGETHER WE WALK TOWARDS THE FIRE BREAK IT UP Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, and the Rise of Trump The Secret History of America's Imperfect Union
By Rosie Gray By Richard Kreitner
US publisher: HarperCollins (North American rights) US publisher: Little, Brown (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019
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In TOGETHER WE WALK TOWARDS THE FIRE, Rosie Gray The fiery thesis of BREAK IT UP is simple: the United States did does for Breitbart News what Gabriel Sherman did for Fox in The not and will never live up to its name. Loudest Voice in the Room and Brad Stone did for Amazon in The Everything Store. The thirteen highly autonomous and distinct colonies could barely agree In 2016, all roads led to Breitbart: Trump, Bannon, the alt-right, nativist to fight Great Britain together, so a detailed plan for uniting them into a populism, fake news, anti-globalism, and of course Milo Yiannopoulos. democratic republic was certainly not in the offing in 1776. And ever What'll happen in 2017? Steve Bannon and Breitbart News were early, key, since our country's founding, there have been two inextinguishable and consistent amplifiers of Trump's populist message as well as ruthlessly warring forces in the American mind: the impulse to preserve the Union, effective attackers of Hillary Clinton, and by the time Bannon officially and the desire to dissolve it. The states of the United States of America joined the campaign team, Breitbart was acting as a Pravda. Steve Bannon have never been effectively united in the first place. is now the closest advisor to President Trump, and Breitbart News is starting to spearhead the same anti-establishment, anti-globalist With a scholar's command, journalist's curiosity, and novelist's prose, movements in France and Germany. Boston Globe contributor and Nation magazine editor Richard Kreitner will take readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, With access to key characters and first-hand experience of many described revealing how powerful and persistent disunion movements are. This events and those to come, journalist Rosie Gray will take readers deep disunionist impulse found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as inside the secretive Breitbart world: its formation under provocateur BREAK IT UP will show, the seduction of secession has never gone Andrew Breitbart; its maturation under a Goldman Sachs banker cum away. In the way Nancy Isenberg's White Trash recently struck a national Biosphere 2 financier cum Riefenstahl-style documentarian; and its vein, or Colin Woodard's American Nations forced readers to think about ongoing relationship to Trump and Bannon while it positions itself at the regionalism, BREAK IT UP will help readers make fresh sense of our vanguard of journalism, reporting on and swelling the global tide of fractured age. populist-nationalism. Richard Kreitner is an editor at The Nation and his essays, reviews, and Rosie Gray has been publishing viral, news-breaking stories about the criticism have appeared in The Nation, The Boston Globe, and The Baffler. Right for the past five years, commands a dedicated following of more than 70,000 Twitter followers, and appeared on many liberal and conservative programs, pod casts, and radio shows.
DOG IS LOVE CLIMAX The Science of Why and How Your Dog Loves You How Feminism Finally Made the Personal Political
By Clive Wynne By Linda Hirshman
US publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (North American rights) US Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019
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Rights sold: France (Marabout) In the wake of the #metoo movement, Hirshman delves into the Holland (Kosmos) history of public vs private female sexuality to explore what created Germany (Kynos) the environment ripe for this cultural moment. CLIMAX narrates Poland (Marginesy) the story of this feminist movement by exploring the public and Russia (Eksmo) private figures who paved the way for #metoo and the women who Spain (PRH Spain) finally took a stand and changed the game. UK/Commonwealth (Quercus)
CLIMAX tells the story of all of the big names that have been circulating DOG IS LOVE will be the book readers will want to read, own, and in relation to work place sex scandals: Roger Ailes, Al Franken, Garrison give to their dog-loving friends and family as proof that “A dog is the Keillor, Matt Lauer, and, of course, Harvey Weinstein. But Hirshman takes only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” the narrative to its roots, exploring the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal as a fulcrum for the larger narrative. Hirshman will attempt to explain what Scientists have been studying dogs for over a century and have come up happened. Using game theory and philosophical models, she suggests that with many theories about what makes them special, most of which have it was the political moment which led women to confront not only centered on the notion that dogs possess a unique form of intelligence. conservatives, but liberal men as well that developed into this game- Wynne was inclined to accept these theories until he did some intelligence changing feminist movement. experiments of his own. When he published his results, he was dubbed “the Debbie Downer of canine cognition” and he soon began the research A labor and civil rights lawyer and former Supreme Court litigator, Linda that led him to the conclusion that dogs have an amazing ability to bond Hirshman has written for Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, with other beings, a bond that he sees no reason not to call love. In DOG and The New Yorker. Her book Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution was IS LOVE, Wynne tells the story of how he and other scientists have named one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of started cracking the code of love in dogs over the past decade. 2012. Sisters in Law was a New York Times bestseller.
Clive D. Wynne is a professor of behavioral psychology at Arizona State University, where he also directs the Canine Science Collaboratory. DOG IS LOVE is his first book for a trade audience.
