Publishers Marketplace – February 3, 2014
Andrew Schulman, winner of the Louis Armstrong Award for Music and Medicine’s WAKING THE SPIRIT: A Musicians Guide to Healing Body, Mind and Spirit, the story of a professional musician who flatlined, then entered a coma following surgery, who was unexpectedly revived through listening to music and then decides to give back by using his guitar playing to aid those who are seriously ill, shares his personal journey which includes an exploration of the science and research examining the connection between music, healing and neuroscience, to Picador’s Stephen Morrison in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (World)
Publishers Marketplace – February 3, 2014
Meg Waite Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters, THE RACE FOR PARIS, in which a British military photographer and two AWOL women journalists race toward Paris in the summer of 1944, hoping to be among the first to cover the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation, that explores the obstacles female journalists faced covering the war, as well as issues of motherhood, friendship, and love, to Harper’s Claire Wachtel by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – July 25, 2013
Alice Simpson’s BALLROOM, set just before the year 2000, tells the story of an unforgettable mix of characters who come to the once glamorous but now shabby ballroom on New York’s Union Square to dance, to pretend, and to seduce, in this hunting novel that explores the private dreams they search for, both within and beyond the gilded halls of this now vanished universe to Claire Wachtel at Harper Collins in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – July 25, 2013
Deena Goldstone’s TELL ME ONE THING, a collection of stories in the spirit of works by writers Maile Meloy, Elizabeth Strout and Amy Bloom that compassionately deal with issues of family, the legacy of a difficult childhood, and the hope that so often springs unexpectedly in her character’s lives, united thematically by the various ways they learn to overcome grief and yet told with light, grace, and finally with hope at the end of their journeys to Nan A. Talese at Knopf/Doubleday by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
Publishers Marketplace – July 25, 2013
Meg Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of the Wednesday Sisters new novel THE GIRLS OF PARIS a coming-of-age novel following the Wednesday Daughters during a summer abroad in Paris, as they explore impressionist painting, fine chocolates, romance and books to Kara Cesare at Ballantine by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – March 28, 2013
Nina Siegal’s THE ANATOMY, the fictionalized story of the creation of Rembrandt’s first masterpiece, The Anatomy Lesson, in which the 26-year old painter from Leiden receives a commission to paint a group portrait of the Amsterdam Surgeon’s Guild, and what follows, told through a cast of characters whose stories interconnect including Amsterdam’s chief surgeon, Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, the surgeon’s wife, a curio dealer selling a bird of paradise, a publicly hanged thief with an amputated hand who provides the corpse for the lesson, and a peasant girl desperately trying to ensure a dignified burial for the thief, the man she has always loved, in a tale of courage, compassion, and the restorative power of art at auction, to Nan A. Talese at Nan A. Talese, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
Publishers Marketplace – THE DEAL OF THE DAY – February 21, 2013
Arthur Phillip’s THE MANY GIFTS OF DOCTOR MAHMOUD IBN-ABBAS, in which the aging queen Elizabeth I and an English spymaster turn a Muslim physician into an unlikely agent of the crown, to Random House’s Jennifer Hershey in a two book major deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world)
Publishers Marketplace – February 21, 2013
Robert J. Barclay’s WIDOW’S WALK in which an 1840’s whaler’s wife falls from the widow’s walk on her seaside home and is inexplicably trapped between the worlds of life and death, and finds that the only person who can release her is a man of modern times who must risk his own life to save her to Lucia Macro at Wm. Morrow in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – February 21, 2013
Mary Curran Hackett’s PROOF OF ANGELS in which an elderly woman who appears to be holding conversations with an angel is cared for by a daughter who fears her mother is losing her mind, only to discovers that her mother’s delusions may reveal a long buried truth from her past to Lucia Macro at Wm. Morrow in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – February 21, 2013
Kwei Quartey’s MURDER AT CAPE THREE POINTS, a detective Darko mystery to Juliet Grames at Soho Press in a two book deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English)
Publishers Marketplace – February 21, 2013
Sal Scognamillo’s PATSY’S ITALIAN FAMILY COOKBOOK with recipes for delicious meals seasoned with a ‘dash’ of stories about and from the many legendary celebrities who’ve dined there, from Frank Sinatra to Ben Stiller and George Clooney, to Elizabeth Beier at St. Martin Press in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates.(world)
Publishers Marketplace – October 23, 2012
Author of In Need of a Good Wife and The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, Kelly O’Connor McNees’ ISLAND OF THE DOVES the story of a wife’s escape to Mackinac Island by steamship in 1835 and the wealthy fur-trader’s widow who offers safe haven from the monstrous husband who pursues her to Claire Zion at Berkley by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – October 18, 2012
Carolyn Dingman’s CANCEL THE WEDDING tells the story of Olivia a woman unwilling to commit to her fiancé who travels to the small town in Georgia where her mother wanted her ashes to be laid to rest, and in taking this trip learns the details of a tragic past her mother kept from her daughters and unexpectedly meets a man who helps her decide just how she wants to spend the rest of her life to Claire Wachtel at Harper Collins in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World)
