jill grinberg literary management london rights guide 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ADULT TITLES
JILL GRINBERG
LITERARY MANAGEMENT
LONDON RIGHTS GUIDE 2013
Jill Grinberg Literary Management LLC
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Susanne Antonetta
MAKE ME A MOTHER
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Gemma Burgess
BROOKLYN GIRLS
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Sara Donati
THE GILDED HOUR
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Damian Fowler
FALLING THROUGH CLOUDS
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Kevin Hearne
e Iron Druid Chronicles
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Alaya Dawn Johnson
WICKED CITY, MOONSHINE
Jen Larsen
STRANGER HERE
Bess Lovejoy
REST IN PIECES
John Marshall
ONE COMPLETE CIRCLE
Nicholas Montemarano
THE BOOK OF WHY
David Rose
TAKING MORGAN
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Sarah Smiley
DINNER WITH THE SMILEYS
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Colin Woodard
THE REPUBLIC OF PIRATES
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Susanne Antonetta
MAKE ME A MOTHER:
A Memoir and Meditation of Adoption
Susanne Antonetta is an award-winning writer and
teacher, the author of non ction titles including BODY
TOXIC and A MIND APART, and four books of poetry,
which she writes under the name of Suzanne Paola. She
has contributed to The New York Times, Washington
Post, Orion, Seneca Review, and Image Journal, among
other publications. She lives in Bellingham, Washington.
MAKE ME A MOTHER:
A Memoir and Meditation of Adoption
Susanne Antonetta
With a voice that is smart, funny, lyrical, and honest, Susanne allows us to examine
how, in the end, we truly “adopt” all those we love. As she writes, “In the largest sense
of the term adoption--to choose to take someone or something on--we adopt throughout our lives.” It is a powerful and transformative lesson.
• The moving hybrid of memoir and
cultural commentary by the awardwinning author of BODY TOXIC and A
MIND APART
• An exploration of the history of adoption and the prevalence of adoption in
cultures around the world
In MAKE ME A MOTHER: A Memoir and Meditation of Adoption, a woman unexpectedly finds her best self through a child who arrives as a tired bundle handed over
in an airport. This heartfelt, funny, and surprising book celebrates love born of connection and of difference, a love that ultimately brings the author into a transformed relationship with her parents and her own life.
Susanne Antone a-- a high school dropout from Northern New Jersey, a woman once
given up as a hopeless teenager by doctors and her parents—adopts, with her husband Bruce, an infant born out of wedlock in Seoul, South Korea. After meeting their
six-month-old son, Jin, at the Sea le-Tacoma International Airport (an incident made
memorable when Susanne—so eager to meet her son—is chased down by airport security), Susanne and Bruce quickly learn the lessons common to all parents—the lack of
sleep, the worry, and the joy of profoundly loving a child. But they also learn lessons
particular to their own family: not just how another being can take over your life, but
how to let an entire culture in; how to discuss birth parents and relinquishment; and
the tricky steps required to navigate race in contemporary America.
MAKE ME A MOTHER explores the history of adoption, from Hammurabi’s Code to
the present, as well as the prevalence of adoption in cultures around the world. This
hybrid of memoir and cultural commentary also explores how the concept of adoption
has come to govern many families these days: with step-children, step-parents, and
friends and neighbors coming together to form their own concepts of family.
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US: Norton, 2014
Materials Available: Manuscript, Fall 2013
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BROOKLYN GIRLS
Gemma Burgess **
Gemma Burgess is the author of THE DATING
DETOX and A GIRL LIKE YOU in the UK. She
currently lives in Manhattan with her husband and
son.
• The rst in a new adult series
about 20-something girls and the
humor, heartbreak, and drama
that bring them together
• Sold in the UK, Germany, Italy,
Netherlands, Spain and Poland
BROOKLYN GIRLS is the first novel in a brand new series about five twenty-something friends—Pia, Angie, Julia, Coco and Madeleine—sharing a brownstone in
Brooklyn, and discovering the ups and downs of their “semi-adult” lives. The first
story belongs to sophisticated, spoiled and stylish Pia, who finds herself completely
unemployed, unemployable, and broke. So what is a recent grad with an art history
degree and an unfortunate history of Facebook topless photos to do? Start a food truck
business of course! Pia takes on the surprisingly cu hroat world of the organic Brooklyn food industry to start SkinnyWheels—all while dealing with hipsters, one-night
stands, heartbreak, parental fury, and more. And that’s without counting her roommates’ problems, too. Gemma Burgess has captured the confusion, hilarity and excitement of the post-graduate years against a backdrop of the pressures and chaos of New
York City life, with heartfelt empathy, fast humor and sharp honesty.
“Gemma Burgess delivers a hilarious, true-to-life story about twenty-somethings living their not-so-dream lives in Brooklyn with razor-sharp wit, unflinching honesty,
and a warm heart. BROOKLYN GIRLS is a must-read.”—Cara Lockwood, author of the
USA TODAY bestselling I DO (BUT I DON’T)
“Fast, funny, and fresh: BROOKLYN GIRLS is a wonderful laugh-out-loud novel for
anyone trying to figure out what she wants in life, and how the hell she’s going to get
it.”—Kim Gruenfelder, author of WEDDING FEVER and THERE’S CAKE IN MY FUTURE
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Audience: New Adult
US: St. Martin’s Griffin, July 2013, UK: Quercus
Translation rights sold: Random House (German), Mondadori (Italian),
Wydawnictwo Pascal (Polish), Plaza (Spanish), Luitingh-Sijthoff (Dutch)
Materials available: Galleys, Page count: 309
**Foreign rights handled by MBA Literary Agents
Sara Donati
THE GILDED HOUR
Sara Donati is the name under which Rosina Lippi oen
writes. A former linguistics professor, she is the author of the
critically acclaimed, award-winning literary novel HOMESTEAD, which won the 1999 PEN/Hemingway Award and
was shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize. e New York
Times Book Review called it “[A] novel of great depth, compassion, and tenderness.” She has written the highly praised
and commercially successful historical ction series INTO
THE WILDERNESS. She is also the author of THE PAJAMA GIRLS OF LAMBERT SQUARE and TIED TO THE
TRACKS.
• Brand new series from the internationally
bestselling author of INTO THE WILDERNESS which has sold over 800,000 copies
• Set during New York City’s Gilded Age of
the 1880s and featuring two strong female
doctors
Cousins Anna and Sophie Savard have never had a traditional life. Both orphaned
as children, they were raised like sisters by their widowed, well-to-do Aunt Quinlan,
growing up at her beloved Waverley Place brownstone in downtown Manha an.
Though each other’s opposites in many ways—Anna bold and outspoken, fair skinned
and dark haired, and Sophie, calm and graceful, with dark, honey-colored skin and
auburn hair, a blend of her unique French, Mohawk and African roots—the two are
tightly bound by history and blood and a shared strength to defy convention.
The Gilded Age of the 1880s is a time of great contrast and contradiction in Anna’s and
Sophie’s beloved city—ostentatious wealth and extreme poverty, sprawling, exquisite
homes on wide streets lined with fruit trees set against filthy and epidemic-plagued
tenements. Anna and Sophie are far from blind to the divides, however, and far from
willing to embrace the boring life of leisure prescribed for them as 28 year-old “spinsters.” Instead they choose to study at the New York Hospital for Women—Anna to
become a surgeon, Sophie an obstetrician.
