Rights List Summer 2014 Contact: Jud Laghi Phone (718) 285-0798 [email protected] GENE SIMMONS ME, INC.: Build an Army of One, Unleash Your Inner Rock God, Win at Business and in Life Dey Street Books, October 2014 ME, INC. will not be your average business “how-to” or lifestyle book. This book will provide readers with in-depth insight into rock legend and KISS co-founder Gene Simmons’ thirteen principles for success, based on his own experience in business over the years, reinforced with true stories and anecdotes from his life. Topics will include finding the confidence to get started, surrounding yourself with the right people to partner with and learn from, as well as knowing when to pull the plug and when to double-down. At the core of ME, INC. is the fact that there is no greater asset in your pursuit of success than building and maintaining an enormous sense of self-confidence which, combined with the other principles, will provide a skeleton key into a world of success, freedom, peace of mind and money. KISS co-founder and lead singer, Gene Simmons, is a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur and one of the world’s most recognized personalities. KISS has sold over 100 million CDs and DVDs worldwide, is celebrating its 40th year together, and continues to sell out stadiums and arenas around the world. As an author, Simmons’ autobiography Kiss And Make-Up (Crown, 2001) was a New York Times Bestseller and has sold over 250,000 copies to date, and under his own Simmons Books imprint (of Phoenix Books) he published the New York Times bestselling Sex Money Kiss (2008), and the critically praised Ladies of the Night. In addition, IT Books recently publish Nothin’ to Lose: The Making of KISS (1972 – 1975), an oral history of the band’s early years by Ken Sharp, with Simmons and Paul Stanley. Full manuscript available World English rights to Dey Street Books (Denise Oswald) 2 PETER ZEIHAN THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER: How Geography, Demography And Energy Will Spur A New American Age Twelve, November 2014 There is no shortage of concerns for America in the modern era. But threats as disparate as the rise of China, The Arab Spring, and The Mexican drug war in actuality all share a very common thread: geopolitics. Geopolitics is the study of how place matters, how rivers lead people to interact differently than mountains do, and how those differences can lead to great variations in wealth, culture and military strategy. Geography shapes the food you eat, the education you get, and the number of roads you can travel along. Perhaps most importantly, geography shapes how people look at the world. In THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER, geopolitics expert Peter Zeihan will examine how geography, combined with demography and energy independence, will pave the way for one of the great turning points in history, and one in which America reasserts its global dominance. From a geographic standpoint, no modern country has a greater network of internal waterways, a greater command of deepwater navigation, or a firmer hold on industrialization technologies than America. And all of these factors have been historically significant in the success of past world powers, from the Ottoman empire’s control of the Danube, to England's mastery of the seas, to Germany’s pioneering infrastructure. Zeihan will also show readers how modern demographics in the developed world have been distorted to a historic degree, with fifty-somethings outnumbering teenagers everywhere (and thus creditors outnumbering debtors), and with America set as the only country with enough young adults to fill the capital-generating void left behind by 2030. Finally, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER will explore shale oil and its key role in America’s move towards energy independence and how it will shape (and is already shaping) American life for the next fifty years. Peter Zeihan has lived in the world of international affairs throughout his 15-year career. He launched his own firm, Zeihan on Geopolitics, in 2012 in order to specialize in customized executive briefings for his clients. Previously to going independent, Zeihan worked for twelve years with the geopolitical analysis firm Stratfor, where he was Vice President of Analysis. He is a frequent contributor in the media, and has been covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Associated Press, Bloomberg News, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, O’Reilly, National Public Radio, MarketWatch, and others. First pass pages available World English rights to Twelve (Sean Desmond) 3 SALLY HOGSHEAD HOW THE WORLD SEES YOU: From First Impressions to Lasting Value Harper Business, July 2014 Today, according to BBC, the average attention span might only be 9 seconds long. You will win or lose in those crucial first 9 seconds: in an introduction, a phone call, a