Publishers Marketplace: Steven Harris

INSPIRATION

Sarah Reinertsen with David Tabatsky –- "Ironman" triathlete, corporate speaker, and the star of the nationwide advertising campaign for Lincoln cars, this feisty little girl from Long Island became possibly the world’s most recognized disabled sports figure. Complementing her bestselling memoir, WALK RUN JUMP will be a no excuses guide to feeling good about your body creating an active lifestyle for those with disabilities – real and imagined. Globe-Pequot’s Falcon imprint, Fall, 2010.

POP CULTURE

Tom McBride and Ron Nief – 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. The authors will capture the mindset of each decade since the turn of the twentieth century, including the mindset of the freshmen of the Class of 2030. Wiley, July, 2011.

Steve Lehto – CHRYSLER’S TURBINE CAR -- In 1964, Chrysler gave the world a glimpse of the future. They built a fleet of turbine cars – automobiles with jet engines – and loaned them out to members of the public to prove such a thing was possible. This fleet of jet cars logged over a million miles with civilian drivers. Despite the fact that the project was a raging success, two years later, Chrysler crushed and burned most of the cars and never spoke of building jet cars again. Steve Lehto, an award-winning author from Detroit, vividly narrates the rise and fall of Chrysler’s experiment. Chicago Review Press, Fall, 2010.

SELF-HELP/WELLNESS/REFERENCE

Susan E.B. Schwartz – THE GUTSY BOOK FOR WOMEN -- Peel away the layers of a happy, fulfilled woman’s life, and at the core you’ll find guts. THE GUTSY BOOK FOR WOMEN will offer counsel, insight, and reassurance to women on over fifty topics covering a broad range of important life skills and common life experiences. Not only is the book’s target market enormous -- women from 18-88 – but the book’s subject will strike a deeply meaningful chord in these challenging times, when readers are seeking guidance, reassurance, a bit of distraction, comfort, and fun.

John Burton – CLASSIC DESIGN FOR THE REAL WORLD -- Burton’s company is a construction and design business dedicated to high-end residential construction in Manhattan, Westchester and Greenwich. Otherwise known as “the Golden Apple,” Westchester and its environs comprise a bedroom community like none other, where Manhattan’s wealthy and elite go to rest, play, entertain – and impress. Here, 6,000-square foot homes are the norm – and the term “McMansion” was coined. DIYers will be able to replicate the classic style in an affordable manner and truly experience all the style, manners and grace it affords. Skyhorse Publishing Co., Winter, 2010.

Miriam Belov - 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. She deeply believes in the power of self-acceptance. Its time has clearly arrived. And so has the time for this book!

Dr. Randy Green – DECISIONS, DECISIONS: HOW TO GET OFF THE FENCE AND CHOOSE WHAT’S BEST -- FOR YOU!– 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, September, 2010.

Ian Randal Strock – THE PRESIDENTIAL BOOK OF LISTS - Villard - October, 2008.

Annamarie von Firley -- REVAMP: A GUIDE TO RECREATING VINTAGE SILHOUETTES. Annamarie, the owner of Revamp, a vintage clothing store and website that receives two million hits a month, will show men and women how to sew their own vintage clothing.

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

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

MEMOIR

Laurie Rubin (editor, David Tabatsky) - How many 30 year-old blind Jewish lesbians who sing opera around the world and design their own jewelry line are selling their stories in bookstores across America? Not a single one. And the few books that have been published about blind people have little in common with Laurie Rubin’s memoir, DO YOU DREAM IN COLOR, and none of them are arguably as modern, candid and entertaining as Laurie’s. QNY Langenscheidt, Winter 2010.

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 - "The Slackers Guide to U.S. History" Adams Media, September, 2009.

TRUE CRIME

William Balsamo and John Balsamo – Their book 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, Skyhorse will publish in Fall, 2010.

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

SPORTS

Chris Coste – THE 33 YEAR-OLD ROOKIE – Now in PB after nine HC printings! Philadelphia Phillies catcher (currently on the NY Mets) and author of the 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 Falcon 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.

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.

CHILDREN’S/PARENTING

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," was 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.

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

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- TWINGE -- It’s that little feeling you get when you’re falling in love. It pulls at you, makes your heart skip a beat, your pulse race and your knees wobble. Nikki, a sixteen-year-old, left-brain math geek (but also a right-brain photomontage artist) is trying to figure out her life. She’s finished high school a year early and is supposed to leave Los Angeles for art school in New York, but suddenly feels as boxed in as the packages in her adoptive dad’s mailbox store. 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 decision her birthparents made sixteen years ago to give her up. This Young Adult novel with both a literary and commercial footprint is authored by previously published author (with rave reviews) and Juvenile Court judge, Leora Krygier.

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.