Fiction:
Mystery/Crime David Jacobs's 24 DECLASSIFIED: HEAD SHOT and 24 DECLASSIFIED: UNTITLED, tenth and eleventh original novels based on television's 24 series, to Will Hinton at Harper Entertainment, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency (World).

Foreign rights:
Fiction
Japanese language rights to Cleo Coyle's debut hardcover Coffeehouse Mystery: ESPRESSO SHOT to Random House Kodansha Co., LTD by Berkley Books on behalf of John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Japanese language rights to Alice Kimberly's 5th Haunted Bookshop Mystery: THE GHOST AND THE HAUNTED MANSION to Random House Kodandsha Co., LTD by Berkley Books on behalf of John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Film rights
Gavin Mortimer's THE GREAT SWIM, to Dana Hankins at Redhead Productions, by Gail Fortune at Talbot Fortune Agency

Non-fiction:
History/Politics/Current Affairs
Anne Morrison Welsh and Joyce Hollyday's HELD IN THE LIGHT, about the self-sacrifice and legacy of Vietnam War protester Norman Morrison, who protested the US napalming of a Vietnamese village by self-immolating in 1965 forty feet below Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's window, and the difficult spiritual journey of Morrison's widow, who struggled to raise a family while coming to grips with her husband's final act and, 34 years later, went to Vietnam to find closure and peace, to Robert Ellsberg at Orbis Books, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Non-fiction:
Business/Investing/Finance
Retail management guru George Whalin's THE 25 BEST STORES IN AMERICA, on the most unique and successful stores in America and why shoppers find them so irresistible, to Jeffrey Krames at Portfolio, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Audio rights
NYT bestselling author Kenneth Sewell and Jerome Preisler's ALL HANDS DOWN: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on USS Scorpion, to Haila Williams at Blackstone Audio, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency

Fiction:
Mystery/Crime
Chris Cavender's A SLICE OF MURDER, featuring amateur sleuth sisters who own a pizza parlor, to John Scognamiglio at Kensington in a nice deal, in a three-book deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency

Film rights
Lucy Finn's CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, pairing a practical-minded single mom with an undeniably hunky genie, to Barbara Simpson and Blue Shadow Productions, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency

Fiction:
Women's/Romance
Jodi Thomas's two historical romances in her Whispering Mountain series, to Wendy McCurdy at Berkley, in a good deal, by Gail Fortune of the Talbot Fortune Agency

Fiction:
Women's Romance
Donna Fletcher's two Scottish historical romances, to Esi Sogah at Avon, in a nice deal, by Gail Fortune of the Talbot Fortune Agency.

Fiction:
Women's/Romance
Lucy Finn's BEST WISHES ALWAYS, about a grieving young antiques dealer who is through with love until a mysterious brass lamp and a sexy genie make her risk her heart once more, to Kristen Weber at NAL, by John Talbot of the Talbot Fortune Agency

Fiction:
Women's/Romance
NYT bestselling author Betina Krahn's two untitled books, to Brenda Chin at Harlequin Blaze, by Gail Fortune at the Talbot Fortune Agency.

Non-fiction:
Humor
THE GOOD, THE SPAM, AND THE UGLY author Steve Graham's KEEP CHEWING TILL IT STOPS KICKING: Finding Your Inner Caveman, a memoir of Hal the Caveman, who lived 5 million years ago and recalls how dinosaurs used his relatives as throw pillows and how primitive man discovered that cannibalism reduces fertility, to Gary Goldstein at Kensington in a nice deal, by John Talbot at the Talbot Fortune Agency

Fiction:
Women's/Romance: Lucy Finn's IF WISHING MADE IT SO, about a lonely young woman, a second chance with her high school sweetheart, and a bottle with a genie inside - now all her dreams can come true unless a lot goes wrong with a little magic, to Kristen Weber at NAL, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Fiction:
Mystery/Crime: Jessica Beck's debut trilogy of Donut Shop Mysteries, beginning with GLAZED MURDER, to Hope Dellon at St. Martin's, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Fiction:
General/Other: Christina Cordaire's MARRIED IN BLACK, to Christine Zika at Madison Park Press, in a nice deal, by Gail Fortune of Talbot Fortune Agency (World).