It is work that suits them, as a bridge to helping those who are far less fortunate than
they are. However life as a female physician at the time is also predictably challenging,
and even more so if one is a female physician of color. It is also increasingly dangerous, with postal inspector Anthony Comstock waging war against anyone involved in
contraception and abortion efforts, causes the cousins align with.
THE GILDED HOUR
Damian Fowler
Sara Donati
Anna has been much too consumed with her work and the Comstock trials to think
about romance. Yet here she is, continuously crossing paths with the unnervingly
charming Detective Sergeant Jack Mezzano e, caught unaware by the intensity of her
feelings. Sophie has been in love since the summer she turned 16, with Cap Van Gilder,
the cousins’ childhood best friend.
Damian Fowler was born in the UK, and has been a journalist
in the United States for the past 14 years, 10 with the BBC’s New
York bureau. A graduate of the University of Oxford (St. Hugh’s
College) and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he is a contributor to Vanity Fair, Vogue, e Guardian,
e Financial Times and e Times (of London). He has also
worked as the researcher for Pulitzer-Prize winning author James
B. Stewart on his book, HEART OF A SOLDIER (Simon &
Schuster, 2002) and TANGLED WEBS: How False Statements
Are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie
Madoff (e Penguin Press, 2011)
She has repeatedly turned down his marriage proposals, all too aware of how society
would view his marrying a woman of color, only to discover there are now far more
tragic circumstances to contend with. One cousin is afraid of love. The other is desperate to save it. Both embark on journeys that will take them far beyond the drawing
room walls, their personal lives deeply entwined with their professional calling. Both
must decide where their loyalties and passions lie, and what—or who—truly ma ers
most.
The se ing for THE GILDED HOUR is a particularly enthralling one, and with the
creator of Downton Abbey Julian Fellowes developing a new TV series set in Gilded Age
New York City, one can only surmise that this particular era is on the brink of becoming an even greater subject of pop culture intrigue.
FALLING THROUGH CLOUDS
• The David vs. Goliath story of a small-town father
facing down the billion dollar company threatening
to destroy his family
• ERIN BROCKOVICH meets A CIVIL ACTION
On a cloudy day on August 28, 2003, Grace and Lily Pearson, aged 4 and 3, took off
from the Duluth (Minnesota) Airport in their Uncle Charlie’s small plane on their way
to the town of Grand Marais, a quick half-hour flight. They sat in the passenger seats
buckled in next to each other while their mom, Kathryn, sat up front in the cockpit
next to Uncle Charlie. The girls were excited because they’d never flown before and
had no idea that the bumpiness as they flew closer to their destination was unusual.
All of a sudden Grace had the strange sensation of falling through clouds. When rescuers found the plane’s wreckage in the near-impenetrable Superior National Forest five
hours later, they saw what were at first thought to be two dolls: Grace and Lily, the
survivors.
The li le girls’ rescue was the beginning of a nearly decade-long ordeal, not only for
them, but for their father, Toby Pearson, a small-town lawyer.
US: Berkley/Penguin, 2014
Materials Available: Manuscript, 2014
INTO THE WILDERNESS Translation rights sold: Books
1-5: Heyne (German), Books 1-2: Emece Editores (Spanish),
Book 3: Salamandra (Spanish), Books 1-2: Egmont Richter
(Swedish)
The company that had insured their uncle claimed he had lied on his insurance application. And it sued Toby Pearson in federal court to void any coverage that Pearson
and his daughters would receive.
Faced with mounting medical bills from his daughters’ treatments, and possible bankruptcy, Pearson became embroiled in a high-stakes crusade to gain the million-dollar
payment from Old Republic (a company worth $10 billion) whose lawyers fought hard
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to avoid paying out. It was to be a David-and-Goliath fight that propelled Pearson into
the courts and, later, all the way to Capitol Hill as an advocate against unscrupulous
corporate practice. All the while the single father helped his daughters through their
nightmares and health issues while trying to get his own life back. The story of Toby
Pearson is greater than his dealings and struggles with the insurance companies—it
extends into the realms of fatherhood, resiliency, and humanity.
FALLING THROUGH CLOUDS is the story of the survival of an American family in
the face of massive forces that threaten to destroy it from within and without—children’s life-and-death struggles, impending bankruptcy due to healthcare costs, and
the seemingly cruel indifference of a billion-dollar business determined to save every
last penny. FALLING THROUGH CLOUDS allows a rare glimpse into the aftermath
of surviving a catastrophe, while portraying the humanity needed to counteract that
devastation. And it introduces us to Toby Pearson—a good-hearted lawyer, a loving
husband and father, and the possessor of a quiet fortitude and dignity that enabled
him to fight back.
The Iron Druid Chronicles:
HOUNDED, HEXED, HAMMERED
Kevin Hearne
Kevin Hearne is a native of Arizona. He graduated from Northern Arizona
University in Flagstaff and was a high school English teacher before devoting
himself to writing fulltime. He tends to his basil plants and paints
landscapes with his daughter and enjoys hiking, the guilty pleasure of comic
books, and living with his wife and daughter in a wee, snug cottage.
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The iconic New York Times bestselling series
Sold for six gures to Del Rey
Sold in 10 countries
Starred Publishers Weekly
NEW! High six-gure sale for the last three books,
SHATTERED, STAKED and SCOURGED, in addition to
the rst two books of a new series and a novella!
• Final books will be published in hardcover in 2014,
2015 and 2016
In HOUNDED, the first of The Iron Druid Chronicles, readers meet A icus O’Sullivan,
last of the Druids, who lives peacefully in Arizona, shape-shifting in his spare time
to hunt with his Irish wol ound. His neighbors think this handsome, wi y, ta ooed
Irish dude is about twenty-one years old—when in actuality, it’s twenty-one centuries.
He draws his power from the earth and wields a magical sword. Unfortunately, a very
angry Celtic god wants that sword, and he’s hounded A icus for centuries. Now the
determined deity has tracked him down, and A icus will need all his power to deliver
himself from evil.
In HEXED, A icus is about to make nice with the local coven by signing a mutually
beneficial non-aggression treaty when suddenly the witch population in modern-day
Tempe, Arizona, quadruples overnight. And the new girls are not just bad, they’re bad
with a dark history that goes back to World War II. With a fallen angel feasting on local
high school students, a horde of Bacchants blowing in from Vegas with their special
brand of deadly decadence, and a dangerously sexy Celtic goddess of fire vying for his
a ention, A icus is having trouble scheduling the witch hunt. But aided by his
magical sword, his neighbor’s rocket-propelled grenade launcher, and his vampire
a orney, A icus is ready to sweep the town and show the witchy women they picked
the wrong Druid to hex.
