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Frankfurt 2015 Rights List

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NONFICTION

DAVID BIANCULLI

THE PLATINUM AGE OF TELEVISION: The Evolutionary History of Quality TV

US Publisher: Doubleday

Primary agent: Laurie Fox/Linda Chester Agency- West Coast

Pub date: January 2017

Material available: Proposal; Final manuscript expected January 2016

For both modern and vintage TV fans, this unique book by NPR’s TV critic will discuss how the entertainment of yesterday directly influenced the TV of today. Bianculli will show the evolution of TV or “TVolution” as he calls it where today’s most popular and praised shows are informed and influenced by shows from the past. Chapters include Courtroom Dramas (from Perry Mason to Law & Order to The Good Wife) to Single-Working Women (from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Sex in the City to Girls) to Medical Shows (Dr. Kildare to House, MD to Nurse Jackie). He has interviewed many high-profile celebrities who made and shaped TV over the years, including Mel Brooks and Bob Newhart.

David Bianculli has been a TV critic for the past 35 years. Since 1987, he’s been TV critic for NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is a regular substitute host for that program. He also operates his own media criticism website, , and is the author of the authorized Smothers Brothers biography, DANGEROUSLY FUNNY (Touchstone/S&S), which was optioned by Sony Pictures/Smokehouse (George Clooney).

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JOHN GRAY, Ph.D.

STAYING FOCUSED IN A HYPER WORLD: Natural Solutions for ADHD, Memory and Brain Performance (Vol. 1)

US Publisher: Amazon

Material available: Final edition (August 2015)

The first of a three-part series (although it can be read as a stand alone), STAYING FOCUSED IN A HYPER WORLD is a passion project for John who was diagnosed with the early stages of Parkinson’s Disease 12 years ago and put everything on the back burner to try to figure out how to heal himself. He traveled all over the world to research mental health— gaining insight from traditional medicine to holistic doctors to ancient remedies. He reviewed thousands of medical studies. In STAYING FOCUSED, John shares what he learned during his research which enabled him to “cure” himself – he now lives drug and symptom free--and will help readers of all ages heal their brain and optimize their performance through drug-free, natural solutions. He offers practical strategies for increasing focus, clarity, memory, motivation and sustaining positive moods. He explains what causes ADHD in children and how it is the underlying cause for many health issues later in life, including dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease and even Parkinson’s Disease. He details the varied forms of ADHD, from hyperactivity to daydreaming, and he provides step-by-step protocols for treating a number of common ailments with natural supplements and lifestyle changes. STAYING FOCUSED is a remarkable book.

John Gray, Ph.D. is the New York Times bestselling author of over 20 books, including MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS. His books have sold over 50 million copies in 50 different languages around the world. For more than 35 years, John has conducted seminars for thousands of participants. He is a popular speaker and often appears on TV and radio programs including guest appearances on Oprah, The Dr. Oz Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, The CBS Morning Show. For more information on John and his work, check out:

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

France: Les Editions de L’eveil

LAURA FENAMORE

SKINNY, FAT, PERFECT: Love Who You See in the Mirror

US Publisher: Reputation Books

Material available: Final edition (Hardcover, September 2015)

Praised by Jack Canfield, co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul series, as the book to read if you “want to feel comfortable, safe and motivated in your body, and get results,” SKINNY, FAT, PERFECT is part memoir, part road map. It is designed to help readers approach healthy eating and weight loss from a different perspective and to self-love at any size or age. SKINNY, FAT, PERFECT chronicles the author’s personal journey of losing 100 pounds, and overcoming the self-loathing and addiction that dominated her life. Now a teacher and mentor to others facing similar challenges around the world, she shares the techniques she uses to help her students break free of the diet mentality, release significant weight and see themselves in a new, loving light, for good.

For the past 12 years, Laura Fenamore has worked alongside hundreds of women in her Body Image Mastery programs, and her global community has inspired thousands more to release excess pounds, reclaim their self-esteem and live bold, beautiful lives. She is a frequent contributor to First for Women, Ladies Home Journal and a contributor to Tiny Buddha, The Daily Love and Positively Positive. For more information about Laura and her programs, please check out: .

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

DR. SUZANA FLORES

FACEHOOKED: How Facebook Affects Our Emotions, Relationships and Lives

US Publisher: Reputation Books

Material available: Final edition (Hardcover/paperback, November 2015)

Now that the number of Facebook users worldwide has exceeded 1 billion, there is no denying that Facebook is here to stay but is it a good thing? A few years ago Dr. Suzana Flores, a clinical psychologist, realized that at least once a day one of her clients would bring up a Facebook-related problem. Fascinated by the growing effect Facebook had on her clients’, she spent the last three years interviewing Facebook users of all ages to see if she could gain insight into the negative (and positive) effects of sharing personal information through various social networks. In FACEHOOKED, she focuses on 8 of the problems most commonly found on Facebook (including controversial topics such as self-esteem, privacy, peer pressure and stalking) and provides readers with practical tools to help identify and to avoid unhealthy behaviors. Written in an accessible way with more than a dozen real case histories, FACEHOOKED is an important read for anyone who wants to understand the impact that social media can have on our psychological and social well-being and for those of us looking for healthier connections in our increasingly electronic social world.

Dr. Suzana Flores is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience. A social-media expert and commentator, she is sought after as a speaker on national and international newscasts, podcasts, radio and TV shows. Before working in private practice, she served as Lead Clinician at Carolinas Healthcare System, the Director of Counseling at the Illinois Institute of Art and as Adjunct Professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Visit Dr. Flores at

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

Korea: Chaek-Se-Sang Pub Co

FRANCINE JAY (aka Miss Minimalist)

THE JOY OF LESS: A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize and Simplify Your Life

US Publisher: Chronicle Books

Primary agent: Maria Ribas/Stonesong

Pub date: May 2016

Material available: Final updated manuscript

Written by the pioneer of the decluttering/minimalist movement in the US, THE JOY OF LESS shows readers how to pare down their to-do lists, say “no” without the guilt and transform daily stress into simple serenity. Unlike Kondo’s stern, non-nonsense approach, Jay explains her STREAMLINE method in a friendly tone that makes it seem like she’s your best friend, over at your house having a cup of tea and helping you minimize your things to maximize your space. As Jay said to CNN last month: "Minimalism is making room for what matters most.”

Originally self-published and a cult favorite with over 70,000 copies sold, THE JOY OF LESS is the cornerstone of Jay’s “Minsumer Movement,” which has helped hundreds of thousands of readers declutter their homes, embrace accessible minimalism and simplify their lives. It was named one of Amazon’s “Best Books of the Year” and is a bestseller in the Home and Garden category. 

  

Francine Jay and her advice have been featured in dozens of national media outlets, including CNN, BBC, NBC TODAY, The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Spiegel, Dr. Oz’s The Good Life, Apartment Therapy, Grist, Consumerist, Reddit, and TreeHugger. Please check out her terrific web site: 

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

UK: Offer pending

Brazil: Paralela/Companhia das Letras

China: Offer pending

France: Editions First

Germany: Mosaik/Goldmann

Italy: Bompiani

Korea: Book 21

Lithuania: Offer pending

Netherlands: Prometheus

Poland: Muza

Portugal: Objetiva/Penguin Random House

Spain: Zenith/Planeta

Taiwan: As If Books

Turkey: Offer pending

RITA LAKIN

THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE ROOM: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer

US/UK Publisher: Applause Books

Primary agent: Kimberley Cameron/Kimberley Cameron & Associates

Material available: Final edition (Hardcover, September 2015)

Rita Lakin was a pioneer a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood television was exclusively male. For years, in creative meetings she was literally "the only woman in the room." In this breezy but heartfelt remembrance, Lakin takes readers to a long-forgotten time when women were not considered worthy or welcome at the creative table. Widowed with three young children, she talked herself into a secretarial job at Universal Studios in 1962, despite being unable to type or take dictation. With guts, skill and humor, she rose from secretary to freelancer, to staff writer, to producer, to executive producer and showrunner, meeting hundreds of famous show biz legends along the way. The general public did not know her name, but Lakin touched the lives of millions of viewers year after year. The relevance of her personal journey is incredible to modern readers who take for granted the abundance of female creative talent in today's Hollywood.

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

JACKSON MACKENZIE

PSYCHOPATH FREE: Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships with Narcissist, Sociopaths and Other Toxic People

US/UK Publisher: Berkley

Primary agent: Emmanuelle Morgen/Stonesong

Material available: Final edition (September 2015)

Originally self-published and a Amazon Top 3 Bestseller in its category (alongside The Sociopath Next Door), PSYCHOPATH FREE is the first guide for survivors written by a survivor, offering hope for healing and thriving after psychopathic abuse. Berkley bought it in heated auction and thinks Jackson MacKenzie will be the Greg Berendt (He's Just Not That Into You) of toxic relationship self-help.

All around us, every single day, human beings devoid of empathy are wreaking havoc and destroying lives in the coldest, most heartless ways imaginable. In constant pursuit of money, sex, influence, or simple entertainment, psychopaths will do whatever it takes to gain power over others. They hide behind a veil of normalcy, arranging their friends and partners like pawns in a game of chess. Using false praise and flattery to get what they want, they can lure any unsuspecting target into a relationship.  Once hooked, their charming promises spin into mind games and psychological torture. Victims are left devastated and confused, unable to recognize—or even put into words—the nightmare that just took place. Written from the heart, PSYCHOPATH FREE offers hope for healing and thriving after psychopathic abuse. Say goodbye to the chaos, self-doubt and victimization. You are free.

Jackson MacKenzie is the co-founder of , an online support community that reaches millions of abuse survivors each month and has 250,000 Facebook followers. Driven by personal experience, his mission is to spread awareness and give survivors a safe place to validate their experiences, so that every empathetic person can find happiness and love after abuse. To watch a terrific interview with Jackson, please check out: watch?v=nNwYiIybxP4

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

Audio: Tantor Media

Italy: Giunti Editore

Korea: Munhak Sasang

Russia: Atticus-Azbooka

NANCY J. MERRICK with Foreword by Jane Goodall

AMONG CHIMPANZEES: Field Notes from the Race to Save our Endangered Relatives

US/UK Publisher: Beacon Press (Distributed by Random House)

Primary agent: Penny Nelson/Manus & Associates

Material available: Final edition (Hardcover/Paperback, June 2015)

Praised by New York Times and featured by The Guardian’s Observer as one of the “Top 10 Science/Tech Book in UK,” AMONG CHIMPANZEES was selected by a “Top Pick” by Scientific American and an “Important New Book” by Stanford Magazine.

