From Publishers Lunch Weekly:
FICTION:
DEBUT...
Radio show host, magazine writer and frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle Tony DuShane's CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE JESUS JERK, loosely based on his experience growing up a Jehovah's Witness, to Anne Horowitz at Soft Skull, by Mollie Glick of Foundry Literary + Media.
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O'Henry Award-winner and Stegner Fellow Eddie Chuculate's CHEYENNE MADONNA, linked stories of the Native American experience past and present, to Susan Barba at David R. Godine, by Alex Glass at Trident Media Group (World).
Iowa MFA and University of Houston PhD Amber Dermont's PROSPER, set in the privileged world of a New England prep school, follows the handsome, wounded Jason Prosper, who arrives at the academy for his senior year after the suicide of his best friend and sailing partner, only to realize the darkness of his past has followed him, and DAMAGE CONTROL, a story collection, to Lindsay Sagnette at St. Martin's, for publication in Spring 2011, by Ethan Bassoff at Inkwell Management (NA).
MYSTERY/CRIME:
Christobel Kent's A TIME OF MOURNING, the first in a new series featuring an ex-cop turned PI, to Daniela Rapp at Minotaur, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in Spring 2010, by Kimberly Witherspoon at Inkwell Management (Na).
GENERAL/OTHER:
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FICTION
Debut
Robin Becker's BRAINS: a zombie memoir, the first-person account of a college professor-turned-zombie who retains his sentience and recruits others like him on a heroic quest to fend off the living while searching for the meaning of un-life, to Gabe Robinson at Harper, in a nice deal, for publication in Summer 2010, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management (NA).
Ann Garvin's ON MAGGIE'S WATCH, about the deep friendship between best friends, the pressure that loss puts on a marriage, and our deeply human desire to control - no matter how absurd and impossible - everything in our lives to make the world as safe as possible for ourselves and our children, to Jackie Cantor at Berkley, for publication in November 2010, by Eve Bridburg at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency (World).
Kristen Wolf's THE WAY, a cinematic and fantastical re-imagining of the world's greatest spiritual figure, pitched as THE MISTS OF AVALON meets POPE JOAN, to Suzanne O'Neill at Crown, by Susan Golomb at the Susan Golomb Agency (NA).
Radio show host, magazine writer and frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle Tony DuShane's CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE JESUS JERK, loosely based on his experience growing up a Jehovah's Witness, to Anne Horowitz at Soft Skull, by Mollie Glick of Foundry Literary + Media.
Rights: sabou@foundrymedia.com
O'Henry Award-winner and Stegner Fellow Eddie Chuculate's CHEYENNE MADONNA, linked stories of the Native American experience past and present, to Susan Barba at David R. Godine, by Alex Glass at Trident Media Group (World).
Iowa MFA and University of Houston PhD Amber Dermont's PROSPER, set in the privileged world of a New England prep school, follows the handsome, wounded Jason Prosper, who arrives at the academy for his senior year after the suicide of his best friend and sailing partner, only to realize the darkness of his past has followed him, and DAMAGE CONTROL, a story collection, to Lindsay Sagnette at St. Martin's, for publication in Spring 2011, by Ethan Bassoff at Inkwell Management (NA).
Mystery/Crime
Christobel Kent's A TIME OF MOURNING, the first in a new series featuring an ex-cop turned PI, to Daniela Rapp at Minotaur, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in Spring 2010, by Kimberly Witherspoon at Inkwell Management (Na).
General/Other
Jennie Fields's THE AGE OF ARDOR, inspired by the facts of Edith Wharton's life -- a miserable marriage and difficult love affair -- the novel introduces Anna Bahlmann, Edith's lifelong conscience and confessor, her former governess turned literary secretary and first critic who previewed every word she penned, in a portrait of two vastly different women responding to changing mores, whose relationship was sorely tested when Edith threw caution to the wind in pursuit of the wrong man despite Anna's opposition, and whose friendship, even so, was able to flourish, to Pamela Dorman at Pamela Dorman Books, in a pre-empt, by Lisa Bankoff at ICM (World).
Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's THE ELEPHANT'S JOURNEY, based on the real-life journey of an Indian elephant from Lisbon to Vienna in the 16th century, translated again by Margaret Jull Costa, to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, for publication in fall 2010.
NON-FICTION...
HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:
Historian David Fromkin's NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM, showing how tensions between Britain and the Nazis over the Middle East prior to and during World War II set the course for that area's political history, moving back to Andrew Miller at Knopf, at auction, by Suzanne Gluck at William Morris Endeavor.
MEMOIR:
Leigh Newman's A SAFE PLACE IN THE WILDERNESS, about the author's life spent growing up in (and moving between) two vastly different American terrains and cultures -- East (blue blood Maryland with her mother) and West (rugged and wild Alaska with her father), and how she built a life across seemingly impossible divides, to Jennifer Smith at Dial, in a pre-empt, for publication in Fall 2011, by Emilie Stewart at Emilie Stewart Literary Agency (NA).
POP CULTURE:
GQ staff writer Alex Pappademas's HERE COMES TOMORROW, featuring essays and insights into how comics, superheroes, science fiction, and other "nerdy" entertainment has become a dominant force in pop culture, to Zack Wagman at Vintage, from Farley Chase at the Waxman Literary Agency (NA).
REFERENCE:
Daniel Mendelsohn, international bestselling and award-winning author of The Lost: A Author of The Lost: Search for Six of Six Million, Daniel Mendelsohn's ODYSSEYS, a literal and figurative voyage in search of the meanings of the greatest of the Classics, from Homer to Aristophanes and beyond, moving to David Rosenthal at Simon & Schuster, with Sarah Hochman editing, for publication in 2012, by Lydia Wills at Paradigm (world English).
SPORTS:
Sister Madonna Buder and Karin Evans's IRON SPIRIT: The Wisdom and Inspiration of Sister Madonna Buder, World Champion Triathlete, about the 79-year-old nun and Ironman competitor known on the circuit as the Iron Nun, to Marysue Rucci at Simon & Schuster, at auction, by Elisabeth Weed at Weed Literary.
Wrap...
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