CHANGING GENDER READING MINDS Transgender History from the 19th Century until Now How Childhood Teaches Us to Understand People (previously titled BRAIN CHILD) By Susan Stryker By Dr. Henry Wellman US publisher: Farrar, Straus / Macmillan (NA rights) To publish: Spring 2020 US publisher: Oxford University Press (World English rights) To publish: Spring 2020 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Serpent’s Tail) Rights sold: China (Cheers) Set to be the definitive narrative of the transgender movement, Poland (Mamania) CHANGING GENDER brings the vast process to life of the movement through character-driven story-telling and will ignite a READING MINDS will be the first book to posit that in order to new understanding of gender itself. truly understand ourselves, we must first understand children, childhood, and the process by which children learn. For many people, the Transgender Movement first came to their attention earlier this year when 16 million viewers tuned in to watch Caitlyn Jenner’s Until now, many have theorized that the foundations of human nature lie 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer. Since then it seems as if there has within adult psychology and behavior, but, as Henry writes, “When our been an explosion of attention to transgender celebrity culture—from the goal is to understand ourselves, then our children and our childhoods New York Times’ “Transgender Today” profiles and Amazon’s Emmy- inform us better than our present selves.” Merging everyday intuitions, life winning series Transparent to the opening of the first transgender modeling stories, and contemporary science, READING MINDS will show how agency in Los Angeles. the science of childhood theory of mind leads to a fundamentally new picture of human lives and human nature. Many (including Dennett, Sacks, But as Susan writes, this moment didn’t come out of the blue. It is but a and Kahnemann) assume that plumbing the depths of adult thinking thin veneer that rests atop more than a century of history. CHANGING shows us human nature, a nature that then reflects back on children. Dr. GENDER will weave incisive biographical portraits of activists, artists, Wellman believes that’s backward. Children give the better illumination of doctors, scientists, politicians, lawyers, media-makers and everyday citizens human nature, a nature that applies to adults as well. into the tapestry of a broader narrative of sweeping social transformation. By the time readers finish CHANGING GENDER, their view of the Dr. Henry Wellman is the founder of the field of theory of mind, and the world they already live in will be utterly transformed. Harold W. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, where he has taught for more than 30 years. He’s a Fellow of Susan Stryker is an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker. She the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has published several earned her Ph.D. in US History from University of California-Berkeley. critically acclaimed books about theory of mind and psychology.
EDITING MANKIND PROJECT TOTAL RECALL By Steve Ramirez By Kevin Davies US publisher: Riverhead Books / PRH (North American rights) US publisher: Pegasus (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2020 To publish: Spring 2020 Material available: Proposal available Material available: Proposal available Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Edited MS available in Fall 2019 Rights sold: China (Cheers)
Germany (DTV) Rights sold: China (CITIC) Korea (Gimm-young) Holland (Maven) Kevin Davies takes readers inside the fascinating world of a new Italy (Cortina) gene editing technology called CRISPR, a high-powered genetic Japan (Bungeishunju) toolkit that enables scientists to not only engineer but to edit the Romania (SC Publica) DNA of any organism. Spain (Paidos) Taiwan (Commonwealth) UK/Commonwealth (Robinson/Little, Brown UK) If our genes are, to a great extent, destiny—as recent breakthroughs in science have taught us, what would happen if mankind could engineer and PROJECT TOTAL RECALL is a gripping exploration of the new alter the very essence of our DNA coding? Millions might be spared the frontier of brain science: optogenetics. devastating effects of hereditary disease, the agonizing impact of disease or the challenges of disability. But this same power, essentially, "playing Memories are the windows to our lived-in realities and are what makes us God" raises major ethical questions and poses threats for potential who we are. During Steve Ramirez’s first year of graduate school at MIT misuse. For decades, these questions have lived exclusively in the realm of in 2012, he and his colleague Xu Liu turned on a light (a literal light— science fiction but as Davies powerfully reveals in his new book: this is all that’s the “opto” in optogenetics) that would birth a new field of about to change. CRISPR gives scientists the life-altering power to cure neuroscience: memory manipulation. Now, the stuff of sci-fi is becoming disease, eliminate entire species and to change the course of evolution. In scientific fact every other week: we can shoot light into the brain to a sweeping narrative, Davies tracks an engaging cast of characters from modulate neural activity and alleviate Parkinson’s symptoms; we can turn the scientists on the front lines of its research to the patients whose depression-related symptoms on and off; and, we can view how thoughts powerful true stories bring the narrative movingly to human scale. In so are formed in the brain and how they manifest in pathological conditions. doing, Davies sheds important light on the implications that this new technology will have on our everyday lives and in the lives of generations In the vein of The Emperor of all Maladies and Complications, PROJECT to come. TOTAL RECALL is an ultimate insider’s account of cutting-edge neuroscience, which has launched a full-scale revolution in the way we Kevin Davies is the founding editor of Nature Genetics and Bio-IT treat and classify broken brains. World and former Editor-in-Chief at Cell Press. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and is the author of three books. Steve Ramirez is an award-winning neuroscientist. He is a Junior Fellow at Harvard University.
UPCOMING FICTION
FAMILY TRUST
By Kathy Wang
US publisher: William Morrow / HarperCollins (NA rights) To publish: October 2018
Material available: Final PDF available
A compelling tale of cultural expectations, career ambitions and our relationships with the people who know us best, FAMILY TRUST skewers the ambition and desires that drive Silicon Valley and draws a sharply loving portrait of modern family life.
When Stanley Huang is diagnosed with terminal cancer, his family is thrown into turmoil. While his children are concerned for their father, they can’t help but wonder what his death will mean for their own futures. For his son Fred, a few million would soothe the pain caused by years of professional disappointment. Stanley’s daughter, Kate, is a middle manager with one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious tech companies. She manages the capricious demands of her world-famous boss and the needs of her two young children while supporting her would-be entrepreneur husband. Praise for FAMILY TRUST: Stanley’s second wife, Mary Zhu, has devoted herself to making her husband comfortable in every way—rubbing his feet, cooking his favorite “Astute…[Wang] brings levity and candor to the tricky terrain of family dishes, massaging his ego. But lately, her commitment has waned—caring dynamics, aging, and excess [and] expertly considers the values of high- for a dying old man is far more difficult than she expected. Then there’s tech high society.” – Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW Linda, Stanley’s first wife, who has worked hard for decades to ensure the family’s financial security. “Readers who enjoy complicated novels about family issues will find this engrossing work impossible to put down.” As Stanley’s death approaches, the Huangs are faced with unexpected challenges that eventually lead them to discover what they most value. – Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW FAMILY TRUST is a compelling tale of cultural expectations, career “FAMILY TRUST reads like a brilliant mash-up of The Nest and Crazy Rich ambitions and our relationships with the people who know us best. Asians… It’s dark and funny and entertaining and thoughtful all at once. I Kathy Wang is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School. loved every page.” – Cristina Alger, author of The Banker’s Wife FAMILY TRUST is her first book.
THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S DAUGHTER
By Hazel Gaynor
US publisher: William Morrow / Harper Collins (WE rights) To publish: October 2018
Material available: Final PDF available
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From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years.
“They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.”
1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm,
Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the Praise for THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures DAUGHTER: his heart. “A splendid read—THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S DAUGHTER is 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda not to be missed!” Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with – Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby Network is born. A discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into Matilda’s family history. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a “Hazel Gaynor’s skillful artistry as a storyteller glitters like the sun...” century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and – Susan Meissner, New York Times bestselling author of As Bright love. as Heaven
Hazel Gaynor is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of “This is historical fiction at its finest.” four novels, including A Memory of Violets and The Who Came Home. – Fiona Davis, author of The Masterpiece
THE CARE AND FEEDING OF RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY GIRLS
By Anissa Gray
US publisher: Berkley / PRH (North American rights) To publish: February 2019
Material available: Edited MS available
The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you.
The Butler family has had their share of trials—as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest—but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives.
Althea, the eldest sister and substitute matriarch, is a force to be reckoned with and her younger sisters have alternately appreciated and chafed at her strong will. They are as stunned as the rest of the small community when she and her husband Proctor are arrested, and in a heartbeat the family goes from one of the most respected in town to utter disgrace. The worst part is, not even her sisters are sure exactly Praise for THE CARE AND FEEDING OF what happened. RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY GIRLS:
As Althea awaits her fate, Lillian and Viola must come together in the “I was immediately taken by the power and honesty of Anissa Gray’s house they grew up in to care for their sister’s teenage daughters. What voice. She is a writer to watch, and this debut is not to be missed!” – Terry unfolds is a stunning portrait of the heart and core of an American family McMillan, New York Times bestselling author of I Almost Forgot in a story that is as page-turning as it is important. About You and Waiting to Exhale
Anissa Gray is an Emmy and DuPont-Columbia award-winning “A trio of sisters navigate the tricky waters of forgiveness in Gray’s journalist at CNN Worldwide, responsible for helping to guide coverage heartfelt, beautifully written debut… Get an extra copy for your best of some of the most consequential stories of our time. Born in St. friend or your own sister; this is one you’re going to want to talk about.” – Joseph, Michigan, Gray studied English and American literature at New Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times and USA Today bestselling York University. THE CARE AND FEEDING OF RAVENOUSLY author
HUNGRY GIRLS is her first book.
LEADING MEN
By Christopher Castellani
US publisher: Viking / PRH (North American rights) To publish: February 2019
Material available: Edited MS available
An expansive yet intimate story of desire, artistic ambition, and fidelity, set in the glamorous literary and film circles of 1950s Italy
In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysteriously taciturn young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives.
Ten years later, Frank revisits the tempestuous events of that fateful summer from his deathbed in Manhattan, where he waits anxiously for Tennessee to visit him one final time. Anja, now legendary film icon Anja Bloom, lives as a recluse in the present-day U.S., until a young man connected to the events of 1953 lures her reluctantly back into the spotlight after he discovers she possesses the only surviving copy of Williams's final play. Praise for LEADING MEN:
What keeps two people together and what breaks them apart? Can we save "[A] tender, psychologically devastating, and gorgeously precise novel. An someone else if we can't save ourselves? Like The Master and The Hours, extraordinary book." – Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies LEADING MEN seamlessly weaves fact and fiction to navigate the tensions between public figures and their private lives. In an ultimately "[G]lorious, a meditation on the ravages of fame, an investigation into the heartbreaking story about the burdens of fame and the complex private lives of public artists, and one of the most moving love stories I've negotiations of life in the shadows of greatness, Castellani creates an read in ages.” – Anthony Marra, author of The Tsar of Love and unforgettable leading lady in Anja Bloom and reveals the hidden machinery of one of the great literary love stories of the twentieth-century. Techno
"[A] page-turner…about fame and love and forgiveness, about the ravages Christopher Castellani is the author of three previous novels and a book of time, and how we try to lay claim to the future, while the present slips of essays. He a Guggenheim fellow and the artistic director of GrubStreet, through our fingers." – Hannah Tinti, author of The Twelve Lives of one of the country's leading creative writing centers. Samuel Hawley
AERIALISTS Stories
By Mark Mayer
US publisher: Bloomsbury (North American rights) To publish: February 2019
Material available: Edited MS available
"Mark Mayer writes with a humorous, wistful elegance. His stories are singular, as detached and intimate as dreaming." – Marilynne Robinson
Welcome to the surreal and sublime human circus of Mark Mayer's Michener-Copernicus-winning debut, AERIALISTS, a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world.
Under the luminous tent of Mayer's prose, we meet an unforgettable caravan: a heartsick boy finds a new mentor in a tough-talking female bodybuilder. A navy recruit grapples with the impending loss of his childhood by building an exact replica of his neighborhood in code. With Praise for AERIALISTS: the help of a flatulent dog, a boy tries to reunite his parents. A wilderness expert seduces his love interest with the promise of showing her an elusive "One of the best collections I've read in years. These stories are bright and mountain lion. muscular, luminous and generous, nimble and funny, tender and surprising at every turn.” – Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and The circus has always been a collection of American exaggerations--the Other Parties bold, the beautiful, the freakish, the big. AERIALISTS finds these myths in everyday contemporary life. Mayer's deftly drawn characters illuminate "Mayer may well live in the same world as you and me, but he’s able to see small-scale spectaculars, and their attempted acts of daring and feats of beyond it all somehow, and he finds extraordinary weirdness and beauty strength are rendered with humor, generosity, and uncommon grace. everywhere he looks. Aerialists is exquisite and wild.” – Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here? Mark Mayer's stories have appeared in Granta, Guernica, Colorado Review, and Mid-American Review. Mayer has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' "Precise, sharp, unexpected; you go down hard, but know the thrill of Workshop, where he was a Michener-Copernicus Fellow and won the being taken out by a master.” – Merritt Tierce, author of Love Me Back Prairie Lights Prize for both fiction and poetry.
WALKING ON THE CEILING By Ayşegül Savaş
US publisher: Riverhead / PRH (World English rights) To publish: April 2019
Material available: Edited MS available
Rights sold: Germany (btb / PRH Germany)
A mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past—and her complex relationship with a British writer who longs for her memories.
After her mother’s death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to Paris where she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. Nunu recounts to M. the idyllic landscapes of her past, mythical family meals, and her elaborate childhood games. As she does so, she also begins to confront her mother’s silence and anger, her father’s death, and the growing unrest in Istanbul. Their intimacy deepens, so does Nunu’s fear of revealing too much—of giving too much of herself and her Istanbul away. Most of all, she fears that she will have to face her own guilt about her mother and the narratives she’s told to protect herself from her memories. “Ayşegül Savaş investigates the inability of any story to accurately evoke A wise and unguarded glimpse into a young woman’s coming into her lived experience—yet her unconventional narrative succeeds in doing just own, WALKING ON THE CEILING is about memory, the pleasure that. Savas’s celebration of the minutest details of Paris and Istanbul is of invention, and those places, real and imagined, we can’t escape. juxtaposed, to devastating effect, against rising political tensions. This quietly intense debut is the product of a wise and probing mind.” – Helen Ayşegül Savaş grew up in Turkey and Denmark. Her work has appeared Phillips, author of The Beautiful Bureaucrat in The Paris Review, Guernica, and elsewhere. “Ayşegül Savaş is an enormous new talent who writes with the rigor of Praise for WALKING ON THE CEILING: Didion and the tenderness of Sebald. [The novel] holds the immediacy of youth and the depth of long-earned wisdom […] its elegant voice is sure to “[A]n elegant meditation on grief, identity, memory and homecoming.... I summon old memories and longings from each reader, relighting them fell in love with this book.” – Katie Kitamura, author of A Separation anew.” – Catherine Lacey, author of The Answers
LIGHT FROM OTHER STARS TELL ME EVERYTHING (previously titled LITTLE TWITCH) By Cambria Brockman By Erika Swyler US publisher: Ballantine / Penguin Random House (NA rights) US publisher: Bloomsbury (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2019 To publish: May 2019 Material available: Edited MS available in November 2018
Material available: Edited MS available Rights sold: China (Modern Press)
Czech Republic (Leda) Rights sold: Germany (Blanvalet) Germany (Goldmann) Israel (Matar) LIGHT FROM OTHER STARS is a visionary novel about female Poland (Foksal) drive that questions how women’s lives have changed, what progress Spain (Oceano) looks like, and what it really means to sacrifice for the greater good. Taiwan (Sharp Point Press) UK/Commonwealth (Ebury / PRH UK)
Nedda Papas is an 11-year-old girl obsessed with space, science, and A debut psychological thriller by Cambria Brockman, TELL ME becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in a small Florida Space Coast town, Nedda’s dreams seem within reach. Theo, the scientist father Nedda EVERYTHING is set at an elite college in an isolated New England idolizes, is trapped in his own obsessions. Laid off from NASA, living in a town and chronicles the shifting friendships of six students who marriage consumed by mourning their stillborn child, Theo’s genius turns maintain their alliance until one of them is murdered. to the dangerous dream of holding on to his daughter’s childhood for just a little longer. The result is an invention which alters the fabric of time. Gemma is a theater major from London; John is from a New England family; Khaled is a prince from Abu Dhabi; Max (John’s cousin) is pre- When Nedda’s best friend is trapped in the fallout from her father’s med; and Ruby is John’s beautiful girlfriend. And then there’s Malin. Malin machine, she must confront the father she loves and his secrets, the is an expert at hiding a deeply menacing part of herself, while using her ramifications of which will alter her life. But Nedda has an unexpected ally sharp talent for detecting the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of others. She in Betheen, her estranged mother, who may see Nedda more clearly than came to college not for the fun or the boys, but to continue her anyone else. Intertwined with the story of the Chawla, an interplanetary immaculate academic record, get accepted to law school, and, most of all, ease her parents’ grief over a son they lost far too soon. But her newfound space vessel searching for humanity’s next home, LIGHT FROM friends have secrets of their own. And Malin doesn’t realize until it’s too OTHER STARS confronts the galactic consequences of growing apart late that she’s still driven by demons she thought had died with her brother and growing up. so many years ago.
Erica Swyler is the previous author of The Book of Speculation. Cambria Brockman’s award-winning wedding and portrait photography company, Cambria Grace, is followed by over 60k Instagram users. TELL ME EVERYTHING is her first book.
