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TARYN FAGERNESS AGENCY Spring 2016 ADULT Catalog LEARNING TO FALL
by Anne Clermont SheWrites Press, August 2016
◦ Paperback, es mated 300pp “In this, her debut novel, Anne Clermont takes us behind the high‐stakes world of Grand Prix show jumping—with spectacular results. Not just the hors‐
es, which she paints with a beauty and a tenderness all their own, but the riders and trainers and owners, the haves and the wannabees all come to vivid life. This is a sport in which the jumps get higher and higher with every round, and Anne Clermont takes every one of them with flamboyant and heart‐
rending ease. A terrific showing.” – Robert Goolrick,
#1 New York Times bestselling author of A Reliable Wife Brynn honors her passion for horses by studying at the toughest veteri‐
nary program in the country. Months from gradua ng, tragedy strikes—tragedy for which she can’t help but feel responsible. Brynn feels suffocated by the weight of her father’s legacy and his dusty hopes for horse show jumping success. When Brynn’s frene c efforts to dig the family business out of debt fail, she’s down to one desperate hope. Enter Jason Lander, who understands what it’s like to walk away from the ring. The one me champion agrees to train Brynn, and her horse Je , for an all‐or‐nothing run at the pres gious Million Dollar Gold Cup. But going all the way means doing it his way, which has Brynn ques oning her decisions, her loyal es, and her growing feelings for Jason—complica ng her rela onship with her lover. Set in Northern California against a stunning backdrop of coastal hills and valleys, Learning to Fall is about discovering how to let go—and how to hang on with your heart. (Agent: Kevan Lyon, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency) Anne Clermont is a Canadian living in the US, born in Kra‐
ków and raised outside of Toronto. She holds a BS in animal biology, and an MBA. Her background ranges from studying animal behavior to carrying out pancrea c cancer research. Inspired to write Learning to Fall in part by her own experi‐
ence of running a show jumping business, she now devotes her me to wri ng and working as a developmental editor. She lives on an island in Puget Sound with her husband and two children. www.anneclermont.com Prac cal Magic meets Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants on board one
of the most haunted places in the world, the RMS Queen Mary
COOKING FOR GHOSTS: The Secret Spice trilogy
by Patricia V. Davis HD Media Press, October 2016
◦ Hardcover, es mated 330pp * Lead tle!
* First book in a trilogy
“Patricia V. Davis is the ul mate diva! Wise and wi y, she enlightens the rest of us on how to remain true to ourselves, how to shine in a world that needs her beacons of hope like never before.” – Brenda Novak, New York Times bestselling
author
In this contemporary story, four women who open a café in the now‐
re red Queen Mary are surrounded by ghosts long before they ever come aboard. Cynthia is a single mother with a clouded personal history, a precocious teenage daughter, and a dubious source for the eight million dollars she’s used to finance The Secret Spice Cafe. Angela, finally free of a marriage made to please her old‐fashioned family, is grieving for the son she drove away. Jane is devastat‐
ed by the loss of her young daughter in a drowning accident and the absence of the man who could have helped her heal. Rohini, an intui ve and a healer, smug‐
gled out of India with nothing but her passport and her spices, is in hiding on the ship as their chef, literally to save her own life. The spirits these women meet aboard the Mary lead them through mystery and intrigue and ul mately help them discover that there’s always a chance to live, as long as one is alive. (Agent:
Gordon Warnock, Fuse Literary) Now here she was, sitting squashed against Rohini, one of the two
she barely knew, in the minuscule back seat of a humiliating sports
car belonging to the other woman she barely knew. Speed Racer in
peri-menopause, apparently—who’d just finished telling them that
they were way over budget. And who would pay for that, then?
They were out of their minds, the lot of them.
Patricia V. Davis is the author of the bestselling mem‐
oir Harlot’s Sauce and The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know. A former English teacher who holds a Master’s Degree in Crea ve Wri ng and Educa on, she makes an average of 30‐50 appearanc‐
es yearly, and her author brand con nues to benefit from her robust tradi onal and social media presence. True to the “female dynamism” theme of her wri ng, Patricia founded the annual Women’s PowerStrategy Conference in 2012. www.patriciavdavis.com 2
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◦ FICTION ◦
* A Target Recommended Read!
“A trip to France leads two friends to ruin in Dunlop’s lush debut….A haun ng story of betrayal within a beau ful portrait of youth.” – Kirkus “Andrea Dunlop’s cap va ng debut ardently delivers the thrill and joy and exquisite pain of being young and in love: with a friend, with a lover, with a coun‐
try, with a life, with the future. I felt myself 20 and in France with nothing but heady enchantment before me.” – Laurie Frankel, author of Goodbye for Now
and The Atlas of Love When 30‐year‐old Brooke Thompson unexpectedly runs into a man from her past, she’s plunged headlong into memories she’s long tried to forget. Cata‐
pulted back to her college years, Brooke relives the events of a decade before when she spent a year in France following a disastrous affair with a professor. There she developed a deep and complicated friendship with Sophie, a fellow American and stunning blonde, whose golden girl façade hides a precarious emo‐
onal fragility. Their lives are forever changed when they meet sly, stylish French student Veronique and her impossibly sexy older cousin, Alex. The cousins draw the two girls into an irresis ble world of art, money, decadence and ul mately, a disastrous love triangle that consumes them both. Of the two of them, only Brooke makes it home. (Agent: Carly Wa ers, P.S. Literary Agency) Material available
LOSING THE LIGHT
by Andrea Dunlop Atria/Simon & Schuster, February 2016
◦ Paperback, 352pp Material available
Reminiscent of The Lemon Grove and The Talented Mr. Ripley, this novel is about what happens when an outsider is let into a glamorous French world and the dark love triangle that emerges In a world where rela onships come standard with a no‐fault expira on date, can love last? THE CONTRACT KILLERS
by Erin Lyon Tor/Forge, January 2017
◦ Paperback, 352pp Would you renew your vows every seven years? In a world where mar‐
riage doesn’t exist—only contracts for the dura on of seven years—you don’t marry, you sign. You don’t divorce, you breach. And some mes, you just expire. But, since romance isn’t dead, most contracts include an automa c renewal clause. Kate is struggling to find her foo ng. Sure she gave up a career she hated to pursue the law, but now she’s buried in law‐school debt and she’s unem‐
ployed. Thankfully, she is signed to an amazing guy. Enter the contract killer, the man who only pursues signed women. Sure, he’s beau ful, but she already has a wonderful man. Un l, of course, that wonderful man surprises her, telling her he doesn’t want to re‐up. A er an epic but well‐deserved meltdown, Kate gets prac‐
cal. She accepts a job with her uncle’s law firm prac cing signing law—the one type of law she swore she’d never do. Well, maybe helping bi er couples decon‐
struct their contracts won’t be so bad. But just in case, she’s keeping her expecta‐
ons as low as possible: don’t get disbarred and don’t strangle your clients. Let’s hear it for realis c goals. And the contract killer? Now that Kate is a single wom‐
an, she’s no longer his type, but he s ll wants to be friends. Yeah. That’ll work. Kate may be heartbroken, but she’s not impervious to the sexy, smart and complex man who is managing to further complicate her already complicated life. But hey, it looks like he may not be so impervious to her either—signed or not. (Agent: Michelle Wolfson of Wolfson Literary Agency) Publisher has world English rights Losing the Light was inspired in part by Andrea Dunlop’s me living in France as a student and her six years in New York work‐
ing as a publicist for Doubleday. In 2009, she moved back to her hometown of Sea le, where she is the Social Media and Mar‐
ke ng Director for bou que editorial firm Girl Friday Produc‐
ons. Losing the Light is her debut novel. www.girlfridayproduc ons.com/team/member/andrea‐dunlop A er gradua ng with an English degree from California State University, Sacramento, Erin Lyon spent 10 years in local television with the local ABC affiliate before a bout of temporary insanity convinced her she wanted to be an a orney. So, a er a few un‐fun years of working full me and a ending the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, she is now a prac cing civil a orney and spends her free me wri ng novels about lawyers. Erin lives in northern California with her husband, her two teenage daughters, her two rescue dogs, and two cats. h p://erinlyon.net 3
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* The screen adapta on of Let the Good Prevail will
be the Miller brothers’ third feature film. Ed Harris is
a ached to play the role of Sheriff Darius Gates.
Josh Hartne will play the role of Caleb.