For fans of Frans de Waal who said this book was a “must-read,” AMONG CHIMPANZEES is an inspiring chronicle of Merrick’s personal search to learn how chimpanzees are faring across Africa and in captivity and a rousing call for us to join the efforts to be a voice for the chimpanzees before it’s too late. Merrick first started working with primates in 1972 as a young field assistant in Jane Goodall’s famous Gombe camp. Like the rest of the world at the time, she was swept up in the excitement of discovering the remarkable world of chimpanzees—their ability to fashion tools, their dazzling intelligence and their complex relationships and societies. From that moment on, she became a devoted advocate for our closest genetic relatives. When Merrick returned to Africa in 2009, she was alarmed by how much had changed and tried to figure out what we can do to save these great apes. She learned that chimpanzees are now extinct in four countries in Africa and nearly extinct in 10 more. She connected with primatologists and conservationists who are trying to protect the last great forests and realized that the best hope for chimpanzees and other great apes lies in connecting conservation to humanitarian efforts, ensuring a healthy future for animals and humans alike.

Dr. Nancy J. Merrick is a former student and colleague of Jane Goodall who studied chimpanzees in Tanzania and at Stanford University. She is a lifelong advocate for chimpanzees and founded , an interactive website that connects users to ways to help chimpanzees and to save their forests.

 The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

BRIAN MINICK

FACING CYBER THREATS HEAD ON: Protecting Yourself and Your Business

US/UK Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Primary agent: Leila Campoli/Stonesong

Pub date: December 2016

Material available: Final manuscript expected January 2016

From security-world insider and defense superstar Brian Minick, FACING CYBER THREATS HEAD ON, is a groundbreaking book on the human threat behind cyber attacks and offers proven measures to protect against cyber enemies. It breaks down a risk-assessment model for financial, intellectual property and consumer business owners, and demonstrates how adopting strategies based on anticipated risk can help prepare and protect against not just attacks, but attackers. Informed by his decades of experience and using real life data breaches at companies including Target and Anthem, he explains motivations behind attacks whether they are profit driven or data driven. He also outlines his original approach, which balances business risk with pre-emptive costs to help business leaders stay ahead of cyber attackers and their devastating assaults.

Brian Minick is a veteran in the war against cyber attacks. He has consulted with the White House and State Department on their cyber policy, and the Department of Defense and National Security Agency on their best practices for cyber attack detection and deterrence. Minick was also a Six Sigma quality leader at GE, where he implemented protocols for mitigating advanced persistent threats. He is now Co-Founder and CEO of Morphick, which delivers product-enabled managed services that address emerging cyber risks for Fortune 500 companies.

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

MARC WEBER

WEBS: How the Online World Was Built on Broken Dreams of a “World Brain” (and Why We’re Still Only Using Half Its Power)

US Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press

Primary agent: Laurie Fox/Linda Chester Literary Agency

Pub date: Fall 2016/Winter 2017

Material available: Proposal; Final manuscript expected March 2016

Today over 4 billion people are connected by the Web, Internet, and smartphones, yet nearly no one understands where the World Wide Web came from. In this fascinating book, Marc Weber, the founding curator of the Internet History Program at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley (and a person who was present at the very beginning of this history alongside Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee), gives the first full-length history of the online world. It’s a story that spans from the ancient origins of written “hypertext” in the Near East to sexy social networking in early 1980s France. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with the Web’s early proponents and creators, Weber explores its origins and explains why the Web succeeded where its predecessors did not. From workshops in ancient Iraq where scribes first wrote on wet clay to the Queen of England sending her first email in 1976 to the hills of Kenya where herders’ cell phones sell cattle and take care of all banking –WEBS will take readers on a wild, eye-opening ride through the most comprehensive history yet of our connected world.

An award-winning technology writer and journalist, Marc Weber is uniquely qualified to write this book. Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave the first full history of his invention of the Web only to Marc Weber and to his Web History Project. The author has interviewed hundreds of people, including those at CERN, the Web’s birthplace in Switzerland, Netscape, The White House, Microsoft, Xerox, MIT and countless others to create the definitive history of the Web. Co-founder of the Web History Project, Weber assembled the first archive of Web materials; later he founded the Web History Center and, as a historian, began developing the permanent exhibits for the Computer History Museum.

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

ROBERT ZUBRIN. Ph.D.

MARS DIRECT: Space Exploration, the Red Planet and the Human Future (4-part series only 50 pages long)

US Publisher: Tarcher/Penguin

Primary agent: Laurie Fox/Linda Chester Agency

Material available: Final edition and Chinese translation available

“Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on space exploration.”

—Carl Sagan, The Denver Post

If you ever daydream about space travel and human space flight—or hope to one day rove the Red Planet alongside Curiosity—then MARS DIRECT will teach you how we can get there. In this four-part series, Mars Society founder Dr. Robert Zubrin details the challenges of a manned Earth-to-Mars mission. Challenges which, according to Zubrin, we are more prepared to overcome technologically than the obstacles we faced in the 1960s and 1970s during our missions to the moon. Dr. Zubrin’s relatively simple plan, called Mars Direct, could feasibly have humans on the surface of Mars within a decade. Zubrin also discusses the current predicament of NASA, the promise of privatized space flight from companies like SpaceX, and the larger implication behind the absolute necessity to open the final frontier and transform from a planetary society into an interplanetary society.

With a Masters in Aeronautics and a Doctorate in Nuclear Engineering, Robert Zubrin. Ph.D. is former head of the "Mars Direct" program at Martin Marietta Aeronautics. Zubrin has written nine books, including THE CASE FOR MARS, which was published in UK (Simon & Schuster); China (Science Press); Germany (Heyne); Japan (Tokuma Shoten); Poland (Proszynski i S-ka); and Taiwan (Business Weekly Publications). For his work in promoting space exploration and engineering, Zubrin received the Heinlein Award, whose other recipients include Arthur C. Clarke.

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

FICTION

KRISTEN ASHLEY

SOARING: Book #2

US Publisher: Forever/Hachette

Primary agent: Emily Sylvan Kim/Prospect Agency

Material available: Final edition (June 2015)

Debuting at #9 on the New York Times bestseller list (print and ebook combined), SOARING is the second book in the Magdalene Series (which started with THE WILL and features men and women in their 40s finding a second chance at love). American heiress Amelia Hathaway needs to start anew. Her husband cheated on her, and she fell apart. When her ex took her children from California to live in the small town of Magdalene in Maine, Amelia decided it was time to sort herself out. In order to win her children back, she moves to Magdalene. Her boxes aren’t even unpacked when she meets Mickey Donovan, a man who lives across the street, a man so beautiful Amelia takes one look at Mickey and knows she wants it all from him. As Amelia struggles to right past wrongs in her life and find out who she wants to be, she focuses on winning back the hearts of her children, and winning the heart of a handsome firefighter who lives across the street.

The first book in series, THE WILL, is also a New York Times bestseller and voted #7 in Romance Category of GoodReads 2014 Choice Awards. Foreign editions published in Bulgaria (Ibis); Israel (Ahavot); and Slovenia (Zalozba KMS).

A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Kristen Ashley is the author of many bestselling series including the COLORADO MOUNTAIN series (sold 200,000+ copies); the DREAM MAN series (sold 215,000+ copies and will be published in Brazil (Rocco); Germany (Sieben Verlag); Hungary (Gabo); Italy (Newton Compton); Thailand (Kaewkarn); and Turkey (Dogan Egmont); the ROCK CHICK series (licensed in France to Bragelonne); and the UNFINIHSED HERO series (licensed in Croatia to Mozaik Knjiga). Visit Kristen at

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KRISTEN ASHLEY

WALK THROUGH FIRE: Book #4 in Chaos Series

US Publisher: Forever/Hachette

Primary agent: Emily Sylvan Kim/Prospect Agency

Material available: Final edition (November 2015)

The Chaos series is a spin-off of Kristen’s very successful “Dream Man” series which won the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award for “Best Romantic Suspense” and has been published in Brazil (Rocco); Germany (Sieben Verlag); Hungary (Gabo); Italy (Newton Compton); Thailand (Kaewkarn); and Turkey (Dogan Egmont).

Millie Cross knows what it's like to burn for someone. She was young and wild and he was fierce and even wilder- a Chaos biker who made her heart pound. They fell in love at first sight and life was good, until she learned she couldn't be the woman he needed and made it so he had no choice but to walk away. Twenty years later, Millie's chance run-in with her old flame sparks a desire she just can't ignore. And this time, she won't let him ride off . . . 

Bad boy Logan "High" Judd has seen his share of troubles with the law. Yet it was a beautiful woman who broke him. After ending a loveless marriage, High is shocked when his true love walks back into his life. Millie is still gorgeous, but she's just a ghost of her former self. High's intrigued at the change, but her betrayal cut him deep and he doesn't want to get burned again.

Other titles in this New York Times bestselling series which has sold over 150,000 copies include: OWN THE WIND, FIRE INSIDE (starred review in Publishers Weekly) and RIDE STEADY.

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

LAURA BICKLE

MERCURY RETROGRADE: Book #2

US Publisher: HarperVoyageur

Primary agent: Becca Stumpf/Prospect Agency

Material available: Final edition (October 2015)

The sequel to the action-packed DARK ALCHEMY, MERCURY RETROGRADE received a starred Publishers Weekly review and has been compared to Stephen King's The Gunslinger meets Breaking Bad. It's been two months since Petra Dee and her coyote sidekick Sig faced off against Temperance's resident alchemist, but things are far from quiet. When an Internet video of a massive snake in the backcountry of Yellowstone goes viral, a chase for the mythical basilisk is on. Monster hunters swarm into the area, and never one to pass up the promise of discovery, Petra joins in the search. Among the newcomers is a snake cult on wheels― the biker gang Sisters of Serpens. Unlike some, the Sisters don't want to kill the basilisk― they want to worship it. But things get complicated when the basilisk develops a taste for human flesh that rivals the Sisters' own murderous skills. Meanwhile, the alchemical tree of life is dying, and the undead Hanged Men of Temperance who depend on it know the basilisk may be their last chance for survival. With time running out for everyone around her, Petra will be forced to decide who survives and who she must leave behind.

Laura Bickle is currently working on Book #3 in this contemporary dark fantasy series. Praised for writing “horror with heart and soul,” Laura Bickle is also the author of the YA series, THE HALLOWED ONES and THE OUTSIDE (US: Houghton Mifflin and France (J’ai Lu)), and two adult fantasy novels, Embers and Sparks, which were published in US (S&S); Germany (Lubbe); and Russia (AST). Visit Laura at: 

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

MEG CHAMBERS

RUNNING WILDE: Book #1

US Publisher: Amazon Publishing

Material available: Final edition (July 2015)

Praised by award-winning author, Karen MacInerney as “touching, inspiring... and sexy as hell,” RUNNING WILDE is the first in a new series that features older women finding passion and romance a second time. When her 30-year marriage ended, 50-year-old Winnie Wilde took back her maiden name and set out to rediscover the woman she'd left behind. She never expected her journey to begin in the arms of Ben Church, a young contractor nearly half her age with the right tools to unleash Winnie’s potential…

Meg Chambers is currently working on WILDE WOMEN: Book #2 in series, which will be published in 2016.