LOCK EVERY DOOR SOME SAY IN ICE
By Riley Sager By Elisabeth Elo
US publisher: Dutton / PRH (North American rights) US publisher: Polis Press (World English rights) To publish: July 2019 To publish: Fall 2019
Material available: Partial MS available Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2019 LOCK EVERY DOOR is the third thriller from Riley Sager, the pseudonym of an author who lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Riley's SOME SAY IN ICE is a fast-paced pulse-driven thriller, driven by first novel, Final Girls, published in more than two dozen countries. an unforgettable heroine. This novel delves deep into Riley’s second novel, The Last Time I Lied, was published in July Russian politics and reveals many stark truths about the harshness 2018 and was a New York Times bestseller. of life in the Putin era and the involvement of American intelligence in Russia. It portrays a Russia where many will kill to keep secrets Publishers of Final Girls hidden and few can afford the price of even an ounce of freedom.
Brazil (Authentica) SOME SAY IN ICE is the story of Natalie March, an accomplished,
Catalan (PRH Spain) workaholic surgeon at one of DC’s top hospitals, who uses the little
China (China South Booky Culture) downtime she has to care for her elderly Russian-immigrant mother, Vera.
Czech Republic (Dobrovsky) One day, Natalie has a surprise visitor to her office: a young Russian ballet
Croatia (Fokus) dancer named Saldana, who tells Natalie that an entire branch of her
Denmark (Turbine) family, people that Vera believed were killed during World War Two, are
Estonia (Paikese) very much alive. The very next day, Saldana is garroted by what appears to
France (Michel Lafon) be a professional assassin, her body left on the street in New York. Germany (dtv) Holland (Ambo Anthos) Hungary (Lettero) Natalie with Vera’s help flies to Siberia to try to locate her aunt and cousin. Italy (Giunti) She discovers that they are wanted by the Russian government, and, that Poland (Otwarte) even asking questions about them can be dangerous. In her search for her Portugal (20/20) missing family, Natalie discovers a plot to smuggle chemical weapons out Romania (RAO) of Russia and is chased by both the CIA and Russian intelligence. As she Russia (AST) struggles to evade capture—and find her family deep in the forests of Spain (PRH Spain) Siberia—Natalie discovers an even more terrible secret, a genocide that
Sweden (Modernista) took place after the war that the Russians want forgotten, forever. Taiwan (Crown) Turkey (Yabanci) Elisabeth Elo is the previous author of North of Boston. UK/Commonwealth (Ebury)
IT’S HOT IN THE HAMPTONS THE SWEETEST FRUITS
By Holly Peterson By Monique Truong
US publisher: William Morrow / HarperCollins (NA rights) US publisher: Viking / PRH (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019
Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2019
Rights sold: Germany (CH Beck) Hot on the heels of her sleeper summer smash It Happens in the
Hamptons, NYT-bestselling author Holly Peterson returns to Long THE SWEETEST FRUITS is an ambitious and ingeniously Island for more gossip, more intrigue, more romance, and more imagined story of identity, revelation, and the power of words. It housewives behaving badly in IT’S HOT IN THE HAMPTONS. circles the life of the late 19th-century writer Lafcadio Hearn, whose tale is related by the four women who played a pivotal role in his Caroline married for money, but she still pays for it every day. Caroline unique, itinerant career. and her husband are East Hampton locals, transplanted to Manhattan and a life of cosmopolitan luxury when Eddie strikes it big in finance. City life Famous in Europe and America for his interpretations of Japanese ghost sours their marriage and inflates Eddie with greed, while Caroline longs to stories, Lafcadio was the author of more 20 books of astonishing range— return to the simple pleasures of her small seaside hometown. As summer from Creole cooking to stories of the supernatural in Mozambique. A approaches, Caroline sets out for East Hampton to ready her family’s shape-shifter who reinvented his identity throughout his travels, he second home for the season, though her motives run deeper than what lies traversed four continents and renamed himself on each one. on the surface. Who was this itinerant, elusive man? THE SWEETEST FRUITS Caroline finds a kindred spirit in her friend Annabelle, a fellow restless introduces him in the eyes of the four women who were Lafcadio’s housewife in the Hamptons for the summer. Together, the two women intimates and inspiration in each of his incarnations. Each tells her own decide to live up to the danger of their fourth decade, and each deems story of her life with Hearn, all of them as full of wanderlust and herself ready for a hot and heavy beachside fling. Their pact to carry out transformation as Lafcadio himself. Why these women relate their summer affairs promises to spice up the annual mundane family vacation, stories—at what pivotal moment in each of their lives do they offer up and to exact a measure of sweet revenge on their cruel, negligent their memories—is the axis on which the novel turns. Each has a different husbands. As temperatures rise, Caroline becomes consumed with motivation: to justify abandonment, to establish legitimacy, to preserve thoughts of her first love—a man mysteriously lost at sea decades before, honor, or simply to love him. Though entirely distinct in their race and but something in the salty Hamptons air suggests that his disappearance geography, they share a defining trait: each is a gifted storyteller. might not be so complete after all… Monique Truong has earned many writing awards and honors, including Bestselling author of The Manny, The Idea of Him, and Smoke & Fire, Holly the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship; the New York Public Library Peterson was a producer for ABC News, and a writer and contributing Young Lions Award; the Asian American Literary Award; and a editor for Newsweek. Guggenheim Fellowship.
