From Publishers Lunch Weekly:
FICTION/DEBUT:
Amy Greene's BLOODROOT, A multigenerational saga set in the heart of Appalachia that centers on a young girl raised by her grandmother on remote Bloodroot Mountain, and the legacy of place -- and madness -- that her twin children inherit, to Robin Desser at Knopf, by Leigh Feldman at Darhansoff, Verrill, Feldman (NA).
Danielle Evans' BEFORE YOU SUFFOCATE YOUR OWN FOOL SELF, a story collection about young African-American women struggling to transcend their pasts, plus a novel, to Sarah McGrath at Riverhead, at auction, for publication in 2009, by Ayesha Pande at Collins Literary (NA).
ayesha@collinsliterary.com
Teri Coyne's debut novel SKIN AND BONES, about a young woman who returns home after an absence of more than a decade when her mother commits suicide, leaving her a note that leads her to confront the mysteries of the family's past, to Jane von Mehren and Porscha Burke for Ballantine by Jean V. Naggar at Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency (NA).
MYSTERY/CRIME:
Bestselling UK nonfiction author Titania Hardie's debut novel THE ROSE LABYRINTH, which centers on a mystery that begins in 17th century England with Elizabeth I's royal astrologer and unravels to present-day London, where a beautiful, brilliant young woman, still recovering from a heart transplant, embarks on a dangerous adventure in search of the secrets behind the Rose Labyrinth, to Judith Curr at Atria, with Sarah Branham editing, by Robin Straus at Robin Straus Agency, on behalf of Quadrille Publishing and Andrew Nurnberg Associates (NA).
Foreign sales previously, by Andrew Nurnberg Associates, to: Headline in the UK, Heyne in Germany, Uniebock in Holland, Piemme in Italy, Santillana in Spain, Patakis in Greece, Pearl in Thailand, Eksmo in Russia, Noxi in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Nemira in Romania, and Ainari in Serbia and Montenegro.
A second mystery and suspense novel by Titania Hardie, to Atria, by Robin Straus, on behalf of Andrew Nurnberg Associates.
GENERAL/OTHER:
Marley Gibson's series GHOST HUNTRESS, featuring a transplanted Chicago teen who begins to experience a psychic awakening, then forms a ragtag ghost hunting team to research and battle the belligerent ghosts in her historic Southern town, to Julia Richardson at Houghton Mifflin, in a very nice deal, for three books, by Deidre Knight of The Knight Agency (NA).
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net
MERCY author Alissa York's Giller-nominated second novel, EFFIGY, about a teenage survivor of Utah's eighteenth-century Mountain Meadows Massacre who becomes a taxidermist and the fourth wife of a Mormon elder, to Kathleen Gilligan at Thomas Dunne Books, for publication in fall 2008, by Denise Bukowski at The Bukowski Agency (US). Rights previously sold in Canada, Holland, France, and Italy.
Elyssa East's DOGTOWN: Island Heart of Darkness, an exploration of a wild, unpopulated, enchanted place with a dark past on Massachusetts' Cape Ann, and a provocative examination of the powerful and often dangerous influence that certain places exert on the psyche, all brought into focus by a brutal murder, to Wylie O'Sullivan at Free Press, for publication in September 2009, by Brettne Bloom at Kneerim & Williams (NA).
HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:
Two-time Pulitzer winner David McCullough's AMERICANS IN PARIS, spanning more than one hundred years to tell the stories of the many gifted, ambitious, young Americans (including James Fenimore Cooper, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Samuel F. B. Morse, Marry Cassatt. John Singer Sargent, Edith Wharton, Stephen Vincent Benet, Langston Hughes, and Josephine Baker) whose time in Paris changed their lives and thus the course of American literature, medicine, art, architecture, music and dance, again to Simon & Schuster, with Michael Korda editing, for publication in 2010, by Mort Janklow at Janklow & Nesbit.
Jonathan Fenby's A HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850-2008, the essential work to understanding modern China and its terrible past, crammed with surprising and interesting stories and a study of the nature of a political power and its abuse, to Dan Halpern at Ecco, for publication in July 2008, by Sarah Hunt Cooke at Penguin UK (US).
Decorated war hero/private military contractor in the Iraq War and other global areas of conflict John Geddes's HIGHWAY TO HELL, the diary of a PMC's activities on the ground there, including a critical discussion of Blackwater and the future of modern warfare, to Charlie Conrad at Broadway, for publication in Fall 2008, by Barbara Zitwer Agency, on behalf of Robert Kirby at United Agents (US).
zitwer@gmail.com
MEMOIR:
Laurie Sandell's THIS IS MOUNT RUSHMORE, a graphic memoir about a celebrity-dazzled magazine writer who discovers her larger-than-life father is in fact a monumental con man, to Judy Clain at Little, Brown, for publication in July 2009, by Amanda Urban at ICM (world).
Perfect From Now On author John Sellers's THE OLD MAN AND THE SWAMP, a chronicle of the outdoor-averse author's travels in the swamps of southern Michigan to catch snakes with his eccentric and recently estranged father, a former Lutheran minister who left the church and his family decades ago to pursue his singular fascination with reptiles, to Brant Rumble at Simon & Schuster, by Jud Laghi at LJK Literary Management (NA).
POP CULTURE:
Music Director for "American Idol" and for the Grammys, Emmys, and Super Bowl Rickey Minor's THERE'S NO TRAFFIC ON THE EXTRA MILE: WINNING ON 'AMERICAN IDOL' OR IN LIFE, imparting career and life lessons drawn from the author's rise from the streets of South Central Los Angeles to success as heir to Quincy Jones and being acknowledged as one of the leading architects of popular music, to Bill Shinker and Erin Moore at Gotham, by Paul Bresnick at Paul Bresnick Agency (world).
SPORTS:
Sports columnist for the Boston Herald and co-author of NYT bestseller BIG PAPI Tony Massarotti's DYNASTY: The Inside Story of How the Red Sox Became a Baseball Powerhouse, an in-depth, behind the scenes look at how the Red Sox became successful, to Marc Resnick at St. Martin's, in a very nice deal, for publication in April 2008, by Scott Waxman at Waxman Literary Agency.
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