Agency Deals Articles

Children's / Young Adult: Sashi Kaufman's debut GO WEST, the story of a classic underachiever who hits the breaking point of parental mismanagement and runs away on a spontaneous road trip with a group of dumpster-diving street performers, to Andrew Karre at Carolrhoda Lab, by Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman Agency (World)

 Author of National Book Award-finalist THE KIDNAPPING OF EDGARDO MORTARA, which Stephen Spielberg and Tony Kushner are adapting into a feature, Brown University professor David Kertzer's THE POPE AND MUSSOLINI, based on more than five years of research in the Vatican Archives, portraying the co-dependent relationship between Pius XI and Mussolini from 1922 and 1939, revealing for the first time how each man relied on the other to consolidate his power and pursue his political goals, to David Ebershoff at Random House, by Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency (World English).

 James Barilla's BACKYARD JUNGLE: Our 21st Century Urge to Invite Nature Back to Our Cities and Suburbs, which asks if humans and the natural world ever really peacefully coexist side by side, to Jean Thomson Black at Yale University Press, by Wendy Strothman atThe Strothman Agency (World English).

 Italian rights to the first two books in Jodi Meadows's THE NEWSOUL TRILOGY, beginning with INCARNATE, to Mondadori, by Berla & Griffini, on behalf of Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman Agency. 

 Author of 1688: THE FIRST MODERN REVOLUTION, Steve Pincus's ORIGINS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, to Chris Rogers at Yale University Press, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency (World English).

Author of 1688: THE FIRST MODERN REVOLUTION, Steve Pincus's ORIGINS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, to Chris Rogers at Yale University Press, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency (World English).

 Journalist, firefighter, and author of HIGH CRIMES, Michael Kodas's MEGAFIRE, an exploration of the new global phenomenon of megafires, forest fires of alarming scale, intensity, and devastation, through the story of one of the worst years for forest fires in the past century, to Susan Canavan at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, by Wendy Strothman at The Strothman Agency (World English).

 Children's: Middle Grade: REAL MERMAIDS DON’T WEAR TOE RINGS author Hélène Boudreau’s next two books in the Real Mermaids series, about a plus-sized, aquaphobic teenager with mermaid tendencies, again to Rebecca Frazer at Jabberwocky,  by Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman Agency (World English).

Fiction: Mystery/Crime: Stanford Law professor and author of Errors and Omissions, Paul Goldstein's HAVANA RUM, to Thomas LeBien at Farrar, Straus, in a two-book deal, by Wendy Strothman at The Strothman Agency (World English).

Jonathan Hansen’s GUANTANAMO BAY AND THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA, the first full history of Guantanamo’s transformation from bay to U.S. naval base to prison camp, Guantanamo’s role in transforming the United States from isolated colonial outpost to global superpower, and Cuba’s attempts to realize its independence from U.S. imperialism, at auction, to Dan Crissman at Hill and Wang, in a very nice deal, by Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency.

Non-fiction: Science : Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and senior associate in neurology at Children's Hospital Boston Frances Jensen, M.D., with Amy Ellis Nutt's THE TEENAGE BRAIN, the latest scientific research to unlock the secrets of adolescent behavior and explain what is happening at the interface of a teenager's brain and the world, to Claire Wachtel at Harper, in a major deal, at auction, by Wendy Strothman at The Strothman Agency (World).

CHOKE author Dr. Sian Beilock's second book, about embodied cognition, again to Leslie Meredith at Free Press, in a good deal, by Wendy Strothman at The Strothman Agency (World).

Non-fiction: History/Politics/Current Affairs:  Brown University professor Michael Satlow's HOW THE BIBLE BECAME HOLY, to Jennifer Banks at Yale University Press, in a very nice deal, at auction, by Wendy Strothman at The Strothman Agency (World).

Debut author Jodi Meadows's trilogy, beginning with ERIN INCARNATE, about the only girl who is "new" in a world where everyone is perpetually reincarnated, and her quest to discover why she was born, and what happened to the person she replaced, at auction in a good deal to Sarah Shumway at Katherine Tegen Books by Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman Agency. (World English)

Angela von der Lippe at Norton took world English rights, at auction, to Marlene Zuk's Paleofantasy: How the Pace of Evolution Affects Our Lives.  Zuk, who teaches biology at the University of California, Riverside, sorts myth from fact in this examination of the recent claims, by slow-food advocates and self-help gurus (among others), that people can improve their health by adopting a far simpler lifestyle, more akin to the way our ancestors lived. Wendy Strothman, of the Strothman Agency, brokered the deal, which marks a move for Zuk, whose last two books were published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.