Deals

CURDS AND WHEY by Kathe Lison — Kathe Lison’s CURDS AND WHEY part travelogue, part culinary guide, part memoir, tells the stories and histories of French cheesemaking, from the popular to the artisanal as we travel the French countryside tasting its rich fare, meeting cheesemakers whose lifestyles, and approaches to their art are as diverse and flavorful as the delicacies they produce to Rachel Klayman at Crown at auction in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Agency. (NA)

THE CRACKER KITCHEN by Janis Owens — Janis Owens’ THE CRACKER KITCHEN, an irreverent but affectionate look at an American subculture, with recipes, family stories, and lively humor to Scribner’s Beth Wareham in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Agency. (NA)

THE REBEL PRINCESS by Judith K. Healey to William Morrow — Judith K. Healey’s THE REBEL PRINCESS, the story of Princess Alais Capet, sister to King Philippe Auguste of France, who battles corrupt court officials, religious fanatics and her beloved Lord William as she engages a band of underground Cathar noblewomen to assist her in the rescue of her illegitimate son Francis, a young knight whose very existence could unsettle the thrones of England and France, to Carolyn Marino of William Morrow by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency in a very nice deal (World English)

THE FLEA PALACE and THE GAZE by Elif Shafak – Italian rights — Italian rights to Turkish novelist Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL and THE FLEA PALACE (Bit Palas original Turkish) to Rizzoli’s Francesca Cristoffanini by Michael Radulescu for Marly Rusoff Literary Agency

Elif Shafak’s BLACK MILK to Viking — Elif Shafak’s BLACK MILK a personal account of the depression, identity crises and recovery that followed the birth of her daughter in Istanbul, offering an imaginative exploration of her journey as a writer dealing with the cultural misunderstandings of both motherhood and womanhood in a patriarchal world to Viking’s Paul Slovak in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency. (NA)

Rolan Merullo’s JESUS AND THE JOURNALIST — Roland Merullo’s lighthearted novel JESUS AND THE JOURNALIST about Jesus’s return to earth in contemporary America to Algonquin’s Chuck Adams in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency. (World English)

French rights to Ron Rash’s SERENA and ONE FOOT IN EDEN — French rights to Ron Rash’s ONE FOOT IN EDEN and SERENA to Editions du Masque’s Marie-Caroline Auber by Anna Jarota of AJA Agency on behalf of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

Judi Ryan Hendricks’ THE LAWS OF HARMONY to Harper — Judith Ryan Hendricks’, THE LAWS OF HARMONY, about a woman who leaves Albuquerque for the Pacific Northwest when her fiancé is killed, and begins a journey that leads her to confront memories of her unhappy childhood on a northern New Mexico commune and to a reconciliation with her hippie mother, to Harper’s Claire Wachtel in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency. (NA)

Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL Spanish rights — Spanish rights to Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL to Lumen/Mondadori’s Silvia Querini at auction in a very nice euro deal by Anna Jarota of AJA Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

Ron Rash’s SERENA at Ecco/Harper Collins — Ron Rash’s SERENA in which a lumber baron and his new bride arrive in the North Carolina mountains of 1929 and kill or vanquish anyone who comes in the way of their ruthless ambition to Ecco’s Lee Boudreaux in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency. (NA)