From Publishers Lunch Weekly:
HORROR:
David Wellington's 13 BULLETS, 99 COFFINS, and ONE LAST VAMPIRE, a mixture of "Blade" and "NYPD Blue" featuring a police officer's violent struggle against the deadliest vampire in history, to Jason Pinter at Three Rivers Press, by Byrd Leavell at Waxman Literary Agency (World). jpinter@randomhouse.com
GENERAL/OTHER:
NYT bestselling author of THE SAVING GRACES Patricia Gaffney's MAD DASH, a humorous and moving story of a long-married couple who have never been able to live without each other, and are suddenly forced to try, to Sally Kim at Shaye Areheart Books, by Amy Berkower at Writers House (NA). aberkower@writershouse.com
THRILLER:
PJ Tracy's next untitled thriller in the award-winning MONKEEWRENCH series, again to Christine Pepe and Ivan Held at Putnam, by Ellen Geiger at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency (NA).eg@goldinlit.com
UK:
Anthony and Gumshoe Award-winning mother/daughter writing team P.J. Tracy's next two untitled thrillers, which again explore the fine line between justice and vengeance, featuring the investigative team of Minneapolis-based detectives, and the MONKEEWRENCH gang of computer geniuses who assist their investigations by unorthodox and quasi-legal means, again to Tom Weldon and Rowland White at Michael Joseph, by David Grossman, on behalf of Ellen Geiger at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency.eg@goldinlit.com
HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:
Author of THE PERFECT MILE and the forthcoming RED MUTINY Neal Bascomb's ANGELS OF JUSTICE: The Hunt for Adolph Eichmann, Death's Architect, the fifteen year manhunt for the engineer of The Final Solution, who lived alone in the forests of Germany for five years before finding safe passage to Argentina via the Nazi "rat lines" in 1950, and was eventually seized by Mossad agents in one of their very first missions in 1960, featuring newly declassified documents and first-person accounts, again to Susan Canavan at Houghton Mifflin, by Scott Waxman at Waxman Literary Agency.
Susan Lehman and Judith Newman's LOSERS: A Mortifying History of High School Geeks, Dorks, Nerds and Spazzes -- and what makes them the winners they are today, in which the authors explore why some of us peak in high school, and why, thankfully, most of us don't, to David Hirshey at Harper, by Mark Reiter at PFD New York.
ILLUSTRATED/ART:
David Copperfield's AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MAGIC, drawn from the author's personal collection of magic memorabilia and artifacts, to Michael Sand at Little, Brown, for publication in 2008, by Celeste Fine at Vigliano Associates (world).
MEMOIR:
Screenwriter Mindy Schneider's NOT A HAPPY CAMPER, about the author's eye-opening eight weeks at a ratty, morally suspect -- kosher! -- sleepaway camp in 1974, to Lauren Wein at Grove/Atlantic, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (NA).
NARRATIVE:
Like Normal People author Karen Bender and Of Cats and Men author Nina de Gramont's CHOICE, an anthology in which women tell the personal stories behind their reproductive decisions in an effort to humanize the current debate about reproductive rights, including contributions from Jacquelyn Mitchard, Pam Houston, and Ann Hood, to Kate Nitze at MacAdam/Cage, in a nice deal, by Peter Steinberg at Regal Literary (World).
SCIENCE:
Stanislas Dehaene's READING IN THE BRAIN, a look at how and why we read from one of Europe's leading cognitive scientists, to Hilary Redmon at Viking, by Max Brockman at Brockman (NA). hilary.redmon@us.penguingroup.com
GENERAL/OTHER:
British journalist Rose George's untitled reported look at human waste-from the first perfumed attempts to ignore it to the developing world's struggle to keep it from infecting food and water sources with deadly disease, to Vanessa Mobley at Holt, at auction, by Erin Malone of the William Morris Agency (NA).claire.mckinney@hholt.com
Robert Spector's THE MOM & POP STORE, about the history and contemporary story of mom & pop stores, and the author's family experience with a mom & pop store, to Jackie Johnson and George Gibson at Walker, by Elizabeth Wales of Wales Literary Agency.
UK:
Travis Elborough's THE LONG-PLAYER GOODBYE: The Album from Microgroove to iPod and Back Again, a history of the LP at a time when its existence is under threat from the iPod and downloading, to Helen Coyle at Sceptre, in a two-book deal, by Nicola Barr at The Susijn Agency. nicola@thesusijnagency.com
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