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esa Emma Sweeney Agency, LLC
FALL 2016 RIGHTS GUIDE
September 29, 2016
FALL 2016 RIGHTS GUIDE
Contents and information
Clients : Page 1
Fiction: Page 2-14
Non-Fiction: Page 15-21
Backlist: Page 22-26
Co-agents: Page 27
Enclosed in this guide are new and recently published ESA titles as well as some selections from our
backlist. If you would like to receive any additional information about any of the titles provided, please
feel free to contact Kira Watson ([email protected]) or me. The list of our foreign co-
agents can be found on the last page of this guide.
We hope you have a productive and terrific FBF!
Best wishes,
Emma Sweeney
Margaret Sutherland Brown
Kira Watson
Emma Sweeney Agency, LLC
245 East 80th
Street, Ste. 7E
New York, NY 10075-0506
Tel: (646)827-4381
* David Higham client # Faith Evans client @ Jenny Darling client
= ESA holds foreign and/or UK rights
ESA CLIENTS
Jonis Agee Anita Amirrezvani Axios Press Julene Bair Heather Barbieri Emily Croy Barker Andrew Beahrs Lauren Belfer Elizabeth Birkelund Janet Burroway Edgar Cantero Kelly Carlisle Elizabeth J. Church Alison Croggon @ Lynn Cullen Ann Darby Elizabeth Dewberry Wendy Doniger David Dosa, MD MPH Ellen Feldman Alex George* Amy Goldman John Gribbin* Mary Gribbin* Sara Gruen Beth Gutcheon Rick Hamlin Rosalie Ham@ Eva Hornung @ Vanessa Hua Tara Ison Jessica Keener Jim Kelly#
Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller Stephanie Lehmann Penelope Lively* H.E. John Mahama Tania Malik
Y. M. Rinpoche Isla Morley Patricia Morrisroe Okey Ndibe Colleen Oakley Jill Orr Marian Palaia Vaddey Ratner Terry Roberts Craig Russell* Nina Sadowsky Jane Sanderson* Helen Scales Sandra Scofield Katherine Sharpe Philip Short* Richard Snow Terese Svoboda Eric Swanson Ellen Tadd Sarah Tomlinson Tsoknyi Rinpoche Gina Wohlsdorf Carol Wallace Bernard Wasserstein*
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FICTION
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EDGAR CANTERO
MEDDLING KIDS Blumhouse Books, a division of Doubleday: August 1, 2017
UK/ Translation: ESA; Audio: Blumhouse Books
Manuscript Status: Available
A mad scientist's concoction of H. P. Lovecraft, classic cartoons and a love of Americana--just for
starters--Edgar Cantero's MEDDLING KIDS creates a gleefully absurd world filled with out-right
insanity, rich horror, thrilling twists, and surprising poignancy.
For fans of John Dies at the End by David Wong, and Welcome to Night Vale by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, comes an original tour de force of horror, nostalgia, and mayhem that follows the former members of a teenage detective club (and their dog) who reunite as broken adults to solve the one case that still haunts them all...and threatens to unleash hell on earth. The year was 1977. Four teenagers and a dog--Andy (the tomboy), Nate (the horror nerd), Kerri (the genius), Peter (the jock), and Sean (the slobbering, undersized Weimeraner)--have just solved the Monster of Sleepy Lake case. The trail of a wild beast terrorizing the quiet town of Blyton leads the gang to apprehend a familiar culprit: a
bitter old man in a mask. It brings closure to the final adventure of the Blyton Summer Detective Club...except the real terror is just beginning. Now, in 1990, the twenty-something former teen detectives are lost souls. Plagued by night terrors and Peter's tragic death, the three survivors have become pariahs in and out of insane asylums (and prison) and running from the demons in their dreams. When the man they apprehended all those years ago makes parole, Andy realizes they sent the wrong guy to prison. Now she'll need to get the gang back together and return to Blyton, to where their nightmare began, and find out what really happened in 1977.This time, it better not be another man in a mask.
Edgar Cantero’s debut The Supernatural Enhancements (Doubleday 2014, pb 2015) was a Barnes & Noble discovery pick. He lives in Barcelona and works as a cartoonist at "El Jueve."
Option Publishers: UK: Del Rey Italy: Salini
France: Super 8 Editions Spain: Minotauro
Praise for The Supernatural Enhancements
Barnes & Noble Discovery Pick
“A spectacular debut novel. . . . Cantero’s fresh, original prose style and the steady flow of twists, turns, and
code breaking will have mystery, thriller, and supernatural fans glued to their seats until they reach the
electrifying conclusion.” —Library Journal, ★Starred Review★
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ELIZABETH J CHURCH
MAP OF VENUS Ballantine: 2018
UK/Translation: ESA; Audio: Ballantine
Manuscript Status: January 2017
Author of Indie Next #1 Pick The Atomic Weight of Love
Elizabeth Church’s second novel, MAP OF VENUS, follows a young, aspiring dancer who runs from her
haunted childhood to Las Vegas in the 1960s, where she comes of age under the neon lights of The Strip. Working as a showgirl, she finds best friends, love, fortune, and heartbreak.
Elizabeth J. Church, author of The Atomic Weight of
Love, practiced law for over thirty years, focusing on mental health and constitutional law issues. After circumstances taught her the brevity of life, she walked away from the law to pursue her original dream of writing. She has written extensively for legal publications and scientific journals. Her short story “Skin Deep” won first prize in Literal Latté’s 2001 fiction contest, and “Lying with Dogs” was published in Natural Bridge in 2002. This is her first novel.
Option Publisher: UK: Fourth Estate
Praise for The Atomic Weight of Love
“A tightly crafted novel.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Church’s debut novel explores the relationship between sacrifice and love . . . Each sentence
drives the plot further, exploring love’s limits and its spoils. But it’s Church’s exploration of
Meridian’s role in her relationships that is the most gracefully executed feat of the novel.
