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Ted Weinstein Literary Management Summer 2004 Newsletter |
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Summertime greetings! Here is the latest
update on what's happening at Ted Weinstein Literary Management, including
recently released books by clients, new book deals and other agency news.
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Recent Releases |
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 Published to coincide with the 60th anniversary
of the WW II D-Day invasion, Bob
Welch's heart-wrenching and inspirational
American Nightingale: The True Story of Frances
Slanger, the Forgotten Heroine of Normandy (Atria Books/Simon
& Schuster) received widespread attention and acclaim. Booklist called it "a heartwarming story for all ages."
Hampton Sides, author of
Ghost Soldiers and Americana, said "Through indefatigable
research and a nearly obsessive quest to
inhabit a great moment in time, Bob Welch achieves something rare among
works of military history: He brings one person, a single extraordinary
person, to vivid life upon the page. Read American Nightingale, and you'll
never think of D-Day in the same way again." James Bradley, best-selling
author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys, said, "Bob Welch has done
the country a service by recalling Frances Slanger's story... enrich
your life and read this touching story." National media coverage included articles in the Boston
Globe, the Baton Rouge Advocate and the Manchester
Union Leader, a feature article
as well as a review in the Portland
Oregonian, and superb, in-depth segments on ABC's
Good Morning America and Boston NPR affiliate WBUR, both of which
are also offering excerpts of the book on their web sites.
After a busy few months publicizing American Nightingale and organizing an emotional reunion of the
surviving members of Slanger's military unit, Bob is now back at work as a
columnist for the Eugene Register-Guard.
 Courtney Rubin
celebrated the release of The Weight Loss
Diaries (Contemporary Books/McGraw-Hill), based on her popular column for
Shape Magazine. The book is a hilarious and empowering memoir of her daily
struggles with weight, the challenges and triumphs of taking up marathon running, and her
larger efforts to keep food and weight issues from consuming her life. Courtney received strong
reviews in major publications, including Newsweek, which called
The Weight Loss Diaries
"a
captivating new book" and "the ideal beach read," and Washingtonian
magazine, which said Courtney
"writes bravely and
honestly." The Washington Post featured the book in their
online "Lean
Plate Club." Courtney is currently living in London and writing
for People UK.
 Molly
Ness published her first book,
Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach for America
(RoutledgeFalmer), an in-depth look at the innovative national program that places young teachers in
disadvantaged public school districts. The book includes interviews and essays from Teach For America
corps members as well as a wide
range of education experts, reflecting on the program's successes and failures,
the life lessons gathered along the way, and the broader challenges facing
our nation's public schools. Lessons to Learn was
reviewed in the Harvard
Education Review and the Philadelphia Inquirer interviewed
Molly, a TFA veteran who is now working toward her doctorate in Education at the University
of Virginia.
 Also published this spring was
Forgotten
Crimes: The Holocaust and People With Disabilities (Ivan R. Dee), by Suzanne
Evans, Ph.D., with sponsorship from Disability Rights Advocates through a grant from the
U.S. Department of State. The book is a concise history of the nightmarish plight suffered by more
than one million people with disabilities during the Nazi era. An
important book about the destruction of medical ethics by a
totalitarian regime, Forgotten Crimes also discusses the inescapable implications of
these Nazi medical practices for present-day controversies over
eugenics, euthanasia, genetic engineering, medical experimentation
and rationed health care.
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Recent Deals |
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It was a busy and successful spring, as we sold a number of great books for clients.  One of our
newest clients is Stanford professor and mathematician
Keith Devlin, Ph.D., the author of 21 books including The
Millennium Problems and The Math Gene and perhaps best known as
"The Math Guy" on NPR's Weekend Edition. His new book, The Math
Instinct: The Amazing Mathematical Abilities of Animals and All of Us,
celebrates every species' innate math sense and gives even the most
number-phobic readers greater confidence in their own mathematical
abilities. John Oakes, the new publisher of Thunder's Mouth Press/Avalon Publishing,
acquired North American rights at auction and will make The Math Instinct the lead title
for their Spring 2005 list.
 Tao scholar and Zen teacher
Bill
Martin's latest book is A Path and a Practice, an innovative new translation of the
Tao Te Ching revealing it for the first time as not just a collection of
wise insights but as a cohesive guide to our spiritual path. The work was acquired by Matthew Lore at Marlowe
& Co./Avalon Publishing Group, the publisher of Bill's earlier trilogy The Sage's Tao Te Ching,
The Couple's Tao Te Ching, and The Parent's Tao Te Ching,
which Oprah Winfrey says she gives "...to all my friends with
children as a reminder of what matters when raising little ones."
Award winning science and health journalist and Sacramento Bee correspondent Suzanne Bohan Thompson and her husband Glen Thompson are writing 50 Simple Ways to Live a Longer Life, which Peter Lynch acquired for Sourcebooks. This concise, empowering book presents the latest scientific insights on how to achieve a long, healthful life. An easy-to-comprehend resource that's packed with solid, scientifically-validated information, it will leave readers inspired to take an active role in improving their own health and extending their life.  The Dynamite Fiend is the
latest book by Ann Larabee,
Ph.D., professor of American Studies at
Michigan State University and author of Decade of
Disaster. This new book is a compelling work of historical true crime, the story of a
former Confederate secret service agent who later went on to terrorize the Atlantic shipping lanes and
cause one of the bloodiest catastrophes of the nineteenth century.
American rights were acquired by Brendan O'Malley at Palgrave/St. Martin's Press and
Canadian rights by Dan Soucoup at Nimbus Publishing, after hearing
Ann interviewed about The Dynamite Fiend on a Canadian radio
program.
Many more clients are working on projects we look forward to announcing soon. |
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Other Agency News |
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Ted appeared at a wide range of writers' conferences and academic programs this spring and summer, conducting one-on-one sessions with authors and teaching his popular workshops on "The Business of Publishing: What Every Author Needs to Know," and "Writing a Nonfiction Book Proposal That Sells." In addition to offering his regular class at Book Passage bookstore, recent events included the San Francisco, San Diego State University, Jack London and Pacific Northwest Writers conferences. Interns Eleanor Sananman and Georgette Todd did
great work reviewing submissions and conducting research. Eleanor
recently left for an extended visit to Japan, and Georgette returns to the
Mills College MFA program this fall.
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And as always, we continue organizing the Writers & Friends happy hours in San Francisco,
a regular gathering of some of the Bay Area's most interesting writers, editors, agents and other word people.
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Thanks for reading this update. Best wishes for a wonderful, relaxing
summer.
Click here to read the previous newsletter. |
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