One Film and some neat books on the way....

From Publishers Lunch Weekly:

FICTION/DEBUT:

Joyce Lebra's THE SCENT OF SAKE, about a 19th century Japanese woman who overcomes tremendous obstacles to build a sake empire and a family dynasty at a time when women were forbidden to do business, to Carrie Feron at William Morrow, at auction, by Natasha Kern at Natasha Kern Literary Agency (World).

GENERAL/OTHER:

Director of the Brown Creative Writing department Brian Evenson's FUGUE-STATE, a new collection of short stories (including the O.Henry award winner "Mudder Tongue"), to Chris Fischbach at Coffee House Press, by Matt McGowan at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency (US).

FILM:

Michael Cordy's forthcoming adventure thriller novel, THE SOURCE, pitched as a modern quest novel in the style of Jules Verne or H. Rider Haggard, optioned to Ollie Madden at Warner Bros. with screenwriter/producer Akiva Goldman's Weed Road attached to produce, by Nick Harris at Rabineau Wachter Sanford & Harris, on behalf of Patrick Walsh at Conville & Walsh.

US rights are still available. Buyers have included Bill Scott-Kerr at Bantam UK; Editions Cherche-Midi in France; Heyne in Germany; Edizioni Nord in Italy; Planeta in Spain; Quixote in Portugal; Opus in Israel; and Amber in Poland.
nick@rwshagency.com
patrick@convilleandwalsh.com

HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:
London Times foreign affairs columnist Bronwen Maddox's IN DEFENSE OF AMERICA, on why the world would be worse off without America, to Geoff Shandler at Little, Brown, for publication in 2008, by Ed Victor at Ed Victor Ltd..

Author of the award-wining BICYCLE: The History, David Herlihy's THE LOST CYCLIST: The Untold Story of Frank Lenz's Ill-Fated Around the World Journey, the tragic yet inspiring tale of a 19th adventurer's solo circumnavigation of the globe via bicycle, traveling west from New York City across America, through Asia, and ending in Turkey where he disappears and is presumably murdered, featuring Lenz's stunning photographs which survived the journey, to George Hodgman at Houghton Mifflin, by Scott Waxman at the Waxman Literary Agency (NA).

Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson's WINNER-TAKE-ALL-POLITICS: How Government Created the Super-Rich and the Super-Rich Captured Government, the story of the rise of hyper-inequality in America and how it really happened, to Dedi Felman at Simon & Schuster, by Sydelle Kramer of the Susan Rabiner Literary Agency.

Author of the 1995 Bancroft Prize winning LOCAL PEOPLE: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, John Dittmer's THE GOOD DOCTORS: The Medical Committee for Human Rights, Race, and the Politics of Health Care in America, the story of the idealistic doctors who came to Mississippi to provide care in the 1964 Freedom Summer workers and went on to a broader struggle against the injustices and racism in the health care system, to Peter Ginna at Bloomsbury Press, by Carol Mann of the Carol Mann Agency.

MEMOIR:
Harold Evans's PAPERCHASE, a memoir of his newspaper days by the former Random House publisher and editor of the Times of London, to Geoff Shandler at Little, Brown, for publication in 2009, by Ed Victor at Ed Victor Ltd.

Lucy Knisley's graphic travelogue FRENCH MILK, about her six-week stay with her mother in a quirky little flat in Paris's fifth arrondissement, where both celebrate milestone birthdays as they soak up all the sights, sounds, and tastes of a Paris straight out of central casting, to Amanda Patten at Touchstone Fireside, in a nice deal, by Holly Bemiss at the Susan Rabiner Literary Agency (world).

SPORTS:

Mets announcer and former pitcher Ron Darling's RON DARLING: The Art of Pitching, a how-to guide, to Knopf, by Mel Berger at William Morris Agency.

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