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US: St. Martin’s Press, 2014
Materials Available: Manuscript,
Fall 2013
In HAMMERED, Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is worse than a blowhard and a
bully—he’s ruined countless lives and killed scores of innocents. After centu¬ries,
Viking vampire Leif Helgarson is ready to get his vengeance, and he’s asked his friend
A icus O’Sullivan, the last of the Druids, to help take down the Norse nightmare. One
survival
strategy has worked for A icus for more than 2,000 years: Stay away from the
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The Iron Druid Chronicles:
HOUNDED, HEXED, HAMMERED
guy with the lightning bolts. But things are heating up in A icus’s home base of Tempe, Arizona. There’s a vampire turf war brewing, and Russian demon hunters who call
themselves the Hammers of God are running rampant. Despite multiple warnings and
portents of dire consequences, A icus and Leif journey to the Norse plane of Asgard,
where they team up with a werewolf, a sorcerer and an army of frost giants for an epic
showdown against vicious Valkyries, angry gods, and the hammer-wielding Thor himself.
The Iron Druid Chronicles:
HOUNDED, HEXED, HAMMERED
Kevin Hearne
and the mythic.”—Ari Marmell, author of THE WARLORD’S LAMENT
“Celtic mythology and an ancient Druid with modern a itude mix it up in the Arizona
desert in this wi y new urban fantasy series.”—Kelly Meding, author of THREE DAYS
TO DEAD
“Hearne breathes new life into old myths, creating a world both eerily familiar and
startlingly original.”—Nicole Peeler, author of TEMPEST RISING
PRAISE FOR HOUNDED, HEXED AND HAMMERED:
“Hearne, a self-professed comic-book nerd, has turned his love of awesome dudes
whacking mightily at evil villains into a superb urban fantasy debut.”—Publishers
Weekly *Starred Review*
“[Kevin] Hearne is a terrific storyteller with a great snarky wit. . . . Neil Gaiman’s
AMERICAN GODS meets Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden.”—SFF World
“[A icus is] a strong modern hero with a long history and the wit to survive in the
twenty-first century…A snappy narrative voice…a savvy urban fantasy adventure.”
—Library Journal
“This is a super urban fantasy in which Hearne’s mythos comes across as possible due
to reasonable explanations interwoven into the fast-paced plot.”—Harriet Klausner
“[A] page-turning and often laugh-out-loud funny caper through a mix of the modern
“This is the best urban/paranormal fantasy I have read in years. Fast paced, funny,
clever, and suitably mythic, this is urban fantasy for those worn-out of werewolves
and vampires. Fans of Jim Butcher, Harry Connolly, Greg van Eekhout, Ben Aaronovitch, or Neil Gaiman’s AMERICAN GODS will take great pleasure in Kevin Hearne’s
HOUNDED. Highly recommended”—Grasping for the Wind
“Kevin Hearne’s sexy second Iron Druid urban fantasy (after Hounded) cranks out
action and quips at a frenzied pace as A icus O’Sullivan faces a group of nasty Nazi
witches who happen to be old frenemies of his. A icus knew that he had more dealings coming with the Tempe, Ariz. coven, but he hadn’t expected to face the local
witches so soon after their last fraught encounter, and he’s still healing from his ba le
with Aenghus Óg, the Celtic god of love. He’s also fending off requests to thrash gods
from other pantheons now that the ba le with Aenghus has boosted his reputation.
Werewolves, vampires, and a group of swinging Bacchants join in as A icus faces
down two dozen evil witches and their demon pets in this fun and highly irreverent
read.”—Publishers Weekly
“If you like urban fantasy that is fun and funny, then pick up Hounded, Hexed, and
Hammered. If you like urban fantasy of great substance then you should pick up
Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, and anything else Kevin Hearne puts out in the future.
You’ll not be disappointed.”—SciFi Mafia
“[Hearne] shows in Hammered…that nothing should be taken for granted and nothing
is safe….Hearne and A icus could be the logical heir to Butcher and Dresden.”—SFF
World
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The Iron Druid Chronicles:
TRICKED, TRAPPED, HUNTED
• Books 4, 5 and 6 in The New York Times-bestselling series
• Sold at auction for six gures to Del Rey
• A brilliant voice in urban fantasy winning comparisons to Patrick
Rothfuss and Jim Butcher
• Sold in ten countries
The best trick I ever pulled off was watching myself die. I did a respectable job of it,
too—the dying, I mean, not the watching. The key to dying well is to make a final
verbal ejaculation that is full of rage and pain but not tainted in the least by squeals
of terror or pleas for mercy. This was my father’s wisdom—about the only shred of it
that managed to lodge firmly in my mind all these years. He died while trying to steal
somebody else’s cows. Like many silly codes of bravery and manliness, the volume of
my father’s instruction on how to die well can be distilled to a simple slogan: Die
angry at maximum volume.—From TRICKED, Chapter One
The fourth book in Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid Chronicles, TRICKED, finds hero A icus O’Sullivan in his dark¬est hour. After slaying the thunder god Thor, A icus is now
on the run from Hel, the Norse goddess of death. Worse yet, a pack of bloodthirsty
skin walkers—Navajo shapeshifters—is prowling the desert near his home and preying
on the innocent. And a Navajo trickster god, Coyote, has offered to help, but only if
A icus will help him with a dangerous scheme. But A icus
also faces an even darker danger: a coldhearted betrayal by
one of his closest friends.
Kevin Hearne
In HUNTED, A icus O’Sullivan and his initiate, Granuaile, are cornered by the Greek
and Roman goddesses of the hunt while in Hungary. To make ma ers worse, the druids are needed in England, where the plot to bring about Ragnarok is close to completion. But forces of the Greek and Roman pantheons are making it impossible to shift
planes: A icus and company must run the entire way from Hungary to England, all
while being pursued by immortal huntresses, human assassins, and gigantic sea serpents!
PRAISE FOR TRICKED:
“Kevin Hearne’s TRICKED manages to combine the fun aspects of the previous books
and give the saga a darker turn to make this book more akin to a thriller. It marks
an exciting return to the world of A icus and Oberon; give
TRICKED along with the rest of The Iron Druid Chronicles a
chance and you won’t regret it. An excellent entry that only
heightens the wait for TRAPPED…”—FantasyBookCritic.
blogspot.com
“Hearne is continuing to keep me very entertained with these
books—quick, humorous reads with an undercurrent of a
larger plot. In other words, The Iron Druid Chronicles continue to be pleasing novels in and of themselves but that also
serve a larger story.”—SFF
In TRAPPED, the fifth installment of The Iron Druid Chronicles, A icus O’Sullivan is now ready to begin the final steps
of his pupil Granuaile’s initiation: binding her to the Earth
goddess, Gaia. Unfortunately, the only spot where A icus
can complete the ritual is at the base of Mount Olympus,
right under the nose of the Roman god Bacchus, who wishes
nothing more than to see the druids dead, once and for all.
Things get even more dire when A icus runs afoul of the
local vampire lord, who has conscripted Norse dark elves to
bring A icus down.
