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)
Publishers Marketplace – December 15, 2011
Mary Lou Kirwin’s THE KILLER LIBRARIAN, in which a small-town Midwestern librarian gets dumped by her boyfriend moments before their long-awaited trip to England but she goes anyway and finds not only books galore, but a dead botanist, and just maybe the love of her life, to Kathy Sagan at Gallery Books, in a two-book deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (World English).
Publishers Marketplace – March 30, 2011
Margaret Wrinkle’s TRUE FOR SURE, set in 1823 on the Tennessee frontier, is the story of a young black man named Wash who is forced to work as a stud in the breeding of slaves by his owner, troubled Revolutionary War veteran Richardson, whose debt and isolation lead him into an uneasy intimacy with both Wash and an enslaved healer named Pallas as she inspires Wash to transcend his harsh reality by forging an understanding of his shamanic African inheritance, all told through a delicate love story unfolding against this historically harrowing period to Elisabeth Schmitz at Grove Atlantic in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (world English)
Publishers Marketplace – March 22, 2011
Mary Curran Hackett’s PROOF OF HEAVEN, in which a single mother struggles to keep her son alive in the face of a rare heart disease that causes him to die seven times before his seventh birthday, while the mother searches for answers in the divine, her son’s doctor searches for a cure, but the boy wishes to meet his long-lost father, a journey that will test their faith and courage as they face the ultimate question of proof of heaven, to Lucia Macro at William Morrow, in a nice deal, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
Publishers Marketplace – March 22, 2011
Caroline Stoessinger’s ALICE’S WORLD, in which the life of 107-year old Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor and concert pianist, is used as a lens not only to show the power of music, but how her refusal to hate brings goodness into the world, to Cindy Spiegel of Spiegel & Grau, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in early 2013, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (World).
Publishers Marketplace – March 22, 2011
Lisa Tucker’s two untitled novels, to Greer Hendricks at Atria, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (World).