From Publishers Lunch Weekly:
FICTION/DEBUT:
The Artist's Way author Julia Cameron's MOZART'S GHOST, about a thirty-something medium who falls for her neighbor, a concert pianist, and a mischievous ghost intrudes, helping the characters find their deeper love of themselves and each other, to Marcia Markland at Thomas Dunne Books, by Susan Raihofer at the David Black Literary Agency (NA).
Derringer Award-winning author Dave White's WHEN ONE MAN DIES, featuring New Jersey P.I. Jackson Donne, in a very nice deal, in a two-book deal, to Jason Pinter at Three Rivers Press, by Allan Guthrie at Jenny Brown Associates (World).allan@allanguthrie.co.uk
THRILLER:
Hugo and Nebula-Award winner Greg Bear's near-future thriller QUANTICO that pits three young FBI agents against a home-grown terrorist who plans an attack on the world's greatest religious cities, already sold to Book-of-the-Month Club (along with Science Fiction Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, The Mystery Guild, The Military Book Club and American Compass Book Club), to Roger Cooper at CDS Books, by Richard Curtis at the Richard Curtis Associates.Rcurtis@curtisagency.com
GENERAL/OTHER:
Nobel Prize winner and author of THE PIANO TEACHER Elfriede Jelinek's GREED, set amid the mountains and small towns of southern Austria, to Amy Scholder in her first acquisition as editor-in-chief of Seven Stories, by Sam Hiyate at The Rights Factory, on behalf of Serpents Tail in London (NA).sam@therightsfactory.com
Lloyd Jones' MISTER PIP, in which a thirteen year-old girl who has spent her entire life on a small Pacific Island narrates the story of Mr. Watts, the only white person in her village, who teaches the local children by reading Dickens' Great Expectations aloud one chapter per day, to Susan Kamil at Dial Press and Louise Dennys at Knopf Canada, by Kimberly Witherspoon and David Forrer at Inkwell Management, on behalf of Michael Heyward at Text Publishing.
Daina Chaviano's THE ISLAND OF ETERNAL LOVE, about three generations of three different families in Havana, to Megan Lynch at Riverhead, in a pre-empt, for publication in spring 2008, by Laura Dail at Laura Dail (NA). Originally published by Grijalbo in Spain, the book has sold in eight other countries.
CHILDREN'S:
Picture book author Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen's first novel THE COMPOUND, described as "a cross between Mosquito Coast, a code-breaking thriller, and a tell-all about the secret family lives of the unimaginably rich," about a teenage boy whose high-tech billionaire father imprisons his family in an underground mansion he has built as part of a delusion he suffers about an imminent nuclear war, and how the hero and his brother must use technology and their wits to free their family, to Liz Szabla for Feiwel and Friends, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Scott Mendel at Mendel Media Group (NA).Foreign and film/television: scott@mendelmedia.com.
UK:
Jenni Mills' THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN, weaving together past and present to unveil dark secrets buried in the old quarries beneath Bath, and a second novel, which follows three generations of women whose life stories are intricately tied to the archaeological mysteries of Avebury, to Clare Smith at Harper Press, for publication in May 2007, by Judith Murray of Greene & Heaton.
Foreign rights to Zoe Ferraris's debut FINDING NOUF, about a Muslim man who has his religious beliefs challenged as he tries to solve the mysterious death of his friend's sister, to Richard Beswick at Little, Brown UK by Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein, and to Belfond in France; Rizzoli in Italy; Artemis in Holland; Damm in Norway; Pendo Verlag in Germany; and Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir in Israel, by Nicki Kennedy, Sam Edenborough, and Mary Esdaile at ILA; and on behalf of Julie Barer.
The reclusive Torsten Krol's CALLISTO, for publication in May 2007, andTHE DOLPHIN PEOPLE, for publication in Spring 2008, by a writer who hasbeen in touch with his agent and editor solely through e-mail, to TobyMundy at Atlantic Books, in a very nice deal, including a third untitlednovel, by Michael Gifkins (world).
Foreign rights to Nikki Christer at Picador in Australia; rights forCallisto and The Dolphin People to Arena in Holland, in a pre-empt.val@groveatlantic.co.uk. louisebrice@groveatlantic.co.uk
FILM:
Blake Nelson's young-adult psychological thriller PARANOID PARK, optioned to Gus Van Sant and MK2, which Van Sant will write and direct, by Kassie Evashevski of Brillstein Grey Entertainment and Jodi Reamer of Writers House (world).jreamer@writershouse.com
NON-FICTION/BIOGRAPHY:
William Randolph Hearst and Andrew Carnegie biographer David Nasaw's biography on the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, with the full assistance of the Kennedy family, which will sit for interviews and make available Kennedy's complete papers, including his correspondence with family members and the men and women who shaped the contours of our history: Franklin Roosevelt, Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover, Pope Pius XII, Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, Barnard, Baruch, Gloria Swanson, Harpo Marx, Hedda Hopper, Cecil B. DeMille, and Marlene Dietrich, among others, to Ann Godoff at the Penguin Press, by Andrew Wylie at The Wylie Agency (NA).
Jonathan Carr's THE WAGNER CLAN, about the dysfunctional German family and Germany's rise, fall, and resurrection since the composer Richard Wagner's birth in Leipzig in 1813, to Joan Bingham at Grove/Atlantic, by Zoe Pagnamenta at PFD New York, on behalf of Caroline Dawnay at PFD. Translation: ila@ila-agency.co.uk
HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd's LETTERS FROM NUREMBERG, focusing on his father, Thomas J. Dodd, who was also a Connecticut Senator, and his time as a lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, including letters Dodd wrote to his wife while in Nuremberg describing history as it took place before him, to Sean Desmond at Crown, for publication in fall 2007, by Esther Newberg at ICM(world). sdesmond@randomhouse.com
John Gartner's DARK HORSE: The Psychology of Bill Clinton, a look inside the mind of the most popular, perplexing, and self-destructive American President of the twentieth century using extensive interviews with friends and family, to Michael Flamini at St. Martin's, at auction, by Betsy Lerner of Dunow, Carlson & Lerner (World). michael.flamini@stmartins.com
Author of THE GAY METROPOLIS and 1968 IN AMERICA Charles Kaiser's THE COST OF COURAGE: A Family Divided by the French Resistance, following the tragic true story of a family on an unpredictable journey through Nazi-occupied Paris, four German concentration camps, and the labyrinth of their emotions after WW2, and offering an inside look at how the Resistance operated, to Joan Bingham at Grove/Atlantic, by Zoe Pagnamenta at PFD New York (World).
MEMOIR:
Harvard Divinity School graduate and Fulbright fellow Stephanie Saldana's THE BREAD OF ANGELS, about her year spent in Syria, in which she almost decided to become a nun at a 1,500 year-old monastery, studied Islam with a famous female sheikh, and fell in love with a French novice monk, to Kris Puopolo for Doubleday, in a pre-empt, by Judy Heiblum at Brick House (world).Translation: rgardner@randomhouse.com
SCIENCE:
NYT science section editor James Gorman and dinosaur hunter Jack Horner's HOW TO BUILD A DINOSAUR: The New Evo-Devo Science of Life, how it is already possible to turn a chicken embryo into a dinosaur, the latest "evo-devo" science, and how it is changing everything we thought we knew about genes, to Stephen Morrow at Dutton, by Kris Dahl at ICM (NA).
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