Deals

A new, as yet UNTITLED contemporary novel, by award-winning author Ron Rash, set in North Carolina, near the site of the Civil War’s Shelton Massacre, in which the lives of a troubled teenage boy and a down-and-out former teacher become increasingly intertwined, to Holt’s EIC Jennifer Barth in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff (World).

An UNTITLED nonfiction second book by Gail Saltz, M.D., the sex and relationship expert on the Today show, that will help women discover a confident sexuality, to VP Amy Hertz for her new imprint at Broadway/Random House, in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff (World)

SMALL WORLD, a romantic, comic debut novel by the playwright and actor Barbara Suter, tells the story of Maggie, an actress and singer who, in her mid-life search for true love, learns just how small the world can be, to Chuck Adams, Algonquin Books, (World) by Judith Hansen of Marly Rusoff & Associates.
(Title changed to DOROTHY ON THE ROCKS)

ANOTHER WORD A DAY by Anu Garg, a second collection of unusual, obscure, and exotic English words that will delight writers, scholars, crossword puzzlers, and word buffs of every ilk, written by the author of WORD A DAY and founder of the wildly popular A WORD A DAY website, to Kitt Allen, Publisher, John Wiley & Sons, (World), by Judith Hansen of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

THICKER THAN WATER, a second novel by Thrity Umrigar, which tells the story of Sera, an upper-middleclass Parsi housewife and Bhima, the woman who works in her home as a domestic servant, was bought at auction in a good deal by Wm Morrow Executive Editor Claire Wachtel from agent Marly Rusoff, with simultaneous publications scheduled in UK by The Fourth Estate and by Harper India, and with translation rights, except German, to be sold by Brenda Segel of Harper Collins.

MY YEAR OF LIVING BETTER WITH LESS, a nonfiction book by former publishing and bookselling marketing whiz Mary Carlomagno that chronicles a year in which Carlomagno gave up something each month – shopping, elevators, restaurants, in order to gain a deeper appreciation for what she has, as well as to learn to recognize the things that she might actually live better without, was sold to VP Harriet Bell at William Morrow, North American Rights, in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff.

Arlene Matthews’s 101 REASONS TO CALM DOWN ABOUT COLLEGE, a parent’s guide to staying sane while helping their teen through the competitive, often frenzied college admission process, with 101 reassuring lessons to dismantle the myths that fuel application stress, to Kathryn McHugh at Three Rivers Press, in a nice deal, by Judith Hansen at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world).

INTELLECTUAL MAKEOVER by Edward F. Droge Jr., Ed.D. former New York City police officer, Yale graduate who taught at Harvard, affirms that as a beauty makeover aims to re-invent cosmetically, his book and method aims to re-invent intellectually, with hundreds of must-know facts and quick-and-easy super tools for learning, World rights to Leslie Meredith at Free Press, by Marly Rusoff.

North American Trade paperback rights to non-fiction STALKING THE DIVINE by Kristin Ohlson, which tells the story of the author, a lapsed Catholic and skeptic, whose encounter with a group of cloistered nuns in Cleveland brings her to a deeper understanding of faith, sold to Clare Ferraro, President of Viking/Plume and Trena Keating, EIC of Plume, by agent Marly Rusoff.

“THE DOCTOR’S GUIDE TO COLDS AND FLU” by Neil Schachter, M.D. of New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital, a complete guide to preventing and treating respiratory illnesses in children and adults, including colds, influenza, sinusitis, sore throats, bronchitis and pneumonia. World rights sold to senior editor Toni Sciarra of Harper Resource in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff.