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JANIS A. DONNAUD & ASSOCIATES, INC. was founded over ten years ago by Janis Donnaud, who had previously been Vice President and Associate Publisher of the Adult Trade Group at Random House.
The agency represents, develops and packages a wide range of commercially successful properties. It negotiates publishing agreements with the top trade houses in the U.S., licenses all subsidiary rights, arranges foreign editions and translation rights, and licenses film and performance rights. The agency has a working relationship with Artists Agency to develop and produce television programming. The agency’s varied list is concentrated mainly on nonfiction, with an emphasis on the culinary, health and medical books, and women’s books.
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years experience: over ten
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GENRES & SPECIALTIES
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Biography, Business/investing/finance, History, Health, Lifestyle, Cookbooks, Sports, African-American, Science
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LEADING CLIENTS
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Suzanne Braun Levine, Ms. magazine founding editor and longtime editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and More Magazine contributing editor, for her forthcoming book Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood (Viking, 2005); John Sloss, executive producer of over thirty feature films, and Gary Winick, producer and director of Tadpole, for The InDigEnt Guide to Filmmaking (Bloomsbury, 2005); Distinguished plastic surgeon and proprietor of the ReVive skincare line Gregory Brown, M.D. for About Face: A Plastic Surgeon’s Non-Surgical Approach to the Skincare of the Future (Ballantine, 2005), with writer Jane O’Boyle; Suzanne Goin, chef/owner of restaurants Lucques and A.O.C., both in L.A., who is working with Teri Gelber on her forthcoming book Sunday Suppers at Lucques (Knopf, 2005); Paula Deen, of the acclaimed TVFN show and owner of the renowned Savannah restaurant The Lady and Sons, for her upcoming book on Southern entertaining, The Lady and Friends: Living It up in the South (co-agent with Artists Agency) (Simon & Schuster, 2005); Susan Spungen, former Editorial Director of Food and Entertaining and columnist for Martha Stewart Living and now a contributing editor for Lifetime magazine, for her upcoming book on entertaining (William Morrow, 2005); Melissa Clark, acclaimed collaborative writer and New York Times food writer, co-author of Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course (Random House), co-author with Daniel Boulud of Global Braise (Ecco), co-author with David Bouley on East of Paris (Ecco), co-author with Faith Ford on Cooking with Faith (Scribner), co-author with Waldy Malouf of his roasting cookbook High Heat (Broadway), co-author with Bill Yosses on his upcoming book The Perfect Finish (Norton, 2005), and co-author with David Waltuck on The Chanterelle Book, and her own upcoming book The Abbreviated Chef (Clarkson Potter, 2005).
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BEST-KNOWN PROJECTS
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The agency has also developed, packaged and agented projects including the enormously successful If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You: True Portraits of Dogs (Bulfinch), by Valerie Shaff and Roy Blount Jr. (#1 Amazon.com bestseller), their books I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap, Am I Pig Enough For You?, and the forthcoming I Am the Cat, Don’t Forget That (all HarperCollins); Nieca Goldberg, M.D., formerly Chief of the Women’s Heart Program and Chief of Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation at Lenox Hill Hospital, for Women Are Not Small Men, on women’s heart disease (Ballantine Books), which recently won the Books For a Better Life Award, and her forthcoming book on stress in women, written with Robin Aronson; and Sherry Yard, James Beard Award winner and Executive Pastry Chef at Spago Beverly Hills and author of The Secrets of Baking (Houghton Mifflin), a Main Selection of the Good Cook Bookclub, and the forthcoming Desserts by the Yard (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).
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MOST RECENT SALES/FORTHCOMING BOOKS
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Judy Conner, bestselling author of Southern Fried Divorce (Gotham, 2005), her humorous memoir of marriage and divorce with a New Orleans accent, and its sequel; Phillip Done, author of And Miles to Teach Before I Sleep: A Year with 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny (Fireside/S&S, 2005), a hilarious and touching account of his 20 years of teaching experience; and Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page, James Beard Award winners, IACP and Julia Child Award nominees, and authors of the books Becoming a Chef, The New American Chef, Culinary Artistry (all Wiley), for their upcoming What to Drink With What You Eat (Bulfinch, 2006).
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SPECIALIZED TRAINING, WORK EXPERIENCE, HONORS
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The agency is a member of both the Authors Guild and the Association of Authors Representatives.
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