“Let the Good Prevail delivers a potent mix of raw violence, surprising humor, and memorable charac‐
ters—it will leave you breathless.” – Ed Harris, actor Small‐town boys Caleb and Jake Boyd spend their days spli ng logs and barely scraping by in the badlands of New Mexico. Caleb, a decorated war he‐
ro, wants to put his figh ng days behind him, find a decent job, and start a quiet life with his new fiancé. But brother Jake is always dreaming bigger than he should, and when he stumbles across a prime crop of marijuana hidden in the wilderness, he thinks he has finally hit the jackpot. It turns out that stealing the harvest is about the worst get‐rich‐quick scheme Jake has ever had, and before long, the brothers find themselves on a collision course with a vicious drug cartel, its eccentric kingpin (a professional dancer‐turned‐gangster who walks barefoot among the mesas), and a corrupt, cocaine‐addled sheriff (who also happens to be Caleb’s future father‐in‐law). Violence and mayhem ensue, hurtling Caleb, alone, on a tragi‐comic journey towards an unexpected end. Reminiscent of Elmore Leonard and Quen n Taran no, but with a voice all its own, Let the Good Prevail offers a fresh take on the meless theme of revenge, set amid the harsh beauty, and reality, of the contemporary West. (Agent: Shannon Hassan, Marsal
Lyon Literary Agency) The haun ng saga of the mys cal Amore women and how— moved by forgo en dreams of who they wanted to be— they finally find their way THE WITCH HOUSE OF PERSIMMON POINT
by Suzanne Palmieri St. Mar n’s Griffin, October 2016
◦ Paperback, 352pp Antonie a Amore–lovingly nicknamed Anna by her family—was once a girl who took baths full of rose petals while she imagined a future of romance and travel outside of her home in the sprawling hills of Sicily. But now, hardened by me and a move to America, a land s ll rough around the edges, she simply goes by Nan as she tries to make a life for herself and the young daughter she never meant to have. Building her home, Haven House, from the sins and ruins of her past, she means it to be a sanctuary for the women of the Amore family. But blind to the power of her own feelings, Nan unwi ngly imprisons those she loves within its walls. Years later, when Eleanor Amore seeks refuge with her six‐year‐
old daughter at their ancestral home, now dubbed “The Witch House” by locals, she knows her family’s en re history is there wai ng. What she doesn’t know is how big a role the ghosts of the past will play in her future. It is up to Eleanor to discover how to free those who are trapped and to decide once and for all if The Witch House was meant to heal her or destroy her forever. (Agent: Ann Bohner, Pen & Ink Literary Agency) Publisher has world English rights
Also by Suzanne Palmieri: Foreign sales for The Witch of Li le Italy:
Italy (Garzan ), Spain (Duomo)
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Logan and Noah Miller are the writers, pro‐
ducers, and directors of two feature films, Touching Home and Sweetwater, the la er of which premiered at the 2013 Sun‐
dance Film Fes val and sold throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Their memoir Either
You’re in or You’re in the Way (HarperCollins) was a San Francisco Chronicle #1 bestseller, was awarded Hudson Booksellers’ Best Non‐fic on of 2009 and received starred reviews. They are currently working on the film adapta on of Let the Good Prevail. They are iden cal twins and live in Northern California. Suzanne Palmieri is the author of The Witch of Li le Italy, The
Witch of Belladonna Bay, and The Witch of Bourbon Street. Un‐
der the name Suzanne Hayes, she is also the co‐author of I’ll be
Seeing You, which was published by Mira Books in 2013. When not wri ng, Suzanne teaches sociology at Quinnipiac University and New Haven public schools. Her essays have been published in Life Learning Magazine as well as online in Full of Crow: On The Wing edi on. She lives by the ocean in Connec cut with her husband and three daughters. h p://suzannepalmieri.com 4
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LET THE GOOD PREVAIL
by Logan & Noah Miller Rare Bird Books, June 2016
◦ Hardcover, 280pp Material available
A novel of tempta on, choice, violence, and morality ONE TRUE LOVES
by Taylor Jenkins Reid Atria/Simon & Schuster, June 2016
◦ Paperback, 352pp In her 20s, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They travel the world to‐
gether, living life to the fullest. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone for‐
ever. Emma quits her job and moves back home in an effort to put her life back together. Years later, now in her 30s, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness. That is, un l Jesse is found. He’s alive and he’s been wai ng all these years to come home to her. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves. Emma knows she has to listen to her heart. She’s just not sure what it’s saying. (Agent: Carly Wa ers, P.S. Literary Agency) Foreign sales: Germany (Diana/Heyne) Publisher has world English rights Also by Taylor Jenkins Reid: Foreign sales for Forever, Interrupted: Brazil (Record), Catalan (Urano), Germany (Diana/
Heyne), Israel (Sefer Lakol), Italy (Sperling), Korea (Tornado Media Group), The Nether‐
lands (Artemis), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Portugal (Presença), Romania (Corint), Spain (Urano), Turkey (Yabanci Yayinlari/Ithaki) Taylor Jenkins Reid is a fic on writer and essayist. Her most recent work can be found on The Hairpin, Good, and Jane Pra ’s xoJane. She is the author of Forever, Interrupted, A er I Do, and Maybe in Another Life all published by Atria. Forever, Interrupted was a Chatelaine Magazine Book Club pick for their August issue and a WalMart Canada “read of the month” for September 2013. A er I Do and Maybe in Another Life hit several “best of” lists for summer 2014 and 2015. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. www.taylorjenkinsreid.com Material available
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Years a er her husband’s plane goes missing, a woman finds herself madly in love once again...un l her husband returns An exci ng historical suspense with a group of underground Renaissance ar sts as its sleuths PORTRAIT OF A CONSPIRACY: Da Vinci’s Disciples, book 1
by Donna Russo Morin Diversion, May 2016
◦ Paperback, 298pp “Vivid and evoca ve, Portrait of a Conspiracy is a rive ng page‐turner unlike any historical novel you’ve read, weaving passion, adventure, ar s c rebirth, and consequences of ambi on...by a mas‐
terful writer at the peak of her cra .” – C.W. Gortner, acclaimed author of The Confessions of Cathe‐
rine de’ Medici “Russo Morin’s rich detailing transports the reader to the heart of Renaissance Italy from the first page. Readers will find themselves engrossed in a tale of the power‐hungry Medici and Pazzi families, and the five brave women who pursue their passion for pain ng at all cost. Art, corrup on, and passion fuse in this thrilling historical ad‐
venture.” – Heather Webb, author of Becoming Josephine and Rodin’s Lover The women of the Secret Society of Saint Caterina, high and low born alike, knew that every me they indulged their passion to paint and prac ce their cra they risked ostracism, banishment, or worse. When the Pazzi family a empts to eradicate the powerful Medici brothers, the society members find that one of their own has gone missing and stands accused of the the of a cru‐
cial pain ng. The women, with the help of Leonardo da Vinci, hatch a plan to forge the pain ng and to find their missing member. Amid the chaos, the women must also grapple with their own personal challenges—an abusive husband, an illicit love affair, a dying husband, and the pressures and pe ness of rank—
ul mately discovering that there is no greater strength than women united as one. (Agent: Shannon Hassan, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency) Publisher was world English rights Donna Russo Morin is the award‐winning author of four previous historical novels. Her latest, The King’s Agent, re‐
ceived a starred review in Publishers Weekly and broke the top 20 at Amazon.ca. Donna lives in Rhode Island with her two sons. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society and an ac ve promoter of her work through blogs, speaking engagements, and virtual tours. www.donnarussomorin.com 5
ONE MORE DAY
by Kelly Simmons Sourcebooks, February 2016
◦ Paperback, 320pp * Selected for the Target emerging authors program!
“Beau fully dark, totally devasta ng and so rive ng you might find yourself gripping the pages, One
More Day is about the holes in our lives and how we struggle to fill them, the love of parent for child, and the secrets that define us. Absolutely mesmer‐
izing.” – Caroline Leavi , New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You “One More Day is an absolutely rive ng book. It’s a rare novel that combines intrigue and suspense with so much heart—but that’s what makes it one of my favorite new books of this winter.” – Sarah Pekkanen,
bestselling author of Things You Won’t Say and The Opposite of Me “Kelly Simmons’s One More Day casts a spell over the reader from its tantalizing first pages. Twisty, psychologically de and wildly original, it’ll have you guessing un l the very end. U erly mesmerizing.” – Megan Abbo , author of The Fever One more hug. One more story. One more day with her beau ful son. That’s all Carrie asked for a er Ben was snatched from his car seat while she searched for quarters to feed the parking meter. All she wanted was for Ben to come back. And then, just like that, Ben did. But 15 months a er he was taken, her son is no taller, no heavier than he was on the day he disappeared, and Carrie knows that she is ge ng exactly what she asked for. Over the next week, as Car‐
rie is visited by people she never thought she’d see again—people who stay for one day and then vanish—she is forced to face the dark secret from her past that she had tried to forget. And as the inves ga on into Ben’s kidnapping heats up, Carrie must decide what to share, and why. Because the crime is about to be solved...and her secret revealed. (Agent: Anne Bohner, Pen & Ink Literary) Material available
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What if you could have one more day with a lost loved one… A er a decade’s worth of lying, does Lucky even know how to tell the truth anymore? MARRIAGE OF A THOUSAND LIES
by S.J. Sindu Soho Press, May 2017
◦ Hardcover, es mated 220pp * Lead tle!
Lakshmi, called ‘Lucky’, has a good thing going—she and her husband Krishna, both secretly gay, present an illusion of marital bliss to their conserva ve Sri Lankan‐American families while da ng on the side. When Lucky’s grandmother has a nasty fall, Lucky returns to her childhood home to act as caretaker and un‐
expectedly reconnects with her childhood best friend and first lover, Nisha. The reunion is blissful un l Nisha reveals she has agreed to an arranged marriage with a man she doesn’t even know. Lucky must find a way to save her—but does Nisha really want to be saved? And a er a decade’s worth of lying, does Lucky even know how to tell the truth anymore? (Agent: Connor Goldsmith, Fuse Literary) Publisher has world English rights
When I was seven I wanted a short sleeve button down shirt.
Amma refused to buy one from the boys’ section, pushed me
instead toward the pinks and butterflies in the girls’, so I told her I
needed one for a school play. I wore it open when I biked down
hills, the wind slipping its fingers through the loose weave, cooling
my sweat through my tank top. My best friend Nisha told me I’d
make a cute boy, and her words squeezed something deep inside
my bones, pried loose the skin between my legs. Pin pricks.
Needles. My first lie.
