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FALL 2015
THE SECRET CHORD
By Geraldine Brooks
Fiction | Viking | October 6, 2015 | World Rights
Agent: Kris Dahl/ ICM
Manuscript available
From the author of the novels Caleb’s Crossing (Viking), People of the Book (Viking), and March (Viking), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a novel about King David, tracing his dramatic life from shepherd to soldier, obscurity to celebrity, insider to outlaw, beloved king to crumbling tyrant.
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Little, Brown UK
Hachette (Australia and New Zealand)
Brazil (Globo)
Italy (NeriPozza)
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Caleb’s Crossing
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Brazil (Nova Fronteira)
France (Belfond)
Germany (Goldmann)
Israel (Modan)
Italy (NeriPozza)
Spain (RBA Libros)
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EARLY PRAISE
“In her gorgeously written novel of ambition, courage, retribution, and triumph, Brooks imagines the life and character of King David in all his complexity…The language, clear and precise throughout, turns soaringly poetic when describing music or the glory of David’s city. . .taken as a whole, the novel feels simultaneously ancient, accessible, and timeless.”
—ALA Booklist
“With the verve of an adroit storyteller. . .Brooks evokes times and place with keenly drawn detail. . .Ambitious and psychologically astute.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A skillful reimagining. . .gracefully and intelligently told.”
—Kirkus Reviews
HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL
By Carrie Brownstein
Memoir | Riverhead | October 27, 2015 | World Rights
Agent: Jud Laghi/ The Jud Laghi Agency, LLC
Manuscript available
Before Carrie Brownstein starred in the wildly popularTVcomedyPortlandia, she was already an icon to young women for her roleas amusician inthe feminist punkband Sleater-Kinney. The band was a key part of the early riot grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest, known for their prodigiousguitar shredding and their leftist lyrics against war, traditionalism and gender roles. This book is the deeply personal and revealing narrative of Brownstein's life in music, from ardent fan to pioneering female guitarist to comedic performer and luminary in the independent rock world.
Carrie Brownstein is a musician, writer and actress who first became widely known as the guitarist and vocalist of feminist punk trioSleater-Kinney and as co-developer of IFC's sketch comedy Portlandia,where she stars opposite Fred Armisen. Her writing has previously appeared in The Believer and Slate.
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Virago/Little, Brown UK
Germany (Benevento)
EARLY PRAISE
“First-class account…the book is an absolute must…Unlike many rock star memoirs, there's no sense that this book is a chore or a marketing effort. It's revealing and riveting.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred
“Carrie tells her story with mesmerizing, often hilarious, honest—reminding us that life is just a million bad outfits, nervous phone calls, sleepless nights and clumsy kisses, and yet all of this adds up to something tremendous—staggering actually. I wept.”
—Miranda July
“Carrie has written the book everyone has been waiting for. It looks inside the Riot Grrrl scene in Olympia from the outside in—from a fan to the stage, and what happens when your dream becomes your nightmare. So many times while reading this book I screamed, “Yes!” inside. You can feel Carrie’s visceral guitar swirling energy on every page. An amazing writer.”
—Kim Gordon
SPRING 2016
LIFE REIMAGINED:
The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife
By Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Nonfiction | Riverhead | March 15, 2016 | World Rights
Agent: Raphael Sagalyn, Inc.
Manuscript available
A dynamic and inspiring exploration of the new science that is redrawing the future for people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s for the better – and for good.
Barbara Bradley Hagertyis an award-winning journalist and the former religion correspondent for NPR. She is a recipient of the Templeton-Cambridge Journalist Fellowship in Science and Religion and a Knight Fellowship at Yale Law School. Before joining NPR, she was a reporter at The Christian Science Monitor.
WHY WE CAME TO THE CITY: A Novel
By Kristopher Jansma
Fiction | Viking | February 16, 2016 | World Rights
Agent: Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Inc.
Manuscript available
A sweeping, funny, and poignant novel about a tight-knit group of twentysomethings in New York whose lives are forever altered by an unexpected tragedy—from the beloved and widely acclaimed author of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards.
Kristopher Jansmais the author of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, winner of the Sherwood Anderson FoundationFiction Award. A graduate of Columbia University's MFA program, he is now anAssistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Suny-New Paltz and a Graduate Lecturer in Fiction at Sarah Lawrence College. He has written for The NewYork Times, Salon, The Believer, The Millions, Slice, BOMB, and Electric Literature.
OPTION PUBLISHERS: The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
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Czech Republic (Paseka)
Netherlands (Karakter)
France (ActesSud)
Germany (Ullstein)
Italy (NeriPozza)
Turkey (DoganKitap)
IT DIDN’T START WITH YOU:
How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
and How to End the Cycle
By Mark Wolynn
Nonfiction | Viking | April 26, 2016 | World Rights
Agent: Bonnie Solow/ Solow Literary Enterprises
Manuscript due October
An examination of how trauma is passed through the generations, and is encoded in gene expression and everyday language – which also forms the key to our breaking these patterns.
Mark Wolynn is director of The Family Constellation Institute, The Hellinger Institute of Northern California, and co-director of the Hellinger Learning Center in New York City. He is North America’s leader in Inherited Family Trauma and conducts workshops and trainings in family therapy throughout the US, Canada, England and Latin America.
SUMMER 2016
NAVIGATING LIFE
By Margaux Bergen
Nonfiction | Penguin Press | August 2, 2016| World Rights
Agent: Stephanie Cabot/ The Gernert Company
Manuscript due end October
A wise, inspiring, piercingly honest user's guide to life, written for theauthor's daughter and given to her on her first day of college, reflecting toughlessons—for students of life of all ages—about family, work, and marriage.
Born in Paris and raised in the UK, Margaux Bergen is the vice president of strategic communications for Vital Voices, a nonprofit that nurtures women entrepreneurs in the developing world. Before that she was the communications director for the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty and Vice President for Media and Field communications at United Way. She is an Oxford graduate and the mother of three children who are all now making their way through college and setting off into the world.
EX POST FACTO:
Living with a Dead Language
By Ann Patty
Memoir | Viking | June 7, 2016 | World Rights
Agent: Jane Rotrosen Literary Agency
Manuscript available
An exploration of the richness and relevance of the Latin language, and an inspiring account of finding engagement, enjoyment and purpose through learning something new and challenging.
Ann Patty worked in New York publishing for over thirty years. She was the founder and publisher of The Poseidon Press, and an executive editor at Crown and Harcourt. Among the many authors she worked with in her career were Yann Martel, V.C. Andrews, George R.R. Martin, Michael Moore, Mary Gaitskill, Ursula Hegi, Patrick McGrath, and Stephen Millhauser. She currently teaches kids Latin at a library in Red Hook, New York, and continues to audit courses in Latin at Vassar College.
THE GREAT TONG WARS:
A True Story of Murder and Mayhem in New York’s Chinatown
By Scott Seligman
Nonfiction | Viking | July 12, 2016 | World Rights
Agent: Peter W. Bernstein Corp.
Manuscript date TK
A ripsnorting true story of money, murder, mayhem (and gambling, prostitution and opium, too), with characters that range from bloodthirsty gangsters to reformers anddo-gooders to judges, cops, and pols of every stripe and color: the Chinese gang wars that engulfed New York's Chinatown in the 1920s and 30s.
Scott D. Seligmanis a historian, retired corporate executive, and a career "China hand." He holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard. Fluent in Mandarin and conversant in Cantonese, he lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China and has been a legislative assistant in Congress, lobbied on behalf of American business in China, and was communications director for a Fortune 50 company. He is the author of many scholarly and business books, including Chinese Business Etiquette, and Cultural Revolution Cookbook. He has published articles in the Asian Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, the China Business Review, the Jewish Daily Forward, ChinaHeritage Quarterly, and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center blog.