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

JOE CLIFFORD

THE DECEMBER BOYS: Book #2

US/UK Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Primary agent: Elizabeth Kracht/Kimberley Cameron & Associates

Pub date: May 2016

Material available: Final, copyedited manuscript; Galleys expected November 2015

The newest employee at North Eastern Insurance in New Hampshire, Jay Porter is investigating an accident claim when he learns the teenager behind the wheel was arrested for minor drug possession and sentenced to a hardcore behavioral modification center. At the county courthouse, Jay meets Nicki, a young college intern, who tips him off to a possible “kids for cash” scandal where first-time juvenile offenders are being shipped to private institutions for political kickbacks. And long-time family nemeses Adam and Michael Lombardi may have a stake in the scheme. But is Jay’s mission to help these addict kids? Or is his thirst for revenge driven by the guilt he feels over his own junkie brother’s death? These questions conspire to drive a wedge between Jay and his wife Jenny. With help from new friend Nicki, and old friends Charlie and Fisher, Jay finds himself thrust back into a past he had hoped to leave behind, putting everything—and everyone—he loves at risk in pursuit of the truth.

Joe Clifford’s previous novel, LAMENTATION was nominated for an Anthony Award for “Best Novel.” It was a Publishers Weekly “Pick of the Week,” and received rave reviews including a starred review in Publishers Weekly who said: “Clifford understands human potential for moral collapse and redemption, and his lean, gritty prose never lets characters or readers off the hook.”

Joe Clifford was recently selected as one of the “Ten Best New Generation Genre Writers” by Dead End Follies. He is the managing editor of The Flash Fiction Offensive and the producer of Lip Service West, a gritty, raw reading series in Oakland, California, and has a popular blog, Candy and Cigarettes. Oceanview recently bought Book #3 in series. Visit Joe at

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights, except in France which Oceanview handles.

SEAN DANKER

ADMIRAL

US/UK Publisher: Roc

Primary agent: Mary Moore/Kimberley Cameron & Associates

Pub date: May 2016 (Hardcover)

Material available: Final manuscript

The first in a new military science fiction series that Roc hopes will be the next MARTIAN or RED RISING. Roc is launching a big publicity campaign for ADMIRAL starting with a galley giveaway at New York’s Comic-Con in October.

He is the last to wake. The label on his sleeper pad identifies him as an admiral of the Evagardian Empire—a surprise as much to him as to the three recent recruits now under his command. He wears no uniform, and he is ignorant of military protocol, but the ship’s records confirm he is their superior officer. Whether he is an Evagardian admiral or a spy will be of little consequence if the crew members all end up dead. They are marooned on a strange world, their ship’s systems are failing one by one—and they are not alone.

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

ALLEN ESKENS

THE GUISE OF ANOTHER: Book #2

US/UK Publisher: Seventh Street Books (Distributed by Random House)

Primary agent: Amy Cloughley/Kimberley Cameron & Associates

Material available: Final edition (Lead title, October 2015)

Featured on BookPage’s "Fall Fiction: Most Anticipated” list, THE GUISE OF ANOTHER received a starred, boxed review in Publishers Weekly. Who was James Putnam? Answering that question may mean salvation for Alexander Rupert, a Minnesota detective whose life is in a serious downward spiral. A Medal of Valor winner, Alexander is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. He’s been reassigned to the Frauds Unit, where he is shunned by his fellow detectives and he fears his status-seeking wife may be having an affair. When he happens across a complex case of identity theft, Alexander sees an opportunity to rehabilitate his tattered reputation. But the case explodes into far more than he could have expected, putting him in the path of trained assassin Drago Basta, a veteran of the Balkan wars who has been searching for “James Putnam” for years. As his life spins out of control, Alexander’s last hope may be his older brother, Max, a fellow police detective who steps in to try to save his brother from the carnage his investigation has let loose.

Allen Eskens’s first novel, THE LIFE WE BURY, won the Rosebud Award for Best First Mystery and is a finalist for five additional awards including the prestigious Edgar Award for Best First Novel. It was chosen by Suspense Magazine as one of the “Best Books of 2014” and called a "masterful debut" in a starred review by Publisher's Weekly. Foreign editions will be published China (Fonghong); France (Editions Depierre); Italy (Neri Pozza); Korea (Dulynouk); Poland (Burda); and Vietnam (Phuc Minh Investment). We have an offer pending

in Japan. Visit Allen at .

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

Film: Next Wednesday Productions

Italy: Neri Pozza

Korea: Dulynouk

JANET HUBBARD

CHAMPAGNE: Book #1

US Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

Primary agent: Kimberley Cameron/Kimberley Cameron & Associates

Pub date: September 2016 (Hardcover)

Material available: Final manuscript expected Janaury 2016

For fans of Peter Mayle’s Vintage Capers, BURGUNDY is “a delicious mix of fine wine and murder” (New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein). In this latest installment, detective Maxine (“Max”) Maguire is staying in Burgundy at the estate of her grandmother and spending time with the intrepid examining magistrate, Olivier Chaumont who stole her heart. They soon hear rumors of a 20-year old American girl who arrived at Madame Mireille Dupont’s famous vineyard on a red Vespa to pick grapes, then disappeared after the harvest party. Max and Olivier find out that Lucy had been searching for her biological French father whom her mother had had an affair with 19 years ago. When they finally track Lucy down, she’s been “accidentally” wounded and claims she’s being hunted. Max and Olivier put their relationship on hold in order to uncover the truth and save Lucy’s life.

Other titles in this series that will appeal to mystery lovers and armchair travelers include: CHAMPAGNE and BORDEAUX. Before becoming a novelist, Janet wrote 20 nonfiction books for Chelsea House. She also developed a fiction writing class called Closet Writers Ink. Visit Janet at

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KATHERINE BOLGER HYDE

ARSENIC WITH AUSTEN: Book #1 in Crime With the Classics series

US/UK Publisher: Minotaur Books

Primary agent: Kimberley Cameron/Kimberley Cameron & Associates

Pub date: July 2016 (Hardcover)

Material available: Final manuscript

The first in the CRIME WITH THE CLASSICS series featuring a literature professor who retires only to find herself surrounded by murder cases that bear an eerie resemblance to some of her favorite books. When Emily Cavanaugh travels to the sleepy coastal village of Stony Beach, Oregon to claim an inheritance left to her by her great aunt—centered in a beautiful Victorian estate called Windy Corner—she hears hints that her aunt may have been murdered. Soon another murder confirms these suspicions. With the help of Sheriff Luke Richards, her once-and-possibly-future love, Emily discovers that underneath the innocent-looking rocks of Stony Beach lurk secrets that would have put Jane Austen’s most reprobate characters to shame.

Katherine Hyde is currently working on BLOODSTAINS WITH BRONTE: Book #2 which Minotaur will publish in Winter 2017. Visit Katherine at

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

SUE ANN JAFFARIAN

THE GHOSTS OF MISTY HOLLOW

US/UK Publisher: Berkley/Penguin

Pub date: September 2016

Material available: Final manuscript expected November 2015

This will be the sixth title in this nationally bestselling “Granny Apples” series that “proves the vivacious Jaffarian is the literary heir apparent to Lucille Ball” (Book Resort). Emma Whitecastle is invited by a famous crime writer to visit a farmhouse in Massachusetts. He's writing a new novel set in the area with paranormal overtones and wants her input. Since it’s at the end of August and Emma is in the area getting her daughter settled in for her final year at college, she thinks it will be fun to meet the famous author and help him out if she can. When she arrives though, she and her hilarious cohort, “Granny Apples” realize there are quite a few restless ghosts milling about. Have they always been there or have they been called from the other side through the writer’s research?  Who are they and what do they want?

Other titles in this cozy mystery series include: GHOST A LA MODE; GHOST IN THE POLKA-DOT BIKINI; GEM OF A GHOST; GHOST OF A GAMBLE; and GHOST IN THE GUACAMOLE. Sue Ann Jaffarian is the author of two additional mystery series, including the Odelia Grey Mystery Series, which has sold 125,000+ copies. She is also a full-time paralegal and a sought-after motivational speaker. Visit Sue Ann at

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

FABIENNE JOSAPHAT

DANCING IN THE BARON’S SHADOW

US Publisher: Unnamed Press/Perseus

Primary Agent: Charlotte Gusay/Charlotte Gusay Literary Agency

Pub date: February 2016

Material available: Final manuscript

Praised by Edwidge Danticat, the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Claire in the Sea Light, who said DANCING IN THE BARON’S SHADOW was “a powerful first novel…an irresistible read about the nature of good and evil, terror and injustice and ultimately triumph and love.”

Haiti, 1965. Francois Duvalier, known as Papa Doc, is the impoverished island nation's brutal dictator. Relentless curfews and Papa Doc's terrifying militia have made life in Port-au-Prince increasingly difficult for struggling taxi driver Raymond L'Eveillé. But it is Raymond's brother, Nicolas, a wealthy professor at the local university, who is stirring up trouble. A secret manifesto penned by Nicolas is rallying opposition to Papa Doc. After a tip-off from a disgruntled student, Nicolas's home is raided and the manifesto discovered, landing him in Fort Dimanche, a notorious, disease-ridden prison many enter but few ever leave. To save his brother, Raymond gets himself arrested as part of a death-defying plan to break Nicolas out of jail.

Fabienne Josaphat earned an MFA in creative writing from Florida International University. She writes poetry and was included in So Spoke the Earth: The Haiti I Knew, the Haiti I Know, the Haiti I Want to Know.

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SHANNON KIRK

METHOD 15/33

US Publisher: Oceanview Publishing

Primary agent: Kimberley Cameron/Kimberley Cameron & Associates

Material available: Final edition (Hardcover, June 2015)

Praised by Lisa Gardner as “completely original and totally kick ass!” and by The Boston Globe as “a thrilling new voice in crime fiction,” METHOD 15/33 received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist and won the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award for “Best Suspense.”

Imagine a helpless, pregnant 16-year-old who's just been yanked from the serenity of her home and shoved into a dirty van. Kidnapped...Alone...Terrified. Now forget her...Picture instead a pregnant, 16-year-old, manipulative prodigy. She is shoved into a dirty van and, from the first moment of her kidnapping, feels a calm desire for two things: to save her unborn son and to exact merciless revenge. She is methodical - calculating - scientific in her plotting. Leaving nothing to chance, she waits...for the perfect moment to strike. The Method is what happens when the victim is just as cold as the captors.

 

Shannon Kirk is currently working on her next psychological thriller tenatively entitled GOAT, in which the woman protagonist is addicted to stalking after a childhood trauma, and obsessed in finding connections, refusing to believe that life is full of chaos. Given her stalking addiction and obsession, she creates her own literal demon, a real-life "Goat Man," who is a man who haunts her. In the end, she must overcome her Goat Man, and like in METHOD 15/33, she must use her brains and a compilation of random assets at her disposal to do it. Visit Shannon at

 The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

Film: Next Wednesday Productions

UK: Sphere/Little Brown

Bulgaria: Offer pending

France: Editions DeNoel

Germany: Goldmann

Italy: RCS/Rizzoli

Japan: Hayakawa

Korea: Gimm-Young Publishers

Netherlands: Offer pending

Spain: Ediciones B

Thailand: Post Books

SHANNON KIRK

HEAVENS

US Publisher: Reputation Books

Primary agent: Kimberley Cameron/Kimberley Cameron & Associates

Pub date: May 2016 (Hardcover)

Material available: Final manuscript

For fans of What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson and Life of Pi by Yann Martel, HEAVENS is a modern exploration of life and death, meant to embrace death, while showing the very real magic of every day life. What if you could choose your Heaven now? Go on a celestial shopping trip of sorts? Thirty-five-year-old Vivienne does just that, as she lies dying in the ICU; a fatal walk into the path of a truck. In her final week of life, Vivienne treks through the Heavens of a priest, a best friend, a homeless child, and a lover who never was. Vivienne's guardian angel, Noah, who just may be her soul mate, escorts her through selections of Heavens and through the confusion Vivienne experiences as she flounders between a doubt of life and the certainty of death. Although her visits to varied afterlives provide peace and beauty, choosing proves not so easy: Vivienne's love for her young son and her earthly love for his father pull her from her colorful journey--and from her divine love of Noah. The nature of love, the magic of life, unending hope and the importance of

saying goodbye are central to this uplifting literary novel. 

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

HARRY N. MACLEAN

THE JOY OF KILLING

US Publisher: Counterpoint Press

Primary Agent: Paul Bresnick/Bresnick Weil Literary Agency

Material available: Final edition (Hardcover, Lead title, August 2015)

Debuting at #3 on The Denver Post’s hardcover fiction bestseller list, THE JOY OF KILLING received a starred “Review of the Day” in Publishers Weekly and rave reviews in The Denver Post, Los Angeles Review of Books and from Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author, who said:  "Not since American Psycho has there been a novel as unnerving and relentless as Harry N. MacLean's compulsively readable The Joy of Killing. Inventive. Supremely twisted. And did I say unnerving?” 

A page-turning literary thriller, THE JOY OF KILLING is a meditation on human nature and a searing, philosophical look at violence and its impact on our human condition. It begins on a stormy night at a lake house in the woods of Minnesota, where we are introduced to a college professor who a few years earlier wrote a novel in which he justified a gruesome campus murder under the nihilistic theory that there is no right or wrong, no moral center to man’s activity. The writer returns to the lake house where he had spent his childhood summers and locks himself in the attic, intent on writing the final story of his life. Playing on a continuous loop in his mind are key moments in his past: his childhood in small-town Iowa, where he and his best friend befriended a local drifter; his childhood on the lake where one summer a local boy drowned in a storm; and the central fixation of his erotic meeting with a girl on a train bound for Chicago when he was just 15. All of these threads weave together as the writer tries to piece together the multitude of secrets and acts of violence that make up one human life. With its elegant structure, haunting language and edge-of-your-seat suspense, THE JOY OF KILLING is a brilliant fiction debut by one of America’s premier writers of true crime.

Harry MacLean is the author of many successful true crime nonfiction books, including ONCE UPON A TIME, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, which won an Edgar Award for Best True Crime, was a New York Times bestseller selling over a million copies and was made into a feature film.

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

Italy: Fazi

K.S. MERBETH

BITE

US/UK Publisher: Orbit/Hachette

Primary Agent: Emmanuelle Morgen/Stonesong

Pub date: July 2016 (launch at San Diego’s Comic Con)

Material available: Final manuscript, less copyedits

Ever though Mad Max: Fury Road was released last spring, people still can’t stop talking about it — the amazing world, the non-stop action and best of all, the strong female main character. For fans of Chuck Wendig and Quentin Tarantino and that kind of post-apocalyptic madness and mayhem, BITE is a dark debut with an edge of black humor. Kid has no name, no family and no survival skills whatsoever. But that hasn’t stopped her from striking out on her own in the wasteland that the world has become. But when Kid accepts a ride from two strangers, she suddenly becomes the newest member of a bloodthirsty raider crew. Dragged on a messy chase, through shoot-outs and severed limbs, the group must outrun everyone they’ve wronged. But in a world that’s lost its humanity, not everything is as it seems and this time it isn’t monsters that crave flesh….

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

BARBARA KLEIN MOSS

THE LANGUAGE OF PARADISE

US Publisher: W.W. Norton

Primary agent: Paul Bresnick/Bresnick Weil Literary Agency

Material available: Final edition (Hardcover/Paperback, April 2016)

Set in 19th-century New England, this exquisite novel tests a woman’s love against her husband’s utopian quest. Sophy Hedge, the artistic daughter of the town’s minister, falls in love with Gideon Birdsall, a troubled theology student studying with her father. Sophy is drawn to his intellect, passion, and spiritual nature, while Gideon glimpses in her a free soul unbound by convention. Yet Gideon’s restlessness after they wed worries her, and she finds his friendship with Leander Solloway, the charismatic new schoolmaster, a cause for anxiety. When Sophy becomes pregnant, Gideon and Leander construct a faux Eden in a greenhouse as part of a daring experiment to discover the language of paradise, the tongue Adam spoke when he named the creatures of the earth. Sophy must decide whether to live and paint in the world her husband has made or leave to save her child and herself. Addressing the timeless issues of faith, art, and love, Barbara Klein Moss has also captured the fragility of human longing.

