Tyler Anbinder, Laurie Berkner, Estate of Ludwig Bemelmans, Barbara Dee, Andy Griffiths, Christopher Healy, Kevin Hearne, Jenni Holm, Matthew Holm, Alaya Dawn Johnson Kirby Larson, , Margo Lanagan, Alison Goodman, S. Jae-Jones, Justine Larbalestier, John Bemelmans Marciano, Melina Marchetta, Jaclyn Moriarty, Marissa Meyer, Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Garth Nix, Tiffany Pham, Scott Westerfeld, Colin Woodard

Early Readers

WE ARE THE DINOSAURS, PILLOWLAND, MONSTER BOOGIE (Laurie Berkner)
STARRING JULES Series (Beth Ain)
MADELINE Series (Ludwig Bemelmans & John Bemelmans Marciano)

MG Fiction

STAR-CROSSED, HALFWAY NORMAL (Barbara Dee)
The Treehouse Series (Andy Griffiths, illus. Terry Denton)
THE HERO'S GUIDE TO SAVING YOUR KINGDOM (Christopher Healy)
OUR ONLY MAY AMELIA, TURTLE IN PARADISE, FULL OF BEANS, THE FOURTEENTH GOLDFISH (Jennifer Holm)
BABYMOUSE, SQUISH, SUNNY SIDE UP Series (Jennifer & Matthew Holm)
HATTIE BIG SKY, HATTIE EVER AFTER, DUKE, DASH, LIBERTY, CODE WORD COURAGE (Kirby Larson)
KLAWDE: EVIL ALIEN WARLORD CAT (Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth)
THE BOOK OF BOY (Catherine Murdock)

YA Fiction

THE SUMMER PRINCE (Alaya Dawn Johnson)
EON, EONA, THE DARK DAYS CLUB (Alison Goodman)
WINTERSONG, SHADOWSONG, The Guardians of Dawn Series (S. Jae-Jones)
LIAR, MY SISTER ROSA (Justine Larbalestier)
JELLICOE ROAD, The Lumatere Chronicles (Melina Marchetta)
The Lunar Chronicles Series (CINDER, SCARLET, CRESS, WINTER, FAIREST, STARS ABOVE, WIRES AND NERVE 1-2), HEARTLESS, RENEGADES, ARCHENEMIES (Marissa Meyer)
The Ashbury High Series, The Colors of Madeline Series (Jaclyn Moriarty)
WISDOM'S KISS and DAIRY QUEEN (Catherine Gilbert Murdock)
The Old Kingdom Series (SABRIEL, LIRAEL, ABHORSEN, CLARIEL, GOLDENHAND), The Keys to the Kingdom Series, FROGKISSER! (Garth Nix)
UGLIES Series (UGLIES, PRETTIES, SPECIALS, EXTRAS, IMPOSTORS), LEVIATHAN Trilogy, SPILL ZONE (Scott Westerfeld)
The Zeroes Trilogy (ZEROES, SWARM, NEXUS) (Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, Deborah Biancotti)
SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS, WILDLIFE, CLOUDWISH (Fiona Wood)

Adult Fiction

The Penhallows Series (YOU MAY KISS THE BRIDGE, THE LAIRD TAKES A BRIDE, THE BRIDE TAKES A GROOM) (Lisa Berne)
INTO THE WILDERNESS Series, THE GILDED HOUR (Sara Donati)
THE IRON DRUID CHRONICLES (Kevin Hearne)
GRAVITY IS THE THING (Jaclyn Moriarty)

Adult Non-Fiction

CITY OF DREAMS (Tyler Anbinder)
ADRIFT (Tami Oldham Ashcraft with Susea McGearhart)
YOUNG QUEENS (Leah Redmond Chang)
PRIUS OR PICKUP (Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler)
HOOD FEMINISM (Mikki Kendall)
YOU ARE A MOGUL (Tiffany Pham)
SQUEEZED (Alissa Quart)
THE FIRST TYCOON and CUSTER'S TRIALS (T.J. Stiles)
COCKPIT CONFIDENTIAL (Patrick Smith)
AMERICAN NATIONS (Colin Woodard)

2018 Deals

YA author Jaclyn Moriarty's GRAVITY IS THE THING, pitched as in the spirit of Maria Semple, about a cafe owner and single mother whose brother went missing the day before her 16th birthday, the same year she started receiving random chapters of a guidebook for living; now 20 years later, in the wake of a devastating dissolution of her marriage, she has received an invitation to learn the "truth" about the guidebook, propelling her on a journey toward self-realization, and a renewed search to discover what happened to her beloved brother, to Emily Griffin at Harper, by Jill Grinberg at Jill Grinberg Literary Management, on behalf of Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia (NA).
Rights to Pan Macmillan Australia; also to Armchair (Israel), by Beverley Levit of The Book Publishers Association of Israel, on behalf of Jill Grinberg Literary Management.

