From Publishers Lunch Weekly:
FICTION
DEBUT....
Screenwriter of FANBOYS Ernie Cline's READY PLAYER ONE, pitched as Charlie & the Chocolate Factory set in the world of massive multiplayer gaming, TRON, and Hot Tub Time Machine, to Julian Pavia and Tina Pohlman at Crown, at auction, by Yfat Reiss Gendell at Foundry Literary + Media (NA).
At the same time, film rights optioned to Warner Bros. and Donald DeLine, at auction, with Cline co-producing and writing the screenplay.
Peter Troy's THE ODYSSEY OF ETHAN MCOWEN, opening in mid-nineteenth century Ireland during the Famine when a man sails to America, later joins the famous Fighting 69th Civil War brigade, and falls in love with a Spanish society girl turned abolitionist, before their stories entwine with the perilous journeys of two slaves, a seamstress in Virginia and a freedom-seeking carpenter and poet from South Carolina, and all four lives come together in upstate New York at the war's end, to Alison Callahan at Doubleday, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
INSPIRATIONAL...
NYT bestselling author Cindy Woodsmall's next five Amish-themed novels, two stand-alone titles and a three-book series called AMISH THREADS, to Shannon Marchese at Waterbrook Multnomah, by Steve Laube at the Steve Laube Agency (world).
THRILLER...
AuthorBuzz founder and The Reincarnationist author M.J. Rose's THE BOOK OF LOST FRAGRANCES, a suspense novel that's the next in her Reincarnationist series, to Sarah Durand at Atria (and reuniting Rose with Judith Curr, her original publisher), in a three-book deal, for publication beginning in spring 2011, by Dan Conaway at Writers House (NA).
GENERAL/OTHER...
Ann Patchett's Conradian-inspired work set in the Amazonian jungle juxtaposing two female physicians whose separate quests lead them to hitherto unimaginable discoveries on both a personal and global scale, to Jonathan Burnham at Harper, for publication in 2011, by Lisa Bankoff at ICM (NA).
The Bug author Ellen Ullman's BY BLOOD, featuring an unnamed professor who rents an office in the bowels of 1970s San Francisco following his disgraced departure from academia; he begins eavesdropping on the therapy sessions of a young woman in the office next door, and as the story of her mysterious adoption leads back to Nazi Germany, his curiosity degenerates into obsession, to Sean McDonald at Farrar, Straus, by Jay Mandel of William Morris Endeavor.
NONFICTION..
COOKING...
James Beard Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning TV food personality Ming Tsai's SIMPLY MING ONE-POT MEALS: Quick, Healthy & Affordable Recipes, co-authored with Arthur Boehm, 80 recipes with an Asian twist -- every ingredient can be found at your local market, every recipe will track its salt and fat intakes, calories, and allergens (keeping it healthful), every dish will cost under $20, and you'll only have to use one vessel in which to cook, to Anja Schmidt of Kyle Books, for publication in November 2010,
HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS...
The first book-length account of recent oil spill, DEEPWATER HORIZON: The Oil Disaster, Its Aftermath, and Our Future, by the executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Peter Lehner, writing with Bob Deans, former head of the White House Correspondents Association, to John Oakes of OR Books, for publication September 20, 2010.
MEMOIR...
Tony Hendra and son Nick Hendra's book on basketball and life, documenting, exploring and celebrating the thrills, setbacks, excitement, tedium, hopes, dreams, stark realities, emotional highs and lows, timeless human truths, hilarious predicaments, and weird, touching or insane characters they have encountered during a journey which began in earnest six years ago and whose outcome is still unknown, to Patrick Mulligan and Bill Shinker at Gotham, for publication in Spring 2012, by James Fitzgerald at the James Fitzgerald Agency (world).
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's WHILE I WAS GROWING UP, her experiences and those of her family during and immediately after World War II, drawing on her own memories, her parents' written reflections, interviews with contemporaries, and other primary source materials, giving a child's view of the time and also an adult's broader perspective, to Tim Duggan at Harper, by Robert Barnett at Williams & Connolly (world).
NARRATIVE...
Sally Koslow's THE WANDER YEARS: A Mother's Display of Public Reflection, pitched in the spirit of I Feel Badly About My Neck, it combines interviews, personal observation, and social science, on the modern phenomenon of "adultescents" (kids who return to the nest after college until who knows when) from the point of view of their beleaguered parents, to Clare Ferraro and Carolyn Carlson at Viking, at auction, by Christy Fletcher at Fletcher & Company (NA).
SPORTS...
Sports Illustrated journalist David Epstein's THE SPORTS GENOME, exploring what genetics reveals about athletic performance, and questioning the correlation between effort and excellence, to David Moldawer at Current, at auction, by Scott Waxman at Waxman Literary Agency (NA).
Wrap...
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