Barbara Klein Moss graduated from Syracuse University and received her MFA from the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers. She is the author of the acclaimed story collection, LITTLE EDENS, which Andrea Barrett said was “beautifully balanced and assured…magnificent” and Booklist said each story was “surprising, beautifully constructed, and soulful.” Visit Barbara at

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SAUL WILLIAMS

US(a.)

US/UK Publisher: MTV Books/Simon & Schuster

Primary Agent: Charlotte Gusay/Charlotte Gusay Literary Agency

Material available: Final edition (October 2015)

In his first full-length book of poetry since THE DEAD EMCEE SCROLLS, “the poet laureate of hip-hop” (CNN) Saul Williams presents his observations, realizations, dreams and questions about the state of America, the American psyche and what it means to be American. After four years abroad, Williams returned to the United States and found his head twirling with thoughts on race, class, gender, finance, freedom, guns, cooking shows, dog shows, superheroes, not-so-super politicians—everything that makes up modern-day America. US(a.) is a collection of poems that embodies the spirit of a culture that questions sentiments and realities, embracing a cross-section of pop culture, hip-hop and the greater world politic of the moment. Williams explores what social media may only hint at—times and realities have changed; there is a connect and a disconnect. We are wirelessly connected to a past and path to which we are chained. In US(a.), Saul Williams has written an extraordinary book that will find its place in the hands and minds of a new generation.

Saul Williams is an acclaimed poet, musician and actor. The film Slam, which he co-wrote and starred in, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He has contributed to The New York Times, voiced Jean-Michel Basquiat in Downtown 81 and cut records with Rick Rubin and Trent Reznor. He has spoken at more than 200 universities where his poetry has been added to the curriculum to many creative writing programs, and has taught poetry/performance workshops around the world. He recently starred in the Broadway musical Holler If Ya Hear Me. His previous books include ,SAID THE SHOTGUN TO THE HEAD (published in France (Editions Caedere) and Finland (Like)) and THE DEAD EMCEE SCROLLS (published in Spain (Visor)). Visit Saul at .

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights.

DANIEL H. WILSON & JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS

PRES START TO PLAY: An Anthology

US Publisher: Vintage

Primary agent: Laurie Fox/Linda Chester Agency- West Coast &

Joe Monti at Barry Goldblatt Agency

Material available: Final edition (August 2015)

Praised by Publishers Weekly who gave it a boxed starred review, PRESS START TO PLAY is the first-ever anthology to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide. These 26 stories play with our notion of what video games can be—and what they can become. With a Foreword from Ernest Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One, PRESS START TO PLAY includes work by well-known authors including T.C. Boyle (whose story in this collection originally appeared in The New Yorker), Andy Weir (The Martian), Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles) and Hiroshi Sakurazaka (All You Need Is Kill, the basis for the Tom Cruise film Edge of Tomorrow) as well as by people better known for their work on video games, such as Marc Laidlaw (Half-Life), Chris Avellone (Fallout: New Vegas) and Micky Neilson (World of Warcraft). These stories will appeal to anyone who has interacted with video games—from hardcore gamers to your well-meaning aunt who won’t stop talking about Candy Crush.

Daniel Wilson and John Joseph Adams also wrote ROBOT UPRISINGS, which received terrific reviews in Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. Daniel H. Wilson is a New York Times bestselling author of 8 books, including How to Survive a Robot Uprising and Robopocalypse (which will be a Stephen Spielberg film in 2016). He earned a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, where he also received Master’s degrees in Robotics and Machine Learning. He has published over a dozen scientific papers and holds four patents. John Joseph Adams is a bestselling, critically acclaimed anthologist of more than a dozen science fiction/fantasy collections and is the editor/publisher of Lightspeed Magazine. He has been nominated for two Hugo Awards and three World Fantasy Awards.

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Russia: AST Publishers

SONG YING translated by Howard Goldblatt & Sylvia Li-Chun Lin

APRICOT’S REVENGE

US/UK Publisher: Minotaur Books/St. Martin’s Press

Primary agent: Joanne Wang/Joanne Wang Agency

Pub date: February 2016 (Hardcover)

Material available: Final English translation

Winner of the China Book Prize and a runaway bestseller in China that was serialized in six major newspapers, APRICOT’S REVENGE is one of the first crime novels that addresses social problems in modern China. A business tycoon is found dead in Shenzhen, China; he apparently died of a heart attack while swimming. The police have three suspects: the vice president of the company who is in line to take over the dead man’s position; his young widow who stands to inherit a huge amount of wealth; and his arch business rival. But then one of the suspects is found dead and the police find a drawer full of death threats. The police hit a dead end until a young investigative reporter discovers a new suspect who is not on the police’s radar.

Song Ying is an award-winning author in China of both fiction and nonfiction. He has published five novels and 15 nonfiction books. The second book in the series, THE IVORY TOWER, features the same investigative reporter who helps police solve a second case.

The team of Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-Chun Lin have translated over 50 books and received three translation awards from NEA. They translated POW! and Sandalwood Death by Mo Yan, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Fielding Agency handles all foreign translation rights except in China/Taiwan.

China: Huacheng Publishing House

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