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Nonfiction: Memoir / January 22, 2025
Assistant professor of English at the University of North Dakota Courtney Kersten's FOLLOW THE SIGNS: LOOKING FOR LOVE WITH AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN ASTROLOGER QUEEN, about the author's transformative experience as a PhD student grieving her mother and her marriage while writing the first biography of her spiritual mother figure Linda Goodman, the once world-famous astrologer whose career was derailed by her own daughter's death, causing Goodman to be largely dismissed as a "madwoman," though her influence underpins new age culture and spirituality to this day, to Meredith Wadkins-Stabel at University of Iowa Press, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Fiction: Literary / July 29, 2024
Winner of the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award Jeong Ji-A's MY FATHER’S LIBERATION, translated from Korean by Anton Hur, the tragicomic story of a woman who returns home after her father's sudden death to host a three-day funeral where friends and comrades recount her father's glory days as a former communist partisan and Korean War veteran, his fake treachery to protect his people, and his tangled relationship with his family, to Alexa Frank at Harper Via, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management, on behalf of Jade Fu at The Grayhawk Agency, in association with Changbi.
Fiction: Literary / July 22, 2024
Author of THE NATURE BOOK Tom Comitta's PEOPLE’S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED NOVEL & THE MOST UNWANTED NOVEL, a single volume containing two novels written using the results of a nationwide poll about literary taste: a thriller following a young woman and the FBI agent who helps her investigate the connections between her missing brother and a corrupt tech CEO, pitched as inspired by America's most popular reading preferences; and a lengthy epistolary Christmas novel set on 22nd-century Mars, where elderly aristocratic tennis players search for love—pitched as inspired by America's least popular reading preferences, to Philip Leventhal at Columbia University Press, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Fiction: Debut / May 21, 2024
Manager at Point Reyes Books and Pacific University MFA Samantha Kimmey's THE EXTREMITIES!, in which undiagnosable hand pain tears a small-town reporter away from her computer and thrusts her into the world of traditional and experimental medical treatments while her boyfriend tries to seduce her into a simpler life, as they brace for the next wildfire and she nearly misses the career-making story unfolding around her, to Jim McCoy at University of Iowa Press, for publication in fall 2025, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Fiction: Literary / April 11, 2024
Kundiman Fellow, Syracuse University MFA, and author of WE'RE SAFE WHEN WE'RE ALONE Nghiem Tran's OUR HOURS ARE MARRIED TO SHADOW, the author's debut poetry collection, a horror-tinged exploration of the love between two queer Vietnamese immigrants, one of whom undergoes electroconvulsive therapy to treat his PTSD, causing the couple to clash over memories and misunderstandings as they grapple with the haunting personal and political histories they thought they'd escaped, to Jeremy Davies at Coffee House Press, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Nonfiction: Anthology / March 28, 2024
Essayist and author of PAIN WOMAN TAKES YOUR KEYS Sonya Huber and editor and essayist Martha Bayne, eds.'s SO DIFFERENT NOW: WHAT SINEAD O'CONNOR TAUGHT US, now titled NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU, with a foreword by Neko Case, in which women and nonbinary writers each discuss one O'Connor song, collectively arguing that the formidable composer of subversive lullabies and the icon of dissent offered fans a road map for transformation in the face of social restrictions and political upheavals, featuring contributors Nana-Ama Danquah, Ashley C. Ford, Gina Frangello, Sinead Gleeson, Myriam Gurba, Porochista Khakpour, Allyson McCabe, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, Megan Stielstra, Sarah Viren, Lidia Yuknavitch, and more, to Nicholas Ciani at One Signal, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Fiction: International / March 25, 2024
Ziyad Saadi’s THREE PARTIES, a tragicomedy pitched as inspired by Virginia Woolf's MRS. DALLOWAY, in which a gay Palestinian refugee in modern Detroit prepares to throw himself a birthday party that, unbeknownst to the guests, will also double as his coming out party, amid an escalating torrent of romantic, professional, and familial surprises, to David Ross at Hamish Hamilton Canada, at auction, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Nonfiction: Memoir / February 1, 2024
Professor of biology at Allegheny College Catharina Coenen's UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE, a collection of essays written against secrets and silence, as the author examines how fascism, genocide, and the bombs of World War II shaped three generations of women in her Catholic German family, and her life as a queer, first-generation immigrant determined to examine her family's past, to Ilan Stavans at Restless Books, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Fiction: Debut / January 31, 2023
NYU graduate, playwright and filmmaker Mai Sennaar’s TASTE, now titled THEY DREAM IN GOLD, spanning the globe in the 1960s and exploring the intergenerational hunger for identity, love, and belonging in one intercultural family, in which an up-and-coming Senegalese singer disappears, leaving his pregnant American manager-slash-girlfriend alone at his formidable immigrant mother’s Swiss restaurant, where the two women must overcome their differences and confront the lingering questions of their pasts as they scramble to find him, to Caolinn Douglas at SJP Lit, at auction, for publication in spring 2024, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Non-fiction: Narrative / January 20, 2023
MacDowell Fellow Elizabeth Owuor’s A BRAWLING WOMAN IN A WIDE HOUSE, a narrative intertwining archival histories of the 1960s transatlantic blues revolution, which welcomed American musicians like Sugar Pie DeSanto and Big Bill Broonzy to Europe and transformed sound on both sides of the Atlantic, with the author’s own experience as a Black expatriate audiophile in Berlin and beyond, exploring the links between grief and music, home and self-invention, and race and artistic consumption, to Amber Oliver at Bloomsbury, at auction, for publication in 2025, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Memoir / July 21, 2022
UC Riverside at Palm Desert MFA David Martinez’s BONES WORTH BREAKING, about the author’s twin-like bond with his younger brother and their coming-of-age in a mixed-race Brazilian American Mormon household, navigating the intersections of religion and race, only for their paths to diverge in adulthood as they struggle to confront the harsh realities of the United States’s broken social systems amid the joys of brotherhood, skateboarding, and artistic expression, to Ben Brooks and Sean McDonald at MCD/FSG, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Fiction: International / July 12, 2022
Avik Jain Chatlani’s THIS COUNTRY IS NO LONGER YOURS, pitched as based on the real events of Peru’s ‘dirty war,’ in which a constellation of characters reveals, across decades, how governments and guerillas betray ordinary people in a place ravaged by terror but alive with new ambitions and enduring love, to Ward Hawkes at Doubleday Canada, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Fiction: General / June 10, 2022
Author of the forthcoming THE NATURE BOOK Tom Comitta’s PATCHWORK, a romp about a jilted lover tasked with tracking down a mysterious snuff box, in which each chapter uses patterns to test and parody a traditional form or genre, and each sentence is borrowed from another work of fiction, to Lizzie Davis at Coffee House Press, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Fiction: Debut / March 3, 2022
Artist, filmmaker, and poet Navid Sinaki’s MEDUSA OF THE ROSES, an Iranian noir steeped in Persian and Greek mythology that follows a queer petty thief and morbid romantic in a feverish search for answers and revenge after his boyfriend disappears, to Katie Raissian at Grove/Atlantic, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Fiction: Debut / February 14, 2022
Veronica Chapa’s THE WOMAN IN THE OBSIDIAN MIRROR, now titled MALINALLI, pitched as a reimagining of the life of Malinalxochitl—otherwise known as La Malinche—a Nahua warrior priestess-in-training who’s kidnapped and forced to work as Hernan Cortes’s interpreter as he makes his way to Moctezuma’s throne in Tenochtitlan, where her powers emerge and her loyalties are tested when she finds herself caught between two vicious men, both of whom have wronged her and her people, to Michelle Herrera Mulligan at Atria, in an exclusive submission, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Memoir / February 3, 2022
Attorney Jodi Savage’s THE DEATH OF A JAYBIRD, a memoir-in-essays exploring how African American concepts of ancestral memory, mourning, and womanhood, Black Pentecostalism, and her family archives helped the author reckon with life, love, and loss across three generations of women, to Sarah Ried at Harper Perennial, in a pre-empt, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management. AVAILABLE NOW
Fiction: Debut / December 17, 2021
Iowa MFA graduate Melissa Mogollon’s OYE, in which a grandmother’s refusal to evacuate Miami ahead of a hurricane sparks a portrait of caretaking crises, sibling feuds, psychic readings, neighborhood gossip, and the story of one Colombian American family’s telenovela-worthy origins, told exclusively through one side of many phone calls between her two granddaughters, to Jillian Buckley at Hogarth, at auction, by Mariah Stovall at Trellis Literary Management.
Memoir / December 1, 2021
Veena Dinavahi’s ERASED, now titled THE TRUE HAPPINESS COMPANY, about a young Indian-American woman whose dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get derailed when her struggles with mental health land her in the office of a charismatic doctor with a devoted following; as she’s drawn into his world – and the intensely close-knit community around him – she finds herself paying a higher price for happiness than she could’ve ever expected, to Chayenne Skeete at Random House, at auction, by Mariah Stovall at Howland Literary.
Fiction: Debut / April 26, 2021
2021 University of Ottawa graduate Sarah Priscus’s GROUPIES, following a group of young women, including a fledgling photographer, and their relationship with one of the country’s biggest rock ‘n’ roll bands in 1970s Los Angeles, as the fun times soon spiral into personal tragedies and public scandals, to Asante Simons at William Morrow, by Mariah Stovall at Howland Literary. AVAILABLE NOW
Fiction: Debut / August 21, 2020
Stanford Law grad, Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow, and deputy director at Brooklyn Legal Services Chantal Johnson’s POST-TRAUMATIC, a humorous take on the survivor narrative, about a perfectionistic Black Latinx lawyer whose visit to her estranged family brings long-buried pain and anger to the surface, threatening her career, her values, and all of her relationships, to Jean Garnett at Little, Brown, at auction, by Mariah Stovall at Writers House. AVAILABLE NOW
