Publishers Marketplace: Steven Harris

MEMOIR

Editta Sherman with David Tabatsky – Celebrity photographer Editta has lived and worked in the Carnegie Hall Artist Studios for over sixty years, allowing her to be part of a very unique artistic community of neighbors. Her life's work consists of thousands of historical large format 8×10 negative camera portrait images taken of celebrities, writers, poets, models, sports heroes, politicians, and many others, including many of the famed former tenants of Carnegie Hall. THE DUCHESS OF CARNEGIE HALL: Eddita Sherman and her Studio of Stars will be Editta’s portrait, in both text and her photographs.

Timothy Masters with Bridget DiCosmo – Fifteen year-old Masters, convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of 37-year-old Peggy Hettrick in 1987, maintained his innocence, losing two separate appeals. Serving a life sentence, Masters' defense team was granted a hearing for a new trial in 2007, uncovering that DNA found on Hettrick's body did not match that of Masters' DNA. Now free and clear, with all charges dropped, Masters will detail his harrowing and riveting story, including that there had been substantial evidence not turned over to his defense team during the previous trials.

HUMOR

Don Stewart and John Pfeiffer - From those same wacky authors of "The Slackers Guide to U.S. History" comes YOU BETCHA, JOE SIX-PACK: THIS IS MY LIFE, BY AMERICA’S MAVERICK – SARAH PALIN

POP CULTURE

Tom McBride and Ron Niefs – The geniuses behind Beloit College’s hugely successful annual Mindset Lists which captures in about sixty snappy sentences the cultural attitudes and assumptions of entering college students in the United States—young people who, for instance, have never actually “dialed” a telephone and don’t know how to. RICHARD THE LION HEARTED NEVER CAUGHT A COLD: THE MINDSET-LIST GUIDE TO PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE uncovers the hidden ironies and linkages of history, both past and present. Everything people like about the Mindset List—its wit, conciseness, and startling overview of historical change—they will like and like again as it appears, in much greater form, in RICHARD THE LION-HEARTED NEVER CAUGHT A COLD.

INSPIRATION/RELIGION/SPRITUALITY

Sarah Reinertsen with Winky Devese - SARAHBEAR GOES TO THE RACES, the first in a series of children’s books authored by possibly the most recognizable disabled sports athlete in the world. Ms. Reinertsen’s startling memoir, "In a Single Bound," will be published this year by GPP, and her inspirational book for the disabled will be published in 2010 by GPP’s Falcon imprint. Sarah is an Ironman Triathlete champion, and you may have seen her on CBS’s “Amazing Race” where tens of millions of viewers saw her climb up the Great Wall of China, scale the cliffs of Vietnam, and ride camels in the hinterlands of Mongolia. Sarah’s branded stuffed animal is SarahBear, who has only one leg, of course.

Jennifer Loomis - PORTRAITS OF PREGNANCY: THE BIRTH OF A MOTHER, text by Hugo Kugiya, Sentient Publications, Mother's Day, 2009

SELF-HELP/WELLNESS/REFERENCE

Miriam Belov and Cherie Flanagan – NAKED IN THE LIGHT: A JOURNEY OF PERSONAL ACCEPTANCE THROUGH BEAUTY, WELLNESS, AND FASHION will share time honored techniques, the newest scientific researches and current real glamour advice to help each reader be the empowered well woman of her dreams - and to live the life of those dreams - looking and feeling fabulous. The authors will take each reader through her own journey of acceptance by demonstrating that we each have our own fears and anxieties when it comes to how we perceive ourselves. Importantly, it will also show how to dissipate these negative feelings and replace them with positive ones. Miriam heads The Wellness Agenda, and is the wellness expert for Origins. Cherie is a fashion and beauty consultant to companies, including Saks Fifth Avenue. They deeply believe in the power of self-acceptance. Its time has clearly arrived. And so has the time for this book!

Dr. Randy Green – WHY CAN’T I DECIDE? – A book that will lead someone from why we often get stuck when it comes time to make decisions, what types of decisions are usually involved in this process of "indecision"; how frequently the decisions we do make are poor ones that don't serve our best interests, and how specifically people can learn to get passed the blockages to deciding and make self-enhancing decisions, comfortably and confidently – GPP Life, March, 2010

Ian Randal Strock – The sequel to THE PRESIDENTIAL BOOK OF LISTS - Villard - October, 2008 is Mr. Strock’s RANKING THE POWERS BEHIND THE OVAL OFFICE: VICE PRESIDENTS, FIRST LADIES, AND PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEES, a book of lists that determines the average First Lady, Vice-President or Presidential Appointee: what qualities the next Power Behind The Oval Office will most likely have, based on those who have already held the office, utilizing 120 Lists in 120 interesting, different, and intriguing categories that mean something to the average American.

