From Publishers Lunch Weekly:
FICTION DEBUT:
Newsweek editor and daughter of financier Pete Peterson, Holly Peterson's THE MANNY, about a young mother struggling to keep up in Park Avenue circles who hires a male nanny, to Susan Kamil at Dial, by Kim Witherspoon at Inkwell Management.
UK rights to Lynne Drew and Maxine Hitchcock, in a pre-empt, by sub-agent Araminta Whitley at Lucas, Alexander, Whitley.
Film rights to Sony, in an outright purchase.
MYSTERY/CRIME:
Jennifer Carrell's INTERRED WITH THEIR BONES, a treasure hunt whose clues are codes and puzzles found in the writings of Shakespeare, to Mitch Hoffman at Dutton, by Noah Lukeman of Lukeman Literary Management (world).
[Note: Literary Agent Lukeman is going strong!]
P.D. Martin's BODY COUNT, the first in a series featuring an FBI profiler with psychic abilities, who's involved in a complex serial killer case, to Margaret Marbury at Mira, by Elaine Koster [world, except Australia (sold to Macmillan), Germany (sold to Rowohlt) and The Netherlands]. Chandler Crawford will be representing the Dutch rights on Elaine Koster's behalf.
SCI-FI/FANTASY:
DEAD WITCH WALKING author Kim Harrison's three new novels, about a sexy supernatural bounty hunter, to Diana Gill of Eos, by Richard Curtis of Richard Curtis Associates.rcurtis@curtisagency.comdiana.gill@harpercollins.com
UK:
Author of Swimmer, Bill Broady's ETERNITY IS TEMPORARY, a darkly comic tale of young love among the old people, to Philip Gwyn Jones at Portobello, in a nice deal, for publication in July 2006, by Annette Green at Annette Green Authors' Agency (world). Dutch rights to Ambo-Anthos, in a pre-empt.philip@portobellobooks.com david@marshallrights.co.uk
FILM:
Kathleen Jacobs' THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB, to the Christine Peters Company (How Lose A Guy In 10 Days), in a major deal, in a pre-empt at the Frankfurt Book Fair, by Barbara J. Zitwer.bjzitwerag@aol.com
Rights to Frank Zappa's son Ahmet Zappa's children's picture book THE MONSTROUS MEMOIRS OF A MIGHTY MCFEARLESS, in which Minerva McFearless keeps a journal of the monsters she and her brother must defeat when they embark on a mission to save their father from the most diabolical creature in the universe, to Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, sold outright, by Helen Breitwieser at Cornerstone Literary and Jody Hotchkiss at Hotchkiss & Associates.hb@cornerstoneliterary.com
TV:
Newbery Medalist Louis Sachar's HOLES, to Margaret Loesch and Bruce Stein with Dan Angel at The Hatchery in partnership with Walden Media, for development and to be produced by Walden Media and the Walt Disney Company, for the 2006-2007 season.
Leslie Caine's DEATH BY INFERIOR DESIGN, the first in series featuring an interior-designer/sleuth, to Denise DiNovi and Kathy Kloves for ABC/Touchstone Television, by Michael Cendejas of the Lynn Pleshette Agency, for Nancy Yost at Lowenstein-Yost Associates. nancy@bookhaven.com macendejas@lynnpleshetteagency.com
BIOGRAPHY:
Contributor to the Telegraph Nicholas Wapshott's biographical account and analysis of the relationship between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, whose genuine affection for each other strengthened their political alliance and conservatism's future, to Bernadette Malone at Sentinel, by Kathy Robbins at The Robbins Office.Will.Weisser@us.penguingroup.com
BUSINESS/INVESTING/FINANCE:
Former Morgan Stanley insurance analyst Alice Schroder's THE SNOWBALL EFFECT: How Warren Buffet Collected Friends, Wisdom and Wealth, called "a biography of Warren's ideas," based on "thousands of hours" of interviews with Buffett and "access to his files, friends and associates" to distill lessons from one of the most successful investors ever, to Irwyn Applebaum at Bantam Dell, in a major deal, presumably at least for the $7 million being cited as the bid level earlier, for publication in 2008, by David Black at the David Black Literary Agency (NA).BBurg@randomhouse.com
Investment professionals Larry E. Swedroe and Joseph H. Hempen's THE ONLY GUIDE TO A WINNING BOND STRATEGY: The Way Smart Money Preserves Wealth Today, identifying and explaining the characteristics of every kind of fixed income investment, to Truman Talley at St. Martin's, in a very nice deal, by Sam Fleishman at Literary Artists Representatives (NA).LitArtists@aol.com
COOKING:
Graham Harding's A WINE MISCELLANY, factoids about wine, to Aliza Fogelson at Clarkson Potter, in a nice deal, at auction, by Jennifer Unter at RLR Associates, on behalf of Jane Judd (NA).Junter@rlrassociates.net
Chef Efisio Farris's PASSIONE DI SARDINIA: Stories and Recipes from Italy's Timeless Island, an exploration of Sardinia's culinary delights, island history, and landscape, to Christopher Steighner at Rizzoli, in a nice deal by Lisa Ekus of Lisa Ekus Public Relations.Lcecooks@LisaEkus.com
HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:
Boston Globe columnist Thomas Oliphant's THE GANG THAT CAN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT, an examination of competence in conservatism over the last 30 years, including rhetoric versus actual results in health care, environment, fiscal policy, foreign policy, and more, to Thomas Dunne of Thomas Dunne Books, by Deborah Grosvenor at Grosvenor Literary Agency (world).deb@gliterary.com
[Pays to listen when Oliphant talks!]
Pulitzer Prize winners John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein's untitled account of the destruction of New Orleans, from the journalists who wrote a five-part Times-Picayune series "Washing Away" which accurately predicted the damage that ensued from Katrina (including the political ineptitude and urban chaos that followed the storm), a description of the destruction of New Orleans, along with a look at whether further catastrophic storms are in our future, to Geoff Shandler at Little, Brown, by Kris Dahl at ICM.heather.fain@twbg.com
Author of Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast Mike Tidwell's FUTURE WAVE: How Katrina is Coming to Every Coastal Town in America, warning that global warming and rising ocean levels will jeopardize all of our coastal areas in the coming decades, for publication in August 2006, Martin Beiser at Free Press by Jennifer Lyons at Lyons & Pande International (NA).
SCIENCE:
University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin's YOUR INNER FISH: A journey through the 3.5 billion year history of your body, an evolutionary synthesis in the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould of expeditionary paleontology, developmental genetics, and genomics that answers such questions as "what do I look like on the inside and how did I get that way?" to Marty Asher for Knopf, and to Stefan McGrath at Penguin Press in the UK, both in pre-empts, by Katinka Matson at Brockman.
UK:
Arkady Babchenko's A SOLDIER'S WAR IN CHECHNYA, an account of life as an ordinary young soldier in Russia's Chechen wars, tracing a journey from innocence to experience, to Tasja Dorkofikis in her first acquisition for Portobello Books, in a nice deal, for publication in mid-2007, by Natasha Perova at GLAS Agency (world English).
tasja@portobellobooks.com
david@marshallrights.co.uk
perova@glas.msk.su
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