Fiction:
Mystery/Crime David Jacobs' 24 DECLASSIFIED: STORM FORCE, seventh original novel based on television's 24 series, to Will Hinton at Harper Entertainment, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Non-fiction:
History/Politics/Current Affairs S.E. Cupp and Brett Joshpe's WHY YOU'RE WRONG ABOUT THE RIGHT, a revelatory and provocative defense of conservative identity as stated by a broad spectrum of conservative voices, including such personalities as Tucker Carlson, Brian C. Anderson, NASCAR's Tony Stewart, Laura Ingraham, Jonah Goldberg, Byron York, and many others, to Anthony Ziccardi at Threshold, in a very nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Non-fiction:
History/Politics/Current Affairs
NYT bestselling and NBCC Award nominated author of WHILE EUROPE SLEPT Bruce Bawer's THE WAR AGAINST FREE SPEECH: How Western Liberals Collude with Muslim Extremists to Undermine the Right of Free Expression, to Adam Bellow at Doubleday, in a good deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Fiction:
Mystery/Crime
Cleo Coyle's next three Coffeehouse Mysteries, for hardcover, to Katie Day at Berkley Prime Crime, in a very nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Fiction:
Mystery/Crime
David Jacobs' 24 DECLASSIFIED #7, the seventh original novel based on the 24 television series, to Will Hinton at HarperEntertainment, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Non-fiction: Humor
Steven H. Graham's KEEP CHEWING UNTIL IT STOPS KICKING: The Caveman's Guide to Life, to Gary Goldstein at Citadel, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Childrens:
Young Adult
CHLOE DOE author Suzanne Phillips' second novel, BURN, about the tragic consequences of the bullying of a sweet-hearted 14-year-old boy, to Nancy Conescu at Little, Brown, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency (US).

Non-Fiction:
Humor
Steven H. Graham's EAT WHAT YOU WANT AND DIE LIKE A MAN: The World's Unhealthiest Cookbook, to Gary Goldstein at Citadel, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Non-Fiction:
Religion/Spirituality
SHELF LIFE author Suzanne Strempek Shea's SUNDAYS IN AMERICA: My 52- Week Pilgrimage to Christian Churches Coast to Coast, to Helene Atwan at Beacon Press, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Film:
Film rights to Philadelphia Inquirer journalist Tanya Maria Barrientos' FRONTERA STREET, a novel about a pregnant, young widowed Anglo woman who applies for a job in the Mexican neighborhood of her West Texas town, and the fitful friendship she develops with her Mexican-American co-worker and her daughter, optioned to Elizabeth Fowler at Clear Pictures Ent./Elizabeth Fowler Mgmt, by the John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency.

Foreign rights:
Non-fiction
Polish rights to Ken Sewell and Clint Richmond's New York Times bestselling RED STAR ROGUE: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S. to Bellona, in a nice deal.

Foreign rights:
Non-fiction
French rights to Ken Sewell and Clint Richmond's New York Times bestselling RED STAR ROGUE: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S. to Marines Editions, in a nice deal.

Foreign rights:
Non-fiction
Dutch rights to Bruce Bawer's New York Times bestselling WHILE EUROPE SLEPT: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West From Within to Meulenhoff, in a nice deal.

Foreign rights:
Non-fiction
Italian first serial rights to Bruce Bawer's New York Times bestselling WHILE EUROPE SLEPT: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West From Within to Il Corriere della Sera, in a nice deal.

Foreign Rights:
Fiction
Japanese rights to Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse Mysteries, ON WHAT GROUNDS and THROUGH THE GRINDER, in a nice deal, to Random House Kodansha.

Non-fiction:
Pop Culture
Maxim editor Paul Bibeau's SUNDAYS WITH VLAD, a humorous exploration of vampires and the Dracula myth in popular culture, in the tradition of CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC and WORD FREAK (if the Confederates used large wooden stakes to impale the Scrabble players), to Jason Pinter at Three Rivers Press, by John Talbot at the Talbot Fortune Agency

Fiction:
Mystery/Crime
Marc Cerasini's third original novel based on the 24 television series, 24: VANISHING POINT, to Will Hinton at HarperEntertainment, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency (world).

Fiction:
Mystery/Crime
Melissa Glazer's debut trilogy of pottery and ceramics mysteries featuring irrepressible sleuth Carolyn Emerson, in a nice deal, to Sandy Harding at Berkley, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency (world).

Fiction:
Women's/Romance
Three more books in USA Today bestseller Savannah Russe's DARKWING CHRONICLES, an ALIAS meets BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER thriller/suspense series featuring Daphne Urban, a vampire recruited by the US government to become a spy, to Liz Scheier at New American Library, in a good deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency (World).

Fiction:
Women's/Romance
Lucy Finn's debut paranormal romance, I DREAM OF DIAPER GENIE, to Liz Scheier at New American Library, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency (World).

Nonfiction:
History/Politics/Current Affairs
Kfir Alfia and Alan Davidson's, with writer Bill Crawford, THE PROTESTWARRIOR FIELD GUIDE TO LIBERAL PROTESTERS AND OTHER LEFT WING WACKOS, in which America's leading anti-activist activist organization, ProtestWarrior, exposes the truth behind liberal protesters in a single hard-hitting -- and hilarious -- book, to Bernadette Malone at Penguin Sentinel, in a very nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency for Alfia and Davidson, and Jim Hornfischer at Hornfischer Literary Management for Crawford (World).

"Hog on Ice" blogger Steven H. Graham's GOOD MORNING, NIGERIA! How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Spam, in which Graham scams the con artists whom everyone has come to hate, the Nigerian spammers in the tradition of Ted L. Nancy's Letters From a Nut series, to Gary Goldstein at Citadel, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency (NA).

Film rights
Kenneth Sewell and Clint Richmond's NYT bestselling RED STAR ROGUE: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S., optioned by Warner for Michael Hackett and George Nolfi (Oceans 12) at Gambit Pictures, with Nolfi adaptating, by Steve Fisher at APA, on behalf of John Talbot of Talbot Fortune Agency and Jim Hornfischer of Hornfischer Literary Management.

SIXTH FLEET and JOINT TASK FORCE author Captain David E. Meadows' FINAL TRIM, a trilogy of novels about US-Soviet submarine brinksmanship at the height of the Cold War, to Tom Colgan at Berkley, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at the Talbot Fortune Agency (world).

THE PINK PANTHER GETS LUCKY authors husband-and-wife writing team Marc Cerasini and Alice Alfonsi's THE PINK PANTHER'S JUST DESSERTS, the second original Inspector Jacques Clouseau mystery, to Sarah Durand at Harper, in a nice deal, by John Talbot of Talbot Fortune Agency (world).

Nuclear engineer and U.S. Navy veteran Kenneth Sewell and NYT bestselling author Jerome Preisler's ACT OF WAR: The Soviet Attack and Killing of the USS Scorpion, a sequel to Sewell and Clint Richmond's NYT bestselling RED STAR ROGUE: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S., to Bob Bender at Simon & Schuster, in a good deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency (World).

Patrick Heron's THE NEPHILIM AND THE PYRAMID OF THE APOCALYPSE, self-published in Ireland and an Amazon Top 10 title, an investigation of end-times prophecies and their relation to recent world disasters, to Gary Goldstein at Citadel, in a nice deal, by John Talbot at Talbot Fortune Agency (USCOM). TV and DVD rights to Grizzly Adams Productions.

Bruce Bawer's WHILE EUROPE SLEPT (Doubleday) has been selected by American Compass as their February "Editor's Choice" book, and as an alternate selection by the History, Insightout, and QPB book clubs.

Kenneth Sewell and Clint Richmond's RED STAR ROGUE: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S., the tale of the Russian ballistic missile submarine K-129, to Bob Bender at Simon & Schuster, in a major deal, for publication and release September 12, by John Talbot at the Talbot Fortune Agency and Jim Hornfischer of Hornfischer Literary Management (world).

NYT bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's FULL OF GRACE and another untitled novel, to Carrie Feron at William Morrow, in a major deal, at auction, by Gail Fortune of the Talbot Fortune Agency (world).

John Ratzenberger with Joel Engel's JOHN RATZENBERGER'S AMERICA, a collection of wry and engaging essays about American life inspired by the author's Travel Channel show, "John Ratzenberger's Made in America," to Christina Boys at Warner's Center Street, in a good deal, by John Talbot at the Talbot Fortune Agency.

Jodi Thomas's Whispering Mountain trilogy, a new Texas-set series, to Christine Zika at Berkley, in a significant deal, by Gail Fortune at the Talbot Fortune Agency (NA).

