LONDON BOOK FAIR 2011 RIGHTS GUIDE
Book rights:
Linda Biagi, President
BIAGI RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
Linda@biagirights.com
Film/TV rights:
Jeffrey Sharp, President
JSharp@openroadmedia.com
FOSTER, ALAN DEAN
PREDATORS I HAVE KNOWN
Over decades spent traveling the globe, New York Times bestselling science
fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has marveled at those animals bold enough,
brave enough, and tough enough to try to make a meal out of us. Foster’s
adrenaline‐fueled account of his forty years of adventure travels takes
readers around the world, through the heart of the Amazon on the trail of
deadly Tangarana ants, on the back of an elephant on safari in India in
search of the elusive tiger, and face‐to‐face with Great White sharks off the
coast of Australia.
Alan Dean Foster is a New York Times bestselling and award‐winning
author of more than one hundred science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective,
western, historical, and contemporary fiction and non‐fiction books. He has
also produced the novelizations of films such as Star Wars and the first
three Alien films.
Publication Date:
February 28, 2011
Rights:
World all language: print & digital rights; Film/TV rights
GLICKMAN, Mary
HOME IN THE MORNING Optioned for film!
Jackson Sassaport is a man in the middle: torn between Stella, his beloved
and opinionated Yankee wife, and Katherine Marie, the African American
“hired girl” who first stole his teenage heart; torn between following his
prominent Jewish family’s imperative to not stand out in the segregated
South, and standing up for his beliefs. Jackson learns to balance the secrets
and deceptions of those around him until one fateful night in 1959 makes
reconsider his obligations and initiates a chain of events that changes the
lives of those around him forever.
Filled with utterly unforgettable characters and charged with vivid prose,
Mary Glickman’s riveting debut novel gives voice to the ways that race,
prejudice, family, and love intertwine to shape our lives.
Mary Glickman is a writer, public relations professional, and fundraiser
who has worked with Jewish charities and organizations. This is her first
novel. Open Road has signed Glickman’s second novel for publication in Fall
2011; it is again set amongst the Sassaport clan and chronicles the exploits
of one of the minor but memorable characters featured in Home in the
Morning.
Rights:
World all language: print and digital rights; Film/TV rights
Rights licensed: Feature film option/Jim Kohlberg, Producer (“ The Music
Never Stopped”)
KING, Jonathon
MIDNIGHT GUARDIANS
Book #6 in King’s bestselling Max Freeman mystery series, and Max is back,
trawling the trailer parks and waterways of South Florida, where among the
gorgeous beaches and abundant foliage is a stunning range of brutality.
After ex‐police officer Max Freeman is hired to investigate an insurance
claims conspiracy but quickly realizes the scheme is much more dangerous
than anyone assumed. In a race against time, Max must reclaim his street
instincts to protect not just the citizens of South Florida, but also his
girlfriend, Detective Sherry Richards—someone who’s already lost far too
much…
“King adds new dimensions of depth and substance to the modern crime
novel.”
—Michael Connelly
“King’s writing is gritty, vivid, and suspenseful.”
—Harlan Coben
Jonathon King is an Edgar Award‐winning mystery novelist and the creator
of the bestselling Max Freeman crime series. King worked as a crime
reporter in Philadelphia and Fort Lauderdale for twenty‐four years before
becoming a full‐time novelist.
Rights:
World all language: print & digital rights; Film/TV rights for Freeman series
and characters. Open Road holds World English rights in the first 5 Freeman
mysteries.
PIAZZA, Jo
CELEBRITY, INC: INSIDE THE BUSINESS OF BEING FAMOUS
From the real value of the Jolie/Pitt baby pictures to the competing
business models in the Paris Hilton‐Kim Kardashian rivalry, veteran
entertainment journalist Jo Piazza offers a penetrating look at the at the
business of being famous. Celebrity, Inc., uses the tradition of the Harvard
Business School case study format to reveal the true economics of the
celebrity brands that drive the film, television, music, magazines, and
Internet industries. Piazza, a former gossip columnist for the New York Daily
News, and now columnist on AOL’s PopEater as well as a contributor to
TheWall Street Journal, will also have the ability to update her ebook with
additional case studies on breaking celebrity stories and scandals.
Jo Piazza has also written for The New York Times, Fortune, and Glamour
and is a regular contributor to CNN, Fox News, The Daily Beast and Slate.
Rights:
World all language: print & digital rights; Film/TV rights
REISS, Mitchell B.
NEGOTIATING WITH EVIL: WHEN TO TALK TO TERRORISTS
In a career spanning decades, Mitchell B. Reiss has been internationally
recognized for his negotiation efforts to forge peace in Northern Ireland
and to stem the nuclear crisis in North Korea.
