DEFIORE AND COMPANY LITERARY MANAGEMENT, INC.

DeFiore and Company
Literary Management, Inc.
Winter 2021

                     PUBLISHING THIS SEASON

              Alex Sanchez’s THE GREATEST SUPERPOWER (Capstone)
              Pub Date: January 1
              Visit Alex at www.alexsanchez.com
              Agent: Miriam Altshuler

              Stephanie Graves’s OLIVE BRIGHT, PIGEONEER (Kensington)
              Pub Date: January 5
              Visit Stephanie at msstephgraves.com
              Agent: Rebecca Strauss

              Ty Tashiro’s THE SCIENCE OF HAPPILY EVER AFTER, 2nd edition
              (Hanover Square Press)
              Pub Date: January 5
              Visit Ty at tytashiro.com
              Agent: Laurie Abkemeier

              Nadia Owusu’s AFTERSHOCKS (Simon & Schuster)
              Pub Date: January 12
              Visit Nadia at www.nadiaaowusu.com
              Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff

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Deirdre Mask’s THE ADDRESS BOOK, paperback edition
(St. Martin’s Griffin)
Pub Date: January 26
Visit Deirdre at www.deirdremask.com
Agent: Laurie Abkemeier

Melissa Gould’s WIDOWISH (Little A)
Pub Date: February 1
Visit Melissa at Widowish.com
Agent: Caryn Karmatz Rudy

Melissa Broder’s MILK FED (Scribner)
Pub Date: February 2
Visit Melissa at www.melissabroder.com
Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff

Dantiel Moniz’s MILK BLOOD HEAT (Grove)
Pub Date: February 2
Visit Daniel at www.dantielwmoniz.com
Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff

Emily Victoria’s THIS GOLDEN FLAME (Inkyard Press)
Pub Date: February 2
Visit Emily at www.avictoriantale.com
Agent: Rebecca Strauss

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Lee Crutchley’s NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THEY’RE DOING
(St. Martin’s Essentials)
Pub Date: February 9
Visit Lee at leecrutchley.com
Agent: Laurie Abkemeier

Ruby Shamir’s BUNNY FIGURES IT OUT (Philomel)
Pub Date: February 9
Visit Ruby at rubyshamir.com
Agent: Miriam Altshuler

Brandon Taylor’s REAL LIFE (Riverhead)
Pub Date: February 16
Visit Brandon at brandonlgtaylor.com
Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff

Tola Rotimi Abraham’s BLACK SUNDAY (Catapult)
Pub Date: February 23
Visit Tola at tolarotimi.com
Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff

Lisa Cron’s STORY OR DIE (Ten Speed Press)
Pub Date: March 2
Visit Lisa at wiredforstory.com
Agent: Laurie Abkemeier

Cal Newport’s A WORLD WITHOUT EMAIL (Portfolio)
Pub Date: March 2
Visit Cal at calnewport.com
Agent: Laurie Abkemeier

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Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr’s COOKIE CHRONICLES BOOK
2: BEN YOKOYAMA AND THE COOKIE OF DOOM
(Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Pub Date: March 2
Visit Matthew and Robbi at robbiandmatthew.com
Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff

Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr’s COOKIE CHRONICLES BOOK
2: BEN YOKOYAMA AND THE COOKIE OF ENDLESS WAITING
(Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Pub Date: March 2
Visit Matthew and Robbi at robbiandmatthew.com
Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff

Sam Cohen’s SARAHLAND (Grand Central)
Pub Date: March 9
Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff

Jill Santopolo’s EVERYTHING AFTER (Putnam)
Pub Date: March 9
Visit Jill at jillsantopolo.com
Agent: Miriam Altshuler

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong’s WHEN WOMEN INVENTED
TELEVISION (Harper)
Pub Date: March 23
Visit Jennifer at jenniferkarmstrong.com
Agent: Laurie Abkemeier

DISNEY ALL ABOARD: MICKEY’S RAILWAY, illustrated by Andrew
Kolb (Abrams Appleseed)
Pub date: March 23
Visit Andrew at kolbisneat.com
Agent: Laurie Abkemeier

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RECENT FICTION DEALS

Author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues and winner of the Asian/Pacific
American Award for Fiction and the Crook's Corner Book Prize Devi
Laskar's CIRCA, about a young Indian American woman who, in the
wake of her best friend's tragic death, must grapple with her
immigrant parents' expectations of her, an arranged marriage, and
how to metabolize a complicated love and loss. Sold to Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt by Reiko Davis.
Visit Devi’s author page at http://www.defliterary.com/authors/devi-s-laskar

Priscilla Oliveras's WEST SIDE LOVE STORY, an #OwnVoices Latinx
romance pitched as Gentefied meets West Side Story, featuring foster
sisters in an all-female mariachi band, an old feud reignited along
gentrification battle lines, and two star-crossed lovers desperate to
heal old wounds. Sold to Montlake, in a two-book deal, by Rebecca
Strauss.
Visit Priscilla’s author page at www.defliterary.com/authors/priscilla-oliveras

        RECENT NONFICTION DEALS

Author of Family of Origin CJ Hauser's THE CRANE WIFE, a
collection of essays including the title piece from The Paris Review
online, wrestling with received narratives of romantic love and pulling
from the worlds of science, nature, and the supernatural to open up
new possibilities for what a love story can be. Sold to Doubleday by
Meredith Kaffel Simonoff.
Visit CJ’s author page at www.defliterary.com/authors/cj-hauser

Member of the Wu-Tang Clan, nicknamed "The Chef" for the rich
lyrics he cooks up, and owner of his own record label, ICE H2O
Records, Raekwon's THE STORY OF RAEKWON, which charts the
author's path to hip-hop godfather and exposes Wu-Tang's early
growing pains in an industry that wasn't ready for their success. Sold
to Gallery by Lisa Gallagher.
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Columnist for Outside, contributor to the NYT, and coauthor of Peak
                        Performance Brad Stulberg's THE PRACTICE OF GROUNDEDNESS,
                        an antidote to today's obsession with heroic individualism and a
                        program that draws on the latest scientific research, the world's
                        ancient wisdom traditions, and the lessons from peak performers to
                        create a more authentic and fulfilling kind of success. Sold to Portfolio
                        by Laurie Abkemeier.
                        Visit Brad’s author page at www.defliterary.com/authors/brad-stulberg

                                               NEWS

DeFiore and Company is delighted to announce that Chris Park joined the agency on
September 9. Chris has most recently been an agent at Foundry, where she has built a client
list of primarily non-fiction in the memoir, spirituality, and Christian categories. A few of her
recent sales include Christena Cleveland’s God is a Black Woman to HarperOne, Ekemini
Uwan, Michelle Higgins, and Christina Edmondson Truth’s Table: The Book to Convergent
(PRH/Crown), and Jason Wilson’s Battle Cry: Waging and Winning the War Within to Thomas
Nelson (HarperCollins). Chris started her career on the publishing side of things, at Ballantine,
Doubleday and at the Center Street imprint of Hachette Book Group. Read more about Chris
at www.defliterary.com/agent/chris-park.

The agency will be closed on January 18 for the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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