Meridian’s voice is poignant, a mixture of poetry and observation . . . An elegant glimpse into
the evolution of love and womanhood.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Church hits the mark in this emotionally driven debut that spans the chapters of a long life . . .
What does love require of us? How does one strike a balance between compromise and
self‑fulfillment? In her debut novel, Church writes to these issues in a style that is thoughtful
and elegant.” —Library Journal
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LYNN CULLEN
BETTY KNOWS BEST Gallery: February 2018
UK/Translation: ESA; Audio: Gallery
Manuscript Status: 2017
BETTY KNOWS BEST is the Depression-era tale of Dorothy
Hale, whose misfit status for much of her life continues into her 60’s with her dysfunctional relationship with her grown daughters. In the vein of A Man Called Ove and I Am Lucy Barton, Dorothy, like Ove and Lucy Barton's mother, seems on the surface to be unlikable and unloving. She’s so inept at communicating with her daughters that when she learns that she’s dying, she insists on taking them to visit Betty Crocker, who, as the second most influential woman in America (after Eleanor Roosevelt) will surely know how to break the news to them. After all, from cooking a cherry pie to keeping a man’s interest, Betty knows best! (Or at least that's what every housewife is told by radio and newsprint in 1934.) Dorothy’s harrowing pilgrimage to the Betty Crocker kitchens in Minneapolis culminates in the discovery that Betty Crocker is a fictitious character made up by a flour company to sell products. But another discovery is made as well: Dorothy Hale is not the bumbling uncaring mother her daughters imagine her to be. Dorothy is a fighter. At turns
bittersweet and wise, heartbreaking and humorous, BETTY KNOWS BEST champions the misunderstood and unloved, and explores the transforming power of forgiveness.
Lynn Cullen’s Twain’s End (Gallery, 2015, pb. 2016) was a Peoples Pick and received a glowing starred review from Publishers Weekly. Lynn is also the author of Mrs. Poe, a national bestseller and Target Pick, which sold in nine countries and was optioned by Frances Fisher for film/TV rights.
Option Publishers: Brazil: Bertrand France: Galaade
Praise for Twain’s End
“Reputation-squaring novel. Cullen splashes a surplus of fuel onto her incendiary raw material.” —New York
Times
“The extraordinary relationship between the popular, complicated author Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain,
and his longtime secretary Isabel Lyon is wonderfully reimagined in this absorbing novel. Cullen (Mrs. Poe)
depicts an immensely talented and virile, yet crude, hot-tempered, self-centered late-in-life Samuel, whose own
children fear him and who remains tormented by his childhood with slave-owning parents—sordid realities that
lie beneath the famous wit.”—Publishers Weekly, ★Starred Review★
“Complicated and at times confusing because of Clemens behavior, TWAIN'S END remains a book that is a
joy to read. Ms. Cullen is the Bronte of our day.”—Huff Post Book Review
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ALEX GEORGE
SETTING FREE THE KITES Putnam: February 21, 2017
World Rights: Putnam
AREs: Available
From the author of the “lyrical and compelling” (USA Today) novel, A Good American, the
powerful story of the unintended consequences that friendship, hope, and obsession impose
on two families in crisis.
Haverford, Maine, is a town that’s easily overlooked. So is Robert Carter, an eighth-grader in 1976 who’s a ready target for the class bully. That is, until the first day of school and a new kid appears: Nathan Tilly. Nathan is fearless, impetuous, and obsessed with kites and flying. As Robert and Nathan become friends, they’re drawn into each other’s families, where they witness unexpected tragedy and learn that all families can harbor secrets. When summer arrives, both boys work at the local amusement park owned by Robert’s family, and it’s there that Robert and Nathan begin to learn some harsh truths about family, desire and revenge. Honest and heartfelt, with echoes of novels by Wally Lamb and John Irving, Setting Free the Kites is both a poignant coming-of-age story and a moving family drama that explores the terrible costs of misplaced hope.
Alex George, author of A Good American, is an Englishman who lives, works, and writes in the middle of America. He studied law at Oxford University and worked for eight years as a corporate lawyer in London and Paris before moving to the United States. In addition to writing, he also runs his own law firm and is the founder and director of a new literary festival, The
Unbound Book Festival. He lives in Missouri with his family.
Praise for A Good American
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Named one of the Best Books of 2012 by Bookpage Magazine
#1 Pick for Indie Next List, February 2012.
Amazon “Best Books of the Month” List February 2012
Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, Spring 2012
Barnes & Noble Top Staff Pick for Fiction, February 2012
Midwest Connection Pick, February 2012
#1 “Title to Pick Up Now” for O Magazine, February 2012
“Top 2012 Summer Read” for NPR’s Morning Edition
Costco Buyer’s Pick, February 2013
“Delightful… epic, lyrical, compelling” – USA Today
“Plenty of story-telling charm” – New York Times
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SARA GRUEN UNTITLED Spiegel & Grau: 2018
UK/Translation: ESA; Audio: S&G
Manuscript Status: December 2017
A new historical novel from Sara Gruen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants (translated into 43 languages, and selling more than 10 million copies worldwide) of love and intrigue that takes place on Black Tuesday, in October 1929, aboard the famous train the Orient Express; the financial crisis will expose the lives of the various colorful characters on the train as profoundly as it did the world.
Rights sold to: UK: Two Roads (Hodder)
ANZ: Allen & Unwin Brazil: Bertrand
Sara Gruen is the author of New York Times bestsellers At The Water’s
Edge, Ape House, and Water for Elephants. She is also the author of
Riding Lessons and Flying Changes, USA Today bestsellers. Her works have been translated into forty-three languages and have sold more than ten million copies worldwide. She lives in western North Carolina with her husband and three sons, along with their dogs, cats, horses, birds, and a goat.
Praise for At The Water’s Edge
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
INDIE BESTSELLER
INDIE NEXT PICK
“Breathtaking . . . a daring story of adventure, friendship, and love in the shadow of WWII.”—Harper’s Bazaar
“A gripping, compelling story . . . [Sara] Gruen’s characters are vividly drawn and her scenes are perfectly
paced.”—The Boston Globe
“Powerfully evocative.”—USA Today
“A heartwarming story about life, and the places it can potentially take you.”—InStyle
“A super steamy love story.”—Good Housekeeping
“A natural for the book-club set.”—Booklist
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VANESSA HUA
A RIVER OF STARS Ballantine: 2018
UK/ Translation: ESA; Audio: Ballantine
Manuscript Status: January 2017
In the vein of Jean Kwok’s Girl in Translation and Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You, A
RIVER OF STARS is a poignant portrait of enterprising dreamers in search of a better life for
themselves and their children.
Scarlett Chen is an ambitious factory clerk in mainland China, a peasant who has reinvented herself again and again. When she becomes pregnant by her married boss, they decide she will deliver in America in order to give their child the best future they can imagine for him: the broader life available to an American citizen. After her child's father betrays her, Scarlett flees, setting off a hunt for her and the baby. Joined by a fellow pregnant Chinese stowaway, a teenager named Daisy on the run from her wealthy family, Scarlett finds a haven in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Together Scarlett and Daisy forge a makeshift sisterhood, new mothers making their way in a new country. As forces converge upon them, Scarlett fights for her family that fits no definition but their own.
Bitingly funny and fiercely moving by turns, A RIVER OF STARS reveals the intersecting lives of Chinese
immigrants and the American-born who straddle the Pacific, and is a dazzling exploration of motherhood, the turmoil of China's contemporary history and the one-child policy, and the immigrant experience in the States.
THE SEA PALACES Ballantine: 2019
UK/ Translation: ESA; Audio: Ballantine
Manuscript Status: January 2018
THE SEA PALACE is based on the life of Chairman Mao's mistress. A
peasant recruited for a ballroom dance troupe (and unofficial harem) at the Sea Palaces, the opulent home of the Chairman, Third Daughter becomes Mao's lover and confidante. Despite plots against her by romantic rivals, scheming aides, and the Chairman’s wife, she emerges from Mao's tutelage as a model revolutionary too clever for her master.
Vanessa Hua is an award-winning writer and journalist. She is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and a former staff writer at that paper, the Los Angeles Times, and at Hartford Courant. She is the recipient of a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award among other honors, and is a graduate of Stanford University and UC Riverside’s MFA program. Her fiction has been published in The Atlantic, ZYZZYVA, Guernica, and elsewhere. Her debut short story collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities, winner of the Willow Books Literature Awards Grand Prize, was published in September 2016.
Praise for Deceit and Other Possibilities
"This searing debut story collection is about immigrants navigating a new America..." –O Magazine
"Profoundly moving, and impossible to forget...a truly impressive debut."–Nylon
“An intriguing collection...Hua is a writer to watch.”–Booklist
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TARA ISON
AT THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF Catapult: May 2017
World Rights: Counterpoint; Audio: Counterpoint
Manuscript Status: January 2017
AT THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF is a provocative and bold historical novel about a young Jewish girl hiding in WWII France who, in order to survive, loses herself to the point of becoming fanatically Catholic, a fervent disciple of fascism, and a collaborator. Young Danielle is ripped from her life in Paris after the German Occupation and the violent loss of her father. Her mother flees underground, leaving Danielle to the care of a Catholic family in the remote village of La Perrine. She is reborn as Marie-Jeanne, the niece of kindly Berthe and Claude and cousin to their angry son Luc, who resents her presence as a threat to his family’s safety. As the Vichy government's collaboration with Germany increases, Danielle faces a series of events that will change her forever: the discovery that her new friend, too, is Jewish; that her cousin might be involved in la Resistance; and that the affections of a friendly Vichy official might contain intentions more diabolical than she ever thought
possible. Ultimately she must discover: Is she Danielle or Marie-Jeanne? Who can she trust, the father she cannot remember, the mother who abandoned her, the fake family she relies upon, or the seductive fervor of a passionate war all around her? Which person will win out? Perfect for fans of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, Maria Hummel’s Motherland, and Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan Train, Ison’s intricate, explosive and haunting novel presents a fascinating look at identity during a time of great instability and violence, and how an individual and a people can be damaged and warped by the influence of extremist ideologies and the trauma of war. Tara Ison is the author of the novels The List; A Child out of Alcatraz, a Finalist for the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize; and Rockaway, featured as one of the “Best Books
of Summer” in O, The Oprah Magazine. Her essay collection, Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies, is the Winner of the PEN Southwest Book Award for Best Creative Nonfiction, and her story collection Ball, was published to critical acclaim. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Salon, Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Times, theSan Francisco Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune.
Select Praise for Tara Ison
"A collection that explores the dark underbelly of sex, American-style…” —O (on Ball)
“Elegant, creepy short stories with a horror-film sensibility…. Freaky, nasty, highly original
and unforgettable.” —Kirkus Reviews (on Ball)
“...Think Mary Gaitskill or Miranda July, but more demented.”—Publishers Weekly, ★Starred
Review★ (on Ball)
"Ison possesses a surfeit of wit and an especial knack for upending love story conventions...as
the narrative swirls to a stylish and startling end." —The New York Times Book Review (on
Rockaway)
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JESSICA KEENER
STRANGERS IN BUDAPEST Algonquin: 2017
Translation: ESA; UK: Algonquin; Audio: Algonquin
Manuscript Status: Available
“Gorgeously told and deeply moving, Keener’s brilliant new novel is a bold, brave and dazzlingly
original tale about home, loss and the persistence of love.”
—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times Bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You
"From the first pages of STRANGERS IN BUDAPEST, the words "You must not tell anyone"
made me feel as if a hand had reached out from the shadows to pull me under, and I was swept
away inexorably by this hypnotic plot, these dark scenes, relentless tension."
—Lydia Netzer, New York Times bestselling author of Shine, Shine, Shine
Set in the city of Budapest in the mid-1990s, when Hungary, freshly liberated from Russian communist rule, attracted entrepreneurs in large numbers, all eager to exploit new opportunities, STRANGERS IN BUDAPEST tells the story of a young American woman and her child who befriend an ailing World War II Army vet whose memories of Nazis still haunt him. He's also consumed by the death of his daughter - whom he suspects was murdered by a man living in Budapest. When Annie learns why Edward is there, her life becomes enmeshed in Edward's in ways that threaten her own - and her child's. STRANGERS IN BUDAPEST is a powerful, combustible, unforgettable novel.
Jessica Keener's debut novel, Night Swim (The Story Plant, 2013), was a national bestseller and has been widely praised by reviewers including The New York Times,
which called it "an earnest debut" and "moving." She is also the author of Women
In Bed (The Story Plant, 2013). Her work has appeared in scores of national publications and literary magazines, most recently in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Huffington Post , and The Nervous Breakdown. She is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist's Grant and was a finalist in Breadloaf's Bakeless novel competition.
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COLLEEN OAKLEY
CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH Gallery: February 14, 2017
UK/Translation: ESA; Audio: Gallery
Manuscript Status: Available
From the author of Before I Go comes an unconventional but beautiful love story perfect for fans
of the emotional novels of Jodi Picoult and Jojo Moyes.
One time, a boy kissed me and I almost died . . . And so begins the story of Jubilee
Jenkins, a woman with a rare and debilitating medical condition: she’s
allergic to other humans. After a nearly fatal — and humiliating—kiss in
high school, she became reclusive, living in the confines of her home for
nine years. But after her mother dies, Jubilee is forced to face the world—
and the people in it—that she’s been hiding from.
Jubilee finds safe haven at her local library where she gets a job. It’s there
she meets Eric Keegan, a divorced man who just moved to town with his
brilliant, troubled, adopted son. Eric is struggling to figure out how to be the
dad he wants so desperately to be. Then he realizes Jubilee might be just
the person to help him, setting into motion the most unlikely love story of
the year.
Rights sold to: UK/ANZ: Allen & Unwin
Brazil: Bertrand Czech Republic: Fortuna Libri
Germany: Goldmann Slovakia: Fortuna Libri Sweden: Lavender Lit
Formerly the senior editor of Marie Claire and editor-in-chief of Women’s Health & Fitness, Colleen’s articles, essays, and interviews have been featured in The New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, Marie Claire, Women’s Health, Redbook, Parade, and Martha Stewart Weddings. She lives in Smyrna with her husband, and four kids.
Praise for Before I Go Best New Book by PEOPLE magazine
Us Weekly "Must" Pick
Publisher’s Lunch Buzz Book
Library Journal Big Fiction Debut
January 2015 Indie Next List Pick
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JILL ORR
THE GOOD BYLINE Prospect Park Books: 2017
UK/Translation: ESA; Audio: ESA
AREs: Available
A debut mystery rich with charm, humor, romance, and danger
Riley feels adrift in her small hometown of Tuttle Corner, VA, newly single and bemoaning the decline of print journalism, which has dashed her long-held dream of succeeding her grandfather as an obituary writer at the local newspaper. When her childhood best friend commits suicide with no warning, the grieving family asks Riley to write her obituary. As she investigates why such an ambitious young woman might want to end her life, Riley begins to consider that her friend Jordan may have actually been murdered. In the meantime, her love life becomes complicated when her ex Ryan returns to town just as things are heating up with a hot newcomer—who may have had something to do with Jordan’s death. Jill Orr writes for COMO Living Magazine (formerly Columbia Home). A resident of Columbia, MO, she serves on the board of the Unbound Book Festival. The Good Byline is her first novel. Please visit her author website at jillorrauthor.com.
Advance Praise for The Good Byline
“In this irresistible page-turner, Jill Orr delivers a funny, smartly-written mystery featuring a
charming heroine. I can’t wait to join Riley Ellison on future adventures – and misadventures!”
--Ellen Byron, nationally-bestselling author of the Cajun Country mysteries
“Jill Orr’s delightful, laugh-out-loud debut is the perfect mix of mystery, humor, and romance,
anchored by an endearing heroine you can’t help but root for...Perfect for fans of Janet
Evanovich.”—Laura McHugh, award-winning author of Arrowood and The Weight of Blood
“Riley “Bless her Heart” Ellison is a breath of fresh air—a funny, empathic, millennial heroine.
She kept me turning the pages well into the night.” —Susan M. Boyer, nationally-bestselling
author of the Liz Talbot Mystery series
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VADDEY RATNER
MUSIC OF THE GHOSTS Touchstone: April 1, 2017
World Rights: Touchstone; Audio: Touchstone
Manuscript Status: Available “Vaddey Ratner’s new novel, MUSIC OF THE GHOSTS, is an extraordinary achievement. It is
deeply haunting in its evocation of place, profound in the directness with which it confronts age
old questions of guilt, regret, and loss, and staggeringly beautiful in its masterful lyricism. A book
like this doesn’t come around very often. I hope everyone will read it.”—Kevin Powers, award-
winning author of The Yellow Birds
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of In the Shadow of the Banyan comes a novel about a young woman who returns to her homeland after receiving a letter from a mysterious man who claims to have known her father before he disappeared in the Cambodian holocaust.
