Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 15:18
by Lauren
in Agency Deals
An early six-figure figure offer jumpstarted the bidding on University of Chicago psychologist Sian Beilock's CHOKE: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Success and Failure at Work and Play, which reveals astonishing new scientific research that turns on its head what we know about body-brain intelligence and performance, specifically what makes us flub and freeze. After two days of intense jockeying the young rising star's first book went to Leslie Meredith at Free Press for publication in 2010. The sale was handled by Dan O'Connell of The Strothman Agency.