LOVELOCK VINCENT AND ALICE AND ALICE
By Heather Young By Shane Jones
US publisher: William Morrow / HarperCollins (NA rights) US publisher: New York Tyrant (World English rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: May 2019
Material available: Partial MS available Material available: Final MS availble Edited MS available in Spring 2019 VINCENT AND ALICE AND ALICE is a heartrendingly raw, Rights sold: France (Belfond) funny, slightly surreal novel of love, marriage, and the nature of work; a story deeply invested in the idea of truth vs. illusion ripe for Set in the Great Basin, the cradle of humanity’s history in the an age struggling with both. It’s a bold step forward for a bright and Americas, LOVELOCK will examine the bonds between mothers singular talent. and sons, sons and fathers, and the debts we owe our dead, both recent and distant. Albany, New York. Summer 2016. Lonely, lost, and pining for his ex-wife Alice, all Vincent, a mid-level state worker, can think to do with himself is On Pi Day, the math teacher in the small Nevada town of Lovelock turns work mindlessly toward retirement in 2037. But the summer in upstate up burned to death in the middle of the desert. After the murder New York is stifling, hate crimes in the city are on the rise, and things for investigation stalls, the town is quick to forget the quiet, unassuming man Vincent are teetering on edge. After an unfortunate fainting incident leads who moved to Lovelock only seven months before. But history teacher to a request that he “work from home” for a while, Vincent soon learns Claire, one of the few people who befriended him, starts to wonder: why that a condition of his return to the office is that he must participate in an would he leave a professorship at the University of Nevada to teach experimental new training program designed to jumpstart worker middle school math in a dead-end place like Lovelock? What was he productivity. Enter Dorian Blood whose new program, Patrol for running from? What was he hiding? And what about her student, the Everyday Repetition, is just beginning to catch on in experimental trials misfit boy who found the body but won’t tell anyone what he was doing across the country. Blood claims that with the help of PER, Vincent can out in the sagebrush in the middle of the night? work like a robot but live like a king. An ideal reality—an ideal gate, as Blood calls it—will emerge and will finally offer him the life he’s always As Claire probes the mystery of Adam Merkel’s life and horrifying death, imagined. As Vincent returns to the office and his training starts to take, she ends up reconsidering her own life, including the tragedy that forced everything remains unchanged except for one thing: Alice. Alice is back. her to abandon her dream becoming an anthropologist and her complicated relationships with the men she loves: her 12-year-old son, her Shane Jones is the author of three previous novels, Light Boxes, Daniel deadbeat ex-husband, and, most of all, the father she adores but can’t Fights a Hurricane and Crystal Eaters, and several smaller works of fiction forgive. and poetry.
Heather Young is the previous author of The Lost Girls, which is currently nominated for the Edgar Award.
THE ILLNESS LESSON MEET ME IN MONACO
By Clare Beams By Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb
US publisher: Lee Boudreaux Books / PRH (NA rights) US publisher: William Morrow / HarperCollins (WE rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019
Material available: MS available Material available: Sample chapters available Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Edited MS available in January 2019
Rights sold: UK/Commonwealth (Transworld/PRH UK) You are invited to attend the wedding of the century. . .
THE ILLNESS LESSON is a novel about women’s bodies, women’s MEET ME IN MONACO is a romantic tale that flits from 1950s France minds, and the way each has of haunting the other. The trouble at to 1980s London, intertwining the lives of Sophie and Emily through the the heart of the novel is as old as the Garden of Eden, as new as this glamorous wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier. Emily is about to year’s horrifying scandals: the matter of who gets to have authority get married on the French Riviera when, going through a trunk of her over women’s minds and bodies, and why. father’s old things, she finds a mysterious postcard from a French perfumer named Sophie. Along with this postcard she finds a picture of Grace Kelly on her wedding day and a single pearl button. Emily sets out THE ILLNESS LESSON begins in 1871 in Ashwell, Massachusetts with to disentangle the mysterious relationship between her father, Sophie, and the creation of a school for young. Caroline, the daughter of Samuel the Grace Kelly, hoping a magical reunion in Monaco might provide the founder, finds herself increasingly drawn to fellow teacher David Moore, setting to rekindle an old romance. Samuel’s young protégé—something about him makes her feel seen in a way that she never has before. Samuel’s vision for the school— Ireland-based New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The revolutionary, as always; noble, as always; full of holes, as always—starts to Girl Who Came Home and A Memory of Violets, Hazel Gaynor was a US take shape. Library Journal pick as one of ‘Ten Big Breakout Authors’ for 2015. She received the 2015 RNA Historical Romantic Novel of the Year award for Then the students, led by powerful, inscrutable Eliza Bell, begin to The Girl Who Came Home. manifest strange symptoms. Rashes, fits, headaches, verbal tics. Meanwhile, Caroline begins to have secret symptoms of her own. As the Historical fiction author, freelance editor, and teacher, Heather Webb’s school turns to the ministering of a sinister physician—based on a real novels Rodin’s Lover and Becoming Josephine have sold in six countries, historic treatment—Caroline questions her place at the school, and her received starred national reviews, and were chosen as Goodread’s pick of place in the larger world beyond its borders. the month in 2014 and 2015. Her works have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and The New York Journal of Books. Clare Beams’s debut story collection, We Show What We Have Learned, was published by Lookout Books in October of 2016. It was a Kirkus Best Debut of 2016, was longlisted for the Story Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award.