THE ART OF…
By Rosamund Stone Zander
Nonfiction | Viking | August 2, 2016 | World Rights
Agent: Kneerim & Williams Literary Agency
Manuscriptavailable
The author of bestseller The Art of Possibility returns with a new vision for transforming personal and professional life, inviting readers to shed the childhood stories that hold them back, thereby allowing them to enter a realm of true maturity and fulfillment, where limitless growth becomes possible. Stimulating and profound, it is the perfect follow-up to The Art of Possibility, demolishing our assumptions about how much we can grow and change, whether we can affect others or the world at large, and how much freedom and joy we can experience.
Rosamund Stone Zander, an executive coach and family systems therapist, develops models for leadership, relationship, and effective action. Zander has designed programs for corporations as well as government agencies, and has conducted workshops in a variety of settings, including the Aspen Institute, the British Civil Service, National Public Radio, and the World Economic Forum. Ms. Zander is currently in private practice and runs an Accomplishment Program that enables people to complete major projects.
FUTURE
THE BOOK OF POLLY: A Novel
By Kathy Hepinstall
Fiction | Pamela Dorman Books | January 2017| World Rights
Agent: Henry Dunow/ Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency
Manuscript date TK
In the tradition of Fannie Flagg, with a touch of Terms of Endearment thrown in, a funny, sweetly touching novel about a 10-year-old girl obsessed with the fear that her larger-than-life, cantankerous, margarita-drinking, squirrel-shooting mother will die, and who is determined not only to keep her among the living but to find out the secrets of her long-buried past—a journey that will literally end up with them, like Huck Finn, riding a river raft back home.
Kathy Hepinstallis the author of five previous historical novels, so THE BOOK OF POLLY represents an exciting new direction for her.
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Netherlands (Prometheus)
HIT-MAKERS:
How to Succeed in the Age of Attention
By Derek Thompson
Nonfiction | Penguin Press | February 2017 | World Rights
Agent: Gail Ross/ Ross Yoon Agency
Manuscript due December 2015
The Atlantic senior editor’s investigation of why some songs, movies, books, games, and TV shows explode and so many others fizzle; showing how success can happen for all of us in our new, wired world, whose currency is attention, and what it says about us—putting pop culture under the lens of science with his trademark brilliance and wit.
Derek Thompsonis a senior editor atThe Atlantic,wherehe writes about economics, labor markets, and the entertainment business. He frequently appears on radio and television, including NPR and CNBC and is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches a class on writing for the Internet. In 2012, he appeared inFOLIO:magazine’s 15 Under 30, was one of Min’s People to Watch, and his blog was named one to follow by Reuters’ Counterpartiesblog, newsletter and website.
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Penguin Press/Penguin UK
China (Citic)
Korea (Book 21)
THINKING OUTSIDE OURSELVES:
How Intelligence Emerges From Ignorance
By Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach
Nonfiction | Riverhead | March 2017| World Rights
Agent: Christy Fletcher/ Fletcher & Co.
Manuscript due June 2016
A look at how much of what we think we know actually resides outside our minds (in our environment, our machines and systems, and the collective minds of others), with important implications for the way we learn, make decisions, work as teams, and interact with technology.
Steven Sloman is aProfessor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at BrownUniversity. He did his Ph.D. in Psychology atStanford and his post-doctoral research at the University of Michigan. He is an experimentally—and computationally—oriented cognitive scientist whosework concerns higher-order aspects of cognition. He iscurrentlyEditor-in-Chief of the journalCognition.
Phil Fernbach is a cognitive scientist and professor of marketing at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder. He got his Ph.D. at Brown University and his undergraduate degree from Williams College, where he studied philosophy. Phil’sresearch focus is on understanding how cognitive science can shedlight on issues of critical importance to society, such as politicalpolarization, acceptance of cutting edge technologies like genetic engineering,and consumer financial decision making. He has written for and had his work profiled in numerous publications such asThe New York Times,The Wall Street Journal,andBBC World News.
