Deals

Simon Tolkien’s NO MAN’S LAND sweeping historical saga that tells the story of Adam Raine who grows from boy to man between the turbulent years of 1909 to 1919, starting life as an impoverished child in London who moves to a hard-living coal mining community and is subsequently adopted by the wealthy owner of an Edwardian country house, where he and the owner’s younger son become fierce rivals for the same girl, a rivalry that leads them to develop a murderous hatred for one another which affects all the characters around them, in a novel of faith, class, and war including the horrors of the Battle of the Somme which has profound effects on them all to Nan Talese at Nan A. Talese/Knopf Doubleday in a preempt in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA)

Julie Barton’s DOG MEDICINE (initially published by Think Piece Publishing) a moving and engaging memoir capturing the anguish of depression, the slow path to recovery, and the astonishing way animals can heal even the most broken hearts and minds to Kathryn Court, President and Publisher of Penguin Books in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (World English) Rights also sold in Holland to Ambo/Anthos by Michael Radulescu, France to Belfond by Anna Jarota Agency, and Korea to Influential by Danny Hong Agency all on behalf of Marly Rusoff & Associates.

Jack Ewing’s UNTITLED nonfiction book on the story of Volkswagen clean diesel fuel and how a “more, better, faster” ethos fueled one of the greatest frauds in corporate history to Paramount Pictures for feature film with Appian Way’s Leonardo DiCaprio producing by Shari Smiley of The Gotham Group on behalf of Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates.

New York Times Frankfurt-based business correspondent Jack Ewing’s untitled book, pitched as the “Too Big To Fail” of the auto industry, the story of Volkswagen and how a “more, better, faster” ethos fueled one of the greatest frauds in corporate history affecting 11 million car owners on six continents, to John Glusman at Norton, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

THE AGE OF CONSENT by Robin Oliveira, author of The New York Times bestselling novel My Name Is Mary Sutter, brings Dr. Mary Sutter back in a novel that opens with the disappearance of two young girls in a devastating blizzard in a story that brings to mind novels such as “The Alienist” by Caleb Carr and “The House of Mirth” by Edith Wharton to Kathryn Court at Viking in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (World).

UNTITLED novel by New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry in which a woman’s harrowing mistake in the E.R upends her world, leading her to attempt to create a new life by returning to her family’s summer beach house with her brilliant but troubled teenaged daughter in tow, hoping for a little help from her two best childhood friends, but each of them arrive with their own secret baggage, in this novel of friendship, redemption and the power of a mother’s love to Jackie Cantor at Berkley/NAL in a two book good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (WE).

Kwei Quartey’s DEATH BY HIS GRACE, a new mystery novel in the Darko Dawson series to Juliet Grames at Soho Press by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (WE)

Chandra Prasad’s DAMSELFLY, described as “Lord of the Flies meets Gossip Girl,” to Anamika Bhatnagar of Scholastic Publishers by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (WE)

Daniel J. Pierson and Susan Stark’s REFLECTIONS FROM POPE FRANCIS, collection of excerpts of reflections, speeches and homilies from Pope Francis, along with an invitation to action in a journal-style book, to Andrew Yackira of Tarcher by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA and Spanish)

Deena Goldstone’s SURPRISE ME an unexpected love story about two creative people who see more in each other than they see in themselves and how that faith transforms them to Nan A Talese at Knopf/Doubleday by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA)