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Rights Guide Frankfurt 2019 Abigail Koons Ema Barnes Executive Director, International Rights Foreign Rights Assistant [email protected] [email protected] T: 212.691.8283 T: 212.625.2497 www.parkfine.com v 1.1 Park & Fine Literary and Media: an industry leader with a unique team approach. A BETTER EXPERIENCE… Park & Fine brings a 360° approach to agenting by supporting our exclusive list of authors with carefully crafted, tailored strategies. In addition to our agents, our team includes experts in retail, creative marketing and branding, publicity strategy, international and subsidiary rights, and film and TV. By working together, we combine our collective expertise to create a more effective, customized publication plan for each and every book, and a more seamless experience for our clients. Our goal is simple: work smarter to help our clients achieve their career goals. 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Park & Fine Literary and Media • 55 Broadway Suite 1601 • New York, NY 10006 • Tel 212.691.3500 www.parkfine.com Fiction 4 Young Adult/Middle Grade 13 Popular Science/Big Ideas 23 Narrative/Memoir 26 Business/Personal Development 31 Wellness 36 4 POSTSCRIPT by CECELIA AHERN The long-awaited sequel to PS, I LOVE YOU It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died – six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life. She’s proud of all the ways in which she has grown and evolved. But when a group inspired by Gerry's letters, calling themselves the PS, I Love You Club, approaches Holly asking for help, she finds herself drawn back into a world that she worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, Holly beings a relationship with the club, even as their friendship threatens to destroy the peace she believes she has achieved. As each of these people calls upon Holly to help them leave something meaningful behind for their loved ones, Holly will embark on a remarkable journey – one that will challenge her to ask whether embracing the future means betraying the past, HarperCollins UK and what it means to love someone forever… Grand Central Publishing • Debuted at #3 on Sunday Times Bestseller list September 2019 • PS, I LOVE YOU was a multi-million copy blockbuster book and movie Albanian Pegi • 25 million copies of Cecelia’s books sold worldwide Catalan Columna Croatian Profil Praise for POSTSCRIPT: Danish People’s Press Dutch Luitingh-Sijthoff “Fans of PS I LOVE YOU are in for a treat… Warmth emanates from the pages Finnish Gummerus of this lovely, uplifting novel.’ —Good Housekeeping French Bragelonne German Fischer “A poignant, warm and hopeful novel.” —Woman & Home Hungarian Athenaeum “Wise and uplifting – but keep a box of tissues at the ready. You’ll need it.” Italian DeAgostini —Sunday Express S Magazine Norwegian Bazar Polish Muza “I adored this uplifting story about hope and love.” —Prima Portuguese (Port) PRH Portugal “Another weepy about grief and the enduring power of love.” —Sunday Mirror Russian Atticus-Azbooka Slovenian Ucila “This is a novel to delight loyal fans and new readers alike.” Spanish Ediciones B —Woman’s Weekly Cecelia Ahern is the author of the international bestsellers PS, I LOVE YOU; LOVE, ROSIE; IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW; THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HERE; and ROAR. Her novels have been translated into thirty-five languages and have sold more than twenty-five million copies in over fifty countries. Two of her books have been adapted as major films and she has created several TV series in the US and Germany. She lives in Dublin with her family. www.cecelia-ahern.com - @Cecelia_Ahern - @official_ceceliaahern 5 IF I HAD YOUR FACE by FRANCES CHA In this riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, four young women make their way in a world defined by impossibly high standards of beauty, secret room salons catering to wealthy men, strict social hierarchies, and K-pop fan mania. Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a "room salon," an exclusive bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client may come to threaten her livelihood. Her roomate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds herself in a precarious relationship with the super-wealthy heir to one of Korea's biggest companies. Down the hall in their apartment building lives Ara, a hair stylist for whom two preoccupations sustain her: obsession with a boy-band pop star, and a best friend who is saving up for the extreme plastic surgery that is commonplace. And Wonna, one floor below, is a newlywed trying to get pregnant with a child that she and her husband have no idea how they can afford to raise and educate in the cutthroat economy. Ballantine Together, their stories tell a gripping tale that's seemingly unfamiliar, yet unmistakably universal in the way that their tentative friendships may be their saving grace. Viking UK April 2020 • Jennifer Hershey pre-empted North American rights in a six-figure, two-book deal Advance praise for IF I HAD YOUR FACE: Format: manuscript “Make way for Frances Cha, an entrancing new voice who guides us into the complexities and contradictions of modern-day Seoul, a dissonant, neon world that is ripped open to bare the same universal and human challenges that face us all. I devoured it in a single sitting.” —Janice Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Teacher “Few American novelists know Seoul the way Frances Cha does and in her intimate, panoramic debut, she brings that dazzling city to life. There are voices here you haven’t heard before. An enthralling read from the very first page.” —Ed Park, author of Personal Days "Absolutely stunning…Assured, bold, and electrifying, If I Had Your Face marks the entrance of a bright new voice in fiction." —Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six “Each voice in this quartet cuts through the pages so cleanly and clearly that the overall effect is one of dangerously glittering harmony. The tale told here is as engrossing as a war chant, or a mosaic formed with blades, every piece a memento sharpened on those unyielding barriers between us and our ideal lives.” —Helen Oyeyemi, author of Gingerbread “A provoking, ultimately inspiring tale of women pushing back against oppressive customs both traditional and new. Frances Cha, like her quartet of narrators, has a rebel’s heart.” —Jonathan Dee, author of The Locals Frances Cha is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Columbia MFA program, and a former travel & culture reporter for CNN in Seoul. She currently lives in New York City UK with her family. www.francescha.com - @Frances_H_Cha - @francesheewon 6 NEVER FORGET by MARTIN MICHAUD From the acclaimed “master of the Quebec thriller” comes an action-packed, breakneck mystery featuring Montreal police detectives Victor Lessard and Jacinthe Taillon, who race to track down a ruthless killer. When a homeless man jumps to his death in Old Montreal, the police discover two wallets in his possession: one belonging to a retired psychiatrist who was recently murdered in a bizarre ritual, the other to a powerful corporate lawyer who has vanished. As Montreal police detective Victor Lessard and his partner, Jacinthe Taillon, work to solve the separate mysteries, a dark history begins to emerge. While the pressure builds and the bodies accumulate, dark and disturbing secrets come to light about a pivotal moment in political history. But will Lessard and Taillon crack the case in time to prevent the killer from striking again? • Second installment of the series coming OCTOBER 2020! • Over 300,000 copies of the Victor Lessard series have sold in Québec • ZDF acquired world syndication and distribution rights of TV series • First translation into English • the television show based on the series, is one of the most successful in TVA history, with over 6 million viewers over the first three seasons. Dundurn Press (WE) Selected praise and prizes for the VICTOR LESSARD SERIES: January 2020 • 2010 Literary Discoveries of the Year, La Presse (Il ne faut pas parler dans l’ascenseur) • Top 5 Crime Novels for 2014, La Presse (Violence à l’origine) Format: ARCs • One of the Top 50 books for 2012, La Presse (Je me souviens) Praise for NEVER FORGET: French (Fra) Kennes Editions French (Quebec) Editions “This is a cleverly woven and thought-provoking story …I am warning you will be hooked from the start.