From Publishers Lunch Weekly:
FICTION:
Barbara Wood's THE LAST SHAMAN, about a Native American woman who is abducted by a rival tribe to become a rainmaker, set in the Southwest long before the Spaniards' arrival, to Jennifer Enderlin at St. Martin's, in a two-book deal, for publication in July 2007, by Harvey Klinger at Harvey Klinger (NA).
Rights have already been sold in Germany, France, Spain, Greece, Holland, Sweden and Czech Republic.harvey@harveyklinger.com
Robert Alexander's THE ROMANOV BRIDE, the story of the beautiful German princess and sister of the tsaritsa, who married into the Romanov dynasty and who abandoned court life to become a nun, selling her palaces and jewelry to help the poor, to David Cashion at Viking, by Marly Rusoff (world, excl. Germany). rights@rusoffagency.com
DEBUT:
Paulina Porizkova's A MODEL SUMMER, about a fifteen-year-old Czech-born Swedish girl chosen by a modeling agent to spend a summer working in Paris, where the once ugly duckling is proclaimed a swan, forcing her to make decisions that no teen-ager should ever have to make, to Zareen Jaffery at Hyperion, for publication in 2007, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).rights@rusoffagency.com
NYT reporter Matt Richtel's debut novel HOOKED, a thriller about love and other addictions, set in San Francisco, with a protagonist who narrowly survives an explosion in an Internet cafe after receiving a note -- with handwriting that belongs to his deceased girlfriend -- warning him to leave immediately, to Jon Karp at Warner Twelve, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2007 on the imprint's first list, by Laurie Liss of Sterling Lord Literistic (world). Film rights are with Matthew Snyder at CAA.jonathan.karp@twbg.com
MYSTERY/CRIME:
NYT bestselling author Faye Kellerman's two new Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novels, bringing the author back to Carrie Feron at William Morrow, and Harper UK as well, for publication beginning in summer 2007 (world English).
Following his recent Edgar nomination, Allan Guthrie's next three books, again to Stacia Decker at Harcourt, at auction, in a very nice deal, by Polygon (NA).Maria@birlinn.co.uk
CHILDREN'S/MIDDLE GRADE:
Screenwriter Derek Landy's debut SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT, a humorous fantasy-adventure in which a young girl teams up with the wise-cracking skeleton of a dead magician to defeat an Ancient evil, to Michael Stearns at Harper, and Gillie Russell and Sally Gritten at Harper UK, in a three-book deal, by Michelle Kass of Michelle Kass Associates (world English).
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT:
Paul Volponi's ALL IN, about a teenage boy who sets his sights on winning a poker tournament to avenge a misdeed dealt to his recently deceased father by the reigning champion, who also happens to be his high school math teacher; and TRIPLE BUG BOY, in which a runaway teen lands at a racetrack where he tries to make his way as a jockey and finds himself in midst of a race-fixing scheme, to Susan Burke at Atheneum, by Rosemary Stimola at Stimola Literary Studio.LtryStudio@aol.com
UK:
Michael White's EQUINOX, following 20 previous rights deal, many reported here, to Paul Sidey at Hutchinson and Kate Elton at Random House UK, for publication in fall 2006, by Carole Blake of Blake Friedmann.
Fiona Campbell's debut novel DEATH OF A SALARYMAN, about a man who loses his job working for a Japanese TV company, to Alison Samuel at Chatto, for publication in spring 2007, by Bill Hamilton at A.M. Heath.
South African author Ivan Vladislavic's PORTRAIT WITH KEYS, to
Philip Gwyn Jones at Portobello, for publication in June 2006, by Isobel Dixon at Blake Friedmann.
British journalist Olivia Liberty's debut FALLING, the dramatic and darkly humorous tale of a young man's obsessive search across London for his missing girlfriend, to Karen Duffy at Atlantic Books, by Rebecca Winfield Literary Agency (world). rebecca.winfield@btopenworld.com
Marshall Karp's THE RABBIT FACTORY, following a series of murders targeted toward a California theme park, to Lara Dafert at Allison & Busby, in a nice deal, by Shana Kelly at William Morris Agency (UK).
FOREIGN:
Nadia Bozak's debut GONE AND GODDAMN, in which Huckleberry Finn meets meets Sid and Nancy as a punk-rock girl and a metal-head boy paddle a beat-up canoe down the St. Lawrence to New York City, out for redemption and revenge; and THE BLACK TIDE, set in a futuristic ghost town facing an oil crisis, to Janie Yoon at Key Porter Books, by Sam Hiyate at The Rights Factory (NA).
Foreign rights to Lisa Lutz's THE SPELLMAN FILES, to Simon & Schuster in the U.K.; Mondadori in Italy; Aufbau in Germany; Albin Michel in France; Archipel in the Netherlands; RBA in Spain; Gimm Young in Korea; Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir in Israel; and Dolnoslaskie in Poland, by the Levine Greenberg Literary Agency.efisher@levinegreenberg.com
Foreign rights to Marcus Sakey's debut thriller THE BLADE ITSELF, to Michael Joseph in the U.K.; Hayakawa in Japan; Goldmann in Germany; Unieboek in Holland; Natur & Kultur in Sweden; and Sonia draga in Poland.
