Deals

Ron Rash’s THE INNOCENTS a novel set during World War I about a deserter taken in by a young Appalachian woman who knows nothing of his past and NIGHTHAWKS AND OTHER STORIES a collection of stories to Ecco’s editorial director Lee Boudreaux in a good deal by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Vanitha Sankaran’s WATERMARK set in 1320 in Narbonne, France a time when church controlled parchment makes paper making a near heresy, told by a young albino mute woman the literate daughter of a papermaker imprisoned when the inquisition finds her using paper to write troubadour poetry about courtly love to Lucia Macro at Avon by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Amy Stoll’s THE NINTH WIFE the story of a 35-year-old single woman who falls in love with an Irishman named Rory and after his marriage proposal and confession of having been married eight times before, sets out on a cross-country journey to find Rory’s ex-wives to Claire Wachtel at Harper in a good deal by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Dutch rights to Jacqueline Novogratz’s THE BLUE SWEATER about meaningful solutions to global poverty and a call to action to all concerned with growing inequality around the world to Artemis by Jacqueline LeDonne and Korean rights by Danny Hong of Danny Hong Agency both on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Brazilian rights to Thrity Umrigar’s memoir FIRST DARLING OF THE MORNING and novel BOMBAY TIME, to Nova Fronteira, in nice deals, by Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters Meg Waite Clayton’s THE MS. BRADWELLS, about four law school friends whose reunion at a Chesapeake Bay island family home leads them to face the truth about an unexplained death years earlier, their very different career paths, and the redemptive power of friendship, to Libby McGuire and Anika Streitfeld at Ballantine, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

Simplified Chinese rights to George Bishop, Jr.’s TO MY DAUGHTER ON HER FIFTEENTH BIRTHDAY, to Yilin Press, in a pre-empt, by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency, on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Korean rights to George Bishop, Jr’s TO MY DAUGHTER ON HER FIFTEENTH BIRTHDAY, to Magellan fiction imprint ImageBox, by Danny Hong of Danny Hong Agency, at auction, on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Deal of the Day — NYT bestselling author of Kabul Beauty School Deborah Rodriguez’s KABUL COFFEE CLUB, set amidst the turbulence and complexity of present day Kabul, in which six women, both Afghan and foreigners form unlikely friendships, and find love and fulfillment in a coffee house set in the middle of a war zone, to Jane von Mehren at Random House, in a significant deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (World bujt Germany).

Complex Chinese rights to George Bishop, Jr’s TO MY DAUGHTER ON HER FIFTEENTH BIRTHDAY to Crown’s Emily Chuang in Taipei by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency in a five figure deal at auction on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.