And Berkley exec editor Denise Silvestro won world rights from Jamie Brenner to Erica Rivera's Insatiable, in which the single mother recounts how she confronted her addiction to an eating disorder comprising starvation, bingeing and compulsive exercise. Rivera writes for the Minnesota Star Tribune. This and the Dickerson are scheduled for summer 2009."
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| Book Deals: Introducing Artists and Artisans new online venture www.pleasefireme.com. In these tough times, all but the very best-selling authors have a day job or three to avoid starvation. If you want to stick it to the man, anonymously submit why you hate the job you can't leave. Please Fire Me has a book deal! James Howard Kunstler's THE WITCH OF HEBRON, the sequel to the Author's World Made By Hand, a novel that takes place in the world predicted by the author's bestselling The Long Emergency, to Grove/Atlantic, for publication in September 2010, by Adam Chromy. Susanne Dunlap's IN THE SHADOW OF THE LAMP, the story of a young nurse working alongside Florence Nightingale, to Bloomsbury Children's, in a two-book deal, for publication in Spring 2011 by Adam Chromy.
Three-time Emmy winner
Joe Murray's
CREATING ANIMATED CARTOONS WITH CHARACTER: A Guide to Developing and
Producing Your Own Series for TV, the Web, and Short Film, a complete
guide to working in animation, to
Watson-Guptill, for publication in Aug
2010, by
Adam Chromy.
Wendy Delsol's THE MCCLOUD HOME FOR WAYWARD GIRLS, a story of three generations of women who run a bed and breakfast from their historic property, formerly a home for unwed mothers - and the scandalous family secret that surfaces when the inn hosts the funeral of the town matriarch to Berkley by Jamie Brenner. Naturi Thomas's HOW TO DIE IN PARIS, about losing one's mind in Paris, told from the new perspective of a young, middle-class, black woman; finding herself homeless in the City of Light, the author confronts the demons of her past, including abuse and racism at the hands of her mother, while struggling to survive in the present to Seal Press by Jamie Brenner. Columnist and former aide to
Christian Coalition founder Ralph Reed, Lisa Baron's memoir MY BURNING
BUSH: HOW ONE WOMAN'S CAREER IN CHRISTIAN POLITICS WENT UP IN FLAMES, a
Chelsea Handler-meets-George Stephanopoulos exploration of the dismantling
of the conservative movement Leah Ingram's CASH FOR CLUTTER: The Suddenly Frugal Guide to Getting Organized and Making Money from Your Stuff, a follow-up to the author's Suddenly Frugal: How To Live Happier and Healthier for Less, detailing how to make money while simplifying your life, again to Adams Media, for publication in Fall 2010.
Forbes writer Kiri Blakeley's HARD WIRED: WHAT MY GAY FIANCE TAUGHT ME
ABOUT SEX, LOVE, AND LIFE, about the aftermath of her decade-long
romance ending with the revelation that her fiance was gay, to
Citadel, by
Jamie Brenner.
Mother and Child Reunion In a unique deal inspired by the father-son addiction memoirs separately written (and published) by David Sheff (Beautiful Boy) and his son Nic (Tweak), Adam Chromy of Artists and Artisans closed a two-book deal with HarperCollins's It Books imprint for a mother-son perspective on addiction, selling a pair of memoirs by Steven Adler and his mother, Deanna Adler. Adler, the former drummer for Guns N' Roses who has made headlines more recently for his often jarringly unsuccessful attempts to fight his longtime heroin habit on the VH-1 reality show Celebrity Rehab, has signed to write My Appetite for Destruction for Mauro DiPreta. DiPreta acquired world rights to that title along with Sweet Child of Mine, which will be written by Deanna Adler. The books are slated to drop at the same time, in 2010, and will be coauthored by Lawrence J. Spagnola.