Annamarie von Firley- - REVAMP VINTAGE: A GUIDE TO THE VINTAGE STYLE, a book that will show men and women how to dress in the very popular vintage style, including accessories, hair and makeup. Annamarie is the owner of Revamp, a vintage clothing store and website.

The Directors of the Erickson Retirement Communities – OLD IS THE NEW YOUNG: ERICKSON'S SECRETS FOR HEALTHY LIVING - GPP Life – August, 2009.

TRUE CRIME

William Balsamo and John Balsamo – Their book proposal of the early years of Al Capone, EYES IN THE MIRROR, is the product of a combined total of more than ninety years of collecting photographs, official documents, microfilm research and countless personal interviews in regards to the Chicago racketeer’s early days when he learned all there was to know about strong-arming, thievery and extortion in Brooklyn, on the banks of the Gowanus canal. William is considered the leading authority on Capone, and both he and John are the grand nephews of Batista Balsamo (1868-1940) who is considered by many crime historians to be the first Godfather, or boss of bosses in Brooklyn. To include 20 exclusive photographs.

Bridget DiCosmo - SERIAL MURDER 101: Timothy Krajcir, Berkley, July, 2009

BUSINESS/CURRENT AFFAIRS

Carlos Buhler - THE K2 RISK PARADOX - Carlos Buhler is one of the most celebrated mountaineers on the planet. Here he shares his incredible secrets for risk management in a book directed towards a business audience, but filled with fascinating stories of his climbs to underscore his lessons about how to manage risk.

SPORTS

Chris Coste – THE 33 YEAR-OLD ROOKIE – Now in PB after nine HC printings! Philadelphia Phillies catcher and author of the current Ballantine bestseller. Sports Illustrated reviews -- "If an off-season of drug reports, congressional hearings and defamation lawsuits has you a little down on baseball, a good antidote is the autobiography of Phillies catcher Chris Coste who has a wide-eyed affection for the game that is contagious...this pre-'Ball Four' innocence makes this volume a refreshing and enjoyable read."

Sarah Reinertsen with Alan Goldsher – IN A SINGLE BOUND: LOSING MY LEG, FINDING MYSELF, AND TRAINING FOR LIFE - "Ironman" triathlete, corporate speaker and star of the nationwide advertising campaign for Lincoln cars - the story of how a feisty little girl from Long Island became possibly the world’s most recognized disabled sports figure – GPP, HC, Fall, 2009. Two-book deal also includes a 2010 book focusing on the disabled and sports.

Scott Tinley - 400 triathlons, winning close to 100 of them, making him one of the top three winning triathletes of all time, won the Ironman World Championship twice (1982, 1985) and the Ironman World Series three times, and was inducted into both the Triathlon and Ironman Hall of Fame upon retirement in 1999. With five previously published books under his belt, Scott’s tentatively entitled, ENDURING SPORT: AN ATHLETE'S JOURNEY TO KNOW THE WORLD, will delve into the relationship between life and sports.

Kevin Neary – In THE COACH’S SON, Neary has interviewed 150 Major League baseball players such as Curt Schilling, Derek Jeter, and David Wright, illustrating the great relationship these players had, and continue to have, with their fathers. The common bond that connects each of these stories is that they concern Major League Baseball players whose father served in a coaching capacity during their life, and the influence their father had on their baseball careers, their approach to life, and their own relationship with their families.

Aaron J. Skirboll – THE PITTSBURGH COCAINE SEVEN -- the riveting story of the 1985 Cocaine trials when baseball found itself in the midst of its worst scandal since the days of Shoeless Joe and the Black Sox as a virtual all-star team composed of stars such as Keith Hernandez, Lee Mazzili, Dave Parker, and Dale Berra had come to Pittsburgh to tell their tales of sharing and distributing the drug amongst themselves– Chicago Review Press, HC, Spring, 2011.