Kelly Simmons is a former journalist and adver sing crea ve director specializing in marke ng to women. She’s the author of the cri cally acclaimed Standing S ll and The Bird House
(Atria). www.bykellysimmons.com S.J. Sindu is a writer and ac vist. Her wri ng has ap‐
peared on Autostraddle, Black Girl Dangerous, and other popular cultural commentary websites. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Crea ve Wri ng at Flori‐
da State University. Marriage of a Thousand Lies is her debut novel. h p://sjsindu.com 6
PROMISE OF FORGIVENESS
by Marin Thomas NAL, March 2016
◦ Paperback, 352pp “From the very first sentence, Ruby’s story will cap‐
vate readers. Thomas brings the dusty town of Unforgiven vividly to life and paints a poe c picture of family dynamics with flawed but honest charac‐
ters. Even the town’s name carries its own poignan‐
cy. Both grace and grit underline a wide range of emo ons, from fear and grief to tenderness and hope.” – RT Reviews, Top Pick! “There’s a big promise in this book: love, redemp‐
on, and a story so gripping I couldn’t put it down.” – Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Shop on Blossom Street When it comes to family, Ruby Baxter hasn’t had much luck. The im‐
portant men in her early life abandoned her, and any me a decent boyfriend came along, she ran away. But now Ruby is 31 and convinced she is failing her teenage daughter. Mia is the one good thing in her life, and Ruby hopes a move to Kansas will fix what’s broken between them. But the road to redemp on takes a detour. Hank McArthur, the biological father Ruby never knew existed, would like her to claim her inheritance: a dusty oil ranch just outside of Unforgiven, Ok‐
lahoma. As far as first impressions go, the gruff, emo onally distant rancher isn’t what Ruby has hoped for in a father. Yet Hank seems to have a gi for rehabili‐
ta ng abused horses—and for reaching Mia. And if Ruby wants to entertain the possibility of a rela onship with Joe Dawson, the ranch foreman, she must find a way to open her heart to the very first man who le her behind. (Agent: Paige
Wheeler, Crea ve Media Agency, Inc.) Publisher has world English rights Marin Thomas is an award‐nominated author of more than 25 novels, including the Cash Brothers series. She grew up in Janesville, Wisconsin, and a ended college at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she played bas‐
ketball for the Lady Wildcats and earned a BA in Radio and Television. Following gradua on, she married her college sweetheart in a five‐minute ceremony at the historic Li le Chapel of the West in Las Vegas, Nevada. She and her hus‐
band currently live in Houston, Texas. The Promise of Forgiveness is her first women’s fic on novel. www.marinthomas.com Uncanny and the unse ling, wonderful and subtle, these are stories where the mundane becomes strange and the strange familiar JAGANNATH: Stories
by Karin Tidbeck Vintage, fall 2016
◦ Paperback, 352pp * William L Crawford Fantasy Award-winner!
* Originally published by Cheeky Frawg Books
“I have never read anything like Jagannath. Karin Tidbeck’s imagina on is recog‐
nizably Nordic, but otherwise unclassifiable—quietly, intelligently, unu erably strange. And various. And ominous. And funny. And mysteriously tender. These are wonderful stories.”– Ursula K. Le Guin “In Jagannath...lonely individuals fall in love with airships and steam engines, grow manikins like plants, or metamorphose into bumblebees....Tidbeck focuses on rebirth and transforma on, and her cool, transparent prose gives fantas c material the aspect of numinous reality.” – The Guardian
“All [of Tidbeck's stories] are impressively brave literary experiments. By turns brilliant and indecipherably cryp c, this book will capture the imagina ons of fans of experimental fantasy and science fic on.” – Publishers Weekly Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensa on Karin Tid‐
beck with this feast of darkly fantas cal stories. Whether through the falsified historical record of the uniquely weird Swedish creature known as the “Pyret” or the tle story, “Jagannath,” about a biological ark in the far future, Tidbeck’s unique imagina on will enthrall, amuse, and unse le you. How else to describe a collec on that includes “Cloudberry Jam,” a story that opens with the line “I made you in a n can”? Marvels, quirky character studies, and outright surreal monstrosi es await you in what is likely to be one of the most talked‐about short story collec ons of the year. (Agent: Renee Zuckerbrot)
Foreign sales: Spain (Nevsky), Turkey (Aylak/Versus) Karin Tidbeck has published fic on in Swedish since 2002 and in English since 2010. She has also wri en manuscripts and fic on for interac ve learning and Nordic LARP. She cur‐
rently works for a writers’ interest organiza on and occa‐
sionally teaches crea ve wri ng. Her previous occupa ons include: fortune teller, copywriter, order manager for a French fry producer, and pa ent actor. Tidbeck is a rising star in her na ve country, having published a collec on there in Swedish, won a pres gious literary grant, and sold her first novel to Sweden’s largest publisher. A graduate of the iconic Clarion Writer’s Workshop at the University of California, San Diego, in 2010, her publica on his‐
tory includes Weird Tales, Shimmer Magazine, Unstuck Annual, and the anthology Odd. h p://karin dbeck.com 7
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A novel of love, forgiveness, and the unbreakable bonds of family
* A spring/summer 2016 Publishers Marketplace
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“The 1970s, that most unjustly derided of decades, is evoked with in mate detail in this coming‐of‐age story set in an American West that is expansive with possibility yet constrained in imagina on….This de‐
but novel captures the flailings and flights of hapless dreamers with prose that throbs like the strings of an electric bass playing its sad heart out in a near‐
desolate landscape.” – Kirkus, starred review At the heart of this exci ng debut novel, set in Arizona and Idaho in the mid‐1970s, is 15‐year‐old Lore a, who slips out of her bedroom every evening to meet her so‐called gen le boyfriend. Her strict Mormon parents catch her returning one night, and promptly marry her off to Dean Harder, a devout yet materialis c fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids. The Harders relocate to his na ve Idaho, where Dean’s teen‐
age nephew Jason falls hard for Lore a. He and Lore a make a break for it. They drive all night, stay in hotels, and relish their dizzying burst of teenage freedom as they seek to recover Dean’s cache of “Mormon gold.” But someone Lore a le behind is on their trail….(Agent: Renee Zuckerbrot) Foreign sales: Bri sh (Pushkin Press), France (Albin Michel), Germany (Kein&Abner) Shawn Vestal’s Godforsaken Idaho won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fic on, was named an “Outstanding Collec on” by the Story Prize, and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan Interna onal Prize for Wri ng. Stories from the collec on were published in McSweeney’s, Tin House, American Short Ficon, The Southern Review, and Ecotone; selected for inclusion in The Pushcart Prize XXXIX, Best
American Fantasy 3 (edited by Kevin Brockmeier); and named dis nguished sto‐
ries in Best American Short Stories (2009 and 2011). Vestal lives in Spokane, where he is a reporter and columnist for the Spokesman-Review. www.shawnvestal.com A hypno c debut in turn‐of‐the‐century Coney Island, where an abandoned girl collides with a disgruntled ménage of circus freaks MAGRUDER’S CURIOSITY CABINET
by H.P. Wood Sourcebooks Landmark, June 2016
◦ Paperback, 368pp * Publishers Marketplace “Buzz Book” Selec on for
Spring/Summer 2016!
“A death‐defying feat of crea vity and imagina on, Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet is gloriously original, colorful and alive….Pick it up and it’ll run away with your weekend and your heart.” – Greer Macallister,
bestselling author of The Magician’s Life “I inhaled Magruder’s Curiousity Cabinet in a single si ng. Wood has wri en a cracking Coney Island roller coaster of an adventure, full of marvelous, colorful, and unapologe cally authen c characters. A bright, breathless debut.” – Jessica Brockmole, author of Le ers from Skye
May 1904. Coney Island’s newest amusement park, Dreamland, has just opened. Its many spectacles are expected to a ract crowds by the thousands, paying back investors many mes over. Ki y Hayward and her mother arrive by steamer from South Africa. When Ki y’s mother takes ill, the hotel doctor sends Ki y to Manha an to fetch some special medicine. But when she returns, Ki y’s mother has vanished. The desk clerk tells Ki y she is at the wrong hotel. The doc‐
tor says he’s never seen her although, she no ces, he is unable to look her in the eye. Alone in a strange country, Ki y meets the denizens of Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet. A relic of a darker, dir er era, Magruder’s is home to a forlorn flea circus, a handful of disgruntled Unusuals, and a mad Uzbek scien st. Magruder’s Unusu‐
als take Ki y under their wing and resolve to find out what happened to her mother. But as a plague spreads, Coney Island is placed under quaran ne. The gang at Magruder’s finds that a missing mother is the least of their problems, as the once‐glamorous resort town is abandoned to the freaks, anarchists, and mad‐
men. (Agent: Courtney Miller-Callihan, Handspun Literary Agency) Publisher has world English rights
H. P. Wood is the granddaughter of a mad inventor and a side‐
show magician. She has wri en or edited works on an array of topics, including the history of the Internet, the future of human rights, and the total awesomeness of playing with s cks. Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet is her debut novel. She lives in Con‐
nec cut with a charming and pa ent husband, a daughter from whom she steals all her best ideas, and more cats than is strictly logical. www.hpwood.net 8
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DAREDEVILS
by Shawn Vestal Penguin, April 2016
◦ Hardcover, 320pp Material available
From the winner of 2014’s PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize, comes an unforge able debut novel about Lore a, a teenager married off as a “sister wife,” who makes a break for freedom Fans of Christopher Moore and Tom Robbins will love this eccentric, sa rical sci‐fi novel about the mistakes humans make THE BALLAD OF ELVA AND CHESTER
by Adrian Archangelo Wild Blue Press, August 2016
◦ Paperback, es mated 275pp Elva and Chester are space aliens who appear to be human, and have been here on Earth since the year 1100 with the goal of helping humanity devel‐
op more empathy and compassion. (The rest of the beings in the galaxy don’t want us flying around out there un l we do, because none of the space races have the budget to follow humans around and clean up our messes.) But Elva and Chester find human behavior baffling, and con nually see their plans twisted by human responses. Consequently, nearly everything wrong on this planet over the past thousand years was caused by one of their historic debacles. Now their boss‐
es have shown up to express their outrage because the human race is so far be‐
hind the goal. The overlords’ intend to hit earth with another big asteroid (just as they did to get rid of the pesky dinosaurs), and wipe out humanity once and for all. Elva and Chester demand an appeal, so their bosses snatch them for a forced ride through history and a parade of their mistakes (the Black Plague, both World Wars, and much more). Can Elva and Chester show the overloads we humans are worth saving? (Agent: Sharlene Mar n, Mar n Literary Management) This earthly mission had long since become personal for Elva. She
remained convinced that the humans might actually be the ones to
figure out what to do about The Galactic Problem.