New Deals as featured in PublishersWeekly Deals... "Two from A&A At Artists and Artisans, Adam Chromy sold North American rights to Donia Bijan's memoir, Maman's Homesick Pie. Andra Miller at Algonquin won the book about the chef's discovery of her mother's pie recipes after her death, at auction. Bijan's mother had fled Iran after being persecuted for running a feminist-minded medical practice, and the pie recipes, all for American standards, represented one of her significant attempts at assimilation. Jamie Brenner, also of A&A, struck her first YA deal when she sold Wendy Delsol's debut novel, Stork. Jennifer Yoon at Candlewick bought world English rights to the book, which follows an L.A. teen who moves to Minnesota, where she discovers a mysterious cadre of women who can place souls on Earth. Candlewick's slated the book for 2010."
Divorce mediators Diana Mercer, JD (co-author of Your Divorce Advisor) and Katie Jane Wennechuk's WHEN DIVORCE WORKS, giving divorcing couples a set of skills to successfully orchestrate their divorce, handle the legal and emotional issues harmoniously, and redefine and preserve the positive elements of their relationship, to Perigee, for publication in Fall 2010, by Jamie Brenner. As featured in PublishersWeekly Deals... "Shaye Areheart won an auction for Stacey McGlynn's first novel, Keeping Time, for her imprint at Harmony, via Adam Chromy and Jamie Brenner at Artists and Artisans. The book tells the story of a British septuagenarian whose quest to return an engagement gift from her wartime love brings her to the Long Island home of her quirky American relatives and leads to a cross-country odyssey that changes the lives of all involved. McGlynn holds an M.F.A. in screenwriting from Columbia; so far, six-figure translation deals have been struck in Italy and Germany, and rights have also gone in Brazil and Holland. Harmony has North American rights."
Bloomsbury Children's Books has acquired the world rights to the next YA book from Susanne Dunlap. The story is about a doomed romance for Anastasia Romanov set against the Russian revolution. Dunlap, a Musicologist, weaves early music into her novels and is the author of the adult books Emilie's Voice and Liszt's Kiss at Touchstone. Bloomsbury has just published Dunlap's debut YA effort The Musician's Daughter. Publishers Weekly 9/1/08 Hot Deals mentioned Adam Chromy's recent rock and roll business book to Jossey-Bass:
Jossey-Bass editor Karen Murphy
has acquired world rights to Jam! Run Your Business Like a
Rock Star, by former lead guitarist for 38 Special
Jeff Carlisi and Dan Lipson
with Jay Busbee via Adam Chromy
at Artists and Artisans. Carlisi and Lipson will apply
principles from their team-building, rock 'n'roll fantasy
corporate retreats, in which groups come together to form a
rock band under the tutelage of seasoned rockers, to the
workplace.
Jamie Brenner's recent book deal is featured in Publishers Weekly 7/28/08 Hot Deals: In her first buy for Shaye Areheart Books, senior editor Sarah Knight acquired world rights to a debut novel by McCann Erickson creative director Nancy Mauro called New World Monkeys; Jamie Brenner at Artists & Artisans made the sale after submitting it to Knight on her first day at Random. Mauro's novel follows an ad exec and a Ph.D. candidate as they negotiate their failing marriage among the bizarre, vengeful residents of an upstate New York community; attempt to cover up their accidental murder of the town's mascot, a wild boar; and unearth the skeleton of a family nanny from the garden. Pub date is 2009. Two of our recent book deals are featured in the 5/19/2008 Publishers Weekly magazine story on memoirs.
"Penguin Group imprints prevailed in two recent auctions
conducted by agents at Artists and Artisans. First,
Riverhead exec editor Jake Morrissey won world rights from
Adam Chromy
to
David Ellis Dickerson's House of Cards, in which
the crossword puzzle designer and frequent contributor to
This American Life explains how writing greeting cards
at Hallmark led the former evangelical Christian to lose his
religion and virginity, while discovering just how many ways
there are to say “Happy Valentine's Day.”