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TRICKED, TRAPPED, HUNTED
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US: Del Rey, UK: Orbit
TRICKED, April 2012, TRAPPED, December 2012, HUNTED, May 2013
TRICKED, TRAPPED, HUNTED Translation rights sold: Ta hata (Thai);
TRICKED Translation rights sold: Rebis (Polish)
HOUNDED, HEXED, HAMMERED Translation rights sold: Rebis (Polish),
Ta hata (Thai), Kle -Co a (German), Olma (Russian), Laser (Czech), Artemis
(Turkish), Minotauro (Spanish), Gaea (Simplified Chinese), Hayakawa Shobo
(Japanese), Konyvmolykepzo (Hungarian)
Materials available: TRICKED: Finished books: Page count: 368
TRAPPED: Finished books: Page count: 298
HUNTED: Manuscript, Spring 2013
MOONSHINE
Alaya Johnson
In addition to MOONSHINE and WICKED CITY, Alaya Dawn Johnson is
the critically-acclaimed author of THE SUMMER PRINCE (Arthur Levine
Books/Scholastic 2013) and the short story, “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” included in the anthology ZOMBIES VS UNICORNS (Margaret K. McElderry, September 2010), edited by Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black. She is a
graduate of Columbia University and lives in New York City.
• The rst of a page-turning paranormal series set in
Roaring Twenties New York City
• Translation rights sold in Italy, Germany, Hungary
and Turkey
• “Gangs of New York meets True Blood! ”—Rhys Bowen, author of A GILDED CAGE
Alaya Johnson
MOONSHINE
“Alaya Johnson has broken new ground with a book that combines a fascinating time
in history with our favorite mythological creatures—vampires.”—Terri Persons, author
of BLIND SPOT and BLIND RAGE
“Vampires and vamps; welcome to a Roaring ’20s New York where the undead go to
night school, and speakeasies serve up the occasional bathtub djinn… a first novel to
delight fans of Buffy and Harry Dresden.”—Gregory Frost, author of SHADOWBRIDGE
and LORD TOPHET
“I hope for many sequels.”—RT Book Reviews
I skidded on a patch of ice as I rounded the corner onto Lafaye e, only years of experience saving me as I to ered in the bare twelve inches between a shu ered horse-drawn
hansom and Model-T. The white-gloved matron behind the wheel had clearly come to
regard her motor vehicle the way one might a pet cat that always vanished at the full
moon, and the sight of my bicycle sliding gracefully past broke her li le remaining selfcontrol. I can’t imagine what she found so terrifying about me. Unless it was the grin I
couldn’t keep from my face as I dared the January ice. Daddy
always did say I was too reckless in winter.—From MOONSHINE, Chapter One
In MOONSHINE, Zephyr Hollis, an underfed, overzealous
social activist, daughter of the country’s most famous vampire destroyer and a reformed vampire destroyer herself, is
trying to live a life of good works, teaching night school to
the Lower East Side’s poor, tired, huddled masses. But she
finds it’s much harder than she believed to escape her true
calling in 1920s New York City, a time of speakeasies, jazz—
and vampire gangs. Strapped for cash, Zephyr agrees to help
a student, the mysterious Amir, who proposes she use her
charity worker cover to bring down a notorious vampire mob
boss. What Amir doesn’t tell her is why. Soon enough, she’s
tutoring a child criminal with an angelic voice, dodging vampires high on a new blood-based street drug, and trying to
determine the real reason behind Amir’s request—not to mention a empting to resist
his dark, inhuman charm.
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US: Griffin (St. Martin’s Press) 2010
Materials Available: Finished books, Page Count: 288
MOONSHINE: Translation rights sold: Droemer (German),
Newton & Compton (Italian), Pegasus (Turkish)
Alaya Johnson
WICKED CITY
Alaya Johnson
WICKED CITY
PRAISE FOR WICKED CITY:
• The gripping second book in a series of paranormal
novels set in 1920s New York City, a city of appers,
bootleggers, vampires ... and one sexy djinn
• For fans of Stephanie Meyer and Charlaine Harris
In the depths of late summer, when airless nights meet dog-eared days, the cream of
New York City society flees north to the beaches of Long Island, where dinner parties
last the weekend and hangovers last the week.
But instead of sipping champagne by a fountain at Sco and Zelda’s, I was standing
on East 28th street in an evening dress far too hot for the weather and t-strap heels far
too small for my feet. The la er had just recently been spla ered with that most unsavory of New York excreta: the blood and fa y remains of an exsanguinated vampire—
or, in common slang, a popper.—From WICKED CITY, Chapter One
“Her sleuthing is engaging enough, but the real fun lies in the li le details of Johnson’s
imagined world: as night falls, Manha an’s hot dog and pre el vendors are replaced
by carts dispensing Faust, and status is now determined in affluent society by having
human rather than vampire servants, despite stricter applicable labor laws.”—Publishers Weekly
“The second Zephyr Hollis book is a worthy successor to MOONSHINE, developing
Zephyr’s personal relationships while exploring the ramifications of her past actions.
The tension — sexual and otherwise — between Zephyr and Amir also continues…the
ending packs a wallop, and it is easy to get lost in Johnson’s sharp, spirited prose.”
—Romantic Times, Four Stars
“A sassy, dedicated heroine...a lot of fun.”—LOCUS
In MOONSHINE, we met Zephyr Hollis, an underfed, overzealous social activist and
reformed vampire destroyer, who teaches night school to the underprivileged of New
York’s Lower East Side in 1926, a time of speakeasies, jazz—and vampire gangs.
In this page-turning follow-up, it’s summer in the city and
most vampires are drunk on the blood-based intoxicant
Faust. The mayor has tied his political fortunes to legalizing the brew, but Zephyr Hollis has dedicated herself to the
cause of Faust prohibition—at least when she isn’t knocking back sidecars in speakeasies. But the game changes
when dozens of vampires end up in the city morgue after
drinking Faust. Are they succumbing to natural causes, or
have they been deliberately poisoned?
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US: Griffin (St. Martin’s Press), April 2012
Translation rights sold: Pegasus (Turkish), Cor Leonis (Hungarian)
Materials available: Finished books, Page count: 320
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the most popular content on the site. Her columns have also been
syndicated on Yahoo!’s Shine Network for Women. She is a collaborator at Big Fat Deal, a blog that focuses on the portrayal of weight in
media and popular culture and which has been featured on CBS News
Healthwatch, e New York Times, e Chicago Tribune, ABC.com
and other major news outlets. She has an MFA in creative writing
from the University of San Francisco.
• A deeply intelligent and uniquely qualied
perspective on weight loss told with hilarity,
poignancy, and razor-sharp wit
• Five-star review in People magazine
• Featured on ABC’s national Good Morning
America: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/
extreme-weight-loss-key-happiness-jen-larson-18780643
• Sold out initial print run in three weeks!
• “The brightest and most memorable
contribution to the body memoir genre in recent
years”—Wendy McCLure
Jen Larsen always thought that if she could only lose some
weight, she would be unstoppable. She was convinced that
once she found a way to not be fat any more, she would have
the perfect existence she’d always dreamed of. When diet
after diet failed, she decided to try bariatric surgery, and it
worked be er than she ever could have dreamed: she lost 180
pounds. As the weight fell away, though, Larsen realized that
ge ing skinny was not the magical cure she thought it would
be—and suddenly, she wasn’t sure who she was anymore.
STRANGER HERE is the brutally honest, surprisingly hilarious story of one woman’s journey from one extreme of the
weight spectrum to the other, and of the unexpected emotional chaos it created. Insightful and unsparing in her self-examination, Larsen depicts the exhilarating highs and devastating
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ning to look like the image of herself she’s always carried inside her head, and
Jen Larsen
STRANGER HERE: How Weight Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed Up My Head
the crushing pain and confusion of feeling like a stranger in her own body after losing
the weight that had always defined her.