YOU EXIST TOO MUCH HOW TO PRONOUNCE KNIFE
By Zaina Arafat By Souvankham Thammavongsa
US publisher: Catapult (North American rights) US publisher: Little, Brown (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Spring 2020
Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2019 Material available: Edited MS available in Summer 2019
Set between the U.S. and the Middle East, YOU EXIST TOO Rights sold: Canada (M&S / PRH Canada) UK / Commonwealth (Bloomsbury) MUCH tells the story of a Muslim Palestinian-American who grapples with her sexuality against the backdrop of a forbidding culture and religion. HOW TO PRONOUNCE KNIFE is the debut collection of stories by award-winning and acclaimed poet Souvankham Thammavongsa. Uncannily and intimately observed, the stories here In YOU EXIST TOO MUCH, the unnamed narrator finds herself caught in a cycle of toxic relationships, always falling for the next person bring to life the absurd, funny, often wrenching realities of making a who crosses her path, searching for everything to be satisfied by a person life when you’ve left your history behind. outside herself. So, she goes to rehab for love addiction. In HOW TO PRONOUNCE KNIFE are stories of modern location As an outsider who exists in the space between two cultural and sexual and dislocation, of immigrants and refugees, of factory workers, shop girls, identities, the protagonist pieces together a pattern of self-destructive and priests. With an eye for the ways in which language can facilitate behavior by retracing her relationships to a straight college girlfriend, an confusion, misunderstanding, and hope in equal measure, ambassador's wife, a married French professor, and an Argentine Thammavongsa’s wry, straight-forward prose gives us moving glimpses boyfriend—all while coming to terms with a conflicted relationship to her into the day to day lives of the forgotten classes of a city—the nail techs, immigrant mother, who manipulates her daughter with the promise of aging artists, worm pickers, office workers, cooks, gamblers, drunks, and love. The novel explores the narrator's experience of coming of age across deadbeats. The characters grapple with love, work, ambition, money, two cultures and continents, and at its core YOU EXIST TOO MUCH racism, sexism, and displacement even as they crack jokes, tumble in and is about the search for an unattainable home. out of lovers’ beds, fight with their parents, and raise their children.
HOW TO PRONOUNCE KNIFE will carve out space next to Zaina Arafat is an Arab-American writer. She holds an M.F.A. in creative Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!, Mia Alvar’s In the Country, Jenny Zhang’s writing from Iowa and an M.A. in international affairs from Columbia. Sour Heart, and Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, The New York Times,
Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Souvankham Thammavongsa is the award-winning author of three BuzzFeed, Iowa Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. She grew up books of poetry and her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming between the U.S. and the Middle East, and currently lives in Brooklyn, in Harper’s, Granta, Ploughshares, NOON, and Best American Non-Required where she teaches both fiction and nonfiction at various schools and leads Reading. Her newest collection of poems, CLUSTER, will be published by workshops for immigrant and marginalized communities. McClelland & Stewart in Canada in May 2019.
WHAT CAME WAS NIGHT
By Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
US publisher: Touchstone / S&S (North American rights) To publish: Spring 2020
Material available: Partial available Edited MS available in Fall 2019
WHAT CAME WAS NIGHT is the breathtaking second novel by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, author of The Map of Salt and Stars. WHAT CAME WAS NIGHT traces the decades-apart narratives of two Syrian immigrants in New York.
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar is the previous author of The Map of Salt and Stars and is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) and of American Mensa. Her work has appeared in Salon, The Paris Review Daily, The Kenyon Review, The Saturday Evening Post, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. She is a 2017-2020 Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Artists Program Literary Arts Fellow in fiction.
Publishers of The Map of Salt and Stars
Bulgaria (Egmont Bulgaria) China (CITIC) Czech Republic (Dobrovsky) France (Les Escales) Germany (Heyne) Holland (Ambo Anthos) Italy (Garzanti) Norway (Font Forlag) Poland (Czarna Owca) Portugal (Saida de Emergencia) Spain (Lumen) Sweden (Wahlstrom & Widstrand) Turkey (Hep Kitap) UK (Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Orion)
UPCOMING CHILDREN’S / YOUNG ADULT
THE MAGIC MISFITS series
By Neil Patrick Harris
US publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (NA rights) To publish: Nov 2017; Sept 2018; Fall 2019; Fall 2020
Material available: Final PDF available
Rights sold: Australia/New Zealand (Hardie Grant) Brazil (Vergera & Riba) China (CITIC) Denmark (Carlsen) France (Bayard) Germany (Schneiderbuch) Israel (Yedioth) Italy (Il Castoro) Poland (Znak) Portugal (Zero a Oito) Neil Patrick Harris is an accomplished actor, producer, director, host, Romania (Editura Art) and author. He is also a father of six-year-old twins. Harris served as Russia (AST) President of the Academy of Magical Arts from 2011–2014. Spain (RBA Libros) Turkey (Yabanci) UK (Egmont UK) Praise for THE MAGIC MISFITS: "I read this book with excitement, delight, and the increasing suspicion that it was going to make me disappear."― Lemony Snicket, "An earnest message about discovering the magic in the world and finding author of the bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events the family that suits you.” – Kirkus
When street magician Carter runs away, he never expects to find friends "A rollicking ride of a magical tale that's wholesomely suspenseful, values and magic in a sleepy New England town. But like any good trick, things friendship, and applauds courage.” – School Library Journal change instantly as greedy B.B. Bosso and his crooked crew arrive to steal anything they can get their sticky fingers on. After a fateful encounter with "The approachable length and lively, funny writing will ensure this book, the local illusionist, Carter teams up with five other kids. Together, using the first in a series, performs its own vanishing act from shelves." both teamwork and magic, they'll set out to save their town from Bosso. – Booklist These six Magic Misfits will soon discover adventure, friendship, and their own self-worth in this delightful new series.
THE WONDERLING series By Mira Bartók
US publisher: Candlewick (North American rights) To publish: September 2017; Spring 2020
Material available: Final PDF available
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Meet Arthur, a shy, foxlike foundling with only one ear and a desperate desire to belong, as he seeks his destiny.