Publishers Marketplace – October 17, 2012
Thomas Christopher Greene’s THE HEADMASTERS WIFE the story of a Headmaster at an elite private school in New England whose life spirals out of control as his memories collapse into one another in this haunting psychological novel in a in a very nice deal preempt to Thomas Dunne at Thomas Dunne Books by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World)
Publishers Marketplace – October 17, 2012
Thrity Umrigar’s I BEGINS by the best-selling author of The Space Between Us, tells the story of the improbable friendship between an Indian immigrant woman caught in a loveless marriage and the African-American therapist who helps her find her voice and independence to Claire Wachtel at Harper Collins in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World)
Publishers Marketplace – July 27, 2012
Masha Hamilton’s fifth novel, THE ENGAGEMENT OF STRANGERS, in which a phone call to a wife reporting that her husband has been kidnapped in Afghanistan, sets in motion a swirl of events here and abroad, placing her at odds with her stepdaughter, sending her into the streets of her Brooklyn neighborhood, where she connects to a wider world of survivors, which ultimately transforms her as she becomes able to set aside an old grief and rebuild her ability to find hope to Fred Ramey at Unbridled Books by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
Publishers Marketplace – July 12, 2012
Simon Tolkien’s ORDERS FROM BERLIN, opening in September 1940 as bombs rain on London and the country braces for invasion, with only Churchill’s bulldog defiance standing in Hitler’s way while a plot develops to assassinate Churchill and Detective Trave finds himself in a race against time to uncover the assassin before he receives his final orders from Berlin, to Peter Wolverton at Thomas Dunne Books, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
Publishers Marketplace – July 11, 2012
Author of the best-selling memoir The Kabul Beauty School Deborah Rodriquez’s THE HOUSE AT CARNAVAL STREET, an intimate account of her journey to remake her life after being forced to leave Afghanistan, as she struggles to learn once more to celebrate life and embrace the hairdresser within among the colorful neighbors in her new home on the Mexican west coast, to Karen Kosztolnyik at Gallery, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English).
Publishers Marketplace – April 15, 2012
Laura L. McNeal’s DOLLBABY, a debut novel pitched as in the tradition of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, set in 1964, in which a girl from the Pacific Northwest visits her estranged grandmother in New Orleans and meets Dollbaby, the maid who guides her through the ghosts of her grandmother’s past and the racial turmoil that may tear the family apart, to Pamela Dorman at Pamela Dorman Books, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English).
Publishers Marketplace – Deal of the day – February 7, 2012
Kimberly McCreight’s RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA, in which a career-focused, single mother refuses to accept that her perfect daughter’s plunge from the roof of her elite Brooklyn private school was suicide and searches through e-mails, texts and Facebook posts to prove otherwise; it’s the story of a secret first love, an all-girls club steeped in mean girl tradition and how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she couldn’t save, to Claire Wachtel at Harper, in a major deal, for two books, at auction, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
Publishers Marketplace – December 19, 2011
From Robin Oliveira, New York Times bestselling author of MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER and winner of the Michael Shaara Prize for Civil War Fiction, an UNTITLED novel set in the nineteenth-century art world of Paris about the extraordinary and passionate 40-year relationship between the American painter Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas to Kathryn Court at Viking in a significant deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – December 19, 2011
Frank O’Connor 2010 Award winner Ron Rash’s UNTITLED story collection to Lee Boudreaux at Ecco/Harper Collins by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – December 19, 2011
Janis Owens’ AMERICAN GHOST set in contemporary Florida and inspired by a historic local lynching, in which a the daughter of a preacher from a family distrustful of outsiders meets and falls in love with a crusading Jewish grad student in anthropology from Miami who arrives to do an ethnic study of the region and unwittingly sets in motion troubles that reach far back in time, exposing long buried secrets that ultimately need to be set right to Whitney Frick at Scribner by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates.(NA)
Publishers Marketplace – December 19, 2011
Margaret Wurtele’s THE GOLDEN HOUR, set in war torn Italy, and following the German army’s invasion of her village, a young Italian woman risks her life to defy the injustice surrounding her, in this novel of forbidden love to Claire Zion at NAL/Penguin by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World English)
Publishers Marketplace – December 15, 2011
Author of THE LOST SUMMER OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Kelly O’Connor McNees’s IN NEED OF A GOOD WIFE, the story of three women in a group of mail-order brides who travel from New York City to Nebraska in 1867 — a combative Civil War widow in financial ruin, an introspective Bavarian laundress, and the barmaid-turned-matchmaker who launches the venture to thwart her grief after the death of her baby, to Claire Zion at Berkley, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA)