News & Notes

Recent sales:

  • The Creativity Cure by Carrie Alton, MD, and Alton Barron, MD, to Scribner/Simon & Schuster
  • The Epidural Book by Rich Siegenfeld, MD to Johns Hopkins University Press
  • A Place in the Sun by Stephen Snyder to Rizzoli
  • Palm Beach Gardens and Terraces by Kathleen Quigley to Rizzoli
  • Lilias! Yoga Gets Better with Age (paperback) by Lilias Folan to Skyhorse
  • A Woman’s Guide to Pelvic Health by Beth E. Houser, MD, and Stephanie Riley Hahn, PT, to Johns Hopkins University Press
  • The Best There Ever Was:  The Story of Dan Patch by Sharon Smith to Skyhorse
  • The Smart Guide to Single Malt Scotch Whisky by Elizabeth Bell to Smart Guides
  • The Smart Guide to Understanding Your Cat by Carolyn Janik to Smart Guides
  • Dr. Joseph Warren:  On the Road to Bunker Hill by Sam Forman to Pelican
  • Step Ahead of Autism :  What You Can Do to Ensure the Best Possible Outcome for Your Child by Anne Burnett to Sunrise River
  • The Patient in the White Coat by Rosalind Kaplan, MD, to Kaplan
  • Teenage as a Second Language:  A Parent’s Guide to Becoming Bilingual by Barbara Greenberg, PhD, and Jennifer Powell-Lunder, PsyD, to Adams Media
  • Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind:  A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood by Ellen Firsching Brown and John Wiley, Jr. to Taylor
  • World Class Marriage:  How to Create the Relationship You Always Wanted with the Partner You Already Have by Patty Howell, EdM, AGC, and Ralph Jones to Rowman & Littlefield
  • Electrified:  The Art of the Contemporary Electric Guitar by Robert Shaw to Sterling
  • The Small Budget Gardener by Maureen Gilmer to Cool Springs
  • The Official Prisoner Companion (E-book) by Matthew White and Jaffer Ali to Hachette
  • The Generosity Plan by Kathy LeMay to Beyond Words/Atria/Simon & Schuster
  • The Green Market Baking Book by Laura Martin to Sterling
  • Canadian Vegetable Gardening by Doug Green to Cool Springs
  • Tales of the Seven Seas:  The Escapades of Captain Dynamite Johnny O’Brien by Dennis M. Powers to Taylor
  • New Green Home Solutions by Stephen Snyder and Dave Bonta to Gibbs Smith
  • The New Solar Home by Stephen Snyder and Dave Bonta to Gibbs Smith
  • The Monopoly® Guide to Real Estate by Carolyn Janik to Sterling
  • Artful Watercolor by Carolyn Janik and Lou Bonamarte to Sterling
  • Palm Springs-Style Gardening by Maureen Gilmer to Sunbelt
  • Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains by Dennis M. Powers to Amacom
  • A Deadly Habit by Andrea Sisco to Tekno/Five Star
  • The Way of Tea by Aaron Fisher to Tuttle

Other news about books:

  • Japanese rights to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind by Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley, Jr. have been sold to Ittosha
  • Step Ahead of Autism by Anne Burnett has been named among the best in family-friendly media, products and services by Mom’s Choice Awards
  • Green Market Baking Book by Laura Martin won the Nautilus Silver Award in the food/cooking/healthy eating category
  • An updated edition of Melanoma by Catherine Poole and DuPont Guerry, M.D. is available from Yale University Press and a Chinese edition will be forthcoming.
  • Waking the Warrior Goddess by Christine Horner, M.D., is available in trade paperback from Basic Health
  • Audio rights to The Art of War for Executives by Donald Krause have been sold to Bolinda and Latvian rights to The Art of War for Executives have been sold to Apgads Zvaignzne ABC through Andrew Nurnberg Associates International Ltd.

Agency News:

Jeanne Fredericks will again be a workshop leader, judge, and panelist at the Harvard Medical School CME course on Publishing Books, Memoirs, and Other Creative Nonfiction March 29-31, 2012.  She will also be a panelist and faculty member at the Unicorn Writers Conference on April 28, 2012.

She was a panelist, too, at the James River Writers Conference in Richmond, VA, in 2008, and CAPA-U (CT Authors and Publishers Association University) in 2009 and 2010.

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The Jeanne Fredericks Literary Agency, Inc. is striving to go as green as possible by:

  • using recycled paper and an environmentally friendly local printing company that uses a waterless process with no chemicals or heavy metals
  • offering editors the option of electronic submissions
  • recycling all office paper, catalogs, and print cartridges