NON-FICTION/GENERAL/OTHERS:
Harold Bloom's THE ANATOMY OF INFLUENCE, in which he will "reopen and clarify" his idea of "the anxiety of influence," focusing on the "minds that most have shaped us," tracing how our thought extends from the ancient world to the twenty-first century through Western imaginative literature, psychology, religion, and political theory, as well as through social, legal and economic ideas, to Jonathan Galassi at Farrar, Straus, for publication in fall 2008, by Glen Hartley at Writers' Representatives (NA).ann.chisholm@fsgbooks.com
BIOGRAPHY:
Josh Kurlantzick's AN IDEAL: Jim Thompson and the Fate of the Greatest Generation, a biography of the CIA point man in Southeast Asia after WWII who mysteriously disappeared, to Eric Nelson at Wiley, by Heather Schroder at ICM (world).hschroder@icmtalent.com
BUSINESS/INVESTING/FINANCE:
Randy Cepuch's A WEEKEND WITH WARREN BUFFET, (and other shareholder meeting adventures), a personal finance travelogue for investors curious about how corporations relate to their owners on the one day of the year when the "welcome mat" is out, to John Oakes at Thunder's Mouth, by Joy Tutela at the David Black Literary Agency.jtutela@dblackagency.com
HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:
Screenwriter, director, author and great-great grandson of Charles Darwin, Matthew Chapman's INTO THE GREAT DIVIDE, exploring the controversy and culture war over science, intelligent design, creationism, and fundamentalism, wrapped within the courthouse drama of Kitzmiller v. Dover, the longest and most comprehensive trial to deal with teaching intelligent design as science in American public schools, to Joe Tessitore at Collins, by Larry Kirshbaum of LJK Literary Management.
Volunteer fireman and historian Patrick Creed and journalist Rick Newman's THIRD PLANE: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9-11, describing how hundreds of courageous firefighters fought the largest building fire in American history while faced with some of the most unusual circumstances imaginable, to Ron Doering at Presidio, by Jane Dystel at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management (NA).mbourret@dystel.com
Author of The Casebook of Forensic Detection and Sir Bernard Spilsbury: The Father of Forensics, Colin Evan's BLOOD ON THE TABLE: The History & Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, charting its turbulent 88-year history, and the careers of the seven men that have run it, taking readers behind the scenes to reveal how the pathologists and scientists at the OCME have trapped many of America's most notorious murderers, again to Samantha Mandor at Berkley, by Ed Knappman of New England Publishing Associates (world English).ed@nepa.com
HUMOR:
Janet Perr's YIDDISH FOR DOGS, humorous pictures of dogs that embody the meaning of well-known Yiddish terms such as putz, tsuris, schmendrick, shiksa, and many more, to Miriam Wenger at Hyperion, for publication in fall 2007, by Brian DeFiore at DeFiore and Company.
NARRATIVE:
Robert Clark's DARK WATER: Betrayal and Miracles in the City of Masterpieces, which explores how the flooding of the Arno river in Florence in 1966 brought people from around the world to rescue books, paintings, frescoes, and religious objects in a city that has endured as a perpetual center of history, art, knowledge, and betrayal for centuries, to Charles Conrad at Broadway, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English). rights@rusoffagency.com
POP CULTURE:
Mike Evans's THE ROCK N' ROLL AGE, a history of the birth of the Rock n Roll era, from Elvis and the Cold War through to JFK and The Beatles, illustrated, to Dolores York at Readers Digest, by packager Essential Works (NA, UK). john@essentialworks.co.uk
Frank Warren's series of four more books that grow out of the confessional art project/internet phenomenon PostSecret (and follow the current book, with 150,000 copies in print), to Maureen O'Neal at Regan Books, to be published over the next two years, by Brian DeFiore at DeFiore and Company (NA).bdf@defioreandco.com
REFERENCE:
Gawker Media's THE GAWKER GUIDE TO CONQUERING MEDIA, a humorous, inside look that pulls back the curtains on the horror stories, unspoken rules and power players in big media, to Peter Borland at Atria, in a pre-empt, by Daniel Greenberg of Levine Greenberg Literary Agency (world, excl. UK).
FOREIGN:
Former Mossad undercover combatant Michael Burrows's THE VOLUNTEER, the memoir of a Christian born westerner who falls in love with Israel, converts to Judaism and serves as a senior officer in Israeli secret intelligence from 1988 - 2001, including two and a half years as Mossad's Counterterrorism Liaison Officer to the CIA and FBI, to Doug Pepper and Chris Bucci at McClelland & Stewart, by Michael Levine at Goodmans (world). cbucci@mcclelland.com
Canadian rights to Iraqi-Canadian Leilah Nadir's THE ORANGE TREES OF BAGHDAD: IN SEARCH OF MY LOST FAMILY, which documents the experiences of ordinary Iraqis during wartime through interviews, phone calls, and emails with Nadir's family members, to Jonathan Schmidt of Key Porter Books, for publication in fall 2007, by Denise Bukowski at The Bukowski Agency.
Canadian rights to Barbara Coloroso's EXTRAORDINARY EVIL, a survey of the world's major and minor genocides through history, as well as her analysis of the theories surrounding its origins, to Barbara Berson at Penguin, by Patrick Crean (world). harmony.ho@ca.penguingroup.com
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