But now the arrival of the Home Ship forced flashes of selfdoubt. What if, what if she was the only one who still believed the
humans could accomplish this? What if Chester, bless his heart,
was only sticking with it because he believed in her? The question
was too big for her now. The Home Race could not be allowed to
give up on them. The humans might deserve a good slapping
around, but to destroy their civilizations and wipe them out? That
would just be mean.
The Ballad of Elva and Chester is Adrian Archangelo’s first novel. He grew up in the Rocky Mountains and lives today in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Adrian is married to his best friend, who pinky‐swears that she never res of hearing of the further exploits of Elva and Chester. A stylish, episodic fantasy novel, in the mode of classic Jack Vance A SHADOW ALL OF LIGHT
by Fred Chappell Tor, April 2016 ◦ Hardcover, 384pp Falco, a young man from the country, ar‐
rives in the port city of Tardocco with nothing be‐
yond the ambi on of becoming an appren ce to a master shadow thief. Maestro Astolfo, whose myste‐
rious powers of observa on make him a formidable man, chooses not to kill Falco upon their first strained mee ng. Instead, Astolfo sees the young man’s poten al and puts him through a grueling se‐
ries of physical lessons and intellectual tests. As Fal‐
co’s educa on progresses, he is plunged into compa‐
ny with con men, monsters, pirates and the King of Cats. He must steal shadows, use his wits, and ul ‐
mately save the en re city. (Agent: Jennie Dunham, Dunham Literary Agency) Publisher has world English rights
“You know who I am?”
“Sir, I do,” I said. “You are Master Astolfo. Every one knows.”
“You know then something of my station?”
I had to think quickly. An ill- chosen word might be an insult.
An insult could well be fatal.
Fred Chappell is the award‐winning author of more than 20 books of poetry and fic on, including I Am
One of You Forever, Brighten the Corner Where You
Are, and Look Back All the Green Valley. He has re‐
ceived many major prizes, including the Bollingen Prize in Poetry from Yale University, the Award in Literature from the Na onal Ins tute of Arts and Le ers, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern Ameri‐
can Poetry, the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the World Fantasy Award for his short stories. Dagon, published in 1968, was award‐
ed the Best Foreign Book of the Year prize by the French Academy in 1972 and con nues to crop up on lists of the world’s best horror novels. He was an English professor for 40 years (1964‐2004) at the University of North Carolina at Greens‐
boro, and he was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997–2002. He lives with his wife, Susan in Greensboro, North Carolina. 9
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◦ FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION ◦ THE TIGER: Chronicles of An Imperial Legionary Officer, book 2
by Marc Alan Edelheit Independently published, November 2015 ◦ Paperback, 302pp * Amazon bestseller, Epic Fantasy!
A nobleman from an infamous family, impe‐
rial legionary officer, fighter, and a right proper bas‐
tard of a man, Captain Ben S ger captured Castle Vrell and rid it of the minion of a dark god. Now he finds himself cut off from the empire with a hos le rebel army marching on the legion’s fortress where they guard the entrance to the Vrell Valley. It is not in S ger’s nature to simply wait for the enemy. Badly outnumbered and terrible odds, he sets out to im‐
pede the enemy’s advance. But there are forces at play greater than S ger can imagine. To survive, he must not only contend with a well‐supported rebel army, but a hos le dwarven na on intent on fulfilling a mysterious prophecy that has the poten al to sha er the world and bring ruin to the empire. (Agent: Andrea Hurst, Andrea Hurst &
Associates Literary Management) Also by Marc Alan Edelheit: “A superb military fantasy novel with fascina ng characters, and pulsa ng ac on scenes.” – Fantasy Muse
“Great wri ng and pace. This was definitely one of those books that you can’t put down.” – Frontlaven
Marc Alan Edelheit has a Bachelor’s Degree in Science and obtained a Master’s in Educa on as a Reading and Wri ng Specialist. He is currently an execu ve in the healthcare in‐
dustry staying up late at night to work on his novels. Marc has traveled the world, from Asia to Europe, even at one point crossing the border at Check Point Charlie in Berlin toward the end of the Cold War. Marc is the ul mate history fan and incorporates much of that passion into his work. He currently resides in New Hope, Pennsylvania. S ger’s Tigers is his debut novel. www.maenovels.com A rive ng fantasy that challenges tropes, and shows what happens when someone stands up and refuses to remain a secondary character in their own life THE UNTOLD TALE: Accidental Turn trilogy, book 1
by J.M. Frey Reuts Publica ons, December 2015 ◦ Paperback, 572pp Material available
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Abandoned and cut off from friendly lines, S ger takes the fight to the enemy “INSANELYAMAZING! The Untold Tale tears apart the tropes of heroic fantasy and gives back what we need: true heroes, true love, and the astonishing realiza on that yes, real people are magical.” – Julie
Czerneda, author of A Turn of Light Forsyth Turn is not a hero. Lordling of Turn Hall and Lysse Chipping, yes. Spymaster for the king, certainly. But hero? That’s his older brother’s job, and Kintyre Turn is nothing if not legendary. Howev‐
er, when a raid on the kingdom’s worst criminal re‐
sults in the rescue of a bafflingly blunt woman, oddly named and even more oddly mannered, Forsyth finds his quaint, sedentary life is turned on its head. Dragged reluctantly into a quest he never expected, and figh ng villains that even his brother has never managed to best, Forsyth is forced to confront his own self‐shame and the de‐
mons that come with always being second‐best. And, more than that, when he finally realizes where Lucy came from and why she’s here, he’ll be forced to ques‐
on not only his place in the world, but the very meaning of his own existence. Smartly cra ed, The Untold Tale gives agency to the unlikeliest of heroes: the silenced, the marginalized, and the overlooked. It asks what it really means to be a fan when the worlds you love don’t resemble the world you live in. (Agent: Laurie McLean, Fuse Literary Agency) Publisher has world English rights J.M. Frey is an actor, voice actor, and SF/F author, fanthro‐
pologist and professional geek. She’s appeared in podcasts, documentaries, and on television to discuss all things geeky through the lens of academia. She also has an addic on to scarves, Doctor Who, and tea. Her debut novel Triptych was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards, won the San Francisco Book Fes val award for SF/F, was nominated for a 2011 CBC Bookie, was named one of The Advocate’s Best Overlooked Books of 2011, and garnered both a starred review and a place among the Best Books of 2011 from Publishers Weekly. h p://jmfrey.net 10
FOUR ROADS CROSS: Cra Sequence, book 5
by Max Gladstone Tor, July 2016 ◦ Hardcover, 352pp In Four Roads Cross, the great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back—and the people of Alt Cou‐
lumb aren’t happy. Protests rock the city, and Kos Everburning’s creditors a empt a hos le takeover of the fire god’s church. Tara Abernathy, the god’s in‐
house Cra swoman, must defend the church against the world’s fiercest necroman c firm—and against her old classmate, a rising star in the Cra work world. As if that weren’t enough, Cat and Raz, sup‐
por ng characters from Three Parts Dead, are back too, figh ng monster pirates. Skeleton kings drink frozen cocktails, defying sever‐
al principles of anatomy; choirs of flame sing over Alt Coulumb; demons pose significant problems; a farmers’ market proves more important to world affairs than seems likely; doctors of theology strike back; and dragons give almost‐
helpful counsel. (Agent: Bob Diforio, D4EO Literary Agency) Publisher has world English rights
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From Max Gladstone comes the new novel in the series praised by NPR as “sharp, original, and passionate” A novice sorcerer may hold the key to saving his world— or be the instrument of its destruc on BLOOD OF INNOCENTS: Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, book 2
by Mitchell Hogan Harper Voyager, February 2016 ◦ Paperback, 592pp Anasoma, jewel of the Mahruse Empire, has fallen. As orphaned, monk‐raised Caldan and his com‐
panions flee the city, leaving behind their hopes for a new beginning, horrors from the me of the Sha er‐
ing begin to close in. With Miranda’s mind broken by forbidden sorcery, Caldan does the unthinkable to save her: he breaks the most sacrosanct laws of the Protectors. But when the emperor’s warlocks arrive to capture him, Caldan realizes that his burgeoning powers may be more of a curse than a blessing, and the enemies assailing the empire may be rivaled by more sinister forces within. And soon, the blood of innocents may be on Caldan’s own hands. (Agent: Laurie McLean, Fuse Literary) Publisher has world English rights
Also by Mitchell Hogan: Also by Max Gladstone: Foreign sales: Germany (Heyne) * Winner of the 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel! “Hogan joins with the new wave of fantasy authors in his use of morally ambivalent characters, dis nct and ght points of view, believable world building, an intelligible magic system, and some edgy, gri y content.” – D.P. Prior, author of The Name‐
less Dwarf Max Gladstone is a writer of fic on mostly, a China hand, a mar al ar st, and a humanist. He’s the author of the Cra Sequence fantasy series, and has been nominated for two John W. Campbell Awards. He’s also published a handful of short stories. He lives, works, and writes in Cambridge, MA. Outside of his wri ng and his work with the Aberdeen Group, Max also admin‐
isters the blog Two Guys, Three Hundred Poems. www.maxgladstone.com When he was 11, Mitchell Hogan was given The Hobbit
and The Lord of the Rings to read, and a love of fantasy novels was born. A Crucible of Souls was his debut novel, and it won the 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Nov‐