PRAISE FOR JEN LARSEN:
“Honest, brave and sparklingly funny, Larsen’s memoir reminds us that one size
doesn’t—and shouldn’t—fit all.”—People Magazine *5 Star Review*
“An arresting memoir about the author’s experience with weight–loss surgery... Raw
vulnerability and rigorous emotional honesty make this weight–loss memoir compelling and memorable.”—Kirkus
“Throughout her honest memoir, she bravely shares her emotions about being fat and
unhappy, which should help slim readers feel empathetic and remind those who are
overweight that they are not alone.”—Booklist
“For all the noise our culture makes about fat and thin and health and perfect bodies,
Jen Larsen’s voice rises above the clamor, disarming and funny but unflinching, too.
Combining stark honesty with generosity of spirit, this story of loss and recovery is
like no other.” —Wendy McClure, I’M NOT THE NEW ME
“Jen’s talent to match the right words to complicated, dark, often unspeakable feelings
brings a smart, kind, and charming voice to the struggle every woman experiences to
be okay with herself—body, mind, and spirit. As a result, Jen has won tens of thousands of friends and fans who feel that she knows them—and that they know her—on
a level that strikes to the heart of what it means to be a woman with foibles and quirks
in a world overridden with false images of perfection. It’s Jen’s very realness and selfdeprecating charm that consistently made her daily personal blog on Elastic Waist the
most popular content for nearly two years.”—Sarah McColl, PinkofPerfection.com
“Jen Larsen holds a mirror up to herself and shines a hard light of examination into
the darkest crevices...After reading her words you will find yourself in tears, though
you won’t know if it’s from laughing or crying...I have no doubt STRANGER HERE
will become the definitive memoir for weight-loss surgery. It will be a boon to all those
who are considering the surgery and a comfort for those who have already gone under
the knife.”—Jenne e Fulda, HALF-ASSED: A Weight-Loss Memoir
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Materials Available: Finished books
Page count: 267
Bess Lovejoy
REST IN PIECES: The Curious Fate of
Famous Corpses
In addition to working with Ben Schott to write and research his
popular almanac series, Bess Lovejoy has contributed research
and writing to publications including e New York Times, Vanity
Fair, and Reader’s Digest. She has also worked as Editor-in-Chief
of Terminal City, an alternative weekly newspaper in Vancouver,
and assisted in gathering material for John Bemelmans Marciano’s
ANONYPONYMOUS: e Forgotten People Behind Everyday
Words (2009, Bloomsbury) and TOPONYMITY: An Atlas of Words
(2010, Bloomsbury).
• A delightfully macabre and fast-paced account
of the surprising and true postscripts of some
of the most famous people in history
• Great exposure with op-eds in The New York
Times, and articles in publications including
Atlantic Wire, The Wall Street Journal, New
York Post, Daily Mail, Hemispheres Magazine
(United Airlines), Smithsonian, The Lancet
• Elle Magazine Recommended Book
• Named by Smithsonian.com as a “History
Writer to Watch in 2012”
Someone stole Descartes’ skull.
Mary Shelley kept the ashes of her husband’s heart until she died.
Galileo’s fingers are on display in Florence.
And Napoleon’s penis is somewhere in New Jersey.
From Alexander the Great (whose corpse founded a dynasty) to René Descartes (whose
skull was separated from his body) and Dorothy Parker (whose ashes were hidden in
a filing cabinet for more than a decade), some of the most influential and interesting
people in history have journeyed on posthumous adventures none of them could have
predicted.
REST IN PIECES catalogs stories from the age of antiquity to today, tracing the evolution of cultural a itudes toward death and connecting the lives of the famous deceased
to the hilarious and horrifying adventures of their corpses. Jim Thorpe’s body renamed
a city in Pennsylvania. Einstein’s brain took a road trip across America. And Osama bin
Laden’s corpse was lost among the waves—until a California treasure hunter claimed
to find it.
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REST IN PIECES: The Curious Fate
of Famous Corpses
From the theft of Galileo’s fingers to the public display of Vladimir Lenin’s embalmed
body, Bess Lovejoy guides readers chronologically through the stories of what happened to 50 well-known corpses, from across the centuries and the globe—beginning
with Alexander the Great’s death in 323. She conveys in lively fashion the fates of these
famous bodies to offer new insights into the owners’ lives and worlds prior to their demise. What drove Jeremy Bentham to request that his body be preserved and stuffed
after his death? Why was Lincoln’s coffin moved at least sixteen times before finally
resting in a vault topped with 4,000 pounds of cement? Who stole Descartes’ skull, and
why, when his coffin was exhumed, was there nothing but fragments and bits of bone
powder?
Lovejoy, a self-confessed “recovered goth,” first became interested in the study of
corpses after stumbling across several articles on the topic featuring subjects like a
painter whose photographed corpse became an art show centerpiece and a pianist who
willed his skull for use in a theatrical production of Hamlet. Unlike other works, REST
IN PIECES goes beyond the person’s final days, following the body from death to the
present day, and proving that fame doesn’t end with life.
PRAISE FOR REST IN PIECES:
“Deliciously morbid and delightfully macabre, Rest in Pieces is required reading for
those of us who intend, one day, to die.”—Ben Scho bestselling author of SCHOTT’S
ORIGINAL MISCELLANY
“Bess Lovejoy’s historically beguiling, stranger-than-fiction compendium...unearths
the surprising fates of famous corpses, from Beethoven’s to Eva Peron’s.”—Elle
“Death is only the beginning in Scho ’s Almanac writer and researcher Lovejoy’s marvelously macabre chronicle of some of history’s most well-traveled cadavers... . The
author invites readers to crack open all these coffins, curl up inside and stare death
straight in the eye. The effect is oddly comforting. A fascinating foray into the way of
all flesh.”—Kirkus
“Buoyed by rigorous research and wry humor, Lovejoy’s compilation is sure to fuel
more than a few cocktail party conversations.”—Publishers Weekly
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REST IN PIECES: The Curious Fate
of Famous Corpses
ONE COMPLETE CIRCLE **
Bess Lovejoy
“The world is awash with legendary body parts, from Einstein’s brain to Napoleon’s
most intimate organ, and this wildly entertaining account proves that the fate of the
grisly relics tells us a huge amount about history—and ourselves.”—Tony Perro et author of NAPOLEON’S PRIVATES
John Marshall
John Marshall is a 9-time Emmy award-winning writer, producer,
and director and the Chief Creative Officer at WPXT-TV and
WPME-TV, Maine. In 2008, he was named Maine’s Broadcaster
of the Year. In addition to his work behind the camera, John is also
an accomplished actor and one of the most recognizable faces on
Maine TV. He currently writes, produces, and hosts two weekly
game shows, a home show and a magazine-style program, But
John’s true passion is Voluntourism—combining travel with service.
As a polished and dynamic speaker, he was recently asked to share
his volunteering adventures at a local TED event. He is currently
planning his next volunteer trip to ailand in April to work with
orphaned and injured elephants in the Chiang Mai jungle.