Welcome to the Home for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures, an institution run by evil Miss Carbunkle, a cunning villainess who believes her terrified young charges exist only to serve and suffer. Part animal and Praise for THE WONDERLING: part human, the groundlings toil in classroom and factory, forbidden to enjoy anything regular children have, most particularly singing and music. “Bartoḱ ’s language is full of rich description and effulgent inventories of For Arthur an innocent-hearted, one-eared, foxlike eleven-year- old with food and places...Bartoḱ ’s lovely, detailed illustrations and drawings only a number rather than a proper name—a 13 etched on a medallion throughout support the sense of enchantment in this imaginative around his neck—it is the only home he has ever known. But unexpected courage leads him to acquire the loyalty of a young bird groundling named adventure. Captivating.” – Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW Trinket, who gives the Home’s loneliest inhabitant two incredible gifts: a real name—Arthur, like the good king in the old stories—and a best “Written with clear and detailed descriptions, this novel drops readers into friend. Using Trinket’s ingenious invention, the pair escape over the wall a strange, magical, mythical, and mechanical world... A stellar new and embark on an adventure that will take them out into the wider world contribution to fantasy that should find a place in every middle grade and ultimately down the path of sweet Arthur’s true destiny. collection.” – School Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
Mira Bartok is the previous author of The Memory Palace. “Bartoḱ gives readers a richly imagined fantasy landscape to lose themselves in.” – Publishers Weekly
THROUGH THE WITCHING HOUR THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS
By Michael Poore By Steve Brusatte
US publisher: Random House Children’s (World English rights) US publisher: HarperCollins Children’s (North American rights) To publish: Fall 2019 To publish: Fall 2019
Material available: Edited MS available in October 2018 Material available: Edited MS available in Spring 2019
From the author of the widely acclaimed adult novel, Reincarnation From the internationally bestselling author of THE RISE AND Blues, comes THROUGH THE WITCHING HOUR—a story that FALL OF THE DINOSAURS comes the story of the dinosaurs and will linger long after you’ve turned the last page. the paleontologists who hunt them—for middle-grade readers!
Seamlessly blending the twists of When You Reach Me with the tone of The Based on the bestselling The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, this new book, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Michael Poore’s debut middle-grade novel geared to the middle-grade reader and featuring more than 50 photographs introduces you to a world where everything has a spirit. Your parents. The and illustrations, will trace the fascinating evolutionary story of the wind. Cows. Even macaroni and cheese. Most people can’t see the magic dinosaurs from origin to extinction. Covering new discoveries made and in ordinary objects, but after ten-year-old Amy Woods is struck by what they add to our knowledge of the dinosaurs, Steve will also show lightning, she can see everything. So can her best friend Moo, ever since young readers how paleontologists work in the field and in the lab. How she smacked her head on a rock and went mute. They decide to call their do they choose where to look for dinosaurs? How do they dig up the newfound powers “Deep Science”—because what is science, after all, then bones? And how are they using new technologies including CAT scanners, magic that has yet to be explained? Best yet, they can see time—and with a particle accelerators and animation software to study them. little elbow grease, a rocking chair, and an old clock, they are able to fashion themselves a time machine that takes them thirty years into the Steve brings this history of the field vividly to life by telling the story of past before breaking into little bits and stranding them. such figures as the colorful Barnum Brown—among the first to discover fossils in the United States—and Walter Alvarez who found the evidence But being stuck in time isn’t Amy and Moo’s only problem. There’s a kid- of the meteor that led to dinosaurs’ extinction. Steve also give readers a eating witch who is stalking them wherever and whenever they go, and front row seat to his own discoveries: from clay quarries in Poland and the Amy’s parents are in terrible danger back in the present. Together, they windy coasts of Scotland, to the mountains of Transylvania and the deserts have to escape being caught up by “helpful” adults, avoid being eaten, and of North America. A glossary of terms, further reading resources, and somehow find a way to get back to the present to save Amy’s parents. Will dinosaur family trees will be included as a resource for younger readers. our heroes make it in time? Stephen L. Brusatte is a 34-year-old paleontologist on the faculty at the Michael Poore’s short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Southern University of Edinburg in Scotland. Steve has discovered and named 10 Review, Agni, Fiction, and Asimov’s. His story “The Street of the House new species of dinosaurs and led groundbreaking studies on how of the Sun” was selected for The Year’s Best Nonrequired Reading 2012. dinosaurs went extinct. A gifted science communicator, he is frequently His first novel, Up Jumps the Devil, was hailed by The New York Review of featured on television, radio and at major festivals around the globe. He Books as “an elegiac masterpiece.” Poore lives in Highland, Indiana, with has previously written for children, including Tinnochio Rex and Other his wife, poet and activist Janine Harrison, and their daughter, Jianna. Tyrannosaurs (with Melissa Stewart) and Day of the Dinosaurs.
FAITH
By Julie Murphy
US publisher: Balzer & Bray / HarperCollins (NA rights) To publish: Fall 2020; Fall 2021
Material available: Edited MS available in Fall 2019
Rights sold: Turkey (Epsilon)
From internationally bestselling author Julie Murphy comes the story of Faith Herbert, one of Valiant Entertainment’s most wildly popular and beloved characters.
*FAITH has been optioned by Sony Entertainment as a major motion picture!*
Faith is the world’s first plus-sized, body-positive superheroine—a whip- smart, big-hearted, animal-loving, justice-seeking, teenaged feminist with whom readers will instantly fall in love. Faith is already a huge fan favorite in the comic book and media worlds, with more than 5.5 million copies sold, and a fast-growing global franchise, having been translated into Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Russian, and more.
In this first novel, we meet Faith as a 17-year-old high schooler, desperately hoping to hide a major secret—six months ago she became a superhero with the power to fly. But all Faith wants is to be a normal girl. However, when first animals and then her fellow teens Faith’s town start disappearing and reappearing in a terrifying comatose state, she feels compelled to investigate. The more Faith looks into the source of this sudden illness, the closer danger gets to the people she loves. As the novel races toward its thrilling climax, Faith takes her first leap toward fulfilling her destiny as a superheroine, but is the price she must pay too high?
Julie Murphy is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin’ and Puddin’.
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