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2020
SIMON & SCHUSTER
RIGHTS GUIDE
Marie Florio, Vice President, Director of Subsidiary Rights
marie.florio@simonandschuster.com
All titles and publication dates are tentative and subject to change
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
JUST ACQUIRED 2–3
NON-FICTION 4 - 18
FICTION 19 – 29
SNEAK PEAK 30– 38
MASTERS AT WORK 39– 49
S&S CO-AGENT 50 – 52
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JUST ACQUIRED
UNTITLED by Jerry Seinfeld
Publication: October 6, 2020
Actor, comedian, writer and producer Jerry Seinfeld is back with a hilarious book of
comedy that is sure to be a global bestseller.
Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as
a 21-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material
and saved everything. “Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a
stage, in a conversation, or working it out on my preferred canvas, the big yellow legal
pad, I kept it in one of those old school accordion folders,” Seinfeld writes. “So I have
everything I thought was worth saving from 45 years of hacking away at this for all I was
worth.”
For this book, Jerry Seinfeld has selected his favorite material, organized decade by
decade. In page after hilarious page, one brilliantly crafted observation after another,
readers will witness the evolution of one of the great comedians of our time and gain new
insights into the thrilling but unforgiving art of writing stand-up comedy.
Jerry Seinfeld is most known as the creator and star of the popular sitcom Seinfeld. His
last book, Seinlanguage, was a New York Times Bestseller was a #1 New York Times bestseller, selling over 2.5
million copies and remaining on the Publisher’s Weekly bestseller list for 26 weeks. His current Netflix show
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee was nominated for an Emmy in 2019.
Specs:
Black & White Photos throughout
4/c printed endpapaers
Pages (tent.): 496 pages
Territory: World
British: Simon & Schuster UK
Dutch: Spectrum
Finnish: Bazar
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JUST ACQUIRED
OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN
A Novel by Jeff Hoffman
Publication Spring 2021
A riveting novel told from multiple perspectives about the heartbreak and
emotional devastation that occurs when an adoptive couple's agreement
with the teenage biological mother of their infant daughter goes horribly
awry.
The Durbins struggled with infertility for years until their dream to adopt a
child is realized and a young teenage woman agrees to have the Durbins
adopt her child. But the teenager’s mother intervenes and shortly
afterwards, the Durbins are told Carli has changed her mind and won’t sign
the final consent papers. This sends everyone on a brutal collision course
while the novel uncovers issues of heartbreak, loss, class and trust. Told from multiple perspectives,
Hoffman’s portrays the hopes, fears, and dreams of each character in a riveting tale where there are
no villains and the reader can fully sympathize for each character.
The novel is based upon the author’s award-winning short story, “The Binder”, winner of The
Madison Review's 2018 Chris O'Malley Prize for Fiction. An excerpt from the novel was named a
finalist for The Missouri Review’s 2019 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors Prize and was published by The
Baltimore Review. His writing has been nominated for a Pushcart and also recently appeared in The
Sun, Harpur Palate, The Roanoke Review, Booth, and Lunch Ticket, among others.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Harvey Klinger (212) 581-7068
harvey@harveyklinger.com
300 West 55th Street, Suite 11-V, New York 10019
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SIMON & SCHUSTER NON-FICTION
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Sarah Frier SF
NO FILTER April 2020
Award-winning Bloomberg technology reporter Sarah Frier reveals an inside,
never-before-told, behind-the-scenes look at how Instagram defied the odds to
become one of the most culturally defining apps of the decade.
In No Filter, Frier explains how Instagram’s founders married art and technology
to overcome skeptics and to hook the public on visual storytelling. At first,
Instagram initially attracted artisans, but then the platform exploded in popularity
among the masses, creating an entire industry of digital influencers that’s now
worth tens of billions of dollars.
At its heart, No Filter draws on unprecedented exclusive access—from the
founders of Instagram, as well as employees, executives, and competitors; hedge fund billionaire Ray
Dalio; Anna Wintour of Vogue; Kris Jenner of the Kardashian-Jenner empire; and a plethora of
influencers, fashionistas and millions of followers. From teenagers to the pope, No Filter tells the
captivating story of how Instagram not only created a new industry but also changed our lives.
Sarah Frier is the technology reporter for Bloomberg, reporting on Facebook and social
media. Her reporting on Facebook was cited in Congressional questions for CEO Mark
Zuckerberg, the same week she published a Businessweek cover story about Instagram.
Her cover story has already prompted several Wall Street analysts to cite Instagram as
the key to Facebook's future.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Williams and McCormick Literary Agency/Pilar Queen
(212) 691-9726; pq@mccormicklit.com
150 West 28th Street, Suite 903, New York 10001
British: Random House UK Korean: Random House Korea
Chinese (CC): Faces Publications Portuguese (B): Planeta
Chinese (SI): Citic Romanian: Corint
French: Editions Dunod Russian: Eksmo
German: Boersenmedien Spanish (W): Penguin Random
Hungarian: Alexandra Ukrainian: Fors Ukraine
Indonesian: PT Elex Media Vietnamese: Triet-First News
Japanese: Newspicks
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Alexandra Carter SF
ASK FOR MORE 10 Questions to Improve Your Negotiations and May 2020
Relationships
A professor at Columbia University and an expert in mediation reveals the ten
questions that will help anyone negotiate better, resolve conflicts, and
transform relationships. The book demonstrates the power of questions to
improve your negotiations and conversations in easy-to-implement strategies
that can be used in business and in every area of your life.
Negotiation is an essential skill for your career that can also improve your
closest relationships and your everyday life, but often people shy away from it,
feeling defeated before they’ve even started. In this groundbreaking new book
on negotiationAlexandra Carter offers a straightforward, accessible approach
anyone can use to ask for and get more.
As a law professor, mediator and professional negotiation coach, Professor
Carter has spent the last decade helping tens of thousands of people make deals, resolve conflicts and
transform relationships. She has worked with people to solve every kind of problem from complex
business disputes and employment issues and more. .
"Most of us approach negotiation with a mix of fear and confusion. Now comes Ask for More to our
rescue. With stunning clarity, Carter walks us through ten questions that will help us calm our emotions,
clarify our goals, and steer our relationships with confidence and grace. Carter's conversational tone, gift for
metaphor, and empathy for life's predicaments makes it a joy to read." —Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen,
authors of Difficult Conversations and Thanks for the Feedback
"Many people have a binary way of thinking about what they get in life: they get stuck between either a "polite
yes" or a "rude no". They forget there is a third alternative: to negotiate. This is brilliantly illustrated in Ask
for More by Alex Carter." —Greg McKeown, author of the New York Times bestseller Essentialism: The
Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“Reading Alexandra Carter feels like having a negotiation coach in your corner, encouraging you to think
creatively and giving you the courage to ask for more.” —Linda Babcock, author of Women Don’t
Ask and Ask for It
"Guided by a simple ten-question framework and filled with powerful stories of real-life change, Ask For
More empowers men and women to ask for what they want (and actually get it). This book is a must-read for
any professional looking to create stronger, mutually-beneficial relationships at home or in the office."
—Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse and bestselling author of The New Rules of Work
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: ICM/Esther Newberg (212) 556-5600; enewberg@icmpartners.com
65 East 55th Street, New York 10022
Audio: Simon & Schuster Audio
British: Simon & Schuster UK
Chinese (CC): Prophet Press
Chinese (SI): Citic
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Jonah Berger SF
THE CATALYST March 2020
From the author of New York Times bestsellers Contagious and Invisible Influence,
comes a revolutionary approach to changing anyone’s mind.
Change is hard and it seems people resist it at all costs. We persuade and cajole and
push and pull, but even after all that work, nothing budges. Things change at a
glacial pace, if at all. Could there be a better way? This book takes a contrarian
approach. Drawing on cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines, bestselling
author Jonah Berger argues that successful change isn’t about pushing harder or
exerting more energy. It’s about removing barriers. Overcoming resistance by
reducing friction and lowering the hurdles to action.
Catalysts remove roadblocks and reduce the barriers to change. Instead of asking, “How could I change
someone’s mind?” ask a different question: “Why haven’t they changed already? What’s stopping
them?” The Catalyst identifies the key barriers to change and how to mitigate them. 272 pages.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency/James Levine
(212) 337-0934; jlevine@levinegreenberg.com
307 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2407, New York 10001
British: Simon & Schuster UK
Chinese (CC): China Times
Chinese (SI): Publishing House of Electronics Industry
Italian: FrancoAngeli
Japanese: Kanki
Korean: Munhakdongne
Portuguese (B): Alta Books
Romanian: Publica
Russian: Popuri
Turkish: Kapital Medya
Vietnamese: 1980Books
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Contagious (March 2013)
British: S&S UK Italian: Sperling & Kupfer
Azerbaijani: TEAS Press Japanese: Nikkei
Arabic: Jarir Korean: Munhakdongne
Bulgarian: Obsidian Lithuanian: Vaga
Chinese (CC): China Times Polish: MT Biznes
Chinese (SI): Publishing House of Electronics Portuguese (B): Alta
Industry Portuguese (P): Grupo du Autor
Czech: Jota Romanian: Publica
Dutch: Het Spectrum Russian: Mann, Ivanov & Ferber
Estonian: Tanapaev Spanish (LA): Temas Grupo
French: Pearson Education France Spanish (Spain): Centro Libros Papf
French Canadian: Transcontinental Thai: WeLearn
Greek: Klidarithmos Turkish: Optimist
Hebrew: Yedioth Ukrainian: Nash Format
Hungarian: HVG Vietnamese: ThaiHaBooks
Indonesian: PT Gramedia
Invisible Influence (June 2016)
British: S&S UK Japanese: Toyokan
Bulgarian: Izok Zapad Korean: Munhakdongne
Chinese (CC): China Times Polish: MT Biznes
Chinese (SI): Publishing House of Electronics Portuguese (B): HSM
Industry Romanian: Publica
Estonian: Aripaev Russian: Popuri
Greek: Crete University Press Thai: WeLearn
Hebrew: Matar Turkish: Kapital Medya
Hungarian: HVG Ukrainian: Nash Format
Italian: Egea
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Sanjay Gupta, M.D. PP
KEEP SHARP June 2020
Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to
protecting your mind from decline by neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical
correspondent Sanjay Gupta.
Throughout our life, we look for ways to keep our mind sharp and effortlessly
productive. Now, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers insights
from top scientists all over the world, whose cutting-edge research can help you
heighten and protect brain function and maintain cognitive health at any age.
Keep Sharp debunks common myths about aging and cognitive decline,
explores whether there’s a “best” diet or exercise regimen for the brain, and
explains whether it’s healthier to play video games that test memory and
processing speed, or to engage in more social interaction. Dr. Gupta also
addresses brain disease, particularly Alzheimer’s, answers all your questions about the signs and
symptoms, and shows how to ward against it and stay healthy while caring for a partner in cognitive
decline. He likewise provides readers with a personalized twelve-week program featuring practical
strategies to strengthen your brain every day.
Sanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon and medical reporter. He serves as associate chief of the
neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and as
assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine.
He is the multiple Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN.
Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon, is also the host of the CNN series Chasing Life
with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. He is the bestselling author of Chasing Life and
Cheating Death. Dr. Gupta has 2.4 million Twitter followers.
Keep Sharp will be timed to the release of Dr. Gupta’s new Alzheimer’s documentary which will air in
June 2020 on CNN TV.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Williams & Connolly/Robert Barnett (202) 434-5034
rbarnett@wc.com
25 Twelfth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005
British: Headline Home
Chinese (SI): Citic
--9--David M. Rubenstein SR
HOW TO LEAD October 2020
An inspirational study of leadership from the co-founder of The Carlyle Group,
based on conversations with the world’s greatest living leaders.
Drawn from his Bloomberg TV show, The David Rubenstein Show in which
Rubenstein interviewed top business, cultural and governmental leaders, the book
will include interviews with pioneering leaders who reflect on their landmark
careers. The cast includes Jeff Bezos; Richard Branson; Warren Buffett;
Presidents George W. Bush & Bill Clinton; Jamie Dimon; Bill & Melinda
Gates; Phil Knight; Indra Nooyi; Oprah; Tim Cook; Yo-Yo Ma; Condoleezza
Rice; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Jack Nicklaus; and many more.
Through the interviews we learn:
Jeff Bezos harnesses the power of wandering, discovering that his best decisions have been
made with heart and intuition, rather than analysis.
Sir Richard Branson never goes into a venture looking to make a profit. He aims to make the
best in field.
Phil Knight views Nike as a marketing company whose product is its most important marketing
tool.
How Tim Cook followed the legendary Steve Jobs and built an even stronger company?
How Jack Nicklaus became the world’s greatest golfer
David M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of
the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Mr. Rubenstein co -founded the
firm in 1987. Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing $223 billion from 33 offices in
North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Williams & Connolly/Robert Barnett (202) 434-5034
rbarnett@wc.com
25 Twelfth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005
Chinese (SI): Citic
--10--David Pogue PP
HOW TO PREPARE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE August 2020
A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our
time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday
Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue.
In How to Prepare for Climate Change, David Pogue offers sensible, deeply
researched advice for how the rest of us should start to ready ourselves for the
years ahead. Pogue walks readers through what to grow, what to eat, how to
build, how to insure, where to invest, how to prepare your children and pets, and
even where to consider relocating when the time comes. He also provides wise
tips for managing your anxiety, as well as action plans for riding out every
climate catastrophe, from superstorms and wildfires to ticks and epidemics.
David Pogue has 1.4 million followers on Twitter, 250,000 friends on Facebook, and his four TED talks
have been viewed 9 million times. He gives about 20 talks a year, writes and hosts 20 CBS Sunday
Morning stories a year (with an average viewership of 6.5 million per show), and appears often on
national TV and radio.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency/James Levine
(212) 337-0934; jlevine@levinegreenberg.com
307 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2407, New York 10001
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CARY GRANT October 2020
Scott Eyman, author of the New York Times bestseller John Wayne: The Life and
Legend, has written an incisive, definitive biography of another great Hollywood
legend, Cary Grant, drawing in part on new research into Grant's all-important
early years, which permanently shaped his life.
Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach, an Englishman who made his way to
America as a teenager, part of a vaudeville act, and stayed here. It was in
vaudeville that Grant learned his excellent timing, which served him brilliantly
throughout his movie career. Despite his enormous success, Cary was haunted by
his damaging childhood. On screen he played comedy (“His Girl Friday”), drama
(“The Philadelphia Story”), action (“To Catch a Thief”) or suspense
(“Notorious”). He played screwball comedy and leading man equally successfully and starred opposite
such leading ladies as Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Marlene
Dietrich, Mae West, , Sophia Loren, among others.
Decades after he made his last film and more than thirty years after his death, Cary Grant remains
enormously popular. The American Film Institute (AFI) named him the second-greatest male star of
Hollywood's Golden Era. The book includes a 24-page black-and-white photo insert.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Janklow & Nesbit/Morton Janklow (212) 421-1700
mjanklow@janklow.com
285 Madison Avenue, New York 10017
--12--Val Kilmer with David Ritz SM
I’M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY April 2020
A candid and inspirational memoir from actor Val Kilmer, one of the most
prolific actors of his generation who has worked with some of film’s most
distinguished actors and directors.
Val Kilmer starred in five consecutive movies that debuted at Number One: Top
Gun, Batman, Heat, Tombstone, True Romance and The Doors. He has dated
some of the world’s most beautiful women including Michelle Pfeiffer, Cher,
Angelina Jolie, Cindy Crawford, and Daryl Hannah, and had deep friendships
with legendary stars such as Marlon Brando. In
this brutally frank memoir, he tells all about his
glory days in Hollywood working with the top
names in film, his co-stars and friendships, and
finally, his fight with throat cancer, which was diagnosed three years ago,
robbing Val of his voice, so vital to his artistry. This, along with his
bankruptcy, plunged him into silence and darkness. Three years down the
road, Val is in full remission and is progressing in his recovery. Ultimately, his story is one of triumph.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: AGI-Vigliano Literary/David Vigliano (212) 888-8525
vig@agivigliano.com
57 East 73rd Street, 2nd Floor, New York 10021
--13--Debra Soh NS
THE END OF GENDER (Threshold) September 2020
Neuroscientist and biologist Dr. Debra Soh explores the many facets of
gender identity and debunks popular myths in a fascinating and research-
based approach to this complicated subject.
Dr. Soh poses tough questions about the biological nature of gender,
tackling a wide range of hot-button issues such as gender-neutral parenting,
gender reassignment surgery, and gender dysphoria. She calls into question
the accepted notions of today that gender is a social construct, and
challenges the idea that there is no difference between how female and male
brains operate. Always scientific and objective, Soh backs up her words with
original research and interviews. She explores rapid onset gender
dysmorphia, which is a growing phenomenon especially in teenage girls; the harmfulness of
gender reassignment surgery when children are still developing, the obstructions on researching
transgender issues within academia, the biological differences in the brain between the sexes, and
much more.
Dr. Soh holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience and has eleven years of experience working as an academic
researcher. She was part of one of only two teams in the world to study paraphilic interests and
hypersexuality.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Folio Literary Management/Steve Troha (212) 400-1494\
steve@foliolit.com
630 9th Avenue, Suite 1101, New York 10036
--14--Wendy Williams KM
THE LANGUAGE OF BUTTERFLIES May 2020
In this fascinating book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse,
Wendy Williams explores the lives of one of the world’s most resilient creatures—
the butterfly—shedding light on the role that they play in our ecosystem and in our
human lives.
Coupled with years of research and knowledge gained from experts in the field, this
accessible “butterfly biography” explores the ancient partnership between these
special creatures and humans, and why they continue to fascinate us today.
Touching, eye-opening, and incredibly profound, The Language of
Butterflies reveals the critical role they play in our world.
6x9 trim; 240 pages; one 16-page four-color photo insert
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Tessler Literary Agency/Michelle Tessler (212) 242-0466
michelle@tessleragency.com
27 West 20th Street, Suite 1003, New York 10011
Australian: Black Inc.
Italian: Aboca Ediziioni
Polish: Dressler Dublin
Russian: Alpina
--15--Rita Colwell, Ph.D. PP
A LAB OF ONE’S OWN August 2020
A riveting memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science
Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women
have taken to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system.
Dr. Rita Colwell is a pioneering microbiologist and the first woman to head the
National Science Foundation. She is a Distinguished University Professor at both
the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of
Public Health. She was the first scientist to discover how malaria works and is the
recipient of awards from the Emperor of Japan, the King of Sweden, and the
President of the United States, Dr. Colwell reveals that even with her success, she
and other women face entrenched sexism among her male colleagues and bosses.
Colwell’s resistance gives her special gifts: forced to change specialties so many times, she comes to see
science as interdisciplinary, which turns out to be key to making new discoveries in the silo-less 21st
century. She also witnesses the advances that can be made when men and women work together as
equals, such as when she led the team whose work was critical in identifying the source of the anthrax
powder used in the 2001 letter attacks.
A Lab of One’s Own is an indispensable history of scientific progress (and stagnation) and empowering
for women in every field to show that they can fight against sexism in the sciences and change things
for the better.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Susan Rabiner Literary Agency/Susan Rabiner
(212) 279-0316; susan@rabiner.net
315 West 39th Street, Suite 1501, New York 10018
--16--Patricia Heaton EG
SECOND ACT May 2020
From critically acclaimed and popular sitcom star Patricia Heaton comes an
entertaining and inspirational book that profiles people who have taken their
lives in a completely different direction later in life, with advice about how you
can too.
Patricia Heaton—the co-star of the award-winning TV show Everybody Loves
Raymond and star of her new sitcom Second Act – knows something about what
it is like to stage a second act. When Heaton’s children left the nest, she decided
to try new things personally and professionally. Today, Heaton is not just the star
of her own show—but also the executive producer. She is a Celebrity
Ambassador for World Vision, the world’s largest NGO, and supports their work
in poverty relief around the globe.
Her experience has left her fascinated with the idea of re-inventing your life. She has interviewed over
dozens of people who have taken their lives in a completely different direction later on in life, from
work to health or love and more. Along the way, she speaks to experts, in order to help readers
understand why these shifts happen, and how to make the most of it. The result is an entertaining, and
empowering book that shows that midlife is an opportunity to change direction and gain fulfillment and
wisdom.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Link Entertainment/Ryan Budra (424) 208-7300
ryan@link-ent.com
11872 La Grange Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90025
--17--Annik LaFarge EG
CHASING CHOPIN August 2020
Writer, editor, and lecturer Annik LaFarge tells the story of how Frédéric Chopin
wrote his most famous work, a piano sonata with an unorthodox funeral march,
to explain why his innovative music still matters centuries later.
Frédéric Chopin's Opus 35, also known as the Funeral March, is arguably the
best-known melody in the world. Cue the opening – dum dum da dum ... — and
anyone can finish the measure. But the Funeral March is not the piece of music
we think we know. The piece is in two parts, the second of which is rarely
played. The March comes to an end and you think: that’s it, a somber statement
about death, an ending. But the music then continues in a joyous and hopeful
second part.
Chasing Chopin is a book about musical discovery. It draws on biography, political and cultural history,
technology, and music theory, to present Chopin in a new light. LaFarge
follows in Chopin’s footsteps, from his homeland in Poland, where he was
exiled; to Paris, then the political and intellectual capital of the world; to
Majorca, where he took an ill-fated sojourn with his infamous lover, the
writer George Sand; and more, to understand Chopin’s time. She visits piano
makers, and plays an instrument like the one Chopin favored. She talks to
musicians, piano makers, and even video game developers, and others, to understand Chopin’s
influence.
The book is part adventure story, part music theory, part biography, and entirely captivating.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Melanie Jackson Agency/Melanie Jackson (212) 873-3373
m.jackson@mjalit.com
41 West 72 Street, #3F, New York 10023
--18--SIMON & SCHUSTER FICTION
--19--Megan Miranda MSR
THE GIRL FROM WIDOW HILLS June 2020
A new chilling psychological novel from the New York Times bestselling author
of All the Missing Girls, Perfect Stranger and The Last House Guest.
Everyone knows the story of “the girl from widow hills.” Her name was Arden
Mayes, and she was the child swept away in a terrifying storm, who went
missing for days. Strangers and friends, neighbors and rescue workers set up
search parties and held vigils, begging and hoping and praying for her safe
return. And against all odds, she was found. Alive, clinging to a storm
drain. The girl from widow hills was a living miracle. Arden’s mother wrote a
book. Fame followed. Fans and fan letters, creeps, and stalkers. And every
year, the anniversary. It all became too much. As soon as she was old enough,
Arden changed her name and left town.
Now a young woman living hundreds of miles away, Arden is known as Olivia. But she’s still suffering
the effects of her trauma, in the form of walking nightmares, known as night terrors. Olivia often finds
herself out of bed in the middle of the night, sometimes outside her home, even streets away. With the
20th anniversary of her rescue approaching, the media renews its interest in baby Arden. Where is she
now? Soon Olivia feels like she’s being watched. And her night terrors increase. Until one evening
she jolts awake in her yard, with the corpse of a man at her feet.
The girl from widow hills is about to become the center of the story, once again.
Serious movie interest in the book so stay tuned….
The Last House Guest (June 2019) landed on the New York Times Bestseller List on the first week of
publication. It was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick for August. We are in our 4th printing with
over 100,000 hardcover copies in print. The book was optioned by Echo Lake (Elle and Dakota
Fanning’s production company). More to come.
Territory: World
1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version/Audio: Simon & Schuster
Electronic Adaptation/Film: Greenhouse Literary Agency/Sarah Davies (571) 758-5615
Sarah Davies: sarahd@greenhouseliterary.com
4035 Ridge Top Road, Fairfax, VA 22030
British: Atlantic Books UK
German: Penguin Verlag
Polish: Znak
Russian: Eksmo
Spanish (W): Trini Casa Editora
--20--THE LAST HOUSE GUEST (June 2019)
British: Atlantic Books UK
German: Penguin Verlag
Hungarian: Libri Kiado
Polish: Znak
Romanian: Corint Books
Russian: Eksmo
Spanish (W): Tini Casa Editora
Vietnamese: Corint
ALL THE MISSING GIRLS (June 2016)
British: Atlantic Books UK Lithuanian: Kitos Knygos
Croatian: Znanje Polish: Znak
Czech: Euromedia Portuguese (B): Verus Editora
Dutch: Uitgeverij De Fontein Portuguese (P): Topseller (20/20 Editora)
Estonian: Kirjastus Gallus Romanian: Corint Books
French: Editions de La Martiniere Russian: Exmo
German: Penguin Verlag Slovak: Ikar
Hebrew: Korim Spanish: Malpaso
Hungarian: Agave Konyvek Thai: Jamsai
Indonesian: Noura Turkish: Indigo Kitap
Italian: Piemme Vietnamese: 1980 Books
Japanese: Futami Shobo
THE PERFECT STRANGER (April 2017)
British: Atlantic Books UK
Czech: Euromedia
French: Editions de La Martiniere
German: Penguin Verlag
Hebrew: Korim
Hungarian: Agave Konyvek
Latvian: Agpads
Lithuanian: Kitos Knygos
Polish: Znak
Portuguese (P): Topseller (20/20 Editora)
Russian: Eksmo
Turkish: Indigo Kitap
Ukrainian: Old Lion
--21--Mary Pauline Lowry CG
THE ROXY LETTERS April 2020
A quirky, funny, completely irresistible novel that will make you think of
The Rosie Project and Bridget Jones Diary and put a smile on your face from
page one to the end.
Roxy is underemployed, sexually frustrated, and uninspired. Tired of her job
as a deli maid at the original Whole Foods, Roxy
daydreams of breaking out of her funk and finding a job
that will get her creative juices flowing. She also
wouldn’t mind finding love and finding herself off the
brink of financial ruin—a place she’s found herself
thanks to her ever-daunting mortgage and the late rent payments of her
roommate-slash-ex-boyfriend, Everett.
On top of it all, gentrification is slowly changing her beloved city in new and evilly corporate
ways. When a new Lululemon pops up in town, Roxy finds that she can stay silent no longer.
Encouraged by her friends, Roxy decides to take action. What starts as a protest against the
gentrification of her beloved city sets Roxy down a path of purpose, arrest, good sex, love, and
self-discovery.
Fans of Bridget Jones Diary will love Roxy’s laugh-out-loud commentary on millennial dating,
loneliness and money troubles. At the end of the novel, you won’t have solved life mysteries but
you will certainly have had a great and fun read!
“Naughty, effervescent fun. A novel abounding in dauschunds, tweakers, real fulfillment
centers, aisles of strange beer, and shrines to Venus (they work!). Roxy rocks Austin. And rights
the world.” —Joy Williams, author of The Visiting Privilege
“Bawdy, frank and laugh-out-loud funny, The Roxy Letters brings to antic life all the hilarity
and peppy horrors of being rootless and questing in your twenties.” —Julia Claiborne Johnson,
author of Be Frank With Me
“Tom Robbins meets Bridget Jones' Diary, eccentric, fun, delicious, for the thinking woman
who loves her vagina." —Rufi Thorpe, author of Dear Fang, with Love
"The enormously talented Mary Pauline Lowry has given us a wonderful and compelling
contradiction, a novel at once wicked and extravagant and vulnerable and pure. For comedy, for
sheer joyous energy and deadly charm, you cannot do better than The Roxy Letters." —Brady
Udall, author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
"The breezy, charming, laugh-out-loud-funny voice of this book belies the strong bones of plot,
character development, place and theme that lie beneath. Part love goddess, part urban warrior,
part best-friend-you-wish-you-had, Roxy takes Austin by storm. You will fall in love with her.
" —Francesca Lia Block, author of Weetzie Bat
"Roxy and Mary Pauline Lowry are keeping Austin weird and wacky in The Roxy Letters. If
you’ve ever shaken your fist at gentrification, been in a creative rut, had a wild best friend, or
wondered where the hell your Prince Charming is, this peppy, confident, rollicking ride is for
you!"—Georgia Clark, author of The Bucket List
--22--"Mary Pauline Lowry’s THE ROXY LETTERS is too smart and clever to be called a romp, but
whatever, it’s a total romp. I fell in love with Roxy, our hilarious, flawed, screwball narrator, and
her quest to find herself in the muck of her twenties. Fun as heck."—Annie Hartnett, author of
Rabbit Cake
"THE ROXY LETTERS is bursting with originality, quirky wit, and delightful charm. This
rollercoaster of a story is snappy, heartwarming, raunchy, and absurdly enjoyable. Roxy is an
unforgettable narrator, and seeing Austin through her eyes is a real treat." — HANNAH
ORENSTEIN, author of Playing with Matches
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--23--Rachel Beanland CG
FLORENCE ADLER SWIMS FOREVER July 2020
A heartwarming, tender family saga with nuanced characters and a
propulsive, twisty plot that raises fascinating questions about the lengths
we go to in order to protect the people we love the most, all set against the
wonderful backdrop of 1930s Atlantic City.
The novel opens in June of 1934 in Atlantic City, with the drowning death
of Florence Adler, who has recently returned home from college with the
goal to swim the English Channel by summer’s end. In the wake of
Florence’s death, her family and friends must negotiate her loss over the
course of that summer. The tragedy occurs unbeknownst to Fannie,
Florence’s older sister, who is pregnant and on bedrest at the hospital. Her
mother, Esther, fears the news will be too much for Fannie to bear and
decides that the family must keep Florence’s death a secret—at least until
the baby is born. This decision will have dire consequences, and its resulting tensions become the
backdrop against which long-buried family dramas resurface as the Adlers try to pick up the pieces
of their former lives.
Told from rotating points of view, the novel features a diverse cast of richly drawn and unforgettable
characters. Staying with the Adler family is Anna Epstein, a young Hungarian woman, almost
exactly Florence’s age, who Joseph recently helped emigrate from Nazi Germany. Her connection to
the family becomes apparent as the story unfolds.
For readers of Beatriz Williams and Anita Diamant and based on real events, the novel offers a look
at the dysfunctional relationships inherent to every family. With the brisk pace of a beachside page-
turner, the second half of the book unfolds with an indelible love story that is both captivating and
surprising, and ultimately, uplifting.
“Florence Adler Swims Forever is a riveting page-turner about characters who know how to keep a fierce
secret, even when it is nearly impossible to do so.” —De’shawn Winslow, author of In West Mills
“The best fiction elucidates a time, place, and people. This is it. Right here. With precise, beautiful prose
and spot-on dialogue, Rachel Beanland’s debut novel, Florence Adler Swims Forever, is a flawless work of
fiction that captures a flawed but big-hearted Jewish family navigating Atlantic City during the Great
Depression. This beachside New Jersey town is as vivid a character as the family inhabiting it and even the
most damaged characters contain glimmers of hope.” Michele Young-Stone, Author Of Above Us Only Sky
“Rachel Beanland has written a wonderfully assured and completely engrossing first novel. From the very
first page, I was completely invested in the lives of Florence, Gussie, Anna and the rest. Florence Adler
Swims Forever has much to say about family, loss and all the ways we have to wonder what might have
been, and it does so with great skill and a deeply humane vision. I could not recommend it more highly.” —
Kevin Powers, author of National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds
"Rachel Beanland is a writer of uncommon wit and wisdom, with a sharp and empathetic eye for character.
She'll win you over in the most old fashioned of ways: She simply tells a hell of a story."
—Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer Finalist For The Great Believers
--24--"I started reading Florence Adler Swims Forever and did not stop until its final words. Rachel Beanland so
completely transports readers to the summer of 1934 in Atlantic City and a tragedy that changes the lives of
one family there that I expected to smell salt air and see ocean waves crashing when I looked up again.
What a bighearted novel this is. What a glorious debut."
—Ann Hood, Author Of The Book That Matters Most
"Florence Adler Swims Forever is a tender, funny, frank look at how family and faith can frustrate us,
sustain us, and keep us human.” —Blair Hurley, author of The Devoted
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Lithuanian: Baltos Lankos
--25--Masy Card DD
THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY March 2020
A stunning literary debut novel, These Ghosts are Family reveals the ways in
which a Carribean family forms and splinters through the generations.
The novel centers around Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican
couple in the 1960s. Abel emigrates to London hoping to earn a livelihood
that will support the family he left behind, but when he's presented with the
opportunity to escape his destructive marriage by assuming a new identity
(that of his friend Stanford Solomon) he seizes it and fakes his own death.
Vera, forced into the role of widow and single mother, is overwhelmed by
guilt for her husband’s death, and becomes an abusive and neglectful mother
to her children, Irene and Vincent.
Set in the United States and Jamaica and told in multiple narrative threads which incorporate
elements of gothic fiction, Jamaican folklore, and history, Ghosts looks at the limits of forgiveness
and the complexities of Caribbean family ties. An electric and character-driven saga, the reader is
propelled forward by the need to piece together the interworking’s of an incredibly dynamic family.
“I suspect many readers will talk about the consequences of unspoken generational trauma in These
Ghosts Are Family, but I'm most amazed by the deft use of characterization, place and embodiment
here. This book is a master class in writing home as a collection of odd spirits and a mobile
metaphor.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division
“In this fascinating debut, Maisy Card reveals her spectacular range and scope. Part immigrant
narrative, part ghost story, part historical fiction, part family drama, These Ghosts Are Family explores
and illuminates the complexities of race and lineage in Jamaica and the United States. This is a bold,
gripping, compassionate book." —Helen Phillips, author of The Need
“How do actions reverberate across multiple generations? In Maisy Card's stunning novel, people live
and die and lose and love and make their way through this chaotic but profound experience we call life.
Her luminous prose lights a way even in the darkest moments. These Ghosts Are Family will haunt you
long after you finish it.” —Michele Filgate, author of What My Mother and I don’t Talk About
“Maisy Card's relentlessly inventive debut is a thrilling exploration of family, memory and which pasts
we choose to haunt us.” —Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of We Love You Charlie Freeman
“Written with the brand of Jamaican humor I know and love, These Ghosts Are Family is a book I didn't
know I needed to read, which might be the best kind of book. Maisy Card is a wonderful arrival for
Caribbean literature.” —Alexia Arthurs, author of How to Love a Jamaican
“These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card will enchant readers completely with a fascinating cast of
characters, each more bewitching than the last. This book is destined to become 2020’s most beloved debut
novel.” —Julia Fierro, author of The Gypsy Moth Summer
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--26--Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke MSR
PIECE OF MY HEART November 2020
The latest novel in the bestselling series co-written with Alafair Burke
features all the trademarks of a classic Mary Higgins Clark suspense
novel— a wedding and a missing child— that goes back to the successful
WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN?, which first established Higgins Clark as
a force. The sixth entry in the series, PIECE OF MY HEART, adds a new
twist as a contemporary mystery in the Under Suspicion series.
Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancée, Alex Buckley, the
former host of her investigative television show, are days away from their
mid-August wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex’s seven-year-old
nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. A search party begins and people
recall Johnny playing in the water with his skim board, and collecting shells
behind the beach shack, but no one remembers seeing him after the
morning. As Laurie dives into the case, she uncovers that Johnny was adopted, but the details are
murky and secretive. Do they have anything to do with his abductor? Laurie must solve the case
against all odds, all before saying “I do.”
A ticking clock, personal stalker, fresh plot, and romance combine to recreate the gold Mary Higgins
Clark standard. Piece of My Heart is the perfect, exhilarating follow up to the bestselling You Don’t
Own Me—and yet again the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and her dazzling partner-in-
crime Alafair Burke have devised another riveting page-turner.
I’ll Be Seeing You is being made into a multi-episodic television series, produced and distributed by
Reel One Entertainment and Element 8, respectively.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has written thirty-eight suspense
novels, four collections of short stories, a historical novel, a memoir, and two children’s books. With
bestselling author Alafair Burke she writes the Under Suspicion series including The Cinderella
Murder, All Dressed in White, The Sleeping Beauty Killer, Every Breath You Take, and You Don’t
Own Me. With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she has coauthored five more suspense novels.
More than one hundred million copies of her books are in print in the United States alone. Her
books are international bestsellers.
Territory: World
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Film: Dave Clark c/o Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Audio: Simon & Schuster Audio
British: Simon & Schuster UK
--27--KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM CRY (Nov. 2019)
(solo novel)
British: Simon & Schuster UK
Finnish: Tammi
French: Albin Michel
German: Heyne
Italian: Sperling
Lithuanian: Alma Litera
Portuguese (P): Bertrand Circulo
Russian: Eksmo
Spanish (W): Penguin Random House
YOU DON’T OWN ME (Nov. 2018)
(with Alafair Burke)
British: Simon & Schuster UK
Bulgarian: Bard
Dutch: Xander
French: Albin Michel
German: Heyne
Lithuanian: Alma Litera
Polish: Proszynski
Portuguese (P): Bertrand Circulo
Spanish (W): Penguin Random House
--- 28 ---Micheline Aharonian Marcom EG
THE NEW AMERICAN May 2020
In this timely and emotionally powerful novel, award-winning author
Micheline A. Marcom recounts the epic journey of a young Guatemalan-
American college student, a “dreamer,” who gets deported and decides to
make his way back home to California.
Emilio believes he is living the American Dream: his parents, who emigrated
from Guatemala to California, sacrifice daily to ensure it. And his life seems
relatively normal until he turns sixteen and wants a driver’s license. His
parents discourages it and reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented.
Emilio adjusts to his new normal. He attends college and falls in love. But
after a car accident, his secret is discovered and he is deportd to Guatemala.
But he is determined to get back to California, the only home he has ever
known. It is an epic journey that takes him across thousands of miles through
remote towns, lush jungles, and eventually the Sonoran Desert of the US-Mexico border, meeting
thieves and corrupt law enforcement but also kind strangers and new friends.
Drawing from interviews with Dreamers, and told in lyrical prose, Micheline Marcom weaves a
heart-pounding and heartbreaking tale of adventure.
Micheline Aharonian Marcom was born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Los Angeles. She has
published six novels, including a trilogy of books about the Armenian genocide and its aftermath in
the 20th century. Her first novel, Three Apples Fell From Heaven, was a New York Times Notable
Book and Runner-Up for the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction. Her second novel, The
Daydreaming Boy, won the PEN/USA Award for Fiction.. She is the founder and Creative Director
of The New American Story Project [NASP], a digital oral history project focused on
unaccompanied Central American minors who journeyed thousands of miles to reach the U.S.
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454 West 44th Street, New York 10036
British: Verso Books UK
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Brad Stone SF
AMAZON UNBOUND September 2021
Renowned journalist and the bestselling author of The Everything Store examines Amazon’s
ascension to one of the most successful companies of all time – and provides an in-depth look at its
founder Jeff Bezos – the richest person on the planet and the subject of intense controversy.
Much has changed since The Everything Store was published in 2013.
Amazon has become much more than a retailer. It introduced the
world to Alexa, which reshaped the way we interact with technology,
and has impacted fields as varied as AI, cloud computing, the grocery
business, film and TV, and more. It has become a force in China and
India, expanded into selling millions of products, and became a global
mega-company that now owns the Washington Post.
With characteristic rigor, insight and wit, Stone explore the company’s
ongoing successes and failures and deconstruct its strategies for
growth. He also gives us a close, intimate look at the man behind this colossal giant and in doing so
poses the ultimate question: Is Amazon good for us?
The book has been pre-empted in eight languages.
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British: Simon & Schuster UK
Chinese (CC): Commonwealth
Chinese (SI): Citic
Dutch: Prometheus
German: Ariston
Italian: Hoepli
Japanese: Nikkei
Portuguese (B): Intrinsica
Russian: Progress
--- 31 ---Ron Friedman SF
REVERSE ENGINEER January 2021
Ron Friedman draws on the latest scientific research to show how reverse engineering unleashes
creativity and leads to success.
Where does mastery come from? For years, we’ve debated the role of talent versus skill, nature
versus nurture, and the precise number of hours necessary for achieving expertise. Absent from
this discussion is an approach that top performers, from creative geniuses to business giants, have
secretly leveraged for generations: reverse engineering.
To reverse engineer is to analyze an object, performance, or product in
a way that reveals an underlying structure. It is the ability to taste a
soufflé and deduce its recipe, to listen to a song and determine its
chord progression, to watch a horror film and discern its story
structure. It involves looking beyond what is evident on the surface
and seeing a hidden architecture—one that reveals both how an object
was designed, and more importantly, how it can be recreated.
Reverse Engineer offers readers a novel approach to innovating and
creating, while debunking the conventional wisdom on expertise.
Ron Friedman, Ph.D., is an award-winning social psychologist who specializes in human
motivation. Dr. Friedman has served on the faculty of the University of Rochester, Nazareth College,
and Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and has consulted for some of the world’s most successful
organizations. Popular accounts of his research have appeared on NPR and in major newspapers,
including The New York Times, Financial Times, the Globe and Mail, Washington Post, The
Guardian, as well as other publications. He is also a regular contributor to the Harvard Business
Review, penning widely read articles such as "How to Spend the Last 10 Minutes of Your Day”and
"9 Productivity Tips From People Who Write About Productivity.”
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Japanese: Kanki
Korean: Across Publishing
Russian: Popuri
--- 32 ---Heather Berlin, PhD, MPH SF
THE FINE ART OF LOSING CONTROL April 2022
A tour of the science of impulse control that shows readers what happens
when the “impulse” and “control” areas of the brain go out of balance,
leading to many of the self-destructive behaviors.
Not all impulses are destructive of course. The
impulse to stand up and scream along with
everyone else in the stadium when your team
scores a winning goal, and the impulse to stand up
and scream at your boss during a staff meeting are
divided only by a few brain circuits that assess
context and social consequences. The book uses modern neuroscience and
psychology to show how the brain processes impulses. Dr. Berlin shows
how the brain works, why impulses sometimes lead us astray, and what
you can do to take control of your own thoughts and behavior, and make
your brain work for you.
Heather Berlin is a neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai and hosts Startalk with
Neil DeGrasse Tyson and the PBS series Science Goes to the Movies.
Territory: World
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Electronic Adaptation/Film: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency/James Levine
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307 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2407, New York 10001
British: Penguin Business UK
Chinese (SI): Citic
Japanese: Ushio Shuppansha
Spanish (W): Urano
--- 33 ---Andrew Huberman ED
SEE, BREATHE, MOVE: Ten Tools to Optimize Performance February 2022
and Increase Happiness
Stanford professor of neurobiology draws on new research from his own lab and elsewhere to show
readers how to tap into their nervous system to decrease anxiety, heighten motivation, and boost
energy -- faster than traditional routes like willpower, meditation, or medication.
Professor Huberman provides exercises that revolve around sight, breath, and movement, allowing
readers to control, and even capitalize on, their stress. Huberman has
worked extensively with Navy SEALs and others in high stress
environments, using these tactics to help them adapt and excel under
pressure. These techniques aren’t limited to elite warriors or athletes;
they’ve been proven to work quickly for anyone, anywhere, at any time.
Andrew Huberman is an award-winning neurobiologist and the Principle
Investigator and Lab Head of the Huberman Lab, part of the Department
of Neurobiology at Stanford School of Medicine. Under his direction, the
lab created a state-of-the-art virtual reality platform for probing the neural
mechanisms underlying pathologic fear and anxiety.
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307 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2407, New York 10001
British: Simon & Schuster UK
Chinese (SI): Beijing Xiron Books
Japanese: Kobunsha
--- 34 ---Logan Ury EG
UNTITLED ON BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS OF LOVE February 2021
TED Fellow Logan Ury draws on her years of experience as a relationship expert and leader of
Google’s behavioral economics lab to help readers navigate the ever-changing landscape of modern
dating and make better decisions in romantic relationships..
Behavioral economics studies the effects of psychological, cognitive,
emotional, cultural and social factors on the economic decisions of
individuals. Using that model, Logan Ury applies the same principles to
demonstrate how we make decisions regarding relationships – and how
we can make smarter decisions about love.
Logan Ury graduated from Harvard with a degree in Psychology and then
spend the last decade working at Google and AirBub where she used her
knowledge of behavior economics to help design better products. At Google, she ran the Irrational
Lab, Google’s behavioral economics team alongside bestselling author Dan Ariely. She also
launched and hosted Talks at Google: Modern Romance, where she interviewed experts like Dan
Savage, Esther Perel, and Dr.s John and Julie Gottman.
The Videos from this series have over 1 million views on YouTube. Logan is currently a writer,
researcher, and dating coach.
Tentative Specs:
Trim: 6 x 9
Pages: 320 (tentative_
Proposal Available
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Chinese (SI): Citic
--- 35 ---John Koenig ZK
THE DICTIONARY OF OBSCURE SORROWS July 2021
From the creator, writer and editor of the popular website and YouTube channel, The Dictionary of
Obscure Sorrows, comes a collection of invented words, mostly stitched together from parts of other
languages, that gives a name to feelings we all might experience but don't have a word for.
Koenig has coined dozens of words since he founded the site in
2009, pinpointing and defining emotions many people have felt
but haven't been able to communicate. Words like "lachesism,"
the hunger for disaster, and "sonder," the realization that everyone
else's lives are as complex and unknowable as our own. The book
will include hundreds of new words created for the book.
224 pages; manuscript available
Check out the YouTube video at
https://www.youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows .
Koenig’s TEDTalk has 1,808,802 views since it’s debut in February 2016. It has been translated into 36
languages:
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_koenig_beautiful_new_words_to_describe_obscure_emotions/discu
ssion?referrer=playlist-what_are_emotions
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