“A tasty, sharp, wonderfully unusual book. I enjoyed it like a jar of perfect dill pickles: when the mood strikes, nothing else will satisfy.”—Mary Roach bestselling author of
GULP and STIFF )
“If really, we’re all si ing in the undertaker’s waiting-room, then Rest in Pieces is the
perfect easy read, preparation for the moment when the nurse steps out of the shadows
and quietly calls your name.”—Simon Winchester bestselling author of SKULLS and THE
PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN
• THE book that will dene “voluntourism” --combining travel with service to
others
• Just sold to Ballantine for six gures
• EAT, PRAY, LOVE meets THREE CUPS
OF TEA
In February 2010, John and Traca Marshall were struggling. In their mid-40s, after twenty years together, their marriage was flat, their children were lost in cyberspace and the passion they once felt
for their work and for life in general was as cold as the Maine winter around them. Needing a change,
desperate for a fresh start, the Marshalls made a bold choice. They quit their jobs, rented their house,
pulled their sixteen-year-old son and their fourteen-year-old daughter out of high school, and set off
on a trip around the world for six months.
But this was not your typical trip. Inspired by the growing travel trend known as “Voluntourism,”
the Marshalls volunteered their way from country to country, working with a wide range of service
organizations on a variety of fascinating projects. They lived with free-range spider monkeys at a
Costa Rican animal sanctuary, labored on organic farms all across New Zealand, taught English in
rural Thailand, fell in love with one hundred orphan children in India, and worked alongside a Buddhist monk high in the Himalayas on the Tibetan border.
Set against a unique volunteering backdrop, ONE COMPLETE CIRCLE is a story of adventure and
travel, but at its core, it’s really a story of family. For John and Traca, it was a chance to unplug their
kids and reconnect with them, a chance to work on their marriage, and to rediscover themselves as
individuals outside the blur of parenting and routines.
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US: Simon & Schuster, March 2013
Materials available: Finished books,
Page count: 352
Translation rights sold: Eichborn(German), Aripaev (Estonian)
Like life, ONE COMPLETE CIRCLE is both uplifting and bi ersweet, examining with humor and
honesty all the change that can occur—both the good and the bad—when a typical family steps out
into the world and dares to get involved.
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US: Ballantine, 2014
Materials available: Proposal
**Translation rights handled by Random House
Nicholas Montemarano
THE BOOK OF WHY
Nicholas Montemarano is the author of a previous story collection,
IF THE SKY FALLS, published by Louisiana State University, and a
debut novel, A FINE PLACE, published by Context Books. His short
stories have appeared in Esquire, Zoetrope: All-Story, Tin House, e
Southern Review, AGNI, e Gettysburg Review, and many other
publications. His ction has been reprinted in THE PUSHCART
PRIZE (2003) and cited as distinguished stories of the year in THE
BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES for 2001, 2002, 2005, and 2006.
He has published memoir pieces in e Washington Post Magazine
and DoubleTake. He is the recipient of fellowships from e National
Endowment for the Arts (2002), the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
(2005), e MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He is Associate Professor
of English at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, and is a
Core Faculty member in the Bennington Writing Seminars.
• The stunning novel about a self-help author confronting life’s
ultimate question—Can love survive anything—Even death?
• Lead title for Little, Brown from the Pushcart Prize-winning
author
• Four-time Best American Short Story Distinguished Story of
the Year honoree
• Sold in Brazil and Russia
A novel about an unforge able love, THE BOOK OF
WHY asks big questions: Is there meaning in signs? Do
coincidences ma er? Does love ever really have to die?
The answers to these questions are within you—at least
that’s what writer Eric Newborn said in his mega-bestselling books and speeches. But the loss of his wife has
left Eric with a failed belief system. In the wake of that
trauma, Eric has become a recluse in his home on Martha’s Vineyard.
A fan who tracks Eric down brings him back to memories of his wife, leading him closer to her than he’d
dreamed he could ever get again.
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Nicholas Montemarano
THE BOOK OF WHY
THE BOOK OF WHY addresses big questions about the nature of human joy and suffering with fierce intelligence and emotional intensity. The “why” of the novel’s title
not only asks the big questions, but the inevitable follow-ups: Who is responsible for
what happens to us? Are we in control of our own lives, or is there a God who has His
own plans for us, regardless of what we want?
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK OF WHY:
“Dark, powerful . . . Montemarano handles brutality and abjection with ambiguity and
subtlety.”—Publishers Weekly
“Montemarano’s tale of love, grief and promise is filled with emotion. By turns dark
and hopeful, it is a beautiful journey of self-discovery that will inspire readers to question the accepted confines of the world, and leave them pondering the powers of belief.”—Booklist
“Montemarano’s writing is sure and clear and direct. He describes the banalities of
everyday life with clinical precision.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“An extraordinarily interesting book.”—Washington Post
“Montemarano is a brilliant illuminator of the outer reaches of hope, a writer unafraid
to ask the hardest questions: Is there meaning behind human suffering? Are we responsible, somehow, for the tragedies that befall us? Do we have the power to change
our lives? And if not, what’s left for us? You’ll read this stunning novel compulsively,
at first in search of answers, then from a deep and painful affection for the human beings you’ll meet in these pages. This is a haunting and extraordinary book.” —Julie
Orringer, author of THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE, HOW TO BREATHE UNDER WATER
“I love Nicholas Montemarano’s writing. He turns the lights up so bright on the beauty
of daily life that the dark places he goes leave you gasping. THE BOOK OF WHY is a
breathtaking show of love and hope, of disappearing acts, of restorative reappearances.
It is, in a word, magic.”—Rachel DeWoskin, author of BIG GIRL SMALL, REPEAT
AFTER ME
PRAISE FOR NICHOLAS MONTEMARANO:
“Remarkable…deft storytelling and ruthless honesty…as dark and dazzling as a mine
shaft studded with diamonds.”—The New York Times Book Review
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THE BOOK OF WHY
Nicholas Montemarano
DAVID
ROSE
A contributing editor with Vanity Fair since 2002, David Rose is one of
Britain’s leading investigative reporters. He has written extensively on intelligence and covert action by agencies all over the world for more than twenty
years. He also wrote, researched and presented the 1999 four-part BBC TV
documentary series, e Spying Game, in which he exposed two former
Soviet bloc agents living in the UK. is was screened in 23 countries. David
is the author of six published non- ction books, most recently GUANTANAMO: e War on Human Rights (2004) and THE BIG EDDY CLUB:
Southern Justice and the Stocking Stranglings (2007), both published in the
U.S. by the New Press. David’s many awards for journalism include the prestigious Royal Institute of International Affairs David Watt Memorial Prize.