meeting, or an interview. Every single time you communicate, you’re in a battle for attention, competing against distraction. If you fail to fascinate, your message will lose. You will lose. In this battle for attention, you have a secret weapon: your personality. And in a distracted and competitive environment, the real issue is not how you see the world. The real question is… how does the world see you? Building on the research at the center of her last book Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation, in HOW THE WORLD SEES YOU, and incorporating a new proprietary personality evaluation, Sally Hogshead will show readers how primary and secondary fascination triggers (from power, passion, mystique, prestige, alarm, rebellion and trust) dictate how each of us fit into one of 49 unique archetypes (including the “Rock Star,” the “Architect,” the “Avant-Garde,” and the “Change Agent”) directly ascribed to how we are viewed by the people around us. Along the way, Sally will show how each of these archetypes has a specific advantage in helping readers to harness what it is that gives us the power to fascinate, and shape the way others see us and are influenced by us in the pursuit of better relationships and greater success in business and in life. Finished books and first pass pdf available World English rights to Harper Business (Hollis Heimbouch) Rights for FASCINATE sold: Chinese (simplified)/China Industry and Commerce; Chinese (complex)/Fine Books; Japanese/Pie Books; Korean/Today’s Book; Polish/Helion; Portuguese (Brazil)/Editora Bestseller; Russian/Vyschee Obrazivanie; Spanish/Norma (Spain) and Granica (Latin America) 4 MICHAEL TENNESEN THE NEXT SPECIES: The Future of Evolution Through the Prism of its Past Simon & Schuster, March 2015 According to a report released earlier this year from scientists at the University of California, we stand at the edge of a mass extinction that could wipe out 75 percent of all known species on Earth (including, most importantly, us). Mass extinctions have only happened five times in the existence of multicellular life on earth, the last one occurring 65 million years ago to end the dinosaur age, and the report estimated that the next extinction will take place within the next 300 to 2,000 years. At the same time, some scientists contend that this is one of the few times in the last 540 million years that biodiversity is actually shrinking, not only in terms of an accelerated rate of extinctions, but in severe population declines across all species. Combined with a gross reduction of tropical forests, coral reefs, and wetlands—our primary centers of species diversification in the past—the future of who, or what, may survive a sixth extinction and rise to dominance remains unclear. In THE NEXT SPECIES, Michael Tennesen will explore the potential winners and losers of the next era of evolution through in-depth interviews with the scientists who are at the forefront of studying hominid evolution, from the verdant cloud forests of Peru to the Galapagos islands. The book will examine the factors that allowed Homo sapiens to walk out of Africa 80,000 years ago and become the dominant species, and which species currently have the biological and genetic characteristics best suited to meet the challenges of Earth’s impending future. THE NEXT SPECIES will also look at how a radical reduction (or complete elimination of the human population) would affect Earth, and will attempt to determine if humans are capable of the long-range foresight to prevent their own demise; from further evolution, to a complete relocation to another planet. Michael Tennesen’s writing has appeared in Discover, Scientific American, National Wildlife, Audubon, New Scientist, Science, Smithsonian. He is the author of Flight of the Falcon (Key Porter Books) about how falcons evolved and spread worldwide, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Warming (Penguin), a visiting fellow at the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies and the Annenberg School of USC, and a media fellow at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. NA Rights to Free Press (Sydney Tanigawa) Other Rights Sold: Korean/Sam & Parkers Full manuscript available 5 KEN JENNINGS BECAUSE I SAID SO!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids Scribner, December 2012 “A fun, lighthearted compendium of conventional wisdom, mostly parental, which debunks plenty of old wives’ tales and urban myths while offering a few surprising truths…. ‘Occasionally Mom knew what she was talking about,’ as this clever book confirms, but often she did not.” (Kirkus Reviews ) "With his trademark with and genius. Jennings imparts wisdom and good sense in this highly entertaining and oddly educational book." (Publishers Weekly ) "Armed with case histories, scientific finds and experiments on himself and his own children, Jennings let us in on what we really need to worry about ..