NEGOTIATING WITH EVIL is a penetrating and insightful look into high‐
stakes diplomacy in the post‐9/11 world and a vital contribution to the
global security debate as the United States and its allies struggle to
confront terrorist threats abroad and at home. Reiss distills his experience
to answer two questions more vital today than ever: Should we talk to
terrorists? And if we do, how should we conduct the negotiations in order
to gain what we want?
To research this book, Reiss traveled the globe for three years, unearthing
hidden aspects of the most secret and sensitive negotiations from recent
history. He interviewed hundreds of individuals, including prime ministers,
generals, intelligence operatives, and former terrorists in conflict‐torn
regions of Europe, Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. The result is a
fascinating examination of the different methods countries have employed
to confront terrorist movements, the mistakes made, the victories
achieved, and the lessons learned.
“Peace is not made between friends. It is made between enemies. How
political leaders start talking with groups or governments that are fighting
and killing their citizens, and ultimately agree to end their conflicts, is one of
the most difficult, most important, and least understood challenges facing
nations across the world. Mitchell Reiss has done a great service by drawing
out the lessons of past efforts by governments to make peace with their
enemies—from Northern Ireland to Sri Lanka to Al Anbar, Iraq. This is an
excellent and deeply relevant book, and it should be required reading for
informed citizens and senior policymakers alike.”
—U.S. Senator John McCain
“Mitchell Reiss takes on one of the most important questions of our messy
international age, how to deal with terrorists, and he answers it through a
series of fascinating case studies. It’s both an important study and also a
compelling set of historical narratives.” —Walter Isaacson
Mitchell B. Reiss is President of Washington College in Chestertown,
Maryland. From 2003 to 2005 he served at the U.S. State Department
under Secretary of State Colin Powell. From 2003 to 2007, he served as the
President’s Special Envoy for the Northern Ireland Peace Process with the
rank of Ambassador.
Rights:
World all language: print & digital rights; Film/TV rights
Rights licensed: Audio/Audible
SEATTLE7WRITERS PROJECT FOR LITERACY
Foreword by Nancy Pearl, Book Lust; Introduction by Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in
the Rain
HOTEL ANGELINE: A Novel in 36 Voices
Thirty‐six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest come
together for a week‐long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? A
truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page: something is
amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop
Capitol Hill in rain‐soaked Seattle. Fourteen‐year‐old Alexis Austin is fixing
the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her
landlady mother’s absence. The quirky tenants rely on Alexis all the more
when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home?
Find her real father? Find true love? A provocative look at the creative
process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful,
thrilling, and unexpected.
This novel was written by Kathleen Alcalá, Matthew Amster‐Burton, Kit Bakke, Erica
Bauermeister, Sean Beaudoin, Dave Boling, Deb Caletti, Carol Cassella, William Dietrich,
Robert Dugoni, Kevin Emerson, Karen Finneyfrock, Clyde Ford, Jamie Ford, Elizabeth
George, Mary Guterson, Maria Dahvana Headley, Teri Hein, Stephanie Kallos, Erik
Larson, David Lasky, Stacey Levine, Frances McCue, Jarret Middleton, Peter Mountford,
Kevin O'Brien, Julia Quinn, Nancy Rawles, Suzanne Selfors, Jennie Shortridge, Ed Skoog,
Garth Stein, Greg Stump, Indu Sundaresan, Craig Welch and Susan Wiggs.
Rights:
World all language: print & digital rights; Film/TV rights
BARBREE, Jay – with Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton
Introduction by Neil Armstrong
MOONSHOT
A revised edition of the New York Times bestselling 1994 classic: the epic
story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men
who rode the rockets. This thoroughly revised & updated edition includes
classic, embedded footage of the most iconic moments, letting the reader
see history as never possible before.
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space
race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put
together a crew of the nation’s most daring test pilots: the seven men who
were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard;
the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded
until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA’s effort to
conquer space, and MOONSHOT is their inside account of what many call
the 20th century’s greatest feat—landing humans on another world.
Collaborating with NBC’s veteran space reporter Jay Barbree, Shepard and
Slayton narrate in gripping detail the story of America’s space exploration
from the time of Shepard’s first flight until he and eleven others had walked
on the moon.
“Swashbuckling.” —The New York Times
“Breathtaking.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A must read . . . an insight into the wonders of space flight, yes. But more
important, readers comes to know Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, and
come to respect their courage and feel genuine affection for these two
American heroes.” —President George H. W. Bush
“Gripping, authoritative . . . and skillfully told, this is the ultimate inside
story of the U.S. space program. “ —Walter Cronkite
“From the early Cold War days of the Space Race through the beginnings of
the ‘thaw,’ Moon Shot comes alive.” —Senator John H. Glenn
Rights:
World all language: print & digital rights; Film/TV rights