HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY Rights List – London Book Fair 2020 nonfiction author title publishers release Billy Mernit Writing the Romantic Comedy: Harper Paperbacks* February 2020 The Art of Crafting Funny Love Stories Taiwan/Azoth Books for the Screen 20th Anniversary expanded edition of Bill Mernit’s classic celebration of romantic comedies. What makes us love romcoms? Written in a refreshingly accessible style and updated and expanded to recognize a fresh generation of romantic comedies, the 20th Anniversary edition of Writing the Romantic Comedy studies and analyzes beloved romantic classics such as When Harry Met Sally, Annie Hall, Tootsie, and The Lady Eve to modern-day favorites including Hitch, (500) Days of Summer, Bridesmaids, and Silver Linings Playbook. “Writing the Romantic Comedy is so much fun to read it could pop a champagne cork.”—Alexa Junge, writer/producer of Friends “Insightful, thorough, and easy to use, this step-by-step guide expertly balances the craft and the art of writing the romantic comedy. Billy Mernit really knows his stuff, and after reading this book, you will too.”—Stephen Mazur, co-writer of Liar, Liar
Billy Mernit serves as a story analyst and script consultant at Universal Pictures, and is a Distinguished Instructor at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Author of the novel Imagine Me and You (Random House), he has also published twenty romance novels for Harlequin and Berkley/Jove under a female nom de plume. During his many years in the entertainment industry, he has written for NBC’s Santa Barbara, and *Publisher controls World rights composed songs recorded by Carly Simon, Judy Collins, and Morrissey. Stefany Anne Golberg My Morningless Mornings Unnamed Press March 2020
Equal parts coming-of-age memoir, art history, and philosophical inquiry, My Morningless Mornings is one woman’s reckoning with sleeplessness.
Weaving together metaphor and myth, art and psychology, Golberg explores what wakefulness really means. Why 3am is when most crimes are committed, when fevers either break or triumph, why it is called “the hour of the wolf.” My Morningless Mornings is a startling and lyrical inquiry into the liminal space between night and day, what consciousness means and why insomnia may be a state to celebrate rather than dread.
“Hypnotically written and impressively weird, My Morningless Mornings is an intense and harrowing meditation on Stefany Anne Golberg’s youthful insomnia. More than that, though, it’s a moving mini-portrait of the bond between a father and his daughter. I really loved this book.” —Tom Bissell, author of Apostle and co-author of The Disaster Artist
“This extraordinary little book is a cabinet of wonders. Like Patti Smith’s Woolgathering, Golberg’s My Morningless Mornings transforms seeming mundanities into magic by viewing life through an artful lens that makes everything feel novel. Pure alchemy.” One of Buzzfeed Books’ “15 Small Press Books to Kick Off —J. M. Tyree, co-author of Our Secret Life in the Movies Your 2020 Reading Season” Stefany Anne Goldberg is a multi media artist who co-founded Flux Factory, an arts collective in Brooklyn. Along with her husband Morgan Meis, she published Dead People, a series of eulogies about cultural icons, praised by Adam Gopnik, Tom Bissell, and Keith Gessen. She has written for the Washington Post, Lapham’s Quarterly, and the New England Review. She lives in Detroit where she has created a public art museum in her house named the Huckleberry Explorer’s Club.
www.hillnadell.com [email protected] HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY Rights List – London Book Fair 2020 author title publishers release Katie Orphan Read Me, Los Angeles: Prospect Park Books* March 2020 Exploring L.A.’s Book Culture
A witty and insightful book on the culture, people, humor, and zeitgeist of L.A. Read Me, Los Angeles is a colorful, lively, and informed celebration of all things bookish in L.A. past and present, including interviews with current Los Angeles writers; day trips in search of favorite fictional characters, from Marlowe to Weetzie Bat; author quotes galore; curated lists of the must-read Los Angeles books; a look at where writers have lived and worked in the City of Angels; and insight into the city’s book festivals, bookstores, publishers, literacy nonprofits, libraries, and more. Rich with photographs, book images, and vintage maps. Selected writers showcased in Read Me, Los Angeles: Eve Babitz, David Ulin, Luis Valdez, Naomi Hirahara, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, James M. Cain, Joan Didion, Liska Jacobs, Jerry Stahl, and more!
“The book is a chatty guide to literary tourism in the city but it has surprising depth… While Read Me is a light romp, it has the potential to open new doors to familiar territory.”—Alta Magazine Katie Orphan is the former manager of The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles, where she worked for a decade. The co-author of The Last Bookstore’s guide to downtown L.A. and the author of the recurring feature “Drinking with the Ghost” for the Los Angeles Review of Books, she’s been a longtime literary explorer. She earned a *Publisher controls World BA in English literature from Whitworth University and an MA in literature and history English rights from the University of Sheffield, where she focused on travel writing and literary tourism. She lives in Los Angeles. Sara Dahmen Copper, Iron, and Clay: William Morrow* April 2020 A Smith’s Journey
A gorgeous, full-color illustrated love letter to the artistry and workmanship behind copper pots, cast iron skillets, and classic stoneware, written by the only female coppersmith in America.
