Deals

Ron Rash, author of New York Time’s bestselling Serena and winner of 2010 Frank O’Conner Award for short fiction, ABOVE THE WATERFALL set in the mountains of North Carolina that follows the life of a small town sheriff and a recent newcomer, a female park ranger with a hidden past, as they grapple with the ramifications of a crime that turns neighbor against neighbor and a collection of stories to Harper/Ecco’s Lee Boudreaux in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA)

Andrew Schulman, winner of the Louis Armstrong Award for Music and Medicine’s WAKING THE SPIRIT: A Musicians Guide to Healing Body, Mind and Spirit, the story of a professional musician who flatlined, then entered a coma following surgery, who was unexpectedly revived through listening to music and then decides to give back by using his guitar playing to aid those who are seriously ill, shares his personal journey which includes an exploration of the science and research examining the connection between music, healing and neuroscience, to Picador’s Stephen Morrison in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (World)

Meg Waite Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters, THE RACE FOR PARIS, in which a British military photographer and two AWOL women journalists race toward Paris in the summer of 1944, hoping to be among the first to cover the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation, that explores the obstacles female journalists faced covering the war, as well as issues of motherhood, friendship, and love, to Harper’s Claire Wachtel by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates. (NA)

Alice Simpson’s BALLROOM, set just before the year 2000, tells the story of an unforgettable mix of characters who come to the once glamorous but now shabby ballroom on New York’s Union Square to dance, to pretend, and to seduce, in this hunting novel that explores the private dreams they search for, both within and beyond the gilded halls of this now vanished universe to Claire Wachtel at Harper Collins in a good deal by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA)

Deena Goldstone’s TELL ME ONE THING, a collection of stories in the spirit of works by writers Maile Meloy, Elizabeth Strout and Amy Bloom that compassionately deal with issues of family, the legacy of a difficult childhood, and the hope that so often springs unexpectedly in her character’s lives, united thematically by the various ways they learn to overcome grief and yet told with light, grace, and finally with hope at the end of their journeys to Nan A. Talese at Knopf/Doubleday by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).

Meg Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of the Wednesday Sisters new novel THE GIRLS OF PARIS a coming-of-age novel following the Wednesday Daughters during a summer abroad in Paris, as they explore impressionist painting, fine chocolates, romance and books to Kara Cesare at Ballantine by agent Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA)

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).

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)

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)

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)