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Congratulations to Constance Brown-Riggs, who has received the Academy of Nutrition and Diabetics 2012 Excellence in Practice – Consultation and Business Practice Award. This award recognizes an outstanding registered dietitian who has demonstrated excellency and leadership in this area of practice.

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More awards this week! THE MOON IN THE MANGO TREE by Pamela Binnings Ewen has won the Eudora Welty Memorial Award, given by the National League of American Pen Women in their 2012 Biennial Letters Competition. Congrats!

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Ed de Steiguer’s WILD HORSES OF THE WEST wins its THIRD award! This time the book has been awarded the Gold Medal in the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the West-Mountain Best Regional Non-Fiction category.

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The official video trailer for Patrick Carman’s DARK EDEN series is now live! Be warned.. it’s seriously creepy.

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The wonderful INSIDE THE JEWISH BAKERY has won an IACP Cookbook Award – just in time for the holiday weekend. Congratulations Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg!

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Starting a career in publishing? We are now seeking summer interns! If you want to work in a fun, fast-paced environment with people who love books, a FinePrint internship could be a great place to start. Details here!

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We are excited to welcome a new agent to FinePrint! Joy Azmitia will join us on March 19. In additional to building her list in literary fiction, women’s fiction, and narrative non-fiction in the areas of history, spirituality, food, and wine (and representation of existing clients), she will serve as contracts manager and lead FinePrint’s Digital Rights Management team. Previously she was a junior agent at Russell & Volkening.
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Learn what NOT to do when branding your product or business. Erika Napoletano gives the skinny on common branding mistakes at SXSW. Watch the clip here.

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Awesome opportunity to win all THREE novels in Leslie Tentler’s thrilling CHASING EVIL series. Enter today for a chance to read the books the Examiner calls “suspenseful, intense, and impossible to put down.”

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John Long’s DARWIN’S DEVICES received a starred review in Publishers Weekly: “Long deciphers… unexpected results with a delightful sense of humor and an infectious awe at, and enthusiasm for, discover and the elegant mechanisms of evolution… a captivating tour of the marriage of technology and biology.” On sale April 2012.

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We are popping the champagne corks today for Steve Ulfelder – PURGATORY CHASM is an Edgar nominee for best first novel!

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Congratulations to Patrick Lee for his Starred Publishers Weekly review for DEEP SKY: “Lee, who tosses in a neat variant on time travel, smoothly combines the pulse-pounding suspense of the TV show 24 with the SF intrigues of the X-Files.”

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RAISED BY THE CHURCH by Edward Rohs with Judith Estrine is “required reading” in the New York Post!

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NOT JUST FOR KIDS. Congratulations to Patrick Carman on his rave LA Times review for DARK EDEN, calling it “a compelling read that transposes the best aspects of classic horror storytelling onto a modern backwoods adventure reluctantly experienced by seven terrified teens… a fast-paced thrill ride.” Read the full review here.

Publishing Perspectives also has this great story on Rewiring the Book.

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Romantic Times 2011 Award Nominations have been announced! We’re thrilled to see Molly Harper on the list with a nomination for best Shapeshifter Romance for HOW TO FLIRT WITH A NAKED WEREWOLF.

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Kirkus has given Julie Cross’s forthcoming young adult time travel novel TEMPEST a Starred Review, calling it “equal parts adventure, romance, science fiction and touching family drama; readers will turn the last page and find themselves wishing they could ‘jump’ to the future and read the sequel.”

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Congrats Scott and Joan Bolzan and Caitlin Rother: MY LIFE DELETED hit#16 on the NYT ebook nonfiction list and #29 on the  NYT combined print & ebook nonfiction list for the week of 10/23/2011!

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Jennie Bentley’s FLIPPED OUT – No.5 in her DIY mystery series – hit #33 on the NYT mass market fiction list for the week of 10/23!

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Congratulations to the wonderful Ina May Gaskin for winning the 2011 Right Livelihood Award! The Award was established in 1980 to honor and support those “offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today.” It has become widely known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize” and there are now 145 Laureates from 61 countries. Find out more here: http://www.rightlivelihood.org/inamay_gaskin.html

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2012 CONFERENCES

April 26: Stephany Evans, Brooks Sherman and Becky Vinter will attend ASJA Personal Pitch in New York, NY.

May 18-20: Brooks Sherman will attend Pennwriters Conference in Lancaster, PA.

May 18-20: Becky Vinter will attend DFW Writers Conference in Dallas, TX.

May 23-24: Becky Vinter and Brooks Sherman will attend Backspace Writers Conference in New York, NY.