Writer and coppersmith Sara Dahmen starts with a crucial question: What are you cooking on? Cookware made from pure copper and cast iron lasts centuries; cheap nonstick pans get thrown in landfills. Sara became infatuated with the trades of copper and tinsmithing while researching historical fiction and learning about the cookware made and used by people on the American frontier. She discovered that the original pioneer cookware had disappeared and the industry was defunct. So she embarked on a life-changing journey to find local artisans to create her own cookware line, and thus began a new career as a coppersmith, leading to friendships and apprenticeships with seasoned craftspeople whose hard-won knowledge has been nearly lost to time. Sara’s story of unflagging determination as she learned these fascinating crafts will inspire readers everywhere. Each chapter delves into the history, science, and practical uses of cookware and profiles international companies like Mauviel and Ruffoni. Sara shares her best care instructions—from polishing copper to seasoning cast iron. Copper, Iron, and Clay is an inspiring window into one woman’s passionate obsession. “An indispensable cookware reference that every cook should have in their library. I learned so much from it... and you will too!” —David Lebovitz, author of My Paris Kitchen and Drinking French
Sara Dahmen is the founder of House Copper & Cookware, a line of American-made cookware created with pure, natural materials and the help from local family-owned companies. Her cookware has been featured in Cooking Light, Food and Wine, Veranda, Beekman 1802, Root+Bone, Midwest Living, and many more. She *Publisher controls World rights lives in Port Washington, Wisconsin with her husband and three young children. www.hillnadell.com [email protected] HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY Rights List – London Book Fair 2020 author title publishers release Maggie Downs Braver Than You Think: Counterpoint Press* May 2020 Around The World on The Trip of My Audio/Brilliance (Mother’s) Lifetime
At age 34, newly married and established in her career as an award-winning newspaper journalist, Maggie Downs quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother’s. “Maggie Downs is Braver Than You Think—and braver than she thinks…This is a book about love and loss, yes, but also about survival, about curiosity and determination, and about how to thrive when the world seems suddenly to hold no certainty. I devoured this book in one sitting, and closed its last pages enriched, moved, and inspired. You will be, too.”―Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body “With a mother in the final stages of Alzheimer’s, Maggie Downs tries to run from her grief, but instead takes us to the far reaches of the globe, cuddling (and being bitten) by endangered monkeys, bonding with elephants, and working to save sea turtles. It’s a journey to make any of us wonder if we’re braver than we think.” —Pulitzer Prize winner Diana Marcum, author of The Tenth Island “What a gorgeous book—full of adventure and suspense—I’d follow Maggie Downs anywhere. She’s not just intrepid, she’s excellent company: funny, deep, vulnerable, exquisitely honest, and such a good writer. Downs is the hero we need now—one to Featured on Publishers inspire each of us to be our best self and live our best life.” Weekly’s “Psychic —Dinah Lenney, author of The Object Parade Explorations: New Travel Books 2020" Maggie Downs is a writer, mother, and adventurer based in Palm Springs, California. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Today.com, and Racked, among other publications. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert. Braver Than You Think is her first *Publisher controls World rights book. Shann Nix Jones How to Start a Business on Your Hay House UK* May 2020 Kitchen Table
American journalist turned Welsh entrepreneur shares how she created a multi-million-dollar business in four years, with no previous business experience and zero advertising budget.
In 2014, Shann and her husband were flat out broke, but they had a brilliant idea born out of desperate need: on their rural farm in Wales, UK, they started making a probiotic goat milk known as kefir, something relatively unheard of then. Four years later the business they started on their kitchen table is worth millions and celebrated across the United Kingdom.
Shann wants women to be the CEO of their own destiny. She shares the uncommon ways in which she was able to make her online business thrive and the 13 steps to take to turn passion into a business that will set inspiring female entrepreneurs on a path to freedom and deep fulfillment. Named one of the “100 Women to Watch in the UK” by About Time 2019 Winner of a Welsh SME Shann Nix Jones is the author of Secrets from Chuckling Goat and The Good Skin Business Award 2019 Solution. A Pulitzer-nominated journalist and radio talk show host in San Francisco, she An International Beverage fell in love with a Welsh goat farmer at the age of 41. While struggling to cure her son’s Award Winner 2018 eczema and her husband’s life-threatening MRSA infection, Shann discovered powerful Seen in: The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, natural healing remedies that solved her family’s health problems. Shann dedicates her Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, time to educating the public about health-enhancing soaps, creams, and probiotic kefir Forbes, BBC, HuffPost, ITV, and more drinks that resolve a myriad of health conditions. *Publisher controls World rights www.hillnadell.com [email protected] HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY Rights List – London Book Fair 2020 author title publishers release Rebecca Giggs Fathoms: Simon & Schuster July 2020 The World in the Whale Australia/Scribe*
Fathoms is an eloquent meditation on the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship to other species.
