For a profile of Paul Bresnick, go to http://archive.easthamptonstar.com/ehquery/20020711/feat1.htm/ (if this doesn't work, go to easthamptonstar.com, go to archives, and type in Bresnick)

--MEETING JIMMIE RODGERS -- HOW AMERICA'S ORIGINAL ROOTS MUSIC HERO CHANGED THE POP SOUNDS OF A CENTURY, by Barry Mazor (Oxford University Press, Spring '09)
--MIDNIGHT ON THE LINE -- THE SECRET LIFE OF THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, by Tim Gaynor (Thomas Dunne Books [St. Martin's Press], Spring '09)
--ARFFIRMATIONS -- MEDITITATIONS FOR YOUR DOG, by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman (St. Martin's Press, '09)
--WHY GM MATTERS: INSIDE RICK WAGONER'S DRIVE TO TRANSFORM AN AMERICAN ICON, by William Holstein (Walker, 2009)
--THERE'S NO TRAFFIC ON THE EXTRA MILE -- LESSONS ON THE ROAD FROM DREAMS TO DESTINY, by Rickey Minor (Gotham, '09)
--THE WASHINGTONS OF WESSYNGTON PLANTATION -- STORIES OF MY FAMILY'S JOURNEY TO FREEDOM, by John F. Baker, Jr. (Atria, '09)
--HOW TO PROFIT FROM THE COMING RAPTURE -- GETTING AHEAD WHEN YOU'RE LEFT BEHIND, by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman (Little, Brown, '08)
--GORGEOUS GEORGE -- THE OUTRAGEOUS BAD-BOY WRESTLER WHO CREATED AMERICAN POP CULTURE, by John Capouya (HarperCollins, '08)
--HARDEST WORKING MAN -- HOW JAMES BROWN SAVED THE SOUL OF AMERICA (Gotham, Fall '08)
--AWESOME, a novel by Jack Pendarvis (MacAdam-Cage)
--THE MARRIAGE BENEFIT -- THE SURPRISING REWARDS OF STAYING TOGETHER, by Mark O'Connell (Springboard [Grand Central])
--THE GOOD LIFE ACCORDING TO HEMINGWAY, by A. E. Hotchner (Ecco)
--SING ME BACK HOME -- LOVE, DEATH, AND COUNTRY MUSIC, by Dana Jennings (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
--RIGHT OF THE DIAL -- CLEAR CHANNEL AND THE FALL OF COMMERCIAL RADIO, by Alec Foege (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus)
--TELL THE TRUTH UNTIL THEY BLEED -- COMING CLEAN IN THE DIRTY WORLD OF BLUES AND ROCK 'N' ROLL, Josh Alan Friedman (Backbeat)
--THE END OF BASEBALL, a novel by Peter Schilling, Jr. (Ivan R. Dee)
--LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT AT THE NINO BIEN: A YANQUI'S MISSTEPS IN ARGENTINA, by Brian Winter (Public Affairs)
--DOWN TO THE SEA: AN EPIC STORY OF NAVAL DISASTER AND HEROISM IN WORLD WAR II, by Bruce Henderson (Smithsonian, Fall 2007)
--BIG BRAIN -- THE ORIGINS AND FUTURE OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE, by Gary Lynch and Richard Granger (Palgrave-Macmillan)
--BLACK WILL SHOOT, a hip-hop novel by Jesse Washington (Simon Spotlight)
--THE KITCHEN READINGS -- HUNTER THOMPSON IN WOODY CREEK, by Bob Braudis and Michael Cleverly (HarperEntertainment)
--WHY KEROUAC MATTERS: THE LESSONS OF ON THE ROAD, by John Leland (Viking)
--HOW TO RAISE A JEWISH DOG, by the Rabbis of Boca Raton (Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman) (Little, Brown)