June 1-3: Becky Vinter will attend Wisconsin RWA Write Touch Conference in Rothschild, WI.

June 14-16: Brooks Sherman will attend Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop in Denver, CO.

July 7-13: Brooks Sherman and Becky Vinter will attend Antioch Writers Workshop in Muncie, IN.

July 25-28: Stephany Evans and Becky Vinter will attend RWA Nationals in Anaheim, CA.

July 26-28: Brooks Sherman will attend Midwest Writers Workshop in Muncie, IN.

August 5-10: Stephany Evans will attend the Cape Cod Writers Center in Cape Cod, MA.

August 11-12: Brooks Sherman will attend SEAK Fiction Writing Conference for Doctors and Lawyers in Hyannis, MA.

September 21-22: Brooks Sherman will attend Hampton Roads Writers Conference in Virginia Beach, VA.

November 10: Brooks Sherman will attend Bayou Writers Group Conference in Lake Charles, LA.

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NEW DEALS

Sean Campbell and D. Hornby’s HOW TO RAISE A BILLIONAIRE GENIUS, starting from the moment of conception, step-by-step instructions on how parents can mold their children into the destiny of their choosing, ensuring that they grow up to fulfill their unrealistic expectations, to Kelly Reed at Ulysses Press, by Diane Freed at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Author of Even and Die Twice and former theater company director who carried out “a variety of roles, including several which were covered by the UK’s Official Secrets Act,” Andrew Grant’s two crime novels, to Jennifer Hershey for Ballantine, with Kate Miciak, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management (world).

Laurie Watson’s WANTING SEX AGAIN: HOW TO REDISCOVER YOUR DESIRE AND HEAL A SEXLESS MARRIAGE, drawing on twenty years of clinical experience, the author shows that it really is possible to restore the thrill of sex, using proven psychological methods and personal accounts from actual therapy sessions, to Denise Silvestro at Berkley, by Stephany Evans of FinePrint Literary Management.

Leader in non-lethal techniques for predator management John Shivik’s PREDATOR PARADOX, addressing how we can end our “war on wildlife” by changing the way we relate to nature, protecting both predators as well as humans and domestic animals, to Alexis Rizzuto at Beacon Press, byLaura Wood at FinePrint Literary Management

Pamela Sherwood’s WALTZ WITH A STRANGER, about a newly anointed earl who has settled on a simple marriage of convenience only to discover the elusive, enchanting stranger he danced with in a moonlit garden two years earlier is his new fiancee’s sister, to Leah Hultenschmidt atSourcebooks, by Stephany Evans at FinePrint Literary Management.

Dr. Alex Lickerman’s THE UNDEFEATED MIND: A BUDDHIST PHYSICIAN’S PRESCRIPTIONS FOR OVERCOMING ADVERSITY AND ACHIEVING INDESTRUCTIBLE HAPPINESS, which draws on his 15 years of experience as a physician at the University of Chicago and his 20 years of experience as a practicing Nichiren Buddhist, to guide readers to find happiness in the face of any daily challenge, to Candace Johnson at HCI, byStephany Evans of FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Founding editor and publisher of Running Times magazine and former editor of Worldwatch Ed Ayres’s RUN WILD, RUN LONG: A RACE OF A LIFETIME, recounting his running of the JFK 50-Mile, the US’s oldest and largest ultramarathon and an iconic race for endurance runners, and sharing knowledge and insights gained from running and racing over nearly fifty years, to Matthew Lore at The Experiment, for publication in November 2012, for the fiftieth running of the race, by Stephany Evans at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Ted Fox’s YOU KNOW WHO’S AWESOME?, a look at the “un-awesome” among us — Snooki, John Mayer, the guy who keeps his Christmas lights up all year — pitched as Larry David meets THANK YOU NOTES, to Brendan O’Neill at Adams Media, for publication in 2012, by Marissa Walsh atFinePrint Literary Management (World).