Teera, a thirty-seven-year-old American, returns to Cambodia for the first time after her harrowing escape as a child refugee more than two decades earlier. She carries back with her the ashes of her recently deceased aunt and a letter from a stranger who claims he knew her father in Slak Daek, the notorious Pol Pot security prison where her father disappeared. When she arrives, Teera finds a country of survivors, where perpetrators and victims of recent atrocities are finding a way to live side by side. She reacquaints herself with places that ignite long-buried memories and prepares herself to learn her father’s fate from the author of the letter, known as the Old Musician. Now a half-blind elderly man who earns his keep by playing music for funerals and spirit ceremonies at a temple, the Old Musician waits for Teera’s visit, anticipating the confession he must make. He remembers his love for her mother, his admiration for her father, and the passion with which they all embraced the Khmer Rouge’s promise of a democratic society, embarking on a journey that ended in the horror chamber only he survived. Who can we forgive? What is justice? How do we atone? Together Teera and the Old Musician confront the truth of their intertwined past, weaving a melody that will leave both transformed, and freeing
Teera to find a new home and a new love in the places she least expects.
Vaddey Ratner, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, is author of the New York Times bestseller In
the Shadow of the Banyan. Her critically acclaimed debut novel was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and has been translated into seventeen languages. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Cornell University, where she specialized in Southeast Asian history and literature.
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NINA SADOWSKY
THE BURIAL SOCIETY Ballantine: 2017
World Rights: Ballantine; Audio: Ballantine
Manuscript Status: Fall 2016
A psychological thriller of obsession and betrayal, centered around three characters on a collision course: a grieving businessman on the run with a history he dare not reveal, a beautiful woman with a talent for making people in trouble disappear, and a businessman’s daughter, who has some dark secrets of her own. Nina Sadowsky has written numerous original screenplays and adaptations for such companies as The Walt Disney Company, Working Title Films, and Lifetime Television. She was president of Meg Ryan’s Prufrock Pictures. She was the executive producer of
The Wedding Planner and has produced numerous other films. She also served as president of production for Signpost Films, where she worked on such movies as House of Sand and Fog. Sadowsky is currently an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, teaching both script development and producing.
Praise for Just Fall
“[A] tense, wild fever dream of a debut.”—Entertainment Weekly
“[An] intriguing setup . . . Sex and violence abound. . . . Ellie must decide how much she’s
willing to sacrifice for a man she only thought she knew.”—Publishers Weekly
“Apt comparisons to The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl . . . The tension becomes almost unbearable. . . . The many plot strands are neatly woven together as the story hurtles towards its
shocking . . . ending.”—Booklist
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NON-FICTION
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KELLY CARLISLE
WE ARE ALL SHIPWRECKS: A Memoir Sourcebooks: September 2017
UK/Translation: ESA; Audio: Sourcebooks
Manuscript Status: Available
“In her ability to find joy and love in the story of her very eccentric, and sometimes painful,
family, Kelly Carlisle reminds us of the power of forgiveness and its place in our lives.–Bill Clegg, author of Did You Ever Have a Family
WE ARE ALL SHIPWRECKS is about Kelly's
unconventional childhood in LA in the care of her magnetic but difficult grandfather, an Englishman who claimed a noble lineage and glamorous past at odds with his life in California peddling porn and living on a houseboat. Her grandfather became her guardian when her mother was murdered by the Hillside Strangler when Kelly was just three weeks old, a legacy with which she wrestled in adulthood. Kelly Carlisle’s personal essays have appeared in New England Review, Salon.com, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Subtropics, The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, and others. Two of her essays were listed as “notable essays” in Best American Essays and one was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She graduated with a PhD in English, University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She lives with her family in San Antonio, Texas, where she is an assistant professor at Trinity University and the editor of the new literary magazine, 1966.
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WENDY DONIGER
THE RING OF TRUTH Oxford University Press: March 31, 2017
UK/Translation: ESA; Audio: OUP
Manuscript Status: Available
Few writers could begin with personal family anecdotes, shift to Sanskrit myths and Shakespeare, return to popular songs and film and still maintain a coherent discussion. Yet that is precisely what Wendy
Doniger’s RING OF TRUTH accomplishes, in a lively and
penetrating examination of the enduring power of myth as revealed through stories about jewels, sex and clever women. Readers familiar with the author’s previous work will recognize here its trademark features: wit combined with erudition, fearless roaming from ancient to contemporary sources, and a delight in stories and their mysteries. Author, editor, and translator, Wendy Doniger has published thirty books in almost as many years. She holds two doctorates, from Harvard University and the University of Oxford, and is known for her aplomb in tackling intriguing cultural and historical questions. She is the author of
The Hindus: An Alternative History (Penguin Press, 2009).
Rights Sold: South Asia: Speaking Tiger Press
Praise for The Hindus
"Don't miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course from a feisty and exhilarating teacher."
—The Washington Post
"This is history as great entertainment! Unlike the usual, arid accounts of dynasties, Wendy
Doniger's double vision of Hinduism is about women, merchants, lower castes, animals, spirits
and , of course, Dead Male Brahmins. This lively, earthy account explains why ancient India is
the world's richest storytelling culture."—Gurcharan Das, author of India Unbound
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OKEY NDIBE
NEVER LOOK AN AMERICAN IN THE EYE: A Memoir Soho Press: October 11, 2016
UK/Translation: ESA; Audio: Soho Press
AREs: Available
A vibrant cross-cultural memoir from the highly
acclaimed Nigerian-American author of Foreign
Gods, Inc. Okey Ndibe's funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential (but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency) African Commentary magazine. It recounts stories of Ndibe's friendships with Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, and tells of Okey's own development as a novelist; examines the differences between Nigerian and American etiquette and politics; recalls an incident of racial profiling just 10 days after he arrived in the US, in which he was mistaken for a bank robber; and juxtaposes African folk tales with Wall Street trickery. All these stories and more come together in a generous, encompassing story of our globally interconnected world. Okey Ndibe first arrived in the US to take up appointment as the founding editor of African Commentary, a magazine published by the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. He has been a visiting professor at Brown University, Connecticut College, Simon’s Rock College, Trinity College, and the
University of Lagos (as a Fulbright scholar). The author of Foreign Gods,
Inc., Ndibe served on the editorial board of Hartford Courant where his essays won national and state awards.
