Deals

Deal of the Day — George Bishop, Jr.’s TO MY DAUGHTER ON HER FIFTEENTH BIRTHDAY, in which a mother seeks reconciliation with her runaway daughter by recounting in a letter the story of her own troubled adolescence, revealing why her parents sent her away to a Catholic boarding school, how her long-distance love affair with a boy in Vietnam ended in tragedy, and offering her something her mother never told her: the truth about how a girl grows up, the truth about life to Random’s Jane von Mehren and Libby McGuire in a very major two-book deal at auction by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency. World English.

Dr. David Walsh author of two best selling parenting books now follows with PARENTING WITH THE BRAIN IN MIND which translates the latest scientific findings about brain development in easy-to-understand terms and using real life examples shows parents and teachers how to use this information in practical situations to Free Press’s Leslie Meredith in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.(NA)

Simplified Chinese rights to Judy Merrill Larsen’s ALL THE NUMBERS to Shanghai Transcendency Cultural & Communication Co., Ltd. by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

Simplified Chinese rights to Meg Waite Clayton’s THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS to Shanghai Gaotan Culture Co., Ltd. by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

Deal of the Day — Ellen Horan’s 31 BOND STREET, interweaves fiction with actual events surrounding the infamous murder of Dr. Harvey Burdell and the subsequent trial of his housekeeper and lover Emma Cunningham, a clever historical narrative that blends romance, politics, greed and sexual intrigue, set against the background of bustling, corrupt New York City, four years before the Civil War, in a major two book seven figure deal preempt to Harper’s Jonathan Burnham and Claire Wachtel by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary. World English; Film rights handled by Lynn Pleshette Agency

Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway’s LADY SUSAN AND HER DAUGHTER a full fledged reconstruction of Jane Austen’s early epistolary novella Lady Susan offering a new view of this clever worldly widow with her sixteen-year-old daughter to Crown’s Heather Proulx at auction in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency. (NA)

French rights to Elif Shafak’s nonfiction BLACK MILK to Phebus’ Daniel Arsand by Anna Jarota of AJA on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

Dutch rights to Kate Brennan’s IN HIS SIGHTS to Arena by Jacqueline LeDonne on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

Brazilian rights to Pat Conroy ‘s THE PRINCE OF TIDES to BestBolso by Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

French rights to Kwei Quartey’s WIFE OF THE GODS to Payot & Rivages by Anna Jarota of AJA on behalf of Michael Radulescu of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.