el, the first me a self‐published book has won out over tradi onally published compe tors. Mitchell lives in Syd‐
ney, Australia, with his wife, Angela, and daughter, Isa‐
belle. h p://mitchellhogan.com 11
SPELLS OF BLOOD AND KIN
by Claire Humphrey Thomas Dunne Books/St. Mar n’s, June 2016 ◦ Hardcover, 320pp “De and original, Spells of Blood and Kin pulses with dark energy. Claire Humphrey weaves together witchcra , beauty, fear, and family into a wholly new concoc on. A compelling debut.” – Greer Macallister, author of The Magician’s Lie
When her beloved grandmother dies sud‐
denly, Lissa must become a worthy heir to her Rus‐
sian folk magic. That includes honoring a debt owed to the dangerous stranger who appears at Lissa’s door. Maksim Volkov says he’s ‘kin,’ but he doesn’t mean family—he means something different, some‐
thing older and darker. Maksim needs magic to keep his brutal nature leashed, but the ritual is one Lissa’s grandmother never taught her. Maksim has already lost control once: his blood‐
borne lust for violence infects Nick, a charming slacker out celebra ng the end of finals. Now Nick is somewhere else in Toronto, going slowly mad, and Maksim must find him before he hurts more people. But Maksim is having enough trouble keeping himself sane; Lissa’s magic just isn’t working as well as her grandmother’s did. If Lissa is to tame Maksim’s violent nature, she’ll have to meddle in secrets her grandmother did not want her to know. If she fails, Maksim will have no choice but to destroy both himself and Nick. Either way, Lissa will begin to learn what Maksim already knows too well: kinship means blood. (Agent: Connor Goldsmith, Fuse Literary) Publisher has world English rights Claire Humphrey is the reviews editor at Ideomancer, and a na onal buyer for Indigo Books. Her short fic on has appeared in Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless
Skies, Apex, Crossed Genres, Fantasy Magazine, and Podcastle. Her short story ‘’Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All
‐Female Produc on of Wai ng for Godot’’ appeared in the Lambda Award‐nominated collec on Beyond Binary (Lethe, 2012), and her short story “The Witch Of Tarup” was recently published in the cri cally acclaimed new anthology Long Hidden (Crossed Genres, 2014). Spells of Blood of Kin is her first novel. She was recently awarded a Writers’ Reserve grant by the Ontario Arts Council, with which she plans to write her second novel. www.clairehumphrey.ca Material available
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A er her beloved grandmother dies, witch‐in‐training Lissa is thrust into a world of dark magic Loxley Fiddleback can see ghosts, and when her best friend’s ghost shows up, she vows revenge in this gri y fantasy with an au s c heroine EVERY MOUNTAIN MADE LOW
by Alex White Solaris, November 2016 ◦ Hardcover, es mated 360pp Life is cruel in the Hole, and so is death. All the women in Loxley’s family have had the ability to see the restless dead, but ghosts see Loxley back. They’re drawn to her like a bright fire, and their light‐
est touch leaves her with painful wounds. She avoids them as best she can—but she can’t say no to the specter of Nora, her only friend, who was alive just hours ago. Loxley is au s c and suffers from crippling anxiety; she isn’t equipped to solve a murder, but if she can’t bring Nora’s killers to jus ce then no one ever will. Loxley swears to take blood for blood and find her friend’s killer. In the process, she uncovers a conspiracy that rises all the way to the top of the Hole. As her enemies grow wise to her existence, she becomes the quarry, hunted by a brutal enforcer of the corporate interests who rule the city. Hunted and alone in the world, Loxley must descend into the strangest depths of the Hole to win the revenge she seeks and, ul mately, her own salva on. (Agent: Connor Goldsmith,
Fuse Literary) Publisher has world English rights
A pair of distant pops echoed across the coal stacks, and Hiram
screamed obscenities. He clutched his arm and stomach, nearly
dropping his gun, and Loxley saw blood oozing between his
fingers.
Alex White is an ar st, composer, and writer based in Ala‐
bama. His podcast, The Gearheart, has countless loyal listen‐
ers, with individual episodes reaching over a million down‐
loads. Every Mountain Made Low, his debut novel, is a passion project born of his own experience with developmental disor‐
ders—his son struggles with au sm—and White hopes to illus‐
trate how even the quietest voices can be agents of change in a tyrannical world. www.alexrwhite.com 12
The first cozy in this fun des na on wedding mystery series perfect for fans of Carolyn Haines TERROR IN TAFFETA
by Marla Cooper Thomas Dunne/St. Mar n’s, March 2016 ◦ Hardcover, 288pp * First book in a series
“Drop your plans and read this new series starring Kelsey McKenna, wi y and resourceful wedding planner extraordinaire. This wedding planner will win you over!” – Janet Cantrell, bestselling author
of the Fat Cat Mystery series
Wedding planner Kelsey McKenna is just a few hours away from wrapping up her latest job: a des na on wedding in the charming, colonial Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende. The re‐
cep on is all set up, the tequila donkey is wai ng outside, and the bride and groom are standing on the altar, pledging their eternal love. But just as the priest is about to pronounce them husband and wife, one of the bridesmaids upstages the couple by collapsing into a floral arrangement. Worst of all, Kelsey discovers that she hasn’t just fainted—she’s dead. The de‐
manding mother of the bride, Mrs. Abernathy, insists Kelsey not tell the wedding party; she paid for a wedding a er all, not a funeral. Losing a bridesmaid is bad enough, but when the bride’s sister is arrested for murder, Mrs. Abernathy de‐
mands that Kelsey fix the ma er at once. And although she’s pre y sure inves ‐
ga ng a murder isn’t in her contract, crossing the well‐connected mother of the bride could be a career‐killer. Before she can leave Mexico and get back to plan‐
ning weddings, Kelsey must deal with stubborn detec ves, another dead body, and a rekindled romance in this smart, funny cozy debut perfect for fans of Car‐
olyn Haines. (Agent: Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency) Marla Cooper is the pen name of a professional writer who writes everything from adver sing copy to travel guidebooks to the occasional haiku. While ghostwri ng a book on des na on weddings, she found inspira on for her first novel, Terror in
Taffeta. Originally hailing from Texas, Marla now lives in Oak‐
land, California, with her writer husband and her polydactyl tuxedo cat. h p://marlacooper.wix.com/marla‐cooper Astrologer Julia Bona has become the target of a fana cal cult leader; can that old trickster Mercury get her out of this mess? THE MADNESS OF MERCURY: A Zodiac Mystery
by Connie di Marco Midnight Ink/Llewellyn, June 2016 ◦ Paperback, 312pp * First book in a series
San Francisco astrologer Julia Bona ’s life is turned upside down when she becomes the tar‐
get of the city’s newest cult leader, Reverend Roy of the Prophet’s Tabernacle. Driven out of her apartment in the midst of a disastrous Mercury retrograde period, she takes shelter with a client who’s caring for two elderly aunts. One aunt ap‐
pears stricken with demen a and the other has fallen under the spell of the Reverend Roy. To add to the confusion, a young man claiming to be a long lost nephew arrives. The longer he stays, the more dangerous things become. Is the young man truly a member of the family? Can astrology con‐
firm that? Julia’s not sure, but one thing she does know is that Mercury wasn’t merely the messenger of the gods―he was a trickster and a liar as well. (Agent:
Paige Wheeler, Crea ve Media Agency, Inc.) Publisher has world English rights
Connie di Marco is the author of the upcoming Zodiac Mysteries from Midnight Ink, as well as the na onal bestselling Soup
Lover’s Mysteries from Penguin Random House. Connie is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Interna onal Thriller Writers, and Sisters in Crime. She lives in Los Angeles with her family and her cat, Basil. www.ConnieArcherMysteries.com 13
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◦ MYSTERY, SUSPENSE & THRILLER ◦ A er living through the media shaming of a poli cal sex scandal when she was in college, Sydney Ellison fears notoriety above all. So when she stumbles onto a plot to assassinate a senator, she resists contac ng the police. Before she can make herself do the right thing, the assassin tracks her down and kills her fiancé. Now a murder sus‐
pect and a killer’s target, Sydney reluctantly enlists the aid of her estranged sister who betrayed her 15 years earlier. Sydney must overcome her dis‐
trust and put all she has worked for on the line to stop the killer and his employer before the body count rises. (Agent: Paige Wheeler, Crea ve Media Agency, Inc.) Publisher has world English rights
With the Air Force, Laura DiSilverio served with an F‐16 wing in Korea, helped resolve reports of live‐sigh ngs of Vietnam pris‐
oners of war while working in Bangkok, and pushed paper at the Defense Intelligence Agency, she also earned her Master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania, taught English at the Air Force Academy, did her me in the Pentagon, commanded a squadron in England, and ended up in Colorado. Along the way, she also married her wonderful husband and produced two beau ful children. She re red from the Air Force in late 2004. She’s now the author of many books. Her novel Swi
Run was nominated as a finalist in the 2013 Colorado Book Awards. She has re‐
ceived starred reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus, and Suspense Magazine named Die Buying as one of the top mysteries of 2011. Laura is a past‐president of Sisters in Crime. h p://lauradisilverio.com Knowledge is power…and they know everything THE GOD’S EYE VIEW
by Barry Eisler Thomas & Mercer/Amazon, February 2016
◦ Hardcover, 374pp Material available
CLOSE CALL
by Laura DiSilverio Midnight Ink/Llewellyn, September 2016 ◦ Paperback, 336pp Material available April 2016
A chance encounter ignites a series of murderous events... * Amazon Best Book of the Month selec on!