Kathy Steligo’s THE BREAST RECONSTRUCTION GUIDEBOOK: Issues and Answers from Research to Recovery, explaining mastectomy and clarifying the benefits and limitations of reconstructive options, to Jacqueline Wehmueller at Johns Hopkins University Press, by Diane Freed at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Elisabeth Dahl’s GENIE WISHES, a look at fifth grade through the class blogger’s eyes: boy-girl parties, bra-snapping, Junk Food Lunch, mermaid costumes, and not being quite ready to grow up, with line drawings, to Maggie Lehrman at Amulet, for publication in 2013, by Marissa Walsh at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Josh Farrar’s A SONG FOR BIJOU, a post-Haiti earthquake love story, set in Brooklyn, to Stacy Cantor Abrams at Walker Children’s, for publication in 2013, by Marissa Walsh at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Waverly Curtis’s DIAL “C” FOR CHIHUAHUA: A Sullivan and Sullivan Mystery, the first in a cozy mystery series featuring an amateur P.I. and her talking adopted dog, whose courage and derring do are matched only by his impeccable fashion sense, to Michaela Hamilton at Kensington, byStephany Evans of FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Jessica Corra’s debut AFTER YOU, featuring a seventeen-year-old girl who can rewind moments in her life and change the present, but when her twin sister kills herself, she has to face that trying to rewrite the past might be risking her own future pitched as Before I Fall meets The Sky is Everywhere, to Kate Harrison at Dial Children’s, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Winner of the 2010 William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers Stephanie Evans’s FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, in which a Church of Christ minister discovers that listening is not just “an act of love;” it’s dangerous, to Shannon Jamieson Vazquez at Berkley, in a nice deal, for publication in Spring 2012, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management.

Mindee Arnett’s debut THE NIGHTMARE AFFAIR, set at a supernatural boarding school where a sixteen-year-old girl (half human, half Nightmare) feeds on the dreams of a hot guy only to discover that he’s dreaming of a murder — and it comes true, pitched as Harry Potter meets Veronica Mars, to Whitney Ross at Starscape, in a three-book deal, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Author of BREAK and INVINCIBLE SUMMER Hannah Moskowitz’s FISHBOY, featuring a sixteen-year-old boy whose family, in an effort to cure his ailing brother, relocates to a remote island where legendary magic fish are said to have healing powers, and he discovers the island has terrible secrets, including a half-teenager, half-fish, again to Anica Rissi at Simon Pulse, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Kristin Halbrook’s debut WILL AND ZOE, featuring two teenagers who, in search of a better life, run away to Vegas, but realize they can’t run fast enough when they end up wanted by the police, out of money, and out of options, pitched as a YA Bonnie and Clyde, to Sarah Barley at Harper Children’s, in a two-book deal, in a very nice deal, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management (NA).

Josin L. McQuein’s debut ARCLIGHT, a science fiction/dystiopian thriller, where a parasitic race is driving humanity to the point of extinction, and no one who leaves the last safe enclave ever returns until one teenage girl, a stranger, stumbles out of the Dark, to Martha Mihalick at Greenwillow, in a two-book deal, in a major deal, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management (NA).

Founder and President of Gifted Journeys and former Cycle Director of the Egg Donor Program, Wendie Wilson-Miller’s THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO EGG DONATION:  A COMPASSIONATE AND COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR ALL PARENTS-TO-BE, co-authored with Erika Napoletano, the first handbook on navigating the landscape of egg donation, to Noreen Henson at Demos, by Stephany Evans of FinePrint Literary Management.

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New Sub-Rights Deals:

Rights to Sarah Wylie’s debut ALL THESE LIVES, to Heyne in hardcover and Bertelsmann Juvenile in paperback, by Friederike Biesel at Thomas Schluech Agency; Complex Chinese rights to Omnibook Press, by Gray Tan at The Grayhawk Agency, both in association with Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Italian rights to Evan Mandery’s Q: A (Timeless) Love Story, to Neri Pozza, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management.

Evan Mandery’s Q: A (Timeless) Love Story, a twisted love story of a successful writer who meets his future self, who advises him not to marry Q, the love of his life, to Clare Reihill at Harper UK, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management.

Polish rights to Lisa Desrochers’ debut trilogy PERSONAL DEMONS and ORIGINAL SIN, to Polish Ksiaznica, in a three-book deal, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management in association with Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Turkish rights to debut author Lisa Desrochers’s PERSONAL DEMONS and ORIGINAL SIN, to Artemis Yayinlari, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management in association with Nurcihan Kesim Literary Agency, on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Russian rights to debut author Lisa Desrochers’s PERSONAL DEMONS, to Eksmo, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management, on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Portuguese rights to debut author Lisa Desrochers’s PERSONAL DEMONS, to Grupo Saída de Emergencia, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management in association with International Editors’, on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Italian rights to debut author Lisa Desrochers’s PERSONAL DEMONS, to Newton Compton, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management in association with Piergiorgio Nicolazzini Literary Agency, on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

French rights to debut author Lisa Desrochers’s PERSONAL DEMONS and ORIGINAL SIN, to Bragelonne, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management in association with Donatella D’Ormesson, on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.