One of my friends works at a book store...so here are some future books,that you might be interested in
Robert James Waller's HIGH PLANS TANGO,
about "a master carpenter pitted against a
coalition of politics and business," and THE LONG
NIGHT OF WINCHELL DEAR, to Shaye Areheart at
Shaye Areheart Books, in a major deal, for
publication beginning in fall 2005, by David
Vigliano at Vigliano Associates (world).
Chitra Divakaruni's PANCHAALI, based on the
Mukbharata as seen from a woman's point of view,
again to Deb Futter at Doubleday, by Sandra Dijsktra
at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
Author of An Instance of the Fingerpost Iain
Pears' THE PORTRAIT, dealing with art history,
the relationship between critic and artist, sexual
secrets, revenge and ultimately murder, for
publication in July 2005, and an historical novel
set in 1870s Venice and Paris, for publication in
2008, to Julia Wisdom at Harper UK, by Felicity
Bryan at Felicity Bryan Agency.
Author of Knee Deep in Wonder April Reynolds' THE
NEW YORK NOVEL, a social satire about a Southern
Baptist preacher whose ambition to be the next Martin
Luther King drives him to the unthinkable, the
dead young man who becomes his cause
célèbre, the beautiful blonde who
reports the messy dealings of New York in its
assumed decline, and more, to Amy Scheibe at the
Free Press, for publication in 2007, by Jennifer
Lyons at Writers House.
Paul Anderson's HUNGER'S BRIDES: A Novel of the
Baroque, called the "literary event of the year
in Canada," an apocalyptic, lyrical, and erotically
charged epic about a disgraced academic piecing
together the life of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz --
the legendary Mexican nun who jousted with
enforcers of the Inquisition in the new world,
then signed a vow of silence in her own blood, to
Philip Turner at Carroll & Graf, by Ron Eckel at
Random House Canada (US).
Author of THE SIXTEEN PLEASURES Robert Hellenga's
PHILOSOPHY MADE SIMPLE, about an aging older man,
and his desire to reinvent himself as he moves through
one of life's final passages, to Pat Strachan at
Little, Brown, by Henry Dunow at Dunow & Carlson
(world).
A reissue of Sue Kaufman's DIARY OF A MAD
HOUSEWIFE, the classic novel of Central Park West
ennui, to Jofie Ferrari-Adler at Thunder's Mouth, by
Kirsten Ringer at Russell & Volkening (NA).
Rick Collignon's fourth novel, the story of
Madewell Brown, the mysterious man who made his
first appearance in the opening pages of his second
novel Perdido, chronicling his experiences in the
Negro Leagues, again to Fred Ramey, now for
Unbridled Books, for publication in fall 2005
(world).
Subramanian Shankar's COME SOFTLY, WIND in which
an elderly Tamil Brahmin civil servant returns to
his ancestral village after more than forty years
working in New Delhi, in a novel whose plot is driven
by the tension between tradition and modernity,
to Roland Pease at Steerforth, in a nice deal, by
Jennifer Lyons at Writers House (world English).
Debut
DeLauné Michel's first novel
AFTERMATH OF DREAMING, pitched as "a cross between
Anita Shreve and Jane Green, to Carrie Feron at
William Morrow, for six figures, for two books,
by Eileen Cope at Lowenstein-Yost (world
English).
Award-winning cartoonist Martin Rowson's first
novel SNATCHES, retelling the stories of the worst
decisions the human race has ever made, from our
emerging from the swamp to now - with a cast that
features St Simeon Stylites, Hernando Cortes,
Adolf Hitler, Evelyn Waugh, Sigmund Freud, Ronald
Reagan, Josef Stalin and an appearance by Candide in
Las Vegas, to Dan Franklin at Jonathan Cape, for
publication in spring 2006, by David Miller at
Rogers, Coleridge & White (UK/Commonwealth
excluding Canada).
Young African American novelist Rachael Harper's
debut novel BRASS ANKLE BLUES, the story of a 15
year old girl of mixed race heritage who struggles to
come to terms with her parents'impending divorce,
while renegotiating her own place in a world --
and a family -- where she is neither totally
black nor entirely white, to Brett Valley at
Touchstone Fireside, in a nice deal, by Ira
Silverberg at Donadio & Olson (NA).
