From Publishers Lunch Weekly :
FICTION/DEBUT:
Kiara Brinkman's UP HIGH IN THE TREES, about loss which we come to see and understand through the small, fierce eyes of a nine-year-old narrator, to Elisabeth Schmitz at Grove/Atlantic, in a pre-empt, by Alice Tasman at Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency (world).
Gabe Rotter's DUCK, DUCK WALLY, a humorous debut novel that follows a struggling LA-based writer who takes an undercover side gig writing lyrics for the biggest gangster rapper in the music business, to Kerri Kolen at Simon & Schuster, by Jud Laghi at LJK Literary Management (NA).
THRILLER:
Mitch Silver's PROVENANCE, a debut thriller about a woman who inherits a nonfiction manuscript by Ian Fleming that provides evidence that the Duke of Windsor was in a treasonous plot with Hitler, to Trish Todd at Touchstone Fireside, by Larry Kirshbaum at LJK Literary Management (world).marcia.burch@simonandschuster.com
GENERAL/OTHER:
Creator of the LEGALLY BLONDE series Amanda Brown's SCHOOL OF FORTUNE, about a naive Texan oil heiress who is disowned by her mother after leaving her fiance, Lance, a Dallas Cowboys quarterback with a dirty little secret, at the altar, who must earn a degree from school - ANY school - in order to gain access to her grandfather's billions, to Elizabeth Beier at St. Martin's, at auction, by Nicholas Ellison at Nicholas Ellison (NA).aweddle@sjga.com
Adrianne Byrd and Niobia Bryant, writing as Christian Williams and Meesha Mink's DESPERATE HOODWIVES, the story of four women struggling to escape a low-income housing project, to Cherise Davis at Touchstone Fireside, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency and Claudia Menza at the Menza Baron Agency (NA).Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net
CHILDREN'S: PICTURE BOOK:
Actress Julianne Moore's FRECKLE FACE STRAWBERRY, inspired by her own childhood, about a little red-haired and freckled girl who hates her freckles but learns to live with them, illustrated by LeUyen Pham, to Victoria Wells-Arms at Bloomsbury Children's, for publication simultaneously in the US and UK, by David Kuhn at Kuhn Projects (world).eileen.pagan@bloomsburyusa.com katie_mitchell@bloomsbury.com
UK:
Steven Polansky's THE BRADBURY REPORT, set 50 years in the future, when the US has implemented a wide-scale cloning program, with "Copies" living separately in a cleared North and South Dakota -- until one of them escapes, and goes in search of his "maker" -- to Jamie Byng at Canongate, in a pre-empt, by Caspian Dennis at The Abner Stein Agency, on behalf of Sterling Lord Literistic. Dutch rights to De Arbeiderspres, in a pre-empt, by Marijke Lijnkamp.
FILM:
Film rights to Jonathan Tropper's forthcoming AFTER HAILEY, about a young widow in the suburbs with a teenage stepson who hates him, to Paramount, for producers Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn, in a significant deal, for $350,000 against a low seven-figure pick-up, by Kassie Evashevski and Zeke Steiner at Brillstein-Grey, on behalf of Simon Lipskar at Writers House.
UK rights to Jon Wood at Orion, which will publish as HOW TO TALK TO A WIDOWER, in a very good deal, in a pre-empt.
William Durbin's EL LECTOR, about a young girl growing up in Depression-era Florida, who aspires to be a "lector" -- a reader who helped educate cigar factory workers by reading literature and news to them every day -- like her grandfather, optioned to Jane Startz Productions, by Barbara Markowitz.
John Goodger's THE DRUPERMAN TAPES, to Julie Glucksman, in a nice deal, by Jessica Kaye of Kaye & Mills (world).jessikaye@aol.com
BIOGRAPHY:
Author of Every Spy a Prince Yossi Melman and Middle East analyst Meir Javedanfar's THE NUCLEAR SPHINX OF TEHRAN, a biography of the president of Iran, coupled with a social portrait of Iran three decades after the Islamic Revolution that brought the mullahs to power, to Philip Turner at Carroll & Graf, for publication in winter 2007, by Linda Langton of Langtons International Agency (world).philip.turner@avalonpub.com llangton@earthlink.net
HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:
Jon Jeter's GHETTO RISING, which measures the cost to individual lives as globalization pushes worldwide unemployment to the highest level since the Great Depression, to Alane Mason at Norton, in a very nice deal, by David Fugate at LaunchBooks Literary Agency (World).david@launchbooks.com
Editor-at-large at Washingtonian and founding blogger at FishbowlDC Garrett M. Graff's THE FIRST CAMPAIGN: the Democrats and the Digital Age, following the efforts of Mark Warner, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and others to position themselves for the 2008 nomination, and the candidates' efforts to update the party's themes and outlook for the age of globalization, to Paul Elie at Farrar, Straus, for publication in fall 2007, with updates via the web through Election Day 2008, by Timothy Seldes at Russell & Volkening.
WSJ's principal correspondent and Dow Jones' bureau chief in Argentina Michael Casey's CHE: AN AFTERLIFE, an examination of the evolution of our interconnected society, the rise of the left in Latin America, and the impact of globalization, all seen through the lens of the most reproduced photo in the world: Alberto Korda Diaz's shot of Che Guevara, to Lexy Bloom at Vintage, by Gillian MacKenzie of the Gillian MacKenzie Agency (world). gmackenzie@gillianmackenzieagency.com
Former Congresswoman and Brooklyn DA Elizabeth Holtzman and journalist Cynthia L. Cooper's THE IMPEACHMENT OF GEORGE W. BUSH, arguing that the 43rd President of the United States of America has committed high crimes and misdemeanors (and Holtzman served on the House Judiciary Committee that impeached President Nixon), to Ruth Baldwin at Nation Books, in a nice deal, by Jennifer Lyons at Lyons and Pande (World English).carlb@thenation.com
MEMOIR:
Dave Hall and Tym Burkey with Katherine Ramsland's DANCE WITH THE DEVIL, the dual memoir of a biker-turned-informant and his FBI handler, detailing their infiltration of the Aryan Nations, unlikely friendship, and contributions in preventing devastating acts of domestic terrorism, to Mark Tavani at Ballantine, in a very nice deal, by Kim Lionetti at BookEnds and John Silbersack at Trident Media Agency.klionetti@bookends-inc.com
NARRATIVE:
Author of THEM, journalist Jon Ronson's WE ARE IN YOUR DEBT, traveling around the world exploring the mighty and often absurd world of consumer debt, from the Machiavellian minds who invent new ways to keep us in their debt, to the collection agents who chase debtors, to the lives of consumers who can't live without it, a "Fast Food Nation of credit cards," to Geoff Kloske at Riverhead, by Chantal Noel at Picador UK.
Lawrence Scanlan's THE HORSE GOD BUILT, the story of Secretariat, the fastest racehorse in history, as seen through the special bond between "the horse God built" and the young black groom who nurtured him, sharing little in the way of his celebrity or riches (he died a pauper) but winning his heart with his unrelenting devotion, to Ellis Trevor at Thomas Dunne Books, by Jackie Kaiser at Westwood Creative Artists (world, excl. Can). jackie@wcaltd.com
UK:
Naim Kattan's FAREWELL, BABYLON, a memoir in which the author comes of age amid the vibrant yet anti-Semitic world of old Baghdad; a lost world, and an ancient Eastern city in which Iraq's Kurds, Bedouins, Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together in a rough sort of harmony, to Souvenir Press, by Leslie Hurtig at Raincoast Books.
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