--BURNING BOOK -- A VISUAL HISTORY OF BURNING MAN, by Jess Bruder (Simon Spotlight)
--ROZELLE'S RULE: THE LIFE OF SPORT'S PREMIER COMMISSIONER, by Jeff Davis (McGraw-Hill)
--LEAVING DIRTY JERSEY -- A Crystal Meth Memoir, by James Salant (Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
--CHASING THE RISING SUN -- THE JOURNEY OF AN AMERICAN SONG, by Ted Anthony (Simon & Schuster)
--THIRD COAST: OUTKAST, TIMBALAND AND HOW HIP HOP BECAME A SOUTHERN THING, by Roni Sarig (Da Capo)
--YOUR BODY IS CHANGING, stories by Jack Pendarvis (MacAdam-Cage)
--OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY -- A SHADOW HISTORY OF HIP-HOP IN WHITE AMERICA, by Jason Tanz (Bloomsbury)
--YIDDISH WITH GEORGE AND LAURA, by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman (Little, Brown)
--I, GOLDSTEIN: MY SCREWED LIFE, by Al Goldstein with Josh Alan Friedman (Thunder's Mouth Press)
--TIME TRAVELER: A PHYSICIST'S SEARCH FOR THE ULTIMATE BREAKTHROUGH, by Ron Mallett with Bruce Henderson (Thunder's Mouth Press)
--WEST OF JESUS -- SURFING, SCIENCE AND THE ORIGIN OF BELIEF, by Steven Kotler (Bloomsbury)
--JEANS -- A CULTURAL HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN ICON, by James Sullivan (Gotham Books)
--SONS OF PROVIDENCE -- THE BROWN BROTHERS, THE SLAVE TRADE, AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, by Charles Rappleye (Simon & Schuster)
--LICENSED TO KILL -- HIRED GUNS IN THE WAR ON TERROR, by Robert Young Pelton (Crown)
--THE ESSENTIAL GRIZZLY -- THE MINGLED FATES OF MEN AND BEARS, by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock (Lyons Press)
--SANTA LIVES! -- Five Conclusive Arguments for the Existence of Santa Claus, by Ellis Weiner (Riverhead)
--JUST ANOTHER SOLDIER -- A Year on the Ground in Iraq, by Jason Christopher Hartley (HarperCollins)
--THE MYSTERIOUS SECRET OF THE VALUABLE TREASURE, stories by Jack Pendarvis (MacAdam-Cage)
--THE WINNING SPIRIT: PEAK PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE, by Joe Montana and Tom Mitchell (Random House)
--PERFECT SOLDIERS – The Hijackers: Who They Were and Why They Did It (HarperCollins)
--THIS COMMON GROUND – Seasons on an Organic Farm (Viking)
--HIP: THE HISTORY, by John Leland (Ecco)
--YIDDISH WITH DICK AND JANE, by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman (Little, Brown)
--DJANGO -- THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF A GYPSY LEGEND, by Micheal Dregni (Oxford University Press)
--WOMAN OF THE WORLD, a novel by Genie Chipps Henderson (Berkley)
--PAPA BEAR -- LIFE AND TIMES OF GEORGE HALAS, by Jeffrey Davis (Contemporary)
--THE GOOD FATHER -- ON MEN, MASCULINITY, AND LIFE IN THE FAMILY, by Mark O'Connell (Scribners)
--TRUE NORTH -- COOK, PEARY AND THE RACE TO THE POLE, by Bruce Henderson (Norton)

