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).
Publishers Marketplace – March 16, 2011
Beverly Swerling’s BRISTOL HOUSE, a novel of intrigue set in London in the sixteenth century and today, in which a thirty-something American architectural historian rents a flat she comes to believe is haunted by a monk from Tudor times fleeing the rage of Thomas Cromwell, their duel stories told with flashbacks between 1536 and a present-day search for ancient Judaica lost during Cromwell’s day, further complicated by her meeting a modern Englishman who is the monk’s exact double, in a drama involving betrayal and atonement that spans the centuries, to Clare Ferraro for Viking, with Carole DeSanti editing, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in early 2013, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English).
Publishers Marketplace – October 8, 2010
Jessica Jackley, co founder of Kiva.org and now US-focused ProFounder.com, discusses in EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT BUSINESS I LEARNED FROM GOAT HERDERS her journey from philosophy undergrad to Stanford Business School, from Silicon Valley to the Great Rift Valley and back, to help entrepreneurs achieve their dreams with the support of family, friends and a global community to Cindy Spiegel at Spiegel & Grau in a significant deal in a preempt by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World English)
Publishers Marketplace – October 8, 2010
Meg Waite Clayton’s THE WEDNESDAY DAUGHTERS a sequel of sorts to the national bestseller The Wednesday Sisters, in which three of the Sister’s now-grown daughters travel to the English Lake country to scatter Ally’s ashes, and to clear out the cottage where she’s been writing a Beatrix Potter biography to Caitlin Alexander at Ballantine in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA, audio)
Publishers Marketplace – September 28, 2010
Jonathan Odell’s THE HEALING opens in 1930s Mississippi when a young girl traumatized by her mother’s death is abandoned to the care of Gran Gran, an ancient midwife and plantation healer whose mixtures of roots, herbs, and potions fail to help the mother but whose tales of her life on a Mississippi plantation as a reluctant apprentice to a brilliant slave doctor teach them both the power of story to heal the body, spirit and ultimately an entire community, to Nan Talese at Nan A. Talese, with Ronit Feldman editing, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
Publishers Marketplace – June 24, 2010
Peter Troy’s THE ODYSSEY OF ETHAN MCOWEN opens in mid-nineteenth century Ireland during the Famine when Ethan sails to America, later joins the famous Fighting 69th Civil War brigade, and falls in love with a Spanish society girl turned abolitionist, before their stories entwine with the perilous journeys of two slaves, Mary, a seamstress in Virginia, and Micah, a freedom-seeking carpenter and poet from South Carolina, and all four lives come together in upstate New York at the war’s end, to Doubleday’s Alison Callahan in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – May 20, 2010
Robert J. Barclay’s MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY the story of a schoolteacher who inherits her grandmother’s lakeside cabin and unexpectedly finds love with the solitary man healing from family tragedy who lives nearby only to discover their families are linked and he’s harboring a secret that could destroy their newfound happiness to Morrow’s Lucia Macro in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – May 20, 2010
Theresa Weir’s THE ORCHARD, part Mary Karr, part Rachel Carson, is the story of a city girl’s attempt to escape her troubled past by moving to rural America where she marries a handsome young farmer only to find that her new home in his family’s idyllic orchard is actually a dangerous and toxic trap to Grand Central’s Deb Futter in a very nice deal preempt by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – May 20, 2010
Evelyn Toynton’s THE ORIENTAL WIFE tells the story of two assimilated Jewish children from Nuremberg who escape Hitler’s Germany, meet again in New York, and fall in love both with each other and with America but after the war the stress of their lives as immigrants takes a toll on them and the family they form, to Other Press’ Judith Gurevich in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (world)
Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010
John Kralik’s UNTITLED inspiring true story that follows a year in his life when at a personal nadir he decided that he would never get what he wanted out of life unless he learned to be grateful for what he had, in a significant deal to Barbara Jones at Hyperion by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010
DEAL OF THE DAY – Pat Conroy’s MY LIFE IN BOOKS, in which one of America’s bestselling storytellers, revisits a life of passionate reading, and discusses the books that helped him find a place in the world, with personal ruminations on the people, writers, and books that made him into the reader and writer he is today, from Tolstoy to Thomas Wolfe and beyond in a major deal to Nan Talese at Knopf/Doubleday by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World)
Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010
Talia Carner’s JERUSALEM MAIDEN a rich historical tale of one woman’s struggle for self-expression, which opens in 1911 with the city under Ottoman rule and follows the life of twelve-year-old Esther Kaminsky to adulthood as her art sets her against her orthodox society’s expectations of her as a wife and mother to Katherine Nintzel at Harper Collins in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)
Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010
UK rights to Elif Shafak’s THE FORTY RULES OF LOVE to Penguin’s Kate Barker by Lizzy Kremer of David Higham Associates on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.
Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010
Czech rights to Ron Rash’s SERENA to Jota Publishing by Kristin Olson of Kristin Olson Literary Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.
Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010
Korean rights to Pat Conroy’s THE WATER IS WIDE to Thinking Tree Publishing by Danny Hong of Danny Hong Agency on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.
Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010
UK rights to Laurie Viera Rigler’s RUDE AWAKENINGS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT the sequel to “Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict” to Bloomsbury’s Helen Garnons-Williams by Lizzy Kremer of David Higham Associates on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.
Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010
Italian rights to Michael Stanley’s THE SECOND DEATH OF GOODLUCK TINUBU to Rizzoli by Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.
Publishers Marketplace – March 24, 2010
UK rights to Robin Oliveira’s MY NAME IS MARY SUTTER to Juliet Annan of Fig Tree/Penguin by Lizzy Kremer of David Higham Associates on behalf of Michael Radulescu at Marly Rusoff & Associates.
Publishers Marketplace – November 12, 2009
Kamala Nair’s THE GIRL IN THE GARDEN, the redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a terrifying secret to Karen Kosztolnyik at Grand Central in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English)
Publishers Marketplace – November 12, 2009
Michael Stanley’s THE DEATH OF THE MANTIS, the third Detective Kubu novel, in which a series of unexplained and apparently unconnected deaths hits the southern Kalahari in Botswana, leading to tension with the Bushman people and conflict in the Criminal Investigation Department, which Kubu tries to resolve while investigating the murders to Claire Wachtel at Harper Collins in a nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English)