Alt, Carol
THIS YEAR’S MODEL

The first novel in a series based on real life supermodel Carol Alt’s journey from discovery by a random photographer in a podunk restaurant to the cover of hundreds of fashion magazines.

Melanie Ann Croft — or Mac as she comes to be known — is discovered by chance when one of the hottest fashion photographers in the business happens to stop by the shabby little restaurant where she’s a waitress. She signs with a modeling agency and starts landing jobs instantly. On her first shoot for Teen Vogue, Mac meets Harpo Bishop, another gorgeous young model but her opposite in almost every way (edgier on the outside, needier on the inside), with whom a real friendship grows. Mac’s success is seductive -- the glamour, power and the almost inconceivable cash change her. And just when she barely recognizes herself any longer and wants out, Harpo needs her in way dire enough to change the course of both their career.

THIS YEAR’S MODEL is told in alternating first person points of view — Harpo’s and Mac’s — and with details and stories that are almost unbelievable, but believe them! Carol Alt is already a successful author. Clarkson Potter has gone back to press 5 times with her first book, EATING IN THE RAW. Her second non-fiction book, THE RAW 50 