My interests as a trade editor ran to popular culture, biography and autobiography/memoir, celebrity-branded books, narrative nonfiction, true crime, sports, humor, African-American, pop psychology, men’s/women’s/relationship issues. The fiction I published ranged from literary (AHAB’S WIFE, POACHERS), to mysteries (Lawrence Block, Tim Dorsey), to thrillers (Stephen Cannell, James Huston), to uncategorizable (Jerry Stahl).

--SOUL OF A HUSTLER -- THE HARD KNOCK LIFE AND CRAZY TIMES OF SHAWN "JAY-Z" CARTER, by Elliott Wilson (Simon Spotlight, Fall '09)
--101 THEORY DRIVE: A SCIENTIST'S PURSUIT OF THE MEMORY MACHINE INSIDE THE BRAIN, by Terry McDermott (Pantheon, 2009)
--IN PRAISE OF COPYING, by Marcus Boon (Harvard University Press, 2009)
--AHMET ERTEGUN: THE RISE AND FALL OF ROCK 'N' ROLL, by Robert Greenfield (Simon and Schuster, 2009)
--THE BIG BANG: THE END OF THE WORLD AND THE BEGINNING OF MODERN MUSIC IN NEW YORK CITY, 1973-1977, by Will Hermes (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008)
--THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD: THE TRIAL OF JAMES FORD SEALE AND MISSISSIPPI'S STRUGGLE FOR REDEMPTION, by Harry N. MacLean (Basic, '09)
--AMERICAN ATLAS: THE LIFE OF ROBERT MORRIS, by Charles Rappleye (Simon and Schuster, 2010)
--HERO FOUND -- THE GREATEST POW ESCAPE OF THE VIETNAM WAR, by Bruce Henderson (Smithsonian, 2009)
--THE CHRONIC -- THE LAST ALBUM THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, by Donnell Alexander (MTV Books, 2009)
--AFTER THE DIAGNOSIS -- TRANSCENDING CHRONIC ILLNESS, by Julian Seifter, M.D. (Simon and Schuster, 2010)
--2041 -- MAKE OR BREAK YEAR FOR PLANET EARTH, by Robert Swan (Broadway, 2010)
--THE BOY NEXT DOOR, a novel by Irene Sabatini (Little, Brown, Fall 2008)
--THE ONE: THE LIFE OF JAMES BROWN, by RJ Smith (Gotham Books, 2009)
--THE TEMPLETON TWINS HAVE AN IDEA, a novel by Ellis Weiner (middle-grade) (Chronicle, 2009)
--SHUT UP, UGLY: A "DETECTIVE" NOVEL, by Jack Pendarvis (Macadam-Cage, 2009)
--THE JAZZ BARONESS: The Life and Times of Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswarter, by David Kastin (Norton, 2011)
--HELLUVA TOWN: DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE CITY, 1939-1945, by Richard Goldstein (Free Press, 2010)
--SEVEN DIRTY WORDS: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF GEORGE CARLIN, by James Sullivan (Da Capo, 2009)
--EXPOSED – The Anthrax Murders, the FBI “Amerithrax” Investigation, and the Real Bioterror Threat, by Jeanne Guillemin (Times Books, 2010)
--CATECHISMS: Basic Beliefs of the One True Pet, Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman (St. Martin's, 2010)
--IF THERE ARE NO DOGS IN HEAVEN -- LESSONS ON LOVE AND LIFE FROM A MINIATURE POODLE (Doubleday, 2010)
--THE CHITLIN' CIRCUIT -- THE SECRET HISTORY OF AMERICAN MUSIC, by Preston Lauterbach (W.W. Norton, 2010)
--THE BIG JEWISH BOOKS FOR JEWS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO BE A REALLY JEWISH JEW, by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman (Plume, 2010)
--THE SENIOR MOMENTS MEMORY WORKOUT, by Tom Friedman (Sterling, 2010)
--THE TINKERERS: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE ENGINEERS WHO SHAPED MODERN AMERICA, by Alec Foege (Basic, 2011)
--YOUNG AND YOUNGER: AN INTER-GENERATIONAL CONVERSATION, by Andrew Young and Kabir Sehgal (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010)

Prior to his tenure as Publisher at LiveREADS, the enhanced e-book publishers, from 2000-2002, Paul Bresnick was Fiction Editor at Penthouse, Associate Editor at Simon & Schuster, Editor at Henry Holt, Senior Editor at Doubleday, and Executive Editor at William Morrow. At Penthouse, he published fiction by a distinguished group of writers including Philip Roth, James Baldwin, John Hawkes, James Purdy, T.C. Boyle, Don DeLillo, and several others. At Simon & Schuster and Holt, he edited such major bestsellers as THE CINDERELLA COMPLEX by Colette Dowling, THE SECOND STAGE by Betty Friedan, and CATCH A FIRE: THE LIFE OF BOB MARLEY by Timothy White. Shortly after he arrived at Doubleday, Bresnick came up with the idea of doing a book called FATHERHOOD and succeeded in convincing Bill Cosby to write what would become a publishing phenomenon, with net hardcover sales of over three million copies. His other bestsellers at Doubleday included GRACE: THE SECRET LIVES OF A PRINCESS by James Spada, SEPARATED AT BIRTH? by the editors of Spy magazine, DRIVE by Larry Bird, and ON BOXING by Joyce Carol Oates. Some highlights at Morrow: FOREVER BARBIE by M. G. Lord, MODEL by Michael Gross, BLACK PROFILES IN COURAGE by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, JACKIE AFTER JACK by Christopher Andersen, KING CON by Stephen J. Cannell, HIT MAN by Lawrence Block, POACHERS by Tom Franklin, HELL’S ANGEL by Sonny Barger, AHAB’S WIFE by Sena Jeter Naslund.

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Foreign rights (excluding Far East): Jenny Meyer - jenny@meyerlit.com

Foreign rights (Far East): Whitney Lee - wlee@fieldingagency.com

Fiction: query letter with two chapters and SASE
Nonfiction: query letter with proposal and SASE