David Angsten's DAY OF THE DEAD, in which the
search for a missing brother leads three American
college grads to a shipwreck off the Mexican coast
guarded by a mysterious creature of the deep,
called a "mythic adventure tale in the literary
tradition of Melville and Poe," to Pete Wolverton
at Thomas Dunne, by Ken Atchity at AEI Literary
Management.
Rebecca Lee's first novel THE CITY IS A RISING
TIDE, a story of unrequited love, loss, architecture,
Chinese food and pipe dreams, about a young woman
raised in China by missionaries who fled home to
Saskatchewan during the Cultural Revolution and
now finds herself in Manhattan, running a nonprofit
with the lover of her now dead Chinese nanny, to
Denise Roy at Simon & Schuster, by Douglas
Stewart at Sterling Lord Literistic (NA).
Mystery/Crime
Boris Akunin's The Sister Pelagia
Mysteries, comprising PELAGIA AND THE WHITE BULLDOG,
PELAGIA AND THE BLACK MONK, and PELAGIA AND THE RED
COCKEREL, set in 19th-century Russia, chronicling
the adventures of a young nun, Pelagia (a blend
of Father Brown, Miss Marple and Russian romantic
heroine), bespectacled, freckled, red-haired and a
voracious knitter, who teaches gymnastics and
literature, and in her spare time solves crimes,
to Helen Garnons-Williams at Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, in a good deal, by Linda Michaels in
association with the Italian publisher,
Frassinelli, translated by Andrew Bromfield
(UK/Commonwealth).
UK screenwriter of THE EASTENDERS Jeff Povey's
THE SERIAL KILLERS CLUB, called "a killer novel
that delivers laughs and thrills like GET SHORTY and
SKINNY DIP," to Karen Kosztolnyik at Warner, in a
good deal, by the Barbara Zitwer Agency (world
English). Translation rights are with the Vicki
Satlow Literary Agency.
Gillian Roberts' (nom de mystere of Judy Greber)
next two books featuring sleuth Amanda Pepper as
she moves forward in her life of detection and her
marriage plans with CK, to Joe Blades at
Ballantine, in a nice deal, by Jean Naggar at the
Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency (NA).
Danielle Girard's THE ROOKIE CLUB, in which a
cynical female cop is forced to team up with a
rookie to track a serial rapist and solve the murder
of a San Francisco inspector that's linked to a
fifteen-year-old case, to Kara Cesare at NAL, in
a nice deal, by Helen Breitwieser at Cornerstone
Literary (world English).
Duane Swierczynski's SMELL THE ROSES, the story
of a mute Irish getaway driver who falls in with
the wrong heist team on the wrong day at the wrong
bank, to Marc Resnick at Minotaur/St. Martin's,
in a nice deal, for two books, by David Hale
Smith at DHS Literary (NA).
Thriller
Tim Cockey, writing as Richard Hawke's two
new thrillers featuring a young private detective
in New York whom the high and mighty call on when they
need decisiveness and discretion, starting with
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL, in which he must protect the
mayor's girlfriend after someone tries to kill
her, but he's soon involved in a much larger and
even more dangerous case, to Mark Tavani for Random
House, by Inkwell Management (world).
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Ariana Franklin's THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE,
pitched as "Robert Harris meets Cabaret," a
Berlin Noir what-if thriller about Franziska
Schanzkowsky, alias Anna Anderson, who claimed to
be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaevna, the only
surviving child of Tsar Nicholas ll, and fooled
the world for decades, to Carolyn Marino at William
Morrow, by Helen Heller at the Helen Heller
Agency (US). Canadian rights to Diane Turbide at
Penguin Canada.
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
James A. Hetley's DRAGON'S TEETH, the
sequel to Dragon's Eye, to Anne Sowards at Ace, in
a nice deal, by Lucienne Diver at Spectrum Literary
Agency (NA).
Women's/Romance
Darri Stephens and Megan DeSales's
SPOONING: The Cooking Club Divas Do Manhattan,
combining a dash of cooking, a smidge of sex, and a
sprinkle of misadventures, in this chick-lit romp
that brings six best girl-friends together for
their monthly Cooking Club -- recipes and all --
throughout their wild first year in NYC, to Ann
Campbell at Broadway, by Wendy Sherman at Wendy
Sherman Associates (NA).