Author of CLOTHED WITH THE SUN: Biblical Women, Social Justice, and Us Joyce Hollyday's ON THE HEELS OF FREEDOM: The American Missionary Association's Bold Campaign to Educate Minds, Open Hearts, and Heal the Soul of a Divided Nation, with a Foreword by Andrew Young, to Roy Carlisle at Crossroad Publishing in a nice deal by John Talbot at the John Talbot Agency Inc.

Three-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe-winning actress Diane Ladd's nonfiction narrative of inspiration, spirituality, and healthy living to Reid Tracy at Hay House, in a good deal, for World English by John Talbot at the John Talbot Agency and Liz Puttick of the Elizabeth Puttick Literary Agency.

Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS Ron Powers and John Baldwin's LAST FLAG DOWN: A Civil War Saga of Honor, Piracy and Redemption on the High Seas, the remarkable story of a mighty Confederate naval vessel which wrapped itself in glory by fighting on five-months after the war ended and eluding Northern pursuers across four oceans (Baldwin is a descendant of one of the story's principals), to Rick Horgan at Crown, in a major deal, by John Talbot at The Talbot Agency for Baldwin and Jim Hornfischer at Hornfischer Literary Management for Powers (world).

Film rights to Arthur Nersesian's DOGRUN, to Aviator Films, in a good deal, by Brian Lipson at Endeavor on behalf of the John Talbot Agency.

Bruce Bawer's MY ARGUMENT WITH EUROPE: An American Expatriate's Awakening to the Truth about Islam and the West, to Adam Bellow at Doubleday, in a good deal, by John Talbot at the John Talbot Agency (world).

DEPARTMENT THIRTY author David Kent's second two-book deal for thrillers featuring Deputy United States Marshal Faith Kelly as a full-time case officer in the federal government's shadowy Department Thirty, to Kevin Smith at Pocket Books, in a nice deal by John Talbot at the John Talbot Agency, Inc. (USCOM).

LEAVE MYSELF BEHIND author Bart Yates' second novel, TRY ME, about two brothers and the devastating consequences their family's legacy of violence has on a small Connecticut town, to Kensington's John Scognamiglio, in a nice deal by John Talbot at the John Talbot Agency, Inc. (USCOM).

TRIAL BY ICE AND FIRE author Clinton McKinzie's fifth and sixth suspense novels featuring Wyoming Special Agent Antonio Burns and his renegade brother Roberto, and continuing with more high-altitude adventure and courtroom drama, to Danielle Perez at Delacorte Dell, in a good deal by John Talbot at the John Talbot Agency, Inc. (world).

Joe Buff's submarine novel STRAITS OF WAR plus a second untitled thriller to Mike Shohl at Morrow/Avon, in a good deal, by John Talbot (world).

NAL's Doug Grad got a book called KEEP GOING TILL YOU GET THERE, THEN KEEP GOING by retired black California National Guard Gen. Ezell Ware Jr., (CBrig. Gen. Ezell Ware, Jr. CA Ret.) about how he bonded with a racist white officer when they both survived being shot down in Vietnam, and how it shaped his later life. The book, co-written with Joel Engel II, was a North American buy from agent John Talbot.

Colonel Ezell Ware, Jr. and Joel Engel's KEEP GOING TILL YOU GET THERE, THEN KEEP GOING, the inspiring true story of survival, heroism, and ultimate acceptance between a black helicopter gunship pilot and his white racist captain after they were shot down over Vietnam, to Doug Grad at Dutton NAL, in a good deal, by John Talbot (NA).

Rosemary Dew and Patricia Pape's DRIVEN BY FEAR: What's Wrong with the FBI and How to Fix It, covering the thirteen years that Dew spent as a Special Agent--one of only a handful of women to do so--chronicling the Achille Lauro hijacking, the right wing murder of Denver talk-show host Alan Berg, and the persistent chauvinism that finally drove her from the Bureau, to Philip Turner at Carroll & Graf, in a nice deal, by the The Talbot Fortune Agency, Inc. (world).

David Kent's first novel, DEPARTMENT THIRTY, a twisty, coming-of-age thriller about a mysterious government agency and its connections to domestic terrorism, plus a second book with a continuing character, to Kevin Smith at Pocket, in a very nice deal by John Talbot.

Clinton McKinzie's untitled third and fourth suspense novels, combining "high-altitude climbing with courtroom drama and featuring Wyoming Special Agent Antonio Burns," to Danielle Perez for Delacorte/Dell, for six figures, by John Talbot (world). The first of the four titles, THE EDGE OF JUSTICE, will be published by Delacorte in June 2002.

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