* New York Times bestselling author!
“Eisler’s expert knowledge of spycra and hand‐to
‐hand combat combine with his ultra‐deep distrust of government intelligence to propel this sus‐
penseful yarn into the front ranks of paranoid thrillers.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review
NSA director Theodore Anders has a sim‐
ple goal: collect every phone call, email, and key‐
stroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe. Evelyn Gallagher doesn’t care about any of that. She just wants to keep her head down and manage the NSA’s camera network and facial recogni on program so she can afford private school for her deaf son, Dash. But when Evelyn discovers the existence of an NSA program code‐
named God’s Eye, and connects it with the mysterious deaths of a string of jour‐
nalists and whistle‐blowers, her doubts put her and Dash in the crosshairs of a pair of government assassins: Delgado, a sadis c bomb maker and hacker; and Manus, a damaged giant of a man who un l now has cared for nothing beyond protec ng the director. Within an elaborate game of poli cal blackmail and ter‐
rorist provoca ons, a global war is being fought—a war between those desperate to keep the state’s darkest secrets and those intent on revealing them. A war that Evelyn will need all her espionage training and savvy to survive. (Agent: Laura
Rennert, Andrea Brown Literary Agency) Foreign sales: Bulgaria (BARD), Czech (Albatros), The Netherlands (Karakter), Poland (Bellona) Publisher has world English and German rights Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert posi on with the CIA’s Directorate of Opera ons, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup execu ve in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan Interna onal Judo Center along the way. Eisler’s bestselling thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller of the Year, have been included in numerous “Best of” lists, and have been translated into nearly 20 languages. Eisler lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and. www.barryeisler.com 14
When Lou and her partner take on the sad task of informing a mother that her 13‐year‐old daughter has died, Lou finds herself in the building she grew up in. The girl’s death fits a pa ern: danc‐
ers, ar sts, honors scholars, gone missing in the same district, the one Lou a ended not so long ago. Lou is valiantly trying to make a go of life a er divorce, but this case is personal, and it’s only a ma er of me before the killer comes a er Lou herself. (Agent: Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyon Literary
Agency) Foreign sales: Bri sh (Titan) Publisher has world English rights
The witch hunt never ended, in this female‐centric, code‐cracking thriller SALEM’S CIPHER
by Jess Lourey Midnight Ink/Llewellyn, September 2016
◦ Paperback, 480pp Material available
TRAIL OF ECHOS: A Detec ve Elouise Norton Novel
by Rachel Howzell Hall Forge Books/Tor, May 2016
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Smart and sassy Lou Norton is back, and this me it’s personal
* First book in a series
Salem Wiley is a genius cryptanalyst, courted by the world’s top security agencies ever since her quantum compu ng breakthrough. She’s also an agoraphobe shackled to a narrow rou ne since her father’s suicide. When her intelligence work unexpectedly exposes a sinister plot to assas‐
sinate the country’s first viable female presiden al candidate, Salem finds herself both target and de‐
tec ve in a modern day witch hunt. Drawn into a labyrinth of messages encrypted by Emily Dickin‐
son and codes tucked inside the Beale Cipher a hundred years earlier, Salem be‐
gins to uncover the truth: an ancient and ruthless group is hell‐bent on ruling the world, and only a select group of women stands in its way. (Agent: Jill Marsal,
Marsal Lyon Literary Agency) Publisher has world English rights
Also by Rachel Howzell Hall: “Elouise Norton is the best new character you’ll meet this year, and Rachel Howzell Hall is the best pure storyteller you’ll read this year.” – Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author, on Land of Shad‐
ows “Dead‐on dialogue and atmospheric details help propel a tale full of tormen ng moral issues.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Land of Shadows Author Rachel Howzell Hall published her first book A Quiet Storm (Scribner, 2002) to great no ce, including a starred review from Library Journal. The first book in her Elouise Norton series, Land of
Shadows, was published by Forge Books/Tor in June 2014. Rachel is also a science writer at City of Hope, a na onal cancer research and treatment ins tu on in Southern California. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. www.rachelhowzell.com Salem’s stomach somersaulted. “Bits” had been Salem’s dad’s
nickname for her growing up. The moniker had cemented itself
once she’d discovered her love for computers, though only her
mom, Gracie, and Bel had ever called her that.
What followed was a secret code.
Her heartbeat thick and loud, she peeked again at the nearest
investigators.
Jessica (Jess) Lourey is best known for her cri cally‐
acclaimed Murder-by-Month mysteries, which have earned mul ple starred reviews from Library Journal and Booklist. She is also ac ve in Mystery Writers of America, where she served two terms on the na onal board, and Sisters in Crime. A tenured professor of crea ve wri ng and sociology, she also teaches wri ng workshops all over the country. When not teaching, reading, traveling, wri ng, or raising her two wonderful kids, you can find her watching terrible SyFy movies and dreaming of her next story. h p://jessicalourey.com 15
* First book in a series
For Detec ve Marcus Trenault—lonely, work obsessed but bored out of his skull inves ga ng lost puppies and stolen bicycles—life gets a welcome kick in the ass when a serial killer with a literary flair starts bumping off women connect‐
ed to the exclusive Agathas Book Club, then arranging their corpses in perfect imita on of crime scenes from the Club’s mystery reading list. Key evidence con‐
vinces Marc that two brutal murders, both seemingly mo veless, with radically different MO’s, are the work of the same hand. But it is Charley Carpenter, a girl Marc remembers none too fondly from high school, who stumbles on the connec‐
on between the killings and the Agathas. Intelligent, fearless, and every bit as stubborn as he is, Charley uses her membership in the Club to convince Marc to use her as an inside informant. Not that he could stop her anyway. Their personal history is a minefield of resentment, regrets, and repressed a rac on. As the case pulls them together, Charley struggles to reconcile the spoiled, arrogant boy she remembers with the brilliant, driven detec ve sworn to find jus ce for the fami‐
lies of her dead friends. Marc fights a losing ba le of his own, trying—and fail‐
ing—to keep their rela onship on a professional foo ng for the sake of the inves‐
ga on. Passions explode as Charley’s involvement in the inves ga on draws her deeper into danger. Together they must race against me to stop the killer from making another deadly selec on of the month. (Agent: Cur s Russell, P.S. Literary) Publisher has world English rights
Leslie Nagel is a writer and teacher of wri ng at a local com‐
munity college. Her debut novel, The Bookclub Murders, is the first in the Oakwood Mystery Series. Leslie lives in the all too real city of Oakwood, Ohio, where murders are rare but great stories lie thick on the ground. A er the wri en word, her pas‐
sions include her husband, her son and daughter, hiking, ten‐
nis, and strong black coffee, not necessarily in that order. www.leslienagel.com With side‐spli ng humor, an irresis ble cast of characters—both human and canine—and an in mate small town se ng, this mystery is sure to delight fans of Rita Mae Brown and Diane Kelly YAPPY HOUR: A Roundup Crew Mystery
by Diana Orgain Minotaur Books, November 2016 ◦ Hardcover, 288pp Material available
THE BOOK CLUB MURDERS: The Oakwood Mysteries
by Leslie Nagel Alibi/Random House, September 2016
◦ E‐book, es mated 300pp Material available
In this Evanovich‐like debut, a serial killer with a literary flair starts murdering book club members * First book in a series
“It may be a dog eat dog world, but Orgain will have you laughing out loud, even as you puzzle over whodunit and race to the finish in me for the Tails and Tiaras fundraiser. Pull up a chair, put your barking dogs on ice and enjoy Yappy Hour, the first in a hilarious new series.” – Kate Carlisle, New York Times bestselling author of This Old Homicide “With its entertaining mystery, touches of ro‐
mance, and quirky human and canine charac‐
ters, Yappy Hour is the perfect cocktail to quench your thirst for a good story. More fun than a basket of puppies!” – Diane Kelly, author of Laying Down the Paw Every Friday night, a group of friends meet at The Wine & Bark, a neigh‐
borhood wine bar that is pet friendly, for Yappy Hour. When the bar owner mys‐
teriously leaves town and asks her sister Maggie (who is neither pet friendly nor business savvy) to run the business in her absence, things get complicated fast. Maggie shows up only to find the body of the manager to the neighboring restau‐
rant sprawled on the floor. When hunky Officer Brooks arrives to inves gate, Maggie’s heart does a li le flip‐flop, but between trying to find her sister, solve a crime, and reopen the bar in me for the Tails and Tiaras fundraiser, there is no way Maggie can ignite her love life…or is there? The Roundup Crew must step in and save the bar, and it seems the only way to do that will be to solve the mys‐
tery and turn Maggie into a dog‐lover. (Agent: Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyon Literary
Agency) Diana Orgain is the author of the bestselling Maternal Ins ncts Mystery Series: Bundle of Trouble, Motherhood is Murder, and Formula for Murder, published by Penguin. She is the co‐author with New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs of Gilt Trip, also published by Penguin. Diana’s A First
Date with Death, the first in her new Reality TV Mystery series, was published by Penguin in March 2015. h p://dianaorgain.com 16
Darren Fletcher and Issabella Bright are finally ge ng some roman c alone me when a le er arrives from the Fletcher Group. Luther, Darren’s brother and corrupt coheir to the firm that Darren renounced years ago, has asked Darren to stop inves ga ng the firm’s shady business deal‐
ings. But a call from a friend in crisis means he has no me to brood about his past. Theresa, the own‐
