Deals

Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010

DEAL OF THE DAY – Pat Conroy’s MY LIFE IN BOOKS, in which one of America’s bestselling storytellers, revisits a life of passionate reading, and discusses the books that helped him find a place in the world, with personal ruminations on the people, writers, and books that made him into the reader and writer he is today, from Tolstoy to Thomas Wolfe and beyond in a major deal to Nan Talese at Knopf/Doubleday by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World)

Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010

Talia Carner’s JERUSALEM MAIDEN a rich historical tale of one woman’s struggle for self-expression, which opens in 1911 with the city under Ottoman rule and follows the life of twelve-year-old Esther Kaminsky to adulthood as her art sets her against her orthodox society’s expectations of her as a wife and mother to Katherine Nintzel at Harper Collins in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010

UK rights to Elif Shafak’s THE FORTY RULES OF LOVE to Penguin’s Kate Barker by Lizzy Kremer of David Higham Associates on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010

Czech rights to Ron Rash’s SERENA to Jota Publishing by Kristin Olson of Kristin Olson Literary Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010

Korean rights to Pat Conroy’s THE WATER IS WIDE to Thinking Tree Publishing by Danny Hong of Danny Hong Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010

UK rights to Laurie Viera Rigler’s RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT the sequel to “Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict” to Bloomsbury’s Helen Garnons-Williams by Lizzy Kremer of David Higham Associates on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010

UK rights to Robin Oliveira’s MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER to Juliet Annan of Fig Tree/Penguin by Lizzy Kremer of David Higham Associates on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Publishers Marketplace – November 12, 2009

Kamala Nair’s THE GIRL IN THE GARDEN, the redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a terrifying secret to Karen Kosztolnyik at Grand Central in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English)

Publishers Marketplace – November 12, 2009

Michael Stanley’s THE DEATH OF THE MANTIS, the third Detective Kubu novel, in which a series of unexplained and apparently unconnected deaths hits the southern Kalahari in Botswana, leading to tension with the Bushman people and conflict in the Criminal Investigation Department, which Kubu tries to resolve while investigating the murders to Claire Wachtel at Harper Collins in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English)

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