Thursday, June 21, 2007

Different Films and Books coming....

From Publishers Lunch Weekly:

SCI-FI/FANTASY:

Peter Brett's THE PAINTED MAN and MIND DEMON, set on a world where people have ceded the night to demon-kind -- unless the Deliverer returns with ancient secrets to vanquish the demons, to Liz Scheier at Del Rey, in a very nice deal, in a three-book deal, by Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky Literary Agency (NA).

WOMEN'S/ROMANCE:

Author of the NYT and USA Today bestselling THE BODYGUARDS series, Cindy Gerard's new BLACK OPS series, about a private contracting firm specializing in jobs even the military and the CIA won't touch, to Maggie Crawford at Pocket, in a three-book deal, by Maria Carvainis at Maria Carvainis Agency (World).

ENERAL/OTHER:

Author of forthcoming ALL SHALL BE WELL; AND ALL SHALL BE WELL; AND ALL MANNER OF THINGS SHALL BE WELL Tod Wodicka's THE HOUSEHOLD SPIRIT, sleep paralysis, the paranormal and the impossibility of returning home, again to Dan Frank and Lexy Bloom at Pantheon, by Zoe Pagnamenta at PFD New York, on behalf of Kevin Conroy Scott at AP Watt. UK rights to Dan Franklin at Jonathan Cape, by Kevin Conroy Scott.Translation: lshaughnessy@apwatt.co.uk

CHILDREN'S-MIDDLE GRADE:

A Brief History of Time author and Lucasian professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge Stephen Hawking and daughter novelist Lucy Hawking's GEORGE'S SECRET KEY TO THE UNIVERSE, with illustrator Garry Parsons, in which George befriends new neighbors and their super-computer, and he finds himself on a wildly fun adventure, while learning about physics, time, and the universe, to Simon & Schuster Children's, by Tif Loehnis and Eric Simonoff at the Janklow & Nesbit.

FILM:

Sara Zarr's THE STORY OF A GIRL, about a teenage girl trying to live down her "school slut" reputation and repair her relationship with her family because, at the age of thirteen, her father caught her in the back seat of a Buick with a high school senior boy, optioned to Mixed Breed Films, with Kyra Sedgwick and Emily Lansbury producing, by Eddie Gamara at The Gotham Group, on behalf of Michael Bourret at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management

NON-FICTION/BIOGRAPHY:

Adrian Desmond and James Moore's DARWIN'S SACRED CAUSE, showing that the driving antagonism behind Darwin's theory of evolution was a hatred of slavery, to Amanda Cook at Houghton Mifflin, by Sarah Hunt Cooke at Penguin UK (US).

BUSINESS/INVESTING/FINANCE:

Former JP Morgan Chase equity analyst Anne Marie Fink's LESSONS FROM THE CEO'S BOSS: What Wall Street Knows that Top Managers Don't, capturing the (often counterintuitive) management wisdom of Wall Street's finest minds, in a pre-empt, to John Mahaney at Crown Business, by Scott Hoffman atFolio Literary Management.

HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:

Benson Bobrick's MINARET AND TOWER: THE SWEEP OF ISLAM AND ITS IMPACT ON THE WEST, a narrative history of Islam from its origins to its cultural and military heyday, to Bob Bender at Simon & Schuster, by Russell Galen at Scovil Chichak Galen Literary Agency (world).

SCIENCE:

SETI's senior scientist Dr. Seth Shostak's CONFESSIONS OF AN ALIEN HUNTER and THE IMMORTALS, to Lisa Thomas of National Geographic, by Carol Susan Roth at Carol Susan Roth Literary & Creative (World English). carol@authorsbest.com

Foreign rights: chandler@crawford-agency.com

Wrap....

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