er of Winkle’s Tavern, and one of Darren’s only friends, is the prime suspect in a murder. The vic m is unknown to both Darren and Izzy, but the black key card in his wallet is familiar. Darren has one just like it; they’re given to all associates of the Fletcher Group. Izzy knows that Darren won’t stop un l he’s figured out exactly how Lu‐
ther is involved in Theresa’s arrest. But it’s an older case, the one that derailed Darren’s career and haunts him to this day, that ul mately threatens all they’ve worked so hard to build. (Agent: Cur s Russell, P.S. Literary) Amory and her rakish husband Milo are back, in this deligh ul, chic mystery for fans of Nick and Nora Charles A MOST NOVEL REVENGE: An Amory Ames Mystery
by Ashley Weaver Minotaur Books, October 2016
◦ Hardcover, 320pp Amory Ames and her husband Milo receive a mysterious invita on to the country house of Iso‐
bel Van Allen, a socialite and authoress who has returned to England a er years of social exile. Sev‐
en years before, Isobel and a group of her friends were present at a suspicious death, the details of which she thinly veiled as fic on in a novel that scandalized the country. Now Isobel has returned with the intent of publishing a second incrimina ng volume, and Amory and Milo find that several of their acquaintances may be affected by the secrets to be exposed. But some secrets can be deadly, and when a desperate person turns to murder, it is up to Amory and Milo to sort through a web of scandal and lies to uncover the truth...and the iden ty of a killer. (Agent: Ann Colle e, Rees Literary Agency) Publisher has world English rights
Foreign sales: Bri sh (Allison & Busby), Russia (AST) Publisher has world English rights
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A DEVIL’S BARGAIN: A Bright & Fletcher mystery, book 4
by Jonathan Watkins Carina Press, February 2016
◦ E‐book, 228pp
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Also by Ashley Weaver: Also by Jonathan Watkins: “Motor City Shakedown is a fast‐paced, humorous thrill‐
er that will leave you guess‐
ing un l the very end.” – Michelle Sco , author of
the Lilith Straight Series Jonathan Watkins lives and works in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Art and Children’s Litera‐
ture from Eastern Michigan University and his Juris Doctor‐
ate from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Motor City Shakedown, the first book in the Bright & Fletcher mystery series was his debut novel. h p://brightandfletcher.blogspot.com * Murder at the Brightwell was nominated for a 2015 Edgar Award for best first novel by an American author! Foreign sales for Murder at the Brightwell and Death Wears a Mask: Bri sh (Allison & Busby), Japan (Hayakawa), Portugal (Civilização Editora), Russia (AST) A lifelong lover of all types of books, especially mysteries, Ashley
Weaver graduated with undergraduate degree in English before pursuing a master’s degree in Library and Informa on Science from Louisiana State University. She currently works as a librarian in a public library. A er living in Texas and Wisconsin, she now resides in Central Louisiana. Murder at the Brightwell was her first novel, and it was nominated for an Edgar Award. www.ashley‐weaver.com 17
One fish may hold the key to conserva on world‐wide THE IMPERILED CUTTHROAT: Tracing the Fate of Yellowstone’s Nave Trout
by Greg French Patagonia Books, June 2016
◦ Hardcover, 256pp
Yellowstone, the world’s first na onal park and one of America’s truly great trout fisheries, has been a crucible for ideas on how to look a er wild places. Renowned Australian fishing writer Greg French gives a sparkling firsthand account of how the park’s history, landscapes, wildlife, and people have touched anglers worldwide—and why this ma ers. The Imperiled Cu hroat is a travelogue that covers the story of the Yellowstone cu hroat trout: its discovery, biology, decima on, modern‐
day allure, and uncertain future. The Yellowstone fishery is at a crossroads, and debate about what to do is dangerously narrow. Although set against the drama c backdrop of Yellowstone, comparisons to Aus‐
tralia, New Zealand, and Europe are inevitable. The power of Greg’s stories comes not just from the quality of the wri ng but also from the quirks and passions of the people he meets. Greg’s compelling storytelling will enthrall anglers and natu‐
ralists the world over. Greg French is one of Australia’s best‐known fishing authors. He spends most of his me in Australia and New Zealand, but he has fished extensively in South America, North America, the Bri sh Isles, Iceland, Eastern Europe, and Mongolia. French has spent most of his life in nature‐based employment: first as a wilderness guide, followed by s nts as a park ranger in Tas‐
mania’s Wild Rivers Na onal Park, and a hatchery officer at the historic Salmon Ponds. He’s wri en numerous books, including a comprehensive guide, Trout Waters of Tasmania, originally published in 1984 and last updated in 2011; Frog Call (New Holland, 2002) a work of literary non‐fic on; and its companion, Ar ficial (New Holland, 2008). Menagerie of False Truths was published by Exisle in 2010. French also cowrote with Nick Reygaert the acclaimed documentary Hatch. In 2013, Reygaert and French produced a companion DVD, Predator, which won the Best DVD award at the 2013 IFTD tackle show in Las Vegas. He lives in Molesworth, Australia. Recipes for affordable meals presented so polished you’d never know their “lowbrow” origins, complete with ps and tricks that prove fabulous hos ng doesn’t have to break the bank UPSCALE DOWNHOME: Family Recipes, All Gussied Up
by Rachel Hollis St. Mar n’s Griffin, October 2016
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Rachel Hollis, blogger and founder of “The Chic Site,” which reaches over 600,000 users a month, delivers this swoon‐worthy cookbook packed with delicious and easy comfort food that’s sure to wow at both fami‐
ly suppers and the fanciest dinner par es. Rachel puts a finger‐licking gourmet twist on classic American favorites in sec ons that in‐
clude recipes for: *Casseroles: balsamic bacon‐wrapped meat‐
loaf, bacon and green chili mac n’cheese *Potluck: loaded baked potato salad, seven layer salad *Dips: grilled guacamole, corn dip, chili cheese dip, pizza dip *Sips: strawberry rosemary moonshine, Grandma’s sweet tea *Somethin’ Sweet: banana pudding parfaits, Mema’s carrot cake Packed with big flavor and simple enough for a beginner home cook to master,
Upscale Downhome focuses on great‐tas ng food and beau ful presenta on that is guaranteed to impress. This is the kind of food that we all like to eat, served up with a chic twist. (Agent: Kevan Lyon & Kathleen Rushall, Marsal Lyon Literary
Agency) Rachel Hollis is the founder of Los Angeles‐based event plan‐
ning firm, Chic Events. In 2009, she was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the “Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30.” She has designed and produced fabulous par es for many of Holly‐
wood’s elite, including Bradley Cooper, Al Gore, Rashida Jones, Jennifer Love Hewi , Ivanka Trump, Jaime King, and Cuba Gooding Jr. (just to name a few). Rachel is the entertain‐
ment contributor for Tradi onal Home Magazine, and a regu‐
lar contributor to The Huffington Post, PopSugar TV, and Cele‐
bra ons.com. In addi on, she is a lifestyle expert for The Talk, EXTRA, The Nate Berkus Show, Steve Harvey, Home & Family, KTLA Morning News, Good Day LA, Fox 5, and Be er TV. She has been featured in People, InStyle, OK!, Entertainment Weekly, Entrepreneur, Grace Ormand and several TV shows. She lives in Lost Angeles with her family. h p://thechicsite.com/author/rachel‐hollis/ 18
GETTING TO “YES AND”: The Art of Business Improv
by Bob Kulhan Stanford University Press, fall 2016
◦ Hardcover, es mated 285pp A moving story of a remarkable young woman who won Olympic gold, but whose passion truly lies in inspiring others FINDING MY SHINE
by Nas a Liukin Independently published, December 2015
◦ Paperback, 174pp
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“Kulhan was early to the realiza on that we are constantly innova ng in business and in life, and there’s a method for doing it be er. Although a key insight in the book is that improvisa on isn’t synonymous with comedy, nobody will mind that Bob presents important ideas in a way that is lively and fun.” – Paul Ingram, Columbia Business School
Amidst the deluge of advice for businesspeople, there lies an overlooked tool, a key to thriving in today’s fast‐paced, unpredictable environment: improvi‐
sa on. In Ge ng to “Yes And” veteran improv performer, university professor, CEO, and consultant Bob Kulhan unpacks a form of mental agility with powers far beyond the entertainment value of comedy troupes. Drawing on principles from cogni ve and social psychology, behavioral economics, and communica on, Kulhan teaches readers to think on their feet and approach the most typical busi‐
ness challenges with fresh eyes and an openness like none other. He shows how improv techniques such as the "Yes, and" approach, divergent and convergent thinking, and focusing on being present can translate into more produc ve mee ngs, swi er decisions, stronger collabora on, posi ve conflict resolu on, mindfulness, and more. Moving from the individual to the organiza onal level, Kulhan compiles me‐tested teaching methods and training exercises into an in‐
strumental guide that readers can readily implement either as a party of one or a company of thousands. (Agent: Bonnie Solow, Solow Literary Enterprises, Inc.) Nas a Liukin is an Olympic gymnas cs all‐
around gold medalist, but the road to her success was not an easy one. In Finding My Shine, she shares not only her personal journey of success, but also her biggest challenges, including her career ending fall during the 2012 Olympic Trials that she now says was the defining moment of her life. Throughout this book, she delivers her mo va onal ps toward reaching any goal, overcoming obsta‐
cles, and learning how to pick yourself up a er the inevitable falls you will have in life. Born in Moscow, Russia, her parents were both champion gymnasts in their na ve country. The Liukins moved to the United States when Nas a was two and a half, because they wanted to give their daughter every opportunity possible. Even then, Nas a was certain she wanted to be a gymnast, and spent every hour she could in training. That dedica on paid off. Nas a became a key member of the US team, winning five Olympic medals. She also won nine world championship medals (four gold and five silver) making her one of the most cele‐
brated gymnasts in US history. She now speaks to girls and young women across the country in the hopes of mo va ng them to turn their own dreams into reali‐