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Macmillan UK
HOW TO BE CAREFUL
By Steve Casner
Nonfiction | Riverhead | May 2017 | World Rights
Agent: Sandra Dijkstra/ Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency
Manuscript due June 2016
A user's guide to our sometimes accident-prone minds that helps us understand why we do things like insist on the fat-free salad dressing but then text and drive. This highly readable, authoritative and accessible narrative is full of surprising, must-know facts and stories, which have the potential to change our view of ourselves in the material world. We are less careful than ever, so we need the science and the story of how we can take better care, on small and grand scales.
As a NASA research psychologist, Steve Casnerhas spent the past twenty years helping to lower the airline accident rate. He holds a multidisciplinary Ph.D. that spans psychology, computer science, medicine, and the history and philosophy of science. Casneris well published in scientific literature and has received major media attention for his research.
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Macmillan UK
UNTITLED MEMOIR
By Barbra Streisand
Memoir | Viking |Fall 2017 | World Rights
Agent: Robert Barnett/ Williams & Connolly
Manuscript due Fall 2016
The highly anticipated memoir by one of the most influential and beloved actors, singers, and directors of our time. Honest, enlightening, and revealing, Streisand’s memoir will share memories of her childhood, explore her extraordinarily successful career on stage, screen, and in the recording studio, and reflect on her life.
Barbra Streisand is a director, writer, producer, composer, designer, activist, and philanthropist.She is the only artist to earn Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Peabody awards, as well as receiving Kennedy Center Honors and the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.She also received the National Endowment for the Arts medalfrom President Bill Clinton andFrance’s greatest recognition, the Légiond’Honneur,from French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Century, Random House UK
Denmark (Turbulenz)
France (Hugo & Cie)
Germany (Droemer)
Netherlands (Bruna)
Sweden (Norstedts)
UNTITLED BIOGRAPHY ON MARTIN LUTHER
By Eric Metaxas
Nonfiction | Viking | Fall 2017 | World Rights
Agent: Joel Tucciarone/ Diadem Partners
Manuscript due January 2017
The definitive biography of Martin Luther, from the internationally bestselling author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, to publish during the 500th anniversary of his 95 Thesis.
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life
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Hodder & Stoughton
Brazil (Companhia das Letras)
Croatia (Znanje D.D.)
Finland (Paiva)
Germany (SCM Haensslerim SCM)
Greek (Psichogios)
Hungary (Immanuel Kiado)
Poland (SpolecznyInstytutWydawniczyZnak)
Romania (Scriptum Publishing House)
Slovakia (Fortuna Libri)
Sweden (Litzon Press)
UK RIGHTS ONLY
THE LAST DAYS OF MAGIC: A Novel
By Mark Tompkins
Fiction | Viking | March 1, 2016
Agent: The Gernert Company, Inc.
Manuscript available
An epic novel of magic and mysticism set in medieval Ireland, where Celts and faeries, mad kings and Druids, stalwart warriors and the wounded goddess destined to unite them confront the ambitions of the Vatican and England's Richard II.
Mark Tompkinis a writer and entrepreneur. He founded the Aspen Writers' Network and serves on the board of the Aspen Writers' Foundation. He is also a published poet and photographer, whose work is held in the permanent collections of museums in the U.S. and abroad.
EARLY PRAISE
“Simultaneously sweeping and intricate, reaching all the way back to the Dead Sea Scrolls and all the way forward to now, Tompkins’s amazing debut novel conjures an epic battle for the soul of Ireland. Filled with papal machination and royal intrigue, magic and mayhem, faeries, Vikings, legates, kings and queens, angels and goddesses, this is one wild and breathless ride.”
—Karen Joy Fowler