Journalist James McCommons' WAITING ON A TRAIN, a look at the current state and future of the nation's rail system, to Chelsea Green, for publication in Fall 2009. Lisa Beth Kovetz's THE TUESDAY EROTICA CLUB RIDES AGAIN, the sequel to The Tuesday Erotica Club, again to Sourcebooks, for publication in Spring 2009. Cheryl Diamond's MODEL: A Memoir, an insider account of being a teen model in New York, to Simon Pulse, for publication in May 2008. Emilie's Voice and Liszt's Kiss author Susanne Dunlap's THE MUSICIAN'S DAUGHTER, to Bloomsbury Children's, for publication in 2009. Journalist Joe Diamond's AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LAYS: Adventures in Sex Tourism, examining the booming sex tourism industry, to Skyhorse, for publication in Fall 2008. Howard Ruff's HOW TO PROSPER DURING THE COMING BAD YEARS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY reissue, to Berkley, for publication in April 2008. As reported in PublishersWeekly Hotdeals, "Berkley ... preempted world rights to Corrine Morgan-Thomas’s Miracle Run: From Autism to Adulthood, which will continue the story of her family’s struggles with her twin autistic sons; the family was previously the subject of a Lifetime TV movie titled The Miracle Run. Agent Adam Chromy made the deal and pub date is early 2009". As reported in PublishersWeekly, "Harper [Collins]... bought world rights to the next book by The Hookup Handbook authors Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler, titled Friend or Frenemy, via agent Adam Chromy. The book will offer a realistic look at the friends women need and those they can do without, and will pub summer 2008." Author of "For the Love of Letters" Samara O’Shea’s NOTE TO SELF, a guide to journal-writing that explores the act of journaling as a means to self-discovery and improvement. With suggestions on journal writing techniques (including blogging); exercises and tips on how to enrich the journal-writing experience, and journal entries from notorious diarists, including Tennessee Williams, Anaïs Nin, and ‘80s model Gia Carangi again to Collins, by Adam Chromy. Lori Uscher-Pines's "BUYING THE COW IN THE AGE OF FREE MILK", an informative and entertaining guide to getting your man to pop the question, to St. Martin's. Reva Seth's "LOVE LESSONS FROM ARRANGED MARRIAGES: Seven Surprising Secrets That Will Improve Your Relationship", a counterintuitive guide that explains why couples in arranged marriages are happier … and what the rest of us can learn from them, to Touchstone Fireside. Sex therapist, radio host, and Penthouse columnist Victoria Zdrok, JD, Ph.D.'s DR. Z ON SCORING, a guide for men that demystifies the process of meeting, picking up, and scoring with beautiful women, to Touchstone Fireside. Bestselling author of THE ART OF KISSING and several sequels including the latest KISS LIKE A STAR, William Cane's WHO'S YOUR BIRTH ORDER LOVE MATCH, a guide to compatibility in relationships from a birth order perspective, to Marlowe & Company. Calling all Thugs. Citadel Press/Kensington Books has partnered with Todd Robinson's Thuglit.com to create the leading brand in short crime fiction for gen x y z readers. Citadel will publish Best of Thuglit anthologies for the next three years with more announcements forthcoming. So if you write edgy crime fiction, go to www.thuglit.com and get your story in while you can. As featured in PublishersWeekly Hotdeals, Barricade Books bought North American rights to a new book by Dr. Herb Goldberg, titled What Men Still Don't Know About Women, Relationships and Love. Scheduled for May 2007, this will be the bestselling author's first book in 15 years and will illuminate men's blind spots in the relationship arena. Artists and Artisans sold world rights to Laura Banks and Janette Barber's Embracing Your Big Fat Ass, which Atria's Suzanne O'Neill acquired with a six-figure preempt. This is to be a humorous and empowering call to arms that points women toward self-acceptance. Banks and Barber are also the authors