ty. (Agent: Sharlene Mar n, Mar n Literary Management) Hailed as an “improvisa on guru” by the Wall Street
Journal, Bob Kulhan is a professional comedian who cut his teeth on the famed Second City stage in Chicago and has trained with Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Seth Myers. Interna onally renowned for his singular melding of im‐
prov and business, Kulhan co‐founded Business Improv, a consul ng firm whose clients include PepsiCo, Capital One, Ford Motor Company, American Express, and Proc‐
tor & Gamble, among others. Kulhan currently serves as an adjunct professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the Co‐
lumbia Business School, where his courses are part of the MBA program(s). While his exper se has been sought a er by such media outlets as the Slate, the Wall
Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, and NPR, Ge ng to
“Yes And” is the first me Bob has compiled his methods into a comprehensive work geared toward the general reader. Grace and beauty in the sport of gymnas cs led Nas a Liukin
to her crowning achievement at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, but winning five medals was only the beginning for this golden girl. A er returning home, she graced the pages of countless magazines and appeared on various TV shows, while even being chosen as one of 2009’s most influen al people by MSN Lifestyle. Liukin’s commitment to helping li le girls with big dreams landed her a clothing line, SuperGirl by Nas a, along with her very own gymnas cs compe on, The Nas a Liukin Cup. In 2012, she was a member of the crea ve team and a cast member for the Kellogg’s Tour of Olympic Champions, a na onal, 40‐city tour that fol‐
lowed the 2012 Olympic Games. She remains an ambassador for the sport while working with USA Gymnas cs and works as a television analyst for NBC. Liukin is also a full me student at New York University and will be gradua ng in May of 2016. www.nas aliukin.com 19
CHASING PORTRAITS: A Great Granddaughter’s Quest for her Lost
Art Legacy
by Elizabeth Rynecki Berkley, September 2016
◦ Hardcover, es mated 340pp Chasing Portraits is the story of a great‐
granddaughter’s efforts to find the lost works of Moshe Rynecki, a Warsaw‐based ar st who painted scenes of the Polish‐Jewish community in the inter‐
war years. When the Nazis invaded Poland, Moshe divided his 800 pain ngs into bundles and hid them. Rynecki perished in the Holocaust and his widow recovered just over 100 pieces of the original collec‐
on, some of which hung on the walls of Elizabeth’s childhood home. When Elizabeth’s grandfather—
Moshe’s son George—dies, she discovers journals with his accounts of the family’s war me survival story and begins to search for her great‐grandfather Moshe’s missing pain ngs. Her quest goes interna onal with her discovery of his pain ngs in Poland, Israel, Canada, and across the United States, while her inner journey transforms her from claimant to historian. (Agent: Sharlene Mar n, Mar n Literary Management) Publisher has world English rights
Elizabeth Rynecki holds a master’s degree in Rhetoric and Speech Communica on from UC Davis; her thesis focused on the voices of children of Holocaust survi‐
vors—the second genera on. Stories about her quest have appeared in Northern California’s JWeekly, San
Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Times of Israel, The Journal of Art Crime, and the Bri sh Museum Associ‐
a on’s Museum Journal. She lectures widely; from the University of Toronto and the JCC in Krakow to San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum. In 2014, Rynecki and Emmy award‐
winning cinematographer Slawomir Grunberg filmed footage for a documentary chronicling Moshe Rynecki and his work and Elizabeth’s research and discoveries. The documentary has 501c3 sponsorship from the Na onal Center for Jewish Film, and is scheduled for release in 2017. www.chasingportraits.org Material available
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The memoir of one woman’s emo onal quest to find the art of her Polish‐Jewish great‐grandfather, lost during World War II One romance novelist’s quest to write her own happily ever a er MEET ME IN PARIS: A Memoir
by Julie e Sobanet Independently published, December 2015
◦ Paperback, 396pp “With extraordinary finesse, Julie e Sobanet writes a courageous story of the heart and a beau ful love le er to Paris.” – Adria J. Cimino, author of the
Amazon best-selling novel Paris, Rue des Martyrs “Unflinchingly honest and wri en from the heart, Meet Me in Paris is a candid account of one wom‐
an’s passionate affair with Paris, and the men in her life.” – Jan Moran, author of The Winemakers What does a romance novelist do when she loses her own happily ever a er? Take a lover and travel to Paris, obviously. Or at least this is what Julie e Sobanet did upon making the bold, heart‐wrenching decision to divorce the man she had loved since she was a teenager. This is the story of the passionate love affair that ensued during the most devasta ng year of Sobanet’s life and how her star‐
crossed romance in the City of Light led to her undoing. Meet Me in Paris is a raw, powerful take on divorce and the daring choices that followed such a monumen‐
tal loss from the pen of a writer who’d always believed in happy endings…and who ul mately found the courage to write her own. (Agent: Kevan Lyon, Marsal
Lyon Literary Agency) Foreign publishers of Julie e Sobanet’s romance novels: Italy (Newton), Roma‐
nia (Corint), Turkey (Arkadya Yayınları) All of Julie e Sobanet’s sassy romances are set in her favorite place in the world: France. This fits perfectly with her other life as a French professor. Julie e is a member of the RWA, Washington Romance Writers, and Chick Lit Writers of the World. She holds a BA from Georgetown University and a MA from New York University in France. www.julie esobanet.com 20
THE OUT-OF-SYNC CHILD GROWS UP: Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder in the Adolescent and Young Adult Years
by Carol Stock Kranowitz
Perigee, May 2016
◦ Paperback, 174pp
The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up is the new bible for the vast audience of parents whose chil‐
dren, already diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder, are entering the adolescent, tween, and teen years, as well as those who do not yet have a diagnosis and are struggling to meet the challenges of daily life. This book picks up where The Out-ofSync Child le off, offering prac cal advice on living with SPD, covering everyday challenges as well as the social and emo onal issues that many young people with SPD face. Topics include strategies for coping with the sensory aspects of grooming, social lives and da ng, playing sports and music, and other issues, as well as how to find support and help from loved ones, occupa onal therapy, and other resources. Carol Kranowitz’s insights are supplemented by first‐person accounts of adoles‐
cents and teens with SPD, sharing their experiences and hard‐won lessons with readers and adding a powerful personal dimension to the book. (Agent: Lynn Sonberg, Lynn Sonberg Agency) Foreign sales for The Out‐of‐Sync Child: China (Beijing Xindaboya), Finland (PS Kustannus), Hungary (Studio Nagy), Israel (Amazia), Japan (Subaru‐sha), Korea (Seoul Community), The Netherlands ((Nieuwezijds), Poland (Harmonia), Romania (Editura Fron era), Russia (Nadezhda Gagulashvili), Turkey (Pepino Egi m Oyun‐
cak) As a music, movement, and drama teacher for 25 years, Carol Stock Kranowitz observed many out‐of‐sync preschoolers. To help them become more competent in their work and play, she began to study sensory processing and sensory integra‐
on (SI) theory. A graduate of Barnard College, Carol has an MA in Educa on and Human Development from The George Washington University. She has given presenta ons all around the world to such audiences as Geneva Centre for Au sm, The Children’s Services Centre, Au sm Awareness Centre, and Na onal Associa on for the Educa on of Young Children (NAEYC). She’s the author of the million‐copy bestseller The Out-of-Sync Child and other tles on Sensory Pro‐
cessing Disorder in children. www.out‐of‐sync‐child.com Material available
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The long‐awaited follow‐up to the million‐copy bestseller The Out-of-Sync Child A Hollywood tell‐all by TV’s most beloved teacher LITTLE HOUSE IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS: A Bad Girl’s Guide to
Becoming Miss Beadle, Mary X, and Me
by Charlo e Stewart & Andy Demsky Bear Manor Media, June 2016
◦ Hardcover, es mated 315pp “Charlo e Stewart is my kind of girl—a talented, courageous actress—a loyal friend and one who brings happiness to work.” – David Lynch, who
directed Charlo e in Eraserhead and Twin Peaks In this no‐holds‐barred, heart‐breaking and ul mately joyful account of Charlo e Stewart’s 50 years in film and television, she offers a back‐
stage pass to Hollywood’s cocaine‐fueled glory years. The book serves up behind‐the‐scenes de‐
tails of her celebrated work as television’s most beloved schoolteacher, Miss Beadle, on Li le
House on the Prairie, as well as with David Lynch in his cult classic film Eraserhead as Mary X, and later in the blockbuster television show Twin Peaks as Be y Briggs, the eternal op mist who wore a smiley face bu on to Laura Palmer’s funeral. It’s a memoir of working with leading men from Jimmy Stewart and Elvis Presley to Kevin Bacon and Kyle MacLachlan. It also details off‐stage marriages, friendships, and flings with some of film and music’s biggest names. (Agent: Jill Marsal, Marsal
Lyon Literary Agency) Publisher has world English rights
Over the course of 50 years in film and television, Charlo e Stewart has worked with great performers including Jimmy Stewart, Shirley Jones, Rock Hudson, Elvis Presley, Michael Landon, and Rainn Wilson. She is set to reprise her role of Be y Briggs in the new Twin Peaks series to be seen on Show me in 2016. Her long list of credits include guest roles in television classics such as Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, The Waltons, Mannix, My Three Sons, and Bonanza. She is frequently a featured celebrity at fan events and fes vals for Li le
House on the Prairie and Twin Peaks both in the US and abroad. www.charlo estewartbook.com Co‐author Andy Demsky is a writer and journalist whose work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times magazine and Be er Homes & Gardens, and he co‐wrote Doug Shafer’s cri cally acclaimed memoir A Vineyard in Napa. 21
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