Looking forward to films and books on the way...

From Publishers Lunch Weekly:

FICTION/MYSTERY, CRIME:

Chuck Barris's WHO KILLED ART DECO?, about a Jewish PI in the south who take on a case which looks to be a suicide, again to Sarah Hochman at Simon & Schuster, by Jennifer Lyons at the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency (world; excl. Germany).

GENERAL/OTHER:

Town House author Tish Cohen's INSIDE OUT GIRL, about an overprotective single mom who runs "Perfect Parent" magazine; a single dad harboring a terrible secret; and a punk teenage daughter aching for the girl next door -- whose lives are turned inside out by a beautiful little girl who is anything but perfect, again to Alison Callahan at Harper Perennial, and Iris Tupholme for Harper Canada, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (NA).

THE ELECTRIC CHURCH author Jeff Somers's THE DIGITAL PLAGUE, in which a plague decimates the entire Eastern seaboard, a plague that can be traced back to killer-for-hire Avery Cates, to Devi Pillai at Orbit, in a nice deal, for publication in April 2008, by Janet Reid at Imprint Agency.

Father's Day author Philip Galanes's EMMA'S TABLE, pitched as in the vein of Meg Wolitzer and Tom Perrotta, featuring a celebrity decorator and merchandising mogul recently returned from a stint in jail for tax fraud whose struggle to redeem herself, by Jennifer Barth at Harper, in a pre-empt, by Betsy Lerner at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner (world).


FILM:

Film rights to Chad Kultgen's debut novel THE AVERAGE AMERICAN MALE, to Fox Atomic, with Betty Thomas attached to produce and direct, by CAA.

NYT bestselling authors Don Piper and Cecil Murphey's 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN, in which Baptist minister Piper recounts his death, passage to heaven, and return to earth where he endures a long and grueling recovery and spiritual awakening, to Dawn Parouse Productions (PRISON BREAK, TRU CALLING) for a feature film, by Sean Daily at Hotchkiss and Associates, on behalf of Deirdre Knight at The Knight Agency.

NON-FICTION..HEALTH:

Dr. Marianne Legato's WHY MEN DIE FIRST, a primer on the contemporary woman's behavior, language conception, and diseases through the lens of genetics, biochemistry, and the gendered brain, to Airie Stuart at Palgrave, in a very nice deal, by Frank Weimann at the Literary Group International.

HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:

Jean-Vincent Blanchard's HIS EMINENCE: The Life and Times of Cardinal Richelieu, a new look at the 17th century political mastermind, to George Gibson at Walker, by Will Lippincott at Lippincott Massie McQuilkin (NA).

Sixth term Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler's A HOUSE DIVIDED…WHY PEOPLE ARE RIGHT TO HATE CONGRESS AND WHAT THE LEFT SHOULD DO ABOUT IT, revealing the inside story of Congress as seen through the events of the last decade, to Thomas Dunne at Thomas Dunne Books, in a very nice deal, by Frank Weimann at The Literary Group.

Son of filmmaker Werner Herzog, Rudolph Herzog's HEIL HITLER! THE PIG IS DEAD: Comedy and Humor in the Third Reich, an illustrated book that reveals how Germans, including Jews, used humor as a way to cope with the abuse of the Nazi regime even though it could mean death if they were caught, and, based on jokes about Dachau and other Nazi abuses, shatters the myth that Germans were not aware of the extent of the Nazi program, to Dennis Loy Johnson at Melville House, in a nice deal, by Jutta Willand at Eichborn Verlag (World English).
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MEMOIR:

Journalist Luisita Lopez Torregrosa's A NEW AMERICAN FAMILY SAGA, chronicling the life of a multigenerational Latino family in America -- grandparents, parents, siblings, cousins, grandchildren -- telling the story of the family's various paths to this country, their fortunes and misfortunes, the conflicts among and within families (including between the working class and the middle class), and their struggle to take a seat at the American table, to Jennifer Hershey at Random House, by Kathy Robbins of The Robbins Office (NA).

Journalist and author of RED CHINA BLUES Jan Wong's BEIJING CONFIDENTIAL, about the author's return to China to search for a woman she betrayed when they were students there 34 years ago and about the enormous physical and psychic changes Beijing has gone through since then, to Rebecca Saletan at Harcourt, by John Pearce at Westwood Creative Artists.

Canadian rights previously sold to Doubleday Canada. Australian rights just sold to Harper Australia, by Natasha Daneman of Westwood Creative Artists.

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