Rich Westcott - author of 19 published books covering the world of sports, presents the 50 top sports pioneers of all time - SPORTS PIONEERS: THEY IMPACTED THEIR SPORT; THEY INFLUENCED OUR CULTURE; THEY MADE A DIFFERENCE – a sociological perspective on how players and management such as Sammy Baugh, Joe Fulks, Secretariat, Sonja Heine, Walter O’Malley, et all revolutionized both their sport and our culture.

CHILDREN’S/PARENTING

Scott Strother - THE ADVENTUROUS BOOK OF OUTDOOR GAMES - Sourcebooks - Fall, 2008 publication

Christine Stahl – MAGIC LAND – a beautifully laid out and illustrated children’s board book. Explore Magic Land, by looking and discovering. Behold the wizards, witches, dragons, imps, and many more on their daily chores. Follow the characters from the wizard’s castle, through the countryside, to the magic village, and finally to the magic school.

Moshe Sipper - Author of McGraw-Hill's, Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing. Currently selling his 2-book middle-grade fantasy series – XOR, a fantastical account of a young boy’s adventure and discovery that lead him to the most important discovery of all---his true self. Lewis Nash is a twelve year old boy struggling to deal with his adopted mother’s death four years earlier. Today is his birthday. Today is the day his father is killed. Today is the day he discovers he is a Shaper from another world.

Leora Krygier- THIS SIDE UP is a Young Adult novel with both a literary and commercial footprint authored by previously published author (with rave reviews) and Juvenile Court judge, Leora Krygier. Sixteen-year-old math brain and photomontage artist Nikki, uses the backdrop of Starbucks to work out some life-changing decisions. She finished high school early and is set to leave Los Angeles for art school in New York. Now that she’s only a couple of weeks away from her departure date, Guatemalan-born Nikki is wavering. After all, some choices can change a life forever, like the choice her birthparents made to give her up. Someone else is also struggling with his own crossroads at the same string of stores – a mysterious young man reading Moby Dick. Nikki calls him “Reader.” As the two find their way to one another, Nikki is drawn into Reader’s dilemma – whether to keep his ex-girlfriend’s baby – a decision that becomes more important to her than her own. Together, they search for answers, uncover family secrets and ultimately discover which side is up.

Jay Frasco - Hollywood screen adapter - currently selling his middle grade novel – THE HOUSE BEHIND THE HEDGES. Frasco creates a fantastical world (where everything that happens can, ultimately, be explained). Confined to a leg brace to correct a disability , Marcus McHenry's down-on-its-luck hometown of King Valley becomes a place of big surprises and ever bigger adventures when his new neighbors turned out to be the von Witties, a mysterious family of inventors whose specialty was fixing small towns with big problems. Through a series of sometimes dangerous, sometimes fun and always exciting misadventures, Marcus discovered that the path to a town‘s heart is through its people, and inside every one of us is a hero waiting to come out. There is already movie interest in the manuscript.

FICTION

Barbara Solomon- Professional writer, Solomon turns her considerable talents to a new mystery series, the first title of which is TWO STROKES PAST DEAD: A LEILA GOODFRIEND MYSTERY. Perhaps the first baby boomer mystery series, Solomon’s book is filled with characters boomers will relate to, women in their 40s and 50s dealing with divorce…In Two Strokes Past Dead, artist Leila Goodfriend becomes a reluctant amateur detective after discovering the inert body of her fellow artist—the unlovely, unlikable Iris McNeil Thorton. Set in Dorneyville, a sleepy seaside New England tourist town and artists’ enclave, this whodunit is about art and artfulness, deceit and loyalty. Iris is found dead in the Red Barn Art Commune, a quirky old button factory converted into artist’s studio spaces rented by seven, now six, artists. Who killed Iris? Adding to the suspense is Leila’s discovery of the Libro de Secreti di Chimica, a text from antiquity that helps her uncover the murder.

Robert Mehnert - currently selling his quantum physics thriller - LOOKING DOWN AT THE SKY - Robert Mehnert, a cinematographer by trade, yet a trained theoretical physicist, has written a thrilling, well-written tale that weaves a love story between two highly-trained physicists, and a world-threatening earthquake, uniting quantum and theoretical physics in a time displacement within the last seven years. LOOKING DOWN AT THE SKY explores the very real physical world where every action and reaction is explained through quantum and theoretical physics in layman’s terms. And, for good measure, Mr. Mehnert throws in his own Resonance Theory, showing how music and harmony, when integrated with quantum and theoretical physics, is the catalyst that sets time in motion.