What can whales teach us about the complexity, splendor, and fragility of life? Naturalist Rebecca Giggs sets out to answer that question after watching a humpback whale slowly die on the beach in Australia. Fathoms: The World in the Whale blends natural history, philosophy, and science to explore: How do whales experience ecological change? Has technology transformed our connection to these mythic animals? She writes about whales so rare they have never been named, whale songs that sweep across hemispheres in annual waves of popularity, and how whales have modified the chemical composition of our planet’s atmosphere. In the spirit of Rachel Carson and Rebecca Solnit, Giggs vividly explores the natural world even as she addresses the stakes in writing about nature in a time of environmental crisis. With depth and clarity, Giggs outlines the challenges we face as we attempt to understand the perspectives of other living beings, and our own place on an evolving planet. Evocative and inspiring, Fathoms marks the arrival of an essential new voice.
Rebecca Giggs is an award-winning writer from Perth, Australia. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Science Writing, and other publications. Fathoms is her *Publisher controls World rights first book.
Wesley Morgan The Hardest Place Random House September 2020
A deeply reported and vivid history of the most violent region of Afghanistan by a noted young military journalist.
Wesley Morgan was a 19 year old college student at Princeton University when he first embedded with U.S. and British troops in the Pech Valley in Afghanistan. He has spent the past decade traveling across remote valleys and to outposts built into harsh mountain terrain interviewing soldiers, commandos, and Afghans to capture the reality of an endless war through their eyes. Few U.S. troops can explain why they are still fighting or what they have accomplished.
A fascinating and candid look at the tragic military history of the war in Afghanistan — the missteps that made each year harder for the troops cycling through than the last, the years-long hunts for individuals who did not matter, and the heroic decisions made by infantry and commandos on the ground.
Wesley Morgan is a military affairs reporter who most recently covered the Pentagon for two and a half years at Politico. He previously worked as a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C., Iraq, and Afghanistan, contributing stories to The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications.
www.hillnadell.com [email protected] HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY Rights List – London Book Fair 2020 author title publishers release Katherine E. Standefer Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Little, Brown/Spark* November 2020 Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
If the defibrillator just saved my life. If a defibrillator is just metal. If metal is mined earth. If in some places children are conscripted to work in mines that collapse. If these minerals just saved my life: Was it worth it?
What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator.
In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible, reverberating effects of medical devices, Standefer recounts the true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and slow, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots.
Deeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to medical technology, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life. Katherine E. Standefer is the winner of the 2015 Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction, her essay "In Praise of Contempt" appears in Best American Essays 2016. Her other work has been published in or is forthcoming from The Normal School, Fourth Genre, The Iowa Review, The Colorado Review, Cutbank, The Indiana Review, Fugue, and The Rumpus, among many others. Standefer earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction *Publisher controls World rights Writing from the University of Arizona, where she teaches creative nonfiction.
Omer Aziz Brown Boy: Scribner TBD 2021 A Story of Race, Religion, and UK/Simon & Schuster Inheritance
A powerful memoir of defying the odds and triumphing over expectations as a brown Muslim boy in a white Western world Omer Aziz, a first generation Canadian Pakistani Muslim, was the first in his family to go to university, to travel to Europe, to move in circles in the cosmopolitan white world his immigrant parents never encounter. This is his story as a brown skinned man navigating the tough working-class world he grew up in while figuring out his identity in the context of the larger world. Like Educated and Between the World and Me, Brown Boy has an urgency to it as Aziz describes how reading and education allowed him to escape the violence and hopelessness of his community, and to create a life other than being "another brown boy with a dangerous future.”
The narrative moves from Scarborough, an immigrant working class ghetto of 600,000 people outside Toronto where Aziz grew up, to Queen's University in Canada where he encounters the polished upper-class white world for the first time, to Paris where he attends the prestigious Sciences Po as an exchange student while living in the dangerous banlieu of Seine-Saint-Denise, to Cambridge as a graduate student in international affairs, and finally to Yale Law School from which he graduated in 2017. At each juncture, Aziz attempts to reconcile the tension between feeling like an outsider with his heartfelt desire to belong to the elite and educated white Western world. This is the book he wished for as he was growing up to explain what it felt like to be a brown boy like himself, someone condemned to the margins between East and West. Omer Aziz grew up in working-class Toronto and with the help of scholarships was educated at Queen's University, the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, and The Globe and Mail, among others. He previously worked for the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, for a start-up in Shanghai, and most recently served as a policy adviser to the Foreign Minister of Canada. www.hillnadell.com [email protected] HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY Rights List – London Book Fair 2020 Fiction author title publishers release Jamie Harrison The Center of Everything Counterpoint Press June 2020 Audio/Blackstone A compelling saga from the award-winning author of The Widow Nash, The Center of Everything offers a stunning and heartfelt examination of the deep bonds of family and how the ones we’ve loved and lost echo throughout our lives.
Weaving together the past and the present, bounded by the brisk shores of Long Island Sound and the picturesque but ruthless landscapes of big sky Montana, The Center of Everything examines with profound insight the nature of the human condition: the tribes we call family, the memories and touchstones that make up a life, the allure of revenge, and the loves and losses we must endure along the way.