“Montemarano’s brutal vision is tempered—and complicated—by an aching humanity. There is much pain, much grief—and much dignity. He bleeds for his characters,
and we do too.”—Peter Orner, author of ESTHER STORIES
“Nicholas Montemarano writes a visceral, dug-in, experienced prose that stays in the
mind.”—Sven Birkerts, editor, Agni
“Dark, powerful . . . Montemarano handles brutality and abjection with ambiguity and
subtlety.”—Publishers Weekly
“An American stylist capable of redeeming our darkest dreams.”—Jayne Anne Phillips
• The page-turning spy thriller by one of the UK’s
leading investigative reporters and a contributing editor for Vanity Fair
• On submission in the US and the UK
“The real thing in a literary landscape of overkill and over hype.”—David Means, author
of ASSORTED FIRE EVENTS
“Montemarano’s writing is sure and clear and direct. He describes the banalities of everyday life with clinical precision.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“A writer in control of his gifts.”—Mid-American Review
“One of my favorite contemporary short-story writers, and, for my money, among the
best we’ve got.”—Dan Chaon, author of AMONG THE MISSING and YOU REMIND ME
OF ME
“A remarkable storyteller with a gift for the gri ily noir.”—Adrienne Miller, author of
THE COAST OF AKRON
“Montemarano is a brilliant, brazen truth seeker, and his fiction is as honest and as human as it comes.”—Michael Byers, author of LONG FOR THIS WORLD
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US: Li le Brown, January 2013
UK: Li le Brown, 2013
Translation rights sold: EXMO (Russian), Leya
(Brazil)
Materials available: Finished books
Page count: 320
TAKING MORGAN
Morgan Cooper, like many women, finds it hard to juggle the demands of her children and
her career -- a task her workaholic civil-rights lawyer husband Adam makes still more difficult. But unlike the other soccer moms in her affluent DC suburb, she’s an undercover CIA
officer, assigned to the strife-torn Gaza Strip.
There, as the betrayals and contradictions of her personal and her working life catch up with
her, she finds herself in deepest peril. With her Agency bosses seemingly disengaged, it falls
to Adam to try to save her life and their relationship.
Inspired by actual events, TAKING MORGAN is a gripping novel of political intrigue and
suspense. It is also the deeply affecting story of a modern couple struggling in their marriage,
suddenly at risk of losing each other forever. The narrative alternates between Morgan’s and
Adam’s viewpoints, allowing readers to witness husband and wife’s separate harrowing journeys.
David’s wide network of intelligence community contacts has been invaluable during the
writing of TAKING MORGAN, with former British, American and Israeli operatives having
commented on its drafts while it was in progress. It remains a work of fiction. However, many
of the elements to its narrative are real. There really was a covert US program which supplied
weapons and training to Fatah, Hamas’s rival in the Gaza Strip, and it backfired disastrously.
It was revealed for the fi rst time in David’s article The Gaza Bombshell, published in the April
2008 issue of Vanity Fair: h p://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaza200804
US, UK: On submission
Materials available: Manuscript, Page count: 263
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Sarah
Smiley
DINNER WITH THE SMILEYS: One Military Family,
One Year of Heroes, and Lessons for a Lifetime
Sarah Smiley is a columnist and the author of a previous book, GOING
OVERBOARD: e Misadventures of a Military Wife (NAL, 2005) and
has been featured in e New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, and on
ABC’s Nightline, CNN American Morning, CNN Sunday Morning, CBS’s
e Early Show, Fox News Studio B, and MSNBC Live.
• Pre-empted by Hyperion in a six-gure deal
• Publishing Mothers’ Day, 2013
• National publicity including daytime television’s
hottest new talk show, Katie and Parade magazine (readership 63 million) Mother’s Day cover
story written by Sarah
Dear Senator Collins,
Hello, my name is Ford Smiley. I am eleven years old and in fifth grade. I have two
younger brothers and of course my mom and dad. My dad is a U.S. Navy Pilot, and
he’s on deployment for thirteen months. He left the day before my eleventh birthday
and the week of Thanksgiving.
My mom is le ing us invite one person to dinner each week our dad is gone. We are
wondering if you would like to come to dinner some time this year
(which is stretching it quite a bit but my mom insisted that we be flexible).
We live in Bangor. Do you have any food preferences? Would you like to bring a guest?
Ford Smiley (as stated in first paragraph)
For each week that Navy pilot Lt. Cmdr. Dustin Smiley
was deployed to Djibouti, his wife, Sarah, hosted one special guest to fill his seat at the dinner table at their home in
Bangor, Maine and serve as a role model to their children,
Ford, 11, Owen, 9, and Lindell, 5. It began as a way to pass
the lonely nights of a year-long family separation and has
evolved into so much more. In just one year’s time, while
the Smiley boys missed their father at birthday parties, baseball games and school plays, they also gained a community
and a unique education.
DINNER WITH THE SMILEYS: One Military Family,
One Year of Heroes, and Lessons for a Lifetime
reunited all the guests in December for a reunion party to meet him.
The meals weren’t fancy -- usually lasagna or pasta, and guests brought a dessert. The
guest list was a collaborative effort between Sarah and her sons. Each of the boys’ individual talents and interests has in part led to its diversity. Ford invited Sen. Collins
because she is accessible in the community and also because he was studying local
government. Owen is a budding artist whose idea it was to invite a children’s book illustrator. Lindell, whose world was still very small, liked the dinners with schoolteachers best. The list included local people: the children’s teachers, the police chief, the
mayor of Bangor, their minister, and those who have national recognition: R2-D2, Sco
Nash (FLAT STANLEY illustrator), the Boston Red Sox. All dinners were documented
by photographer Andrea Hand.
Once a month, the Smileys took dinner “on the road” to broaden the boys’ experiences. They visited pediatric cancer patients, toured a food shelter, had dinner with an
Alzheimer’s patient and her husband. They hunted for food with a game warden and
served as volunteer waiters at a Champion for the Cure fundraiser.
DINNER WITH THE SMILEYS has received national press with CNN and MSNBC
featuring stories: (h p://www.cnn.com/2012/05/17/living/dinner-with-the-smileys/index.html?iref=allsearch, h p://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/dinner-with-the-smileys).
In a time when more and more people are opining the death of the family dinner table,
DINNER WITH THE SMILEYS shows readers that time spent with family, friends,
and neighbors is still very much part of the 21st century lifestyle. Sarah feared loneliness and isolation for herself and her children during Dustin’s absence. So she opened
her home and she and her children sent invitations. And they learned that a surprising
number of people really are available for dinner.
You only have to ask.
Sen. Collins kicked off the dinners on Jan. 3rd (she brought
brownies). The 53rd guest was Dustin Smiley, and Sarah
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US: Hyperion, May 2013
Materials available: Finished books
Page count: 368
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Colin Woodard
THE REPUBLIC OF PIRATES:
Colin Woodard, an author and award-winning journalist, writes for e
Christian Science Monitor, Down East and e Chronicle of Higher Education. A native of Maine, he has reported from more than y foreign countries
and six continents, and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe. He is
the author of THE LOBSTER COAST: Rebels, Rusticators and the Struggle
for a Forgotten Frontier (Viking Press, 2004), a cultural and environmental
history of coastal Maine; OCEAN’S END: Travels rough Forgotten Seas
(Basic Books, 2000), a narrative non- ction account of the deterioration of the
world’s oceans; and AMERICAN NATIONS: A History of the Eleven Rival
Regional Cultures of North America (Viking, 2011).
