Posted August 16, 2010

Yang Agency; to Alta in Brazil, by Roberto Matos at The Riff Agency; to Helion in Poland, by Renata Paczewska at Andrew Nurnburg Associates; and to Nhan Tri Viet in Vietnam, by Carolyn Bodkin at Harper. South Asian English rights to Tim Moore’s YOU DON’T NEED AN MBA TO MAKE MILLIONS, to Good Times Books, for publication in 2010, by Bill Hanna of Acacia House on behalf of ECW Press. bhanna.acacia@rogers.

Posted June 21, 2010

and goddesses now living in contemporary Reading, PA are pitted against mythological creatures, to Deb Werksman at Sourcebooks, in a three-book deal, by Elaine English of Elaine English. Theresa Meyers’s THE HUNTER, pitched as a sexy blend of Supernatural meets Wild Wild West and featuring three demon-slaying brothers destined to save the world, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington, in a three-book deal, by Holly Root at Waxman Literary Agency (World).

Posted April 12, 2010

Vietnamese rights to SEAT OF THE SOUL and SOUL STORIES, to First News-Tri Viet Publishing, by Erica Zhou of Big Apple. Foreign rights for former Apple senior vice president Jay Elliot’s insider’s view of Steve Jobs’ path to greatness iLEADERSHIP THE STEVE JOBS WAY: Courage, Charisma, Credibility and Being Way Cool, written with William L.

Posted January 4, 2010

Vietnamese rights to Richelle Meads’ STORM BORN, SUCCUBUS DREAMS and SUCCUBUS BLUES, to Dai Viet Culture, by Big Apple Agency, on behalf of Kensington. Serbian rights to Garth Stein’s NYT bestseller THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, to Carobna Knjiga, by Celeste Fine, on behalf of Jeff Kleinman at Folio Literary Management, in association with Prava I Prevodi.

Posted November 3, 2008

Neil Shulman, Jack Birge and Joon Ahn’s YOUR BODY’S RED LIGHT WARNING SIGNALS: MEDICAL TIPS THAT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE, revised edition, to Son Do at Nhan Tri Viet, by Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary Agency. Portuguese (Brazil only) rights to Evan Drake Howard’s THE LOST EPISTLE OF JESUS, to Sergio Machado at Record, at auction, by Lara Lea Allen on behalf of Robert Gottlieb of Trident Media Group.

Posted July 27, 2008

Children’s Vietnamese rights to Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen’s THE COMPOUND, to Tan Viet by Tuttle-Mori Thailand, on behalf of Scott Mendel at the Mendel Media Group. scott@mendelmedia.com Portuguese rights in Brazil to Janette Rallison’s HOW TO TAKE THE EX OUT OF EX-BOYFRIEND, to Difusao Cultural Do Livro LTDA, by Penguin US.

Posted July 22, 2007

and an unexpected twist, pitched as reminiscent of Kathy Reichs Jeffrey Deaver, to Carolyn Marino at William Morrow, at auction, in a two-book deal, by Elaine Koster at Elaine Koster Agency (NA). elainekost@aol.com Women’s/Romance Holly Shumas’s IT’S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, a story in the vein of Sarah Dunn and Lolly Winston about a young wife who discovers her husband has been having an emotional affair – no sex – for the past year and wonders if the lack of sex

Posted April 15, 2007

d4eo@optonline.net Foreign rights to Madeleine Thien’s CERTAINTY, to Bach Viet Books in Viet Nam and to Humanitas in Romania, both in nice deals, bringing the total number of rights sales for this title to sixteen, by Marilyn Biderman at McClelland & Stewart. mbiderman@mcclelland.com Polish rights to EQUINOX author Michael White’s THE MEDICI SECRET, to Tomasz Szponder at Rebis, by Marcin Biegaj at Graal Agency, on behalf of Carole Blake at Blake Friedmann, which many more

Posted May 11, 2004

From Viet Nam’s Generals and Marco Polo’s Travels to Casanova’s Women We have almost 30 brand-new deal reports, on top of last night’s big round-up, including: A film option for a proposal now on submission, Vietnam as seen through its generals, a big book on how we define ourselves through brands, the adventures of Marco Polo, more from “a writer to watch” (Newsweek), wisdom from a golf sage, more novels from a rising attorney/author, Casanova through the eyes of his women