"The Center of Everything is a bighearted, feet-on-the-ground, bracing, intelligent book. Its people will endure in readers' memories, page after compelling page.” Also available: —Thomas McGuane
"This doesn't feel like a work of fiction. It feels real, like reading someone's diary. I'm left convinced that these characters have immortal souls, and I find comfort in their familiarity. I want to spend more time in their world, urging them to whisper their secrets in my ear. A brilliant book—I wish I could write like this.”—Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "The Center of Everything slips deftly through time, all the while taking the reader to the PNBA Indie Bound Bestseller marvelous unfolding of secrets (both wondrous and murderous) that were right before our eyes. How beautifully our attention is distracted and illuminated in this resonant 2017 Reading the West Award: Fiction novel.”—Joan Silber, author of Improvement Daniel Nieh Beijing Payback Ecco* April 2020 UK/Harper UK paperback
A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller bursting with personality and pathos about a college basketball player discovering shocking truths about his Chinese family in the wake of his father’s murder. Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. His father was never just a restaurateur—in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China’s leanest communist years. Victor travels to Beijing, finding clues to his father’s secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, and a shocking new enterprise the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs. “A propulsive first novel that aims to entertain… highly enjoyable. It sets up a sequel TV/Film rights optioned by that I very much look forward to reading.”―The New York Times Fernando Chien and Sam Hargrave (Avengers Endgame) “Nieh’s Victor is witty, passionate, competitive, honourable, and courageous enough to face some of the deadliest players in the Beijing underworld as he confronts his father’s New York Times Book Review past in this superb, sophisticated thriller.”―BBC Editors’ Choice Author interviewed on NPR’s All “[A] remarkable debut…Nieh, a Chinese-English translator, has a real gift for language… Things Considered This impressive blend of crime and coming-of-age marks Nieh as a talent to watch.”―Publishers Weekly (starred review) Must Read lists: BBC, New York Times, USA Today, CrimeReads, “Daniel Nieh deftly recasts the immigrant novel as a sharp revenge thriller centered on a Bookish, BookRiot, LitHub, sunny SoCal kid who goes from playing college and hoops to uncovering his father’s The Oregonian murderer. The clash between past and present, between the homeland his father *Publisher controls World English escaped and the new home he dreamt up for his family, is richly layered and deeply rights affecting.”―Jade Chang, bestselling author of The Wangs vs. the World www.hillnadell.com [email protected] HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY Rights List – London Book Fair 2020 author title publishers release Kate Racculia Tuesday Mooney Talks to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt October 2020 Ghosts UK/Harper UK as Tuesday paperback Mooney Wore Black
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts is a Gothic adventure story, a treasure hunt using the life and stories of Edgar Allan Poe as clues, and an open-hearted generous tale of finding true friendship and love when you least expect it. “A quirky mix that delves into how grief affects us and how friendships and romance turn on a dime, yet it does so with disarming, often deliciously acerbic humor… Rollicking... The emerging messages are bright: Be generous now. Don’t cheat your friendships. Become the person you’re looking for.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “An entertaining novel about ghosts, grieving and friendship. Acerbic and quirky… Entertaining.”—Toronto Star “Rarely does a novel so suffused with death radiate as much life as this spirited—in every sense of the word—genre-bending adventure from Racculia. Racculia should win many new fans with this inspired effort.”—Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) Bellweather Rhapsody optioned by TNT “A roaring adventure novel that never loses sight of adulthood’s woes…Thrilling, Kirkus Best Fiction of 2019 romantic, and charming… a love letter to former witchy girls and compulsive dreamers Indies Next October 2019 that will make readers reassess what—and who—they value. Spooky, witty, and observant, Racculia’s novel of friendship and bigger-than-life aspirations is a Apple Books Best Books of treasure.”—Kirkus (starred review) October 2019 “Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts is at once a quirky ghost story, an addictive LibraryReads October 2019 adventure tale, a love letter to the city of Boston, and, at its center, a story about Must Read lists: New York grieving, intimacy, and what it means to be a true friend. I loved every page of this Post, Hey Alma, CrimeReads, Bookish, Publishers Weekly smart, exuberant book, from its intriguing start to its heartfelt finish. An absolute joy to read.”