Praise for Foreign Gods Inc. "Razor-sharp . . . Mr. Ndibe invests his story with enough dark comedy to make Ngene an
odoriferous presence in his own right, and certainly not the kind of polite exotic rarity that art
collectors are used to . . . In Mr. Ndibe’s agile hands, he’s both a source of satire and an
embodiment of pure terror." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“We clearly have a fresh talent at work here. It is quite a while since I sensed creative promise
on this level.”—Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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RICHARD SNOW
IRON DAWN Scribner: November 1, 2016
World Rights: Scribner; Audio: Scribner
AREs: Available
“A few notable naval battles changed the course of wars, even history, but the clash at
Hampton Roads transformed the nature of warfare itself and offered a glimpse of the "grim
modernity" Snow vividly captures.” –Kirkus, ★Starred Review★
From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who “writes with verve and a keen eye” (The New York Times Book Review), the thrilling story of the naval battle that not only changed the Civil War but the future of all sea power. No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, built an iron fort containing ten heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named the Merrimack. The North got word of the project when it was already well along, and, in desperation, commissioned an eccentric inventor named John Ericsson to build the Monitor, an entirely revolutionary iron warship—at the time, the single most complicated machine ever made. Abraham Lincoln himself was closely involved with the ship’s design. Rushed through to completion in just 100 days, it mounted only two guns, but they were housed in a shot-proof revolving turret. The ship hurried south from Brooklyn (and nearly sank twice on the voyage), only to arrive to find the Merrimack had arrived blazing that morning, destroyed half the Union fleet, and would be back to finish the job the next day. When she returned, the Monitor was there. She fought the Merrimack to a standstill, and saved the Union cause. As soon as word of the battle spread, Great Britain—the foremost sea power of the day—ceased work on all wooden ships. A thousand-
year-old tradition ended, and the path to the naval future opened. Richard Snow worked at American Heritage magazine for nearly four decades and was its editor-in-chief for seventeen years. He is the author of several books, among them two novels and a volume of poetry. Snow has served as a consultant for historical motion picture—among them Glory—and has written for documentaries, including the Burns brothers’ Civil War, and Ric Burns’s award-winning PBS film Coney Island, whose screenplay he wrote. Most recently, he served as a consultant on Ken Burns’s World War II series, The War. He is the author
of A Measureless Peril (Scribner, 2010) and I Invented the Modern Age (Scribner, 2013).
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ELLEN TADD
THE INFINITE VIEW Tarcher: March 28, 2017
World Rights: Tarcher; Audio: Tarcher
Manuscript Status: Available
Written by internationally revered clairvoyant counselor Ellen Tadd, THE INFINITE
VIEW is a spiritual classic in the making.
People often lean towards either trusting their gut or being completely rational, but Ellen Tadd urges readers to consider a new approach that integrates soul, spirit, and personality. She guides readers in developing their own intuitive powers. According to Tadd, Spirit is the God Force that animates and empowers us and suffuses everyone and everything. But while Spirit is conscious and communicative, we haven't been taught to look for it. In fact, most of us have been conditioned not to look for it. When we choose spiritual attunement, we find ourselves able to engage more clearly and openly with life—even with its challenges, such as illness, death, loss, and feelings of anxiety, loneliness, fear, or inadequacy.
THE INFINITE VIEW offers the tools and insights
needed to achieve attunement. Drawing on her personal narrative, as well as the experiences of her students, Tadd helps readers transform their understanding of themselves and the world around them.
Ellen Tadd is an internationally recognized clairvoyant counselor who has taught and lectured at colleges, universities, hospitals and community groups for over thirty years. Her work has been supported by the Edgar Cayce Foundation, the Marion Institute, Deepak Chopra, ChildSpirit Institute, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and the Boston Center for Adult Education. Tadd’s work has been described in several books and articles, including Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer’s Extraordinary Knowing (Bantam, 2008). She is the author of Death and Letting Go (Montague Press, 2003) and The Wisdom of the Chakras (Lantern Books, 2010).
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SARAH TOMLINSON
COLOR YOUR WAY: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF SACRED YANTRAS Shambala: November 2017
World Rights: Shambhala; Audio: ESA
Manuscript Status: December 2016
The Yantra, a powerful geometric symbol, has been recognized for centuries as a container for the
celestial teachings of ancient India. In COLOR YOUR WAY, leading Yantra authority in the
West Sarah Tomlinson presents twenty-four gorgeous essential Yantras and twenty-four intricate Yantra-Mandalas to color for enhanced mindfulness, centering, stress-relief, empowerment, and joy. The book also offers teachings about each Yantra to contemplate while interacting with one’s chosen diagram. COLOR YOUR WAY is an excellent introduction to Yantras for the uninitiated and a beautiful supplemental tool for readers with a spiritual practice already in place, and the first adult coloring book exclusively about yantras. It will delight readers of NYT-bestselling coloring books Color Me Calm, Adult Coloring Book Designs and Stress Relieving Animal Designs, and its spiritual content and substance ensures that it will be a perennial favorite. Sarah Tomlinson is an internationally-recognized Yantrika (Yantra teacher and practitioner), yoga teacher, artist, and the author
of Nine Designs for Inner Peace: The Ultimate
Guide to Meditating with Color, Shape and
Sound, which has been translated into several languages (Inner Traditions, 2008). She first studied Yantra painting with tantric master Harish Johari, who revealed to her the healing power of Yantras. She has an international client-list, and has led countless trainings, Yantra painting workshops and classes at home and abroad. She has been interviewed for numerous publications, including Yoga Journal, FitYoga, LA Yoga and Ayurveda, and is often a presenter at Ayurveda and yoga conferences.