Romantic comedy author Beverly Brandt's MATCH
GAME, about a timid accountant whose identity is
stolen and, when she realizes that the thief is having
a lot more fun with her identity - and her credit
- than she ever did, decides to make over her
life by reverse-engineering quizzes in Cosmo and
Glamour, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley, in a two-book
deal, by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency (NA).
Charlotte Hubbard's A PATCHWORK FAMILY and an
untitled book, the first two titles in her "Angels
of Mercy" series of historical inspirational novels,
to Alicia Condon at Dorchester, in a nice deal,
by Evan Marshall at the Evan Marshall Agency
(world).
Donna Clayton's NANNY AND THE BEAST, to Julie
Barrett at Silhouette Romance, in a nice deal, by
Evan Marshall at the Evan Marshall Agency (world).
Debbie Raleigh's untitled vampire romance
trilogy, to John Scognamiglio at Kensington, in a nice
deal, by Evan Marshall at the Evan Marshall
Agency (world). evanmarshall@T...
Children's
Young Adult
Cecily von Ziegesar's new YA series THE IT
GIRL, based on one of the lead Gossip Girl
characters who ventures off to a top East Coast
booarding school, and 3 more books in the GOSSIP
GIRL series, again to Cindy Eagan at Little,
Brown Children's, in a major deal, by Sarah Burnes
at Burnes & Clegg for Alloy Entertainment (world
English).
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Christopher Grey's debut novel LEONARDO'S BOY,
narrated from the point of view of Leonardo da
Vinci's young servant, who has ambitions to become an
artist himself, all the while trying to coax his
master into finishing The Last Supper, to Caitlyn
Dlouhy at Atheneum, ia nice deal, by Jennifer
Lyons at Writers House (NA).
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Beth Mayall's MERMAID PARK, a coming-of-age story
set at the Jersey shore where reality and fantasy
intersect as teenager Amy Rush learns that the
difference between the two is murkier than it
seems, to Liesa Abrams at Razorbill.
Former head of creative affairs at Miramax and
screenwriter Michael Apostolina's debut YA novel
HAZING MERRI SUGARMAN, about an insecure loner who
joins a pre-eminent sorority house whose
diabolical president rules the college and entire
town with blackmail and extortion and turns the tables
on her tormentor, to Julia Richardson at Simon
Pulse, by Jennifer DeChiara at the Jennifer
DeChiara Literary Agency (world English).
Middle grade
British rights to Trenton Lee Stewart's THE
MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY, in which four
unrelated orphans respond to a newspaper ad that
reads, "Are you a gifted child looking for
special opportunities?" and are tested and
recruited for an undercover mission that challenges
each of their unique skills, to Barry Cunningham at
Chicken House, at auction, in a two-book deal, by
Kate Schafer at Janklow & Nesbit Associates.
Italian rights were pre-empted by Margherita
Forestan at Mondadori, and Spanish rights pre-empted
by Alicia Soria at Ediciones B.
George Harrar's THE WONDER KID, set in the 1950s,
about a boy who has to prove himself to his
father in a community under the threat of polio by a
multiply published author of children's books and
literary novels, to Kate O'Sullivan at Houghton
Mifflin, in a nice deal, by Esmond Harmsworth at
Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency (world).
Picture book
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's THE 2000 YEAR
OLD MAN GOES TO SCHOOL, illustrated by James
Bennett, to Kate Morgan Jackson at Harper Children's,
for publication in spring 2005, by packager Byron
Preiss Visual Publications, which is producing
the book.
Film
Danny King's THE BANK ROBBER DIARIES,
called part crime caper and part black comedy,
about a thief who can't manage to keep his gang in
line, or his life in order, optioned to Ska Films
(producers of LOCK STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING
BARRELS), in a good deal, by Steve Fisher at APA,
on behalf of the Darley Anderson Literary Agency.
Film rights to Ira Levin's ROSEMARY'S BABY and
SON OF ROSEMARY, to Barbara Lieberman at Robert
Greenwald Productions for a four-hour mini series at
ABC, in a major deal for seven figures, by Don
Laventhall at Harold Ober and Associates.
