Deals

Ron Rash’s UNTITLED novel about two brothers who share responsibility for a murder and a collection of poetry to Megan Lynch at Ecco in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA)

Lisa Beazley’s THE SLOW NEWS SISTERS, a debut novel pitched as similar to the fiction of Liane Moriarity in which two married sisters and young mothers, one in New York, the other in Singapore, decide to reconnect by writing old fashioned letters to each other during the course of a year and how this correspondence changes their lives in surprising ways in this often funny and insightful novel to NAL’s Editorial Director Claire Zion in a good deal preempt by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (World English)

Kwei Quartey’s GOLD OF THE FATHERS, a Ghanaian detective is sent to Ghana’s gold-rich Ashanti Region to investigate the murder of a miner who was buried alive in gold ore, to Juliet Grames at Soho Press, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (World English).

Ashley Warlick’s IN HUNGER, set in California and France between the Great Depression and World War II maps the early life of the gastronomic doyenne MFK Fisher, who, while writing her first book, traded her first husband for her second in a tangle of food and sex and impossible choices that shaped her into the iconic woman she would become, to Kathryn Court at Viking, in a pre-empt, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (World English).

Author of The Headmaster’s Wife Thomas Christopher Greene’s SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW, a story of a great unrequited love that opens with a chance encounter on a Manhattan street between a recently divorced man and his former lover, a woman now wrestling with big life choices, set more than twenty years after their engagement was ended by events beyond their control, to Anne Brewer at Thomas Dunne Books, in a very nice deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (World English).

NYT bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, Kimberly McCreight’s Untitled third novel, to Claire Wachtel at Harper, in a major deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

Bram Stoker finalist and author of Witch’s Trinity Erika Mailman writing as Lynn Carthage’s ARNAUD LEGACY: HAUNTED, about a teen moving with her family in the run down ancestral mansion in England which appears to still be inhabited, to Michaela Hamilton at Kensington Children’s, in a three-book deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world).

Film rights – Kimberly McCreight’s forthcoming first YA speculative fiction trilogy THE OUTLIERS, to Lionsgate, with Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman at Mandeville Films and Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea at Pacific Standard producing, by Shari Smiley at Resolution, on behalf of Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates.

NYT bestselling author of the adult novel RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA, Kimberly McCreight enters the teen market with THE OUTLIERS, a contemporary speculative fiction trilogy pitched as featuring a heroine with the wit and wisdom of John Green’s Hazel Grace, the ambition of Veronica Roth’s Divergent and the emotional resonance of classic YA literature, to Jennifer Klonsky at Harper Children’s, in a major deal, for seven figures, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

Winner of The Los Angeles Times Book Award in history and chair of the French department at Yale University, Alice Kaplan’s THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALBERT CAMUS’ THE STRANGER, a biography of the classic novel that has become a rite of passage, synonymous with coming of age as a reader and a thinking person — a life story of a work of literature that will include its genesis, its Algerian setting, and its fascinating road to publication during the Nazi occupation of France, to Alan Thomas at University of Chicago Press, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English)