—Louise Miller, author of The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living Angie Cruz Dominicana Flatiron Books* June 2020 UK/John Murray paperback Italy/Solferino World Spanish/Seven Stories Press, Siete Cuentos From IMPAC Dublin Award finalist Angie Cruz, an urgent, beautifully told novel about a Dominican teenager’s arranged marriage and immigration to New York City, set against the political turmoil of the 1960s. “In nimble prose, Cruz animates the simultaneous reluctance and vivacity that define her main character as she attempts to balance filial duty with personal fulfillment, and contends with leaving one home to build another that is both for herself and for her family.”—The New Yorker “A tale from that island called girlhood. Cruz describes this shipwrecked age with giddy accuracy. A season of hope, vulnerability, and disaster. Especially for a girl of color. Gorgeous writing, gorgeous story.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street US paperback out June 2020 “Cruz’s Dominicana is a coming-of-age story about making choices for survival versus love.”—Real Simple “I have been eagerly waiting for a new book from Cruz. So glad the time has come.” —Edwidge Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory “This story feels so right for this moment. Cruz captures the texture and tenor of being an immigrant woman, caught between worlds and loyalties.” —Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of The Butterflies Film rights optioned by A24 Good Morning America Cover to “The intimate workings of Ana’s mind are sometimes childlike and sometimes tortured, Cover Book Club and her growth and gradually blooming wisdom is described with a raw, expressive YALSA 2020 Alex Award Winner voice. Cruz’s winning novel will linger in the reader’s mind long after the close of the Book of the Month Club August story.”—Publisher’s Weekly (starred review) 2019 “An intimate portrait of the transactional nature of marriage and the economics of both Indies Next September 2019 womanhood and citizenship, one all too familiar to many first-generation Americans.” *Publisher controls World rights —New York Times Book Review www.hillnadell.com [email protected] HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY Rights List – London Book Fair 2020 author title publishers release Kimi Eisele The Lightest Object in the Algonquin Books* June 2020 Universe paperback If the grid went down, how would you find someone on the other side of the country? How would you find hope? The Lightest Object in the Universe is a story about resilience and adaptation, a testament to the power of community, where our best traits, born of necessity, begin to emerge. “In The Lightest Object in the Universe, author Kimi Eisele explores how humanity would have to evolve, relying on hope and love to ultimately sustain humankind.” —Associated Press “Can a dystopian novel be both clear-eyed and tender? For anyone inclined to think, no, I urge them to pick up Kimi Eisele’s novel… [Carson’s and Beatrix’s] journeys…offer an enlightening, though never precious perspective on what it means to rebuild something, rather than just wallow in destruction. It’s a story of hope, resilience, and being human.”—Nylon
TV rights optioned by Universal “The Lightest Object in the Universe is a testament to the power of love in the darkest An Indies Next July 2019 times. There’s horror, yes, but more moments of ingenuity, generosity, and grace. I couldn’t put it down.”—Sheri Holman, author of The Dress Lodger An ABA Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2019 “This is Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain crossed with Emily St. John Mandel’s Station A Summer 2019 B&N Discover Eleven. Filled with luminous writing and messages of love and hope.” Great New Writers —Library Journal A Real Simple Best Book of “A tale told in sentences starkly declarative of the gone world they describe, The 2019 Lightest Object in the Universe offers characters that linger long after the final page is Must Read Lists: Real Simple, turned. This is a novel with that exact balance of heart and momentum. Dazzling.” LibraryJournal, The Millions, —Christian Kiefer, author of Phantoms Nylon, Parade Magazine, Reader’s Digest “A near-future apocalypse forms the backdrop for an intense, moving romance in Eisele’s smart debut… Fans of Station Eleven will particularly enjoy this hopeful vision of a postapocalyptic world where there is danger, but also the possibility for ideas to spread, community to blossom, and people to not just survive, but thrive.” *Publisher controls World rights —Publishers Weekly Matt Mendez Barely Missing Everything Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/ March 2020 (YA) Atheneum/S&S* paperback World Spanish/S&S In the tradition of Jason Reynolds and Matt de la Peña, this heartbreaking, no-holds-barred debut novel told from three points of view explores how difficult it is to make it in life when you—your life, brown lives—don’t matter. "There are moments when a story shakes you…Barely Missing Everything is one of those stories, and Mendez, a gifted storyteller with a distinct voice, is sure to bring a quake to the literary landscape.” —Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Long Way Down “Mendez offers enticing glimpses of Mexican-American life, and he has an uncanny ability to capture the aimless bluster of young boys posturing at confidence, behaving rashly to mask feeling insecure.” —New York Times Book Review Kirkus Best Book of 2019 “In this novel with a deep sense of place and realistic dialogue, characters who are Apple Books Best Books of vivid and fallible add deep psychological meaning to a heart-wrenching story. At March 2019 once accessible and artful, this is an important book about Mexican teens holding ProjectLIT 2019/2020 onto hope and friendship in the midst of alcoholism, poverty, prejudice, and despair.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Must Read lists: NBC News, NBC Latino, BookRiot, B&N “Searing…Mendez brings Juan and his world to life with vivid, honest characters Teen, Seventeen Magazine and events that shine a light on what it can mean to be Mexican-American and *Publisher controls World rights poor in America."—Publishers Weekly www.hillnadell.com [email protected] HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY Rights List – London Book Fair 2020 author title publishers release Liska Jacobs The Worst Kind of Want MCD x FSG* November 2019 A trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex. In her unsettling follow-up to Catalina, Liska Jacobs again delivers hypnotic literary noir about a woman whose unruly impulses and troubled past push her to the brink of disaster. “This crispy biscotti of a novel is about a producer who goes to Italy, has a scandalous relationship, and decodes not just the meaning of life but also the meaning of death, sex, dance clubs, and emoji. You’ll feel indecent reading it in public.”—Vulture “The Worst Kind of Want is a devilish, devious, and sultry psychological thrill ride. Each page overflows with disquieting passion and sumptuous detail. Jacobs is an archaeologist who dives deep into her characters’ illicit desires and reveals them with unnerving and unflinching honesty.”—Ivy Pochoda, author of Wonder Valley “Noirish and sexy, this provocative novel explores what it’s like to be a woman on the Must-Read Lists: Esquire, New York Post, PopSugar, The edge, and what happens when dreams are deferred for too long.”—Esquire Skimm, LitHub, Vulture, CrimeReads, A.V. Club “Liska Jacobs’s psychologically-tense novel, The Worst Kind of Want, deftly explores matters of age and aging, of modernity and women, as seen through the lens of forty- Also available: something Cilla’s propulsive desires. In this sharply written feminist noir, Jacobs’s venerable protagonist takes readers on a thrillingly doomed journey set amid the simmering heat of an Italian landscape, where the interplay of ancient and modern are ever present—a captivating portrayal of self and want.” —Christine Mangan, author of Tangerine “[Liska] Jacobs’s intoxicating second novel is a love letter to Italy and an evocative study of grief and desire… Jacobs’s haunting portrait of one woman’s transformative Croatia/Leo Commerce; and, ultimately, tragic summer will linger with readers.”—Publishers Weekly Slovenia/Desk
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www.hillnadell.com [email protected] HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY Rights List – London Book Fair 2020 Graphic Novels author Title Publishers Release David Gallaher The Only Living Girl: Papercutz March 2019 Steve Ellis The Island at the Edge of Volume 2 out March 2020 Infinity
From the award-winning team behind The Only Living Boy, David Gallaher and Steve Ellis bring you The Only Living Girl, an action-packed adventure perfect for fans of Amulet, Ms. Marvel, and DC Super Hero Girls. Zandra ‘Zee’ Parfitt is one of the last human survivors of a cosmic disaster that merged hundreds of planets into the mysterious patchwork wasteland of Chimerika. After learning that the experiments of her late father, the diabolical Doctor Once, created this world, Zee and her companions—classmate Erik Farrell and mermaid warrior Morgan—embark on a dangerous quest filled with robots, monsters, unknown civilizations, and unlikely allies. Together they push back against the relentless Consortium, who want control of this new world at any cost. Through it all, Zee searches for the truth of her past so she can redeem her father’s legacy. “[Zee is] a wonderfully complex character…This is an action-packed series…” —Reviews and Robots on The Only Living Girl “A classic tale of fantasy exploration.”—Publishers Weekly on The Only Living Boy Also available: “Ready to join the ranks of books like Bone and Amulet as one of the very best…A great blend of fantasy and pulp elements that will appeal to fans of all ages.” —Blastr on The Only Living Boy “Young readers may come for the insect princess and the dragon, but they will stay because they will see a character who struggles with the same uncertainties and anxieties they do.”—Fangirl Nation on The Only Living Boy “The episodic plot and quick-fire pace will appeal to reluctant readers hoping for a big payoff from a small package.”—Booklist on The Only Living Boy Rights: Spain/Hirukoa Melissa Jane Osborne The Wendy Project (YA) Papercutz/Super Genius July 2017 Veronica Fish Czech Republic/Albatros France/Ankama Latin America/Oceanus Poland/Prószyński i S-ka Russia/Mann Ivanov Ferber
What forces us to finally grow up? A young girl finds her way through grief in this stunning graphic novel twist on Peter Pan. “Striking.”—New York Times Book Review “Osborne and Fish deliver a heartrending YA drama with this graphic novel, showcasing how the building blocks of a fairy tale can be reassembled into something new and enlightening.”—A.V. Club “You’ll thrill to Fish’s linework and facial acting and you’ll swoon for Osborne’s vivid characterization of a girl struggling to separate fact from fiction while navigating trauma.”—New York Magazine’s Vulture
Finalist for the EGLA Award “Smart artwork, and a girls’-eye view of a boyhood tale will make readers believe—maybe not in fairies, but in Wendy.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Forbes Best of 2017 NYPL Library Best Books for “This unexpected gem stands out among latter-day versions of Peter Pan thanks to its Teens 2017 embrace of genuine emotion and psychological gravity. Highly recommended to all graphic novel and fantasy fans.”—School Library Journal (starred review) YALSA 2018 Great Graphic Novels for Teens “As magical as it is melancholy.”—Mental Floss Must Read lists: Vulture, Mental Floss, SYFY Fangrrls “An incredibly imaginative, unique, and touching story.”—Nerdist Optioned by The Wolper “Truly one of a kind.”—Newsarama (10 of 10 stars) Organization with AwesomenessTV “Very emotional and quite powerful.”—ICv2 www.hillnadell.com [email protected] HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY London Book Fair 2020 DON CARPENTER Selected Titles THE MURDER OF THE FROGS and Other Stories (Dover Books, May 2020) Two novellas and eight shorter pieces that explore racial conflict and the agonies of loneliness and heartbreak: "The Crossroader," in which a Black dri er ou oxes an all- white crew of small-town hustlers; "Blue Eyes," the story of an aging half-Indian pros tute and her increasingly respectable white lover; "One of Those Big-City Girls," concerning a woman in her for es drawn to younger men; and more, including the tle tale, a moving narra ve of a boy's first love. “No pre y li le thoughts, no fake faith-restora ves—just hard solid cra smanship and style.”—The New York Times (An Outstanding Book of the Year)
“Carpenter shows his versa lity and ability to handle strong themes with cool precision...a consistently interes ng cra sman."—Kirkus Reviews
A Couple of Comedians, The Hollywood Trilogy THE HOLLYWOOD TRILOGY: Rights sold: The True Story of Jody McKeegan, and Turnaround Frassinelli/Italy (Counterpoint Press, September 2014) A Couple of Comedians “Nobody around today writes as skillfully and authorita vely about the crazy world of Rights sold: movies and show biz as Don Carpenter. He is doing for present-day Hollywood what Sexto Piso/World Spanish Daniel Defoe did for 18th century London—char ng its licit and illicit commerce, exploring its underside, revealing the precise detail how the place works.” ―Washington Post Book World “I never knew what they meant when they said so-and-so writes like an angel, but now I do. Don Carpenter gives us a superb prose, light, fast as the speed of reading, quick in its turns, luminous, tender, humorous, sad, fall of wise woe and comic op mism. I suppose A Couple of Comedians is the best novel I’ve read about contemporary show biz.”—Norman Mailer FRIDAYS AT ENRICO’S *Rights sold: Edi ons Cambourakis/France (Counterpoint Press, April 2014) Kle Co a/Germany Frassinelli/Italy "If Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest prefigured the Age of Aquarius, then Meulenhoff/The Netherlands Don Carpenter’s semi-autobiographical Fridays at Enrico’s can be read as the swan song Sexto Piso/World Spanish of the en re Love Genera on…[the novel follows] a fic onal group portrait of the North Beach litera whose salon was Enrico’s restaurant in San Francisco. ―Douglas Brinkley, New York Times
*Publisher controls World rights HARD RAIN FALLING *Rights sold: Edi ons Cambourakis + 10/18/France (New York Review Books, September 2009) Klidarithmos/Greece Van Gennep/The Netherlands "Hard Rain Falling tells a ripping good story…it falls squarely in the tradi on of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Norman Mailer’s An American Dream, books that prefigured the counterculture movement in their challenge to conformity and the system. As in all good literature, it a empts to answer the ques on of why we’re here.”―George Pelecanos, introduc on to Hard Rain Falling
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Admired by writers as diverse as Jonathan Lethem, Anne Lamo , and George Pelecanos, Don Carpenter’s novels have now been rediscovered. Carpenter was the quintessen al West Coast American writer, whether describing the smell of a seedy pool hall in Portland, Oregon or a bohemian café filled with aspiring writers and drinkers in 60s San Francisco. Carpenter was part of the Beats in the 1950s, and the counterculture heroes of the 1960s, including his close friendship with Richard Brau gan (a troubled genius himself). Carpenter’s classic novel of prison and redemp on Hard Rain Falling was republished in 2009 by NYRB, Friday at Enrico’s, finished by Jonathan Lethem, was published by Counterpoint Press in 2014, and The Hollywood Trilogy, a reissue of A Couple of Comedians, The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan, and Turnaround, was published in 2014 by Counterpoint. The Murder of the Frogs, a collec on of nine stories, is being republished by Dover Books in May 2020. Carpenter commi ed suicide in 1995, but his work, celebrated by notable writers and readers, lives on.
www.hillnadell.com [email protected] HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY London Book Fair 2020 DAVID LEBOVITZ Selected Titles
THE SWEET LIFE IN PARIS: Delicious Adventures in Rights sold: the World’s Most Glorious — and Perplexing — City Edicoes Tapioca/Brazil (Broadway Books, March 2011) Mo o/Czech Republic • New York Times Bestseller Eksmo/Russia • Cuisinart/Interna onal Associate of Culinary Professionals: Best VIVAT/Ukraine Literary Wri ng Finalist 2010 Previous Rights sold: A deliciously funny, o eat, and irreverent look at the City of Light, cheese, China Times Publishing/China chocolate, and other confec ons. Munhakdongne/Korea “Cooks aren’t usually such good writers—so funny, skep cal, and observant. VAGA/Lithuania [Lebovitz is] a wonderful one.”—Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce Pascal/Poland “David Lebovitz is the greatest thing to happen to dessert since the spoon, but this me he shows that beyond his ar ul nose and flawless taste, he also has a keen reporter’s eye.”—Mort Rosenblum, author of The Secret Life of the Seine
L’APPART: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home *Rights sold: Edicoes Tapioca/Brazil (Crown Publishing, November 2018) Albatros/Czech Republic • NPR Best Books of 2017 VAGA/Lithuania • Featured on New York Times’ The Shortlist • Must Read lists: Departures, Eater, Read It Forward "Smartly arch.”—New York Times Book Review “Equal parts honest, intriguing, distressing, entertaining, funny and appe zing.” —Washington Post “Lighthearted… with healthy dashes of sa re, wit, and humor... an engaging, entertaining, and delicious diver ssement.”—Kirkus Reviews “Food lovers and travelers alike will fall in love with every single one of the magically charming stories David skillfully recounts.”—Departures Magazine *Publisher controls World rights
DRINKING FRENCH: The Iconic Cocktails, Apéri fs, and Café Tradi ons of France, with 160 Recipes (Ten Speed Press, March 2020) • Amazon #1 New Release
“I can think of no one I’d rather meet for a drink than David Lebovitz. In his authorita ve yet always approachable style, Lebovitz expertly guides us through the o en-unspoken rituals, customs, and tradi ons of properly drinking French.” —Brad Thomas Parsons, author of Bi ers, Amaro, and Last Call “As an acute connoisseur of French gastronomy, [Lebovitz’s] tasty collec on of recipes and social observa ons can be imbibed in one shot—Santé!” —Francois-Regis Gaudry, author of Let’s Eat France! *Publisher controls World rights
MY PARIS KITCHEN: Recipes and Stories *Rights sold: (Ten Speed Press, April 2014) Wydawnictwo Pascal/Poland • New York Times Bestseller Zahar/Portugal • Top Cookbook of 2014: Los Angeles Times, Amazon, Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, NPR, Serious Eats, Eat Your Books, The Splendid Table • 2015 James Beard Founda on Book Award Nominee • 2014 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee “David Lebovitz is a rare specimen: both a terrific storyteller and a brilliant, uncompromising recipe writer. His lighthearted, almost sa rical style is combined with far-reaching knowledge of food and its context. I’d follow him blindfolded on *Publisher controls World rights this journey to the City of Light.”—Yotam O olenghi www.hillnadell.com [email protected] HILL NADELL LITERARY AGENCY London Book Fair 2020 Robert Moor, ON TRAILS: An Explora on (Simon & Schuster, July 2016) A stunningly original book about how trails help us understand the world and create order from chaos. • New York Times bestseller - Science and Travel • Winner of Stanford University’s 2018 William Saroyan Interna onal Prize • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award 2017 • A Na onal Outdoor Books Award Winner • An Indie Bound Bestseller • On more than 12 Best Books of the Year lists, including: The Boston Globe, The Sea le Times, Amazon, Na onal Post, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Booklist, Waterstones, New York Magazine Rights sold: China/PTP; Germany/Insel Verlag; Italy/Corbaccio; Japan/A&F Corp; Korea/Mirae N; The Netherlands/Ten Have; Russia/Ripol; Spain/Capitan Swing; Taiwan/The Walk; Turkey/Kolek f; UK/Aurum Press Nonfic on; Finished book available; 352 pages
• Like Montaigne, Moor writes about one subject as a way of touching on 100 others. On Trails considers Greek mythology and the origins of life, the intricacy of caterpillar nests and the stealth of elephants. He’s a philosopher on foot, recording his journey through miles of wilderness and through a mind sor ng out the meaning of travel itself.—The Wall Street Journal • You might think of Robert Moor as the Roger Angell of trail-walking. Just as Angell’s reports on specific baseball games segue effortlessly into reflec ons on the venerable sport itself, so Moor looks up from whatever trail he may be on to see the big picture… On Trails is an engaging blend of travelogue, sociology, history, and philosophy that might be summed up as a medita on on the centrality of trails to animal and human life. —The Washington Post • In the hallowed tradi on of Robert Macfarlane, Moor’s beau ful travelogue is a medita on on trails: as cultural space, as history, as in mate terrain. This is just the cket for your big summer adventure. —San Francisco Chronicle • Part natural history, part scien fic inquiry, but most of all a deeply though ul human medita on on how we walk through life, Moor’s book is enchan ng.—The Boston Globe
On Trails is a sweeping narra ve that reveals how trails allow us to make sense of our disordered world, how order emerges out of chaos, and how the o overlooked trail follows a path that leads to a higher understanding of our rela onship with nature, the world around us, and ul mately how we choose to live our lives. In Robert Moor’s upcoming book, In Trees: An Explora on, he con nues his physical and intellectual journey, this me about trees as the key to almost everything in the universe, from forests to rivers to commerce to streams of informa on. Weaving together mythology, science, philosophy, religion, poetry, poli cal ac vism, and more than one hair-raising adventure in the tree-tops, In Trees gives a fresh glimpse of how we grow, and how the world can grow together as one.
Robert Moor has wri en for Harper’s, n+1, New York, and GQ, among other publica ons. A recipient of the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism, he has won mul ple awards for his nonfic on wri ng. He lives in Halfmoon Bay, Bri sh Columbia and is currently wri ng In Trees, the follow-up to On Trails.
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