Leah Redmond Chang's YOUNG QUEENS, about the intertwined stories of four Renaissance-era queens (Catherine de Medici, Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, and Elisabeth de Valois) who, as girls, adolescents, and young women, navigated revolutions and the rise and fall of dynasties—but learned that, for women, power always came with a price, to Eric Chinski at Farrar, Straus, by Jill Grinberg at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (NA).
Rights to Alexis Kirschbaum at Bloomsbury UK by Grinberg; and to Mondadori in ITALY, in a pre-empt, by Chiara Piovan at The Italian Agency.
Film/TV: Matthew Snyder at CAA

Felicity McLean's THE VAN APFEL GIRLS ARE GONE, part mystery, part coming of age story, the narrator's haunting account of the long hot summer twenty years ago when three local sisters disappeared into the wilderness surrounding their remote Australian town, an unsolved mystery that has forever shaped the community and all those left behind, to Betsy Gleick at Algonquin, for publication in June 2019, by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management on behalf of Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia (NA).
Rights contact(s): Audio US, Canada: kendra@workman.com ; Audio UK: Alice@curtisbrown.co.uk ; Translation: Kate@curtisbrown.co.uk ; Film/TV: tara@curtisbrown.com.au
Rights previously sold to Catherine Milne at Harper Australia, in a pre-empt; to Jenny Parrott at Oneworld, by Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown UK; in France to Presses de la Cite; in Spain to Siruela.

Nora Raleigh Baskin and Gae Polisner's FINDING JOY, told in the alternating timelines of both main characters, in which one friend, present day, embarks on the traditional birthday scavenger hunt her best friend left her one year ago on the day he died, to Karen Greenberg at Knopf Children's, for publication in summer 2020, by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management for Baskin and Jim McCarthy at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret for Polisner (world).

Lori Goldstein's SCREEN QUEENS, in which three girls participate in a startup incubator competition and uncover the truth about what it means to succeed in the male-dominated world of tech, to Jessica Harriton at Razorbill, for publication in summer 2019, by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (world).

Filmmaker and animator Peter Bunzl's THE COGHEART ADVENTURES, in which a strong-willed girl seeks the truth behind her father's disappearance with the help of a local clockmaker's son and an over-opinionated mechanical pet fox in a fantastical steampunk/Victorian world filled with murder, mayhem, and mystery, to Kelsy Thompson at Jolly Fish Press, in a nice deal, in a three-book deal, for publication in spring 2019, by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management on behalf of Jo Williamson at Antony Harwood Limited.

Nafiza Azad's debut THE CANDLE AND THE FLAME, set in a city along the Silk Road that has become a refuge for those of all faiths, about a young woman with mysterious origins and two clans of powerful djinn who threaten to destroy her peace in different ways, and the unlikely alliances she'll make to survive, to Lisa Sandell at Scholastic, for publication in 2019, by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (NA).

Caroline Wright's LASTING LOVE, illustrated by Willow Heath, about a parent's enduring love written especially for children facing the loss of a parent, to Caroline Abbey and Maria Modugno for the Rodale Kids, for publication in Fall 2019, by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (world English).

FRANKIE author Shivaun Plozza's TIN HEART, about a heart transplant recipient discovering who she is if she's no longer The Dying Girl, to Sarah Barley at Flatiron Books, by Cheryl Pientka at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (NA).

Vanessa McGrady's memoir about navigating her own complicated family, bad boundaries, and what happens when she allows her daughter's (newly homeless) biological parents to come live with them, to Carmen Johnson at Little A, for publication in 2019, by Cheryl Pientka at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (World).

HALFWAY NORMAL and STAR-CROSSED author Barbara Dee's HOW TO SURVIVE QUICKSAND, about a seventh grade girl whose family is thrown into chaos by her older brother's diagnosis of bipolar disorder, to Alyson Heller at Aladdin, in a two-book deal, for publication in Fall 2019 and Fall 2020, by Jill Grinberg at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (NA).

Addie Thorley's AN AFFAIR OF POISONS, pitched as a reimagining of the infamous 17th century murder scandal, in which, after unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, a seventeen-year-old alchemist begins brewing curatives to help her former enemy undermine her mother's Shadow Society and reclaim control of Paris, to Ashley Hearn at Page Street, for publication in Winter 2019, by Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (World).

Subagents

Andrew Nurnberg Associates (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine)
Andrew Nurnberg Associates Sofia (Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia)
The Grayhawk Agency (China, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam)
Kristin Olson Literary Agency (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia)
La Nouvelle Agence (France)
Mohrbooks AG Literary Agency (Germany)
Read-n-Right Agency (Greece)
Lex Copyright Office (Hungary)
The Book Publishers Association of Israel
The Italian Literary Agency
Japan Uni Agency, Inc.
Korean Copyright Center
Mo Literary Services (The Netherlands)
Graal, Ltd. (Poland)
The Van Lear Agency (Russia)
Ia Atterholm Agency (Scandinavia)
Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria (Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Brazil)

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