• The riveting, action-packed true history of the Pirates of the Caribbean
• In production for an NBC-TV series, Crossbones, starring Oscar-nominee
John Malkovich! (http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/john-malkovich-tostar-in-nbc-series-crossbones/)
• Just sold in Hungary, Poland and Brazil
• Sold in ve countries
In the early eighteenth century a number of the great pirate captains joined forces,
including Blackbeard, Black Sam Bellamy, and Charles Vane. This infamous “Flying
Gang” was more than simply a band of thieves: Many of its members were sailors,
indentured servants, and runaway slaves who turned to piracy as a revolt against the
conditions they suffered on ships and plantations. Together they established a crude
but distinctive democracy in the Bahamas, carving out their own zone of freedom in
which servants were free, blacks could be equal citizens, and leaders were chosen or
deposed by a vote.
For a brief, glorious period the pirate republic was enormously successful. At its height
it cut off trade routes, sacked slave ships, and severed Britain, France, and Spain from
their New World empires. The Royal Navy went from being unable to catch the pirates
to being afraid to encounter them at all. Imperial authorities and wealthy shipowners
denounced the pirates as the enemies of mankind, but huge numbers of common people saw them as heroes. Finally one man volunteered to pacify the pirate’s Bahaman
lair and destroy any who resisted -- Woodes Rogers, a famous privateer himself and
scion of a powerful merchant family.
Drawing on extensive research in the archives of Britain and the Americas, Colin
Woodard tells the dramatic untold story of the Pirate Republic that shook the very
foundations of the British and Spanish Empires and fanned the democratic sentiments
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Being the True and Surprising Story of the CaribbeColin Woodard
an Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
that would one day drive the American revolution.
PRAISE FOR THE REPUBLIC OF PIRATES:
“THE REPUBLIC OF PIRATES...adds a new dimension to
an era that was, in equal parts, thrilling and disturbing...
What [the pirate captains] and their crews achieved, and
destroyed, is the focus of Colin Woodard’s fascinating book
[which offers] rip-roaring adventure stories from a distant
past [and]...an opportunity to understand pirates as they
truly were—and be grateful that the worst of them, at least,
are gone.”— New York Times Book Review
“Here are the real pirates of the Caribbean, and the facts are
as colorful and exciting as fiction.”—Kirkus *Starred Review*
“This breezy, fast-moving book is filled with exciting action and colorful characters. It
will provide general readers and those with a special interest in the period much enjoyment.”—Booklist
“A fast paced narrative that will be especially a ractive to lovers of pirate lore and to
vacationers who are Bahama-bound.”—Publisher’s Weekly
cally unified “Founding Fathers’’ as their political ancestors.”—Boston Globe
“A fascinating new take on our history.”—The Christian Science Monitor
“For people interested in American history and sociology, AMERICAN NATIONS demands reading.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“[In] offering us a way to be er understand the forces at play in the rumpus room of
current American politics, Colin Woodard has scored a true triumph.”—The Daily Beast
“Woodard makes a worthwhile contribution by offering an accessible, well-researched
analysis with appeal to both casual and scholarly readers.”—Library Journal
US: Harcourt, 2007
Translation rights sold: Novo Seculo (Brazilian Portuguese), Konyvmolykepzo (Hungarian), SQN (Polland), Borgen (Danish), Critica (Spanish)
Materials available: Finished books
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Gray Tan
The Grayhawk Agency
7F-3, 106, Sec. 3, Hsin-Yi Rd.
Taipei 106, Taiwan
Phone:: +886 2 2705-9231
Fax: +886 2 2705-9610
[email protected]
CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA &
SLOVENIA
Kristin Olson
Kristin Olson Literary Agency
Klimentska 24
110 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 222 582 042
Fax: +420 222 580 048
[email protected]
FRANCE
La Nouvelle Agence
Vanessa Kling
7, rue Corneille
75006 Paris, France
Phone: +33 1 4325-8560
Fax: +33 1 4325-4798
[email protected]
GERMANY
Annelie Geissler
Mohrbooks AG Literary Agency
Klosbachstrasse 110
8032 Zürich, Swi erland
Phone: +41 43 244-8626/24
Fax: +41 43 244-8627
[email protected]
GREECE
Nike Davarinou
Read-n-Right Agency
9 Amazonon St.
341 00 Chalkida
Greece
Phone: +30 22 2102-9798
Fax: +30 22 2102-7423
[email protected]
HUNGARY
Norbert Uszeka
Lex Copyright Office
1054 Budapest, Szemere u. 21.
Hungary
Phone: +36 1 332 9340
Fax: +36 1 331 6181
[email protected]
ISRAEL
Dalia Ever-Hadani
The Book Publishers Association of Israel
29 Carlebach Street, Tel Aviv 67132. ISRAEL
Tel: 972-3-5614121
Fax: 972-3-5611996
[email protected]
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ITALY
Claire Sabatié
Marco Vigevani Agenzia Le eraria
Via Cappuccio, 14
20123 - Milano
Italy
Phone: +39 02 869 965 53
Fax: +39 02 869 823 09
[email protected]
JAPAN
Mai Fujinaga
Japan Uni Agency, Inc.
Tokyodo-Jinbocho Dai, No 2 Bldg
1-27 Kanda Jinbo-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
101-0051
Japan
Phone: +81 (03) 3295-0301
Fax: +81 (03) 3294-5173
[email protected]
KOREA
RockYoung Lee
KCC
Gyonghigung-achim Officetel Room
520 Compound 3
Naesu-dong 72, Chongno
Seoul 110-070
Korea
Phone: +82 (2) 739-4610
[email protected]
NETHERLANDS
Mariska Kleinhoonte, Jeanine Langenberg
Sebes & van Gelderen Literary Agency
Herengracht 162-2
1016 BP Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 612-6475
Fax: +31 20 618-0843
[email protected], [email protected]
POLAND
Marcin Biegaj
Graal Ltd.
Pruszkowska 29, lok. 252
02-119 Warszawa, Poland
tel: +48 22 895-2000
FAX: +48 22 895-2001
[email protected]
RUSSIA
Ludmilla Sushkova
Andrew Nurnberg Literary Agency
Flat 72, Stroenie 6
21 Tsvetnoy Boulevard
Moscow 127051 Russia
Phone: +70 95 229-5281
Fax: +70 95 883-6403
[email protected]
SCANDINAVIA
Ia A erholm
Ia A erholm Agency
PO Box 17615
SE-20010 Malmo
Sweden
Phone: +46 40-305883
ia.a [email protected]
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SPAIN, PORTUGAL, LATIN
AMERICA
Sandra Bruna
Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria
Placa Gal.la Placidia, No 2, 5A 2A
08006 Barcelona
Spain
Phone: +34 93 217-4204
Fax: +34 93 415-8625
[email protected]
[email protected]
THAILAND
Tu le-Mori Agency
Siam Inter Comics Bldg, 6th floor
459 Soi Piboonopathum (Ladprao 48)
Samsen Nok, Huay Kwang
Bangkok
10320
Thailand
Phone: +662 694-3026
Fax: +662 694-3027
Ms. Pimolporn Yutisri
pimolporn@tu lemori.co.th
TURKEY
Asli Karasuil
Asli Karasuil Literary Agency
Asli Karasuil Telif Haklari Ajansi
Turkocagi Caddesi
Basin Sarayi No: 3 Kat: 1
34410 Istanbul
Turkey
Phone: +90 212 528-5797
Fax: +0 212 528-5791
[email protected]