of bestselling Breaking the Rules: Last-Ditch Tactics for Landing the Man of Your Dreams. Za Rinpoche and Ashley Nebelsieck's The Backdoor to Enlightenment, which will present a new and secular approach to attaining spiritual enlightenment, in a preempt to Amy Hertz at Morgan Road Books/Random House. "THE MAN OUT OF TIME" author Michael Hogan's "BURIAL OF THE DEAD", which features an unfolding of the likeable but troubled protagonist's mind and world after the mysterious death of a wealthy woman, to Thomas Dunne Books in a pre-empt. Artists and Artisans book deals have been featured in PublishersWeekly magazine the last three weeks in a row. 2/6/2006, 1/30/2006 and 1/23/2006. Founder of www.letterlover.net Samara O'Shea's "FOR THE LOVE OF LETTERS: A Modern Guide to the Essential Art of Letter Writing," sharing the author's enthusiasm for letter writing and receiving, notable letters of the past, and advice on how the readers can write great letters of their own, to Collins, at auction. Morgan Entrekin at Grove/Atlantic has signed James Howard Kunstler to two more books. The deal includes an eco-novel entitled “The World Made By Hand” and a followup to Kunstler’s best-selling “The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century”, available from Grove/Atlantic in trade paperback in April 2006 after 7 printings and over 50,000 copies shipped in hardcover. "Dying to Be Thin" author Dr. Ira Sacker's "REGAINING YOUR SELF: A New Approach to Overcoming Eating Disorders", a fresh approach to fighting the growing epidemic, to Hyperion at auction. "The Metrosexual Guide to Style" author Michael Flocker's "THE REAL OFFICE SURVIVAL GUIDE", a self-help parody to surviving and succeeding in twenty-first century corporate culture that will address the billions of workers worldwide who find themselves trapped in the often soul-crushing world of "the office," to Da Capo, for publication in Fall 2006. Host of "Whose Wedding Is It Anyway" Jung Lee's "THE FETE WEDDING EXPERIENCE: Insight from a Top Wedding Planner on How to Create a Stylish, Sophisticated and Memorable Wedding" presenting beautiful photos of her clients' weddings and wedding planning tips readers can utilize to achieve their own beautiful and memorable event to Stewart, Tabori & Chang in an auction. Jaci Rae's previously self-published #1 bestseller on Amazon and BN.com, "WINNING POINTS WITH THE WOMAN IN YOUR LIFE: One Touchdown at a Time", using football terminology to explain how to find, date, and be in a committed relationship with a woman, to Touchstone Fireside at auction for publication on November 29, 2005. Emilie Raymond's "FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS: A Cultural and Political Biography of Charlton Heston", an analysis of Heston's decades' long public career - working for Democratic and Republican administrations, marching for civil rights, serving as Screen Actors Guild president, and participating in the National Endowment for the Arts before becoming president of the NRA - and his place in the ascent of the neo-conservative movement, to the University Press of Kentucky. Chris and Toren Volkmann's "FROM BINGE TO BLACKOUT", a revised, repackaged edition of the mother and son's self-published book "OUR DRINK" about teenage binge drinking, to NAL, in a pre-empt. Alan Goldsher's "A PRETTY GOOD READ: GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS & MODEST MOUSE", a juicy unauthorized biography the Grammy-nominated band Modest Mouse and its controversial leader, Isaac Brock, tracing the group from its humble beginnings in 1993 to the million-sellers of today, to Thomas Dunne Books. Warner Books prevailed in a 7 bidder, 4 day auction to acquire world book rights to "JEWTOPIA: The Book" to be penned by Actors/Writers Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson. The book will expand upon their national hit play, JEWTOPIA, which is currently running in New York, Chicago and Florida (Aug 3rd). The book is scheduled for a hardcover release in Sept 2006. Author of "EMILIE'S VOICE", Susanne Dunlap's second novel LISZT'S KISS, the story of a love triangle among 19th-century composer Franz Liszt, his mistress, and a gifted young female pianist who comes between them, again to Touchstone Fireside. Playwright and screenwriter, Lisa Beth Kovetz's debut novel, about four women - a rich debutante; a scandalous but insightful, young secretary; a lonely and pregnant wife; and a brilliant, friendless lawyer - who meet on their lunch breaks to read erotic stories they have written, in an auction to Sourcebooks. "SIX LESSONS FOR SIX SONS: The Joe Massengale Way" by Joe Massengale and the Massengale Brothers as told to David Clow with a foreword by George Foreman to Harmony at auction. A quintessential American story, SIX LESSONS distills the inspiring stories of Joe’s rags to riches life—from East Texas sharecropper to the first successful African American landscaper in Beverly Hills—into 6 core values to help overcome adversity and succeed. The first biography of a screen legend and cult icon, "THE LOST ONE: A Biography of Peter Lorre" by Stephen Youngkin, to The University Press of Kentucky for a Fall 2005 release. The Chaddock Sisters' "FLINGS, FROLICS AND FOREVER AFTERS: A Single Woman’s Guide to Romance After Fifty", a dating guide for those that know that 50 is the new 30, to Ten Speed Press. Two dessert cookbooks (definitely not Atkins approved) in a series by Nancy Kershner to Taylor Trade Publications for Holiday 2005 release. Author of "The Metrosexual Guide to Style" Michael Flocker's "THE HEDONISM HANDBOOK", a tongue-in-cheek, satirical guide to the good life, with suggestions for everyday indulgences, lists of hedonistic icons and episodes, and famous quotes and warnings about the perils of structured living, again to Da Capo Press, for two books. Meghann Marco's hilarious "FIELD GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE", a how-to on surviving the end of the world based on what we know from movies like Mad Max, BladeRunner and The Matrix, to Simon Spotlight Entertainment (Simon & Schuster), after a desperate auction. Get this book before it's too late... "BUSTED!" a drug war primer and cautionary glimpse of the justice system by Max Fabricant, a NY Criminal Defense Attorney, to Harper Collins for 2005 release. "THE HOOKUP HANDBOOK: A Girl's Guide to the Non-Dating Game", by Andrea Lavinthal and Jessica Rozler, two twenty-somethings who live in NYC and work in publishing, hooked up with Simon Spotlight Entertainment (Simon & Schuster), after a five publisher auction. A debut historical fiction novel entitled "EMILIE'S VOICE" by Susanne Dunlap, a Yale music history PhD and Breadloaf attendee, to Touchstone Fireside of Simon & Schuster for 2005 release. A revolutionary, but as yet untitled, SAT Prep book by Jacqueline Byrne and Michael Ashley to McGraw Hill for release 2004. Michael Flocker's "METROSEXUAL GUIDE TO STYLE: A Handbook for the Modern Man" in a preempt to Da Capo Press for a quick Fall 2003 release taking advantage of the Metrosexual buzz created by the New York Times SundayStyles cover story of June 22, 2003. A two book deal for Marsha Mehran's debut novel, "POMEGRANATE SOUP: A Novel of Food, Love and Finding New Beginnings" and a follow up book on an aggressive preempt to Random House for January 2005 release. An untitled Diabetes project from Dr. Francine Kaufman, President of the American Diabetes Association, to Bantam Dell in a very aggressive preemptive offer for North American rights and a 2004 release. Jennifer Schaefer's "LIFE WITHOUT ED: How One Woman Declared Independence From Her Eating Disorder And How You Can Too" to Contemporary Books/McGraw Hill for publication in February 2004, Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Michael Hogan's "MAN OUT OF TIME" (formerly "It Happened When You Were a Kid") in a preempted offer for worldwide book rights to Bantam Dell for September 30, 2003 release.
Check back soon, much more to come...
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