Deals

DEAL OF THE DAY
CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT by Laurie Viera Rigler — Laurie Viera Rigler’s CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT, a literary homage, comedy, and exploration of identity, destiny, and the nature of time, that tells the story of a thirty-something year old 21st-century L.A. woman and Jane Austen fan who wakes up inside the body of an Englishwoman in Austen’s time, and a second untitled novel, to Dutton EIC Trena Keating at auction by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates in a significant deal (NA)

MY FATHER’S BONUS MARCH by Adam Langer — Adam Langer’s MY FATHER’S BONUS MARCH exploring the nature and limitations of memory will blend personal memoir and U.S. history while telling the story of the author’s late father’s obsession with the Bonus March of 1932 to Cindy Spiegel of Spiegel & Grau by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates, in a good deal (NA)

NO: Why Kids -of all Ages_ Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It by David Walsh, Ph.D. — NO: Why Kids Need It and How Parents Can Say It by best-selling author David Walsh, Ph.D. a world leading authority on parenting and family life, will provide parents with an arsenal of tactics, explanations, and examples for effectively using the word NO, the building block for self discipline, respect, integrity and a host of other character traits that lead to a happy and productive life, to Leslie Meredith of Free Press by agent Marly Rusoff in a good deal (NA).

WHO HATES WHO by Bob Harris — WHO HATES WHO by Bob Harris, known contestant on Jeopardy and author of Prisoner of Trebekistan, will offer readers a tongue-in-check scorecard of the world’s deadly conflicts and dreadful threats in the form of a book of eye-catching maps and text providing a country-by-country breakdown of (as the title ungrammatically notes) who hates whom in ethnic, religious, economic, and territorial conflicts worldwide, to Crown’s Luke Dempsey by agent Marly Rusoff (NA)

A MODEL SUMMER by Paulina Porizkova – rights to Norstedts in Sweden, and Record in Brazil — Rights to former supermodel Paulina Porizkova’s novel A MODEL SUMMER, about a fifteen-year-old Czech-born Swedish girl chosen by a modeling agent to spend a summer working in Paris, to Norstedts in Sweden, and Record in Brazil, by Michael Radulescu for Marly Rusoff & Associates.

THE DECENCY RULES AND REGULATIONS by Susan and Frank Fuller — Humorists Susan Fuller and Frank Fuller’s THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND DECENCY’S RULES AND REGULATION MANUAL, a humorous and realistic guide to emerging at the top of America’s post 9/11 moral revival, to Luke Dempsey at Crown, in a nice deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

HEAT by Geneva Holliday — Geneva Holliday’s HEAT, the third in a series (from an author of literary fiction writing under a pseudonym) that explores the bedroom antics and the busy New York lives of four girlfriends as they face situations too hot to handle, to Phyllis Grann at Broadway, in a very nice deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

WHY DO THEY ACT THAT WAY by David Walsh – Korean rights — Korean rights to psychologist and media expert David Walsh, Ph.D.’s WHY DO THEY ACT THAT WAY, explaining what happens to the brain in adolescence and provides parents with strategies for helping kids through troubling time, to IGUP Publishers by Jinny Park of KCC, on behalf of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

OBJECTS OF OUR DESIRE by Salman Akhtar – Korean rights — Korean rights to Salman Aktar’s OBJECTS OF OUR DESIRE, to KoreaOne Books, by Michael Radulescu and Vince Baek of Eric Yang Agency

THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL by Elif Shafak – rights to UK, Brazil, Greece and Romania — Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL, the tale of two families, an exiled Armenian family living in San Francisco and the Kazancis of Istanbul, to Kate Barker at Penguin UK, by Anna Jarota Chodakowska of AJA Agency; and to Nova Fronteira in Brazil; Livanis in Greece; and Polirom in Romania, by Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.