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SELECTED BACKLIST JONIS AGEE
THE BONES OF PARADISE US, Canada, & UK: Harper (August 2, 2016)
LAUREN BELFER
AND AFTER THE FIRE US & Canada: Harper (May 3, 2016) Rights sold to: Wydawnictwo Kobiece/Poland
ANITA AMIRREZVANI
EQUAL OF THE SUN US & Canada: Scribner (2012, paperback 2013) Rights sold to: Muelenhoff Boekerij/Holland; Alma Littera/Lithuania; Azbooka/Russia; ODTU/ Turkey; Profil Knjiga/Croatia; Albatros/Poland; Zvaigzne ABC/Latvia
BLOOD OF FLOWERS US, Canada: Little, Brown (2007), Back Bay Books (2008) Rights sold to: Headline/UK; Lafon/France; Ullstein/Germany; Salamandra/Spanish, RBA/Catalan, Civilizacao Editora/Portuguese in Portugal; Nova Fronteira/Portuguese in Brazil; Mondadori/Italy; Lindhardt & Ringhof/Denmark; DeBokeri/Holland; Gyldendal/Norway; Forum Bokforlag AB/Sweden; WSOY/ Finland; Keter/Israel; Wydawnicto Cyklady/Poland; Livornis/Greece; Ucila/Slovenia; Okean/Serbia; Profil/Croatia; Geopen Kiado/Hungary; NOXI/Czech Republic and Slovakia, ODTU/Turkey, Commercial/Complex Chinese, Culturer/Simplified Chinese, Sanskrit/Thailand, Leda/Romania, All-Prints/Arabic, Literature/Vietnam, Skjaldborg/Iceland, Munhakdongne/Korea, Azbooka/Russia, UFUK/Indonesia, Alma Littera/Lithuania, Profil Knjiga/Croatia
HEATHER BARBIERI
THE LACE MAKERS OF GLENMARA US and Canada: Harper (2009) Rights sold to: Goldmann/Germany; Macmillan/UK; Instars/Taiwan; Rizzoli/Italy
THE COTTAGE AT GLASS BEACH US and Canada: Harper (2013) Rights sold to: Goldmann/Germany
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EDGAR CANTERO
THE SUPERNATURAL ENHANCEMENTS US and Canada: Doubleday (August 2014, paperback Jul. 21, 2015) Rights sold to: Del Rey/UK, Salini/Italy, Super 8 Editions/France, Minotauro/Spain
ELIZABETH BIRKELUND
THE RUNAWAY WIFE US & Canada: Harper Perennial (July 11, 2016) Rights sold to: Editora Primavera/Brazil
LYNN CULLEN
TWAIN’S END US and Canada: Gallery (October 2015, paperback Jun. 7, 2016) Rights sold to: Editora Bertrand/Brazil
MRS. POE US & Canada: Gallery (2013, paperback 2014) Rights sold to: Neri Pozza Editore/Italy; UAB Gimtasis Zodis/Lithuania; Bertrand Brasil /Brazil; Rézbong Kiadó/ Aeramentum Kiadó/ Hungary; Dogen Egmont/Turkey; Dom Wydawniczy PWN/Poland; Metafora/Czech; AST/ Russia; Editions Galaade/France
WENDY DONIGER
ON HINDUISM World English: Oxford University Press Rights sold to: Aleph/India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan
THE HINDUS: An Alternative History World English: The Penguin Press (paperback 2010) UK: Oxford University Press Rights sold to: Penguin/India, Adelphi/Italy
DAVID DOSA, MD MPH
MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat US and Canada: Hyperion (February 2010, paperback April 2011) Rights sold to: Headline/UK, House of Books/Holland, Droemer/Germany, Mondadori/Italy, Hayakawa/Japan, Bertlesmann/Poland, Ediouro/Brazil, Matar/Israel, L’Archipel/France, Locus publishing/Taiwan, Thinkingdom/China, IRE/Korea, Lua De Papel/Portugal, Editions Maeva/Spain, Euromedia/Czech Republic, PT
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Granmedia/Indonesia, Epsilon/Turkey, Otava/Finland, Olion/Estonia, Atkus/Slovakia, Blackstone (US audio), BBC (UK audio), Komol/Thailand
ELLEN FELDMAN
TERRIBLE VIRTUE US & Canada: Harper (March 22, 2016)
SARA GRUEN
AT THE WATER’S EDGE US and Canada: Spiegel & Grau (March 2015, paperback Nov. 10, 2015) Rights sold to: Two Roads (Hodder)/UK, Allen & Unwin/ANZ, Editora Bertand/Brazil, Mozaik/Croatia, Argo/Czech, Bazar/Denmark, Bazar/Norway, Bazar/Finland, Bazar/Sweden, Tapanev/Estonia, Rowholt/Germany, Querido/Holland,
Kinneret/Israel, Dom Wydawniczy PWN/Poland, Humanitas Fiction/ Romania, EXMO/Russia, Espasa/Spain, Epsilon/Turkey
APE HOUSE US and Canada: Spiegel & Grau (Sept 2010, paperback April 2011) Rights sold to: Allen & Unwin/Australia, Santillana/Spain, Sirene/Dutch, Bazar/Scandinavia, Crown/Complex Chinese, Century/Simplified Chinese, Kinnert/Hebrew, Bompiani/Italy, Rowholt/Germany, Hodder/UK, Albin Michel/France, Modrijan Zalozba/Slovenia, Editora Record/Brazil, DoDream/Korea, Russia/Exmo, Serbia/Mono & Manana, and Portugal/Gailivro
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS World rights: Algonquin (April 2007) Rights sold to: Allen & Unwin/ANZ, HarperCollins/Canada, Albin-Michel/France, Kinneret/Israel, Sirene/Holland, Rebis/Poland, Hodder & Stoughton/UK, Sextante/Brazil, Ten Points/Complex Chinese, Century/Simplified Chinese, Neri Pozza/Italy, Bra Boker/Sweden, DuMont/Germany, Bookworm/Hungary, Mono & Manana/Serbia, Kondasha/Japan, Difel Difusao/Portugal, PT Gramedia/Indonesia, ARA Libres/Catalan, Algoritam/Croatia, Slovensky/Czech, DoDream/Korea, Gayatri/Russia, Slovensky/Slovakia, Bard/Bulgaria, Bazar/Denmark, Bazar/Finland, Livanis/Greece, JPV/Iceland, Matica/Macedonia, Nha Nam/Vietnam, OMSCA-1/Albania, Jarir/Saudi Arabia, Modrijan Zalozba/Slovenia, Humanitas/Romania
RIDING LESSONS US and Canada: HarperTorch (2004) Rights sold to: Santillana/Spain, Century/Simplified Chinese, Kinnert/Hebrew, Rowholt/Germany, Hodder/UK, Albin Michel/France, Modrijan Zalozba/Slovenia, Editora Record/Brazil, Exmo/Russia, Mono & Manana/Serbia, Musu Knyga/Lithuania
FLYING CHANGES US and Canada: HarperTorch (2005) Rights sold to: Allen & Unwin/Australia, Santillana/Spain, Century/Simplified Chinese, Kinneret/Hebrew, Rowholt/Germany, Hodder/UK, Albin Michel/France, Modrijan Zalozba/Slovenia, Editora Record/Brazil, Serbia/Mono & Manana, Russia/Exmo
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BETH GUTCHEON DEATH AT BREAKFAST US & Canada: Morrow (May 10, 2016)
GOSSIP US & Canada: William Morrow / Paperback: March 5, 2013 World Rights (excluding US & Canada): Atlantic
ISLA MORLEY
COME SUNDAY US and Canada: Picador (2009) Rights sold to: Hodder/UK, De Kern/Holland, Rowohlt/Germany, Hayakawa/Japan, Belacqva/Spain, Changjiang/Simplified Chinese
PATRICIA MORRISROE
9 ½ NARROW World Rights: Gotham (April 14, 2015)
COLLEEN OAKLEY
BEFORE I GO US and Canada: Gallery (January 2015, paperback July 14, 2015) Rights sold to: Allen & Unwin/ UK & ANZ, Editora Bertrand/Brazil, Anthenaem/Hungary, Book 21/Korea, Sakam Knigi/Macedonia, EXMO/Russia, Ithaki/Turkey Film: Resolute Media Group
MARIAN PALAIA
THE GIVEN WORLD US and Canada: Simon & Schuster (Apr. 14, 2015, paperback April 26, 2016)
NINA SADOWSKY
JUST FALL World Rights: Ballantine (Mar. 22, 2016) Rights sold to: City Editions/France; Penguin Verlag/Germany, Newton Compton/Italy; Shogakukan/Japan; Vulkan/Serbia; PRH Grupo Editorial/Spain; Altin Kitaplar/Turkey
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GINA WOHLSDORF
SECURITY World Rights: Algonquin (June 7, 2016) Rights sold to: Actes Sud/France; Einaudi Stile Libero/Italy
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CO-AGENTS French: La Nouvelle Agence, Vanessa Kling, 7 rue Corneille, 75006, Paris, France. [email protected] German: Anoukh Foerg Literary Agency, Anoukh Foerg, Herzogstrasse 73, 80796 München, Germany [email protected] Italian: Berla & Griffini Rights Agency, Erica Berla, Via Stampa 4, 20123 Milano. [email protected] Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese in Portugal and Brazil: International Editors Company, Provenza, 276, 1r, 08008 Barcelona, Spain. [email protected] Dutch and Scandinavian Territories: Ulf Töregård, Ulf Töregård Agency AB, Meyers plan 5, S-374 33 Karlshamn, Sweden. [email protected] Polish: Tomasz Berezinski, Graal Ltd. ul. Pruskowla 29, Suite 252, 02-119 Warsaw, Poland. [email protected] Russian: Liz Van Lear, The Van Lear Agency, PO Box 21816, London SW6 5ZU, United Kingdom. [email protected] Turkish: Kayi Literary Agency Ltd., Dilek Kayi, 737. Sokak No: 4C Ege Botanik Sitesi, B2/10 Yildizevler, Cankaya 06550 Ankara, Turkey. [email protected] Baltic States: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Baltic, Tatjana Zoldnere, PO Box 77, Riga LV 1011, Latvia. [email protected] Czech, Slovak, and Slovenian: Lucie Polakova, Andrew Nurnberg Associates Prague, Jugoslavskych partyzanu 17, 160 00 Praha 6, Czech Republic. [email protected] Hungarian: Réka Bartha, Katai & Bolza, H-1406 Budapest, P.O.Box 55, Hungary Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Macedonian and Albanian: Anna Droumeva, Andrew Nurnberg Associates Sofia Ltd., 11 Slaveikov Sq., 3rd Floor, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria. [email protected] Japanese: Miko Yamanouchi, Japan Uni Agency, Inc. Tokyodo No.2 Building, 5F 1-27 Kanda-Jinbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051 Japan. [email protected] China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, SE Asia: Wendy King, Big Apple Agency, Inc. [email protected] Korean: EYA, Jackie Yang, 3f Shangery Bldg, 60-10 Banpo-Dong, Seocho-ku, Seoul, Korea. [email protected] Israeli: Beverley Levit, The Book Publishers Association of Israel, 29 Carlebach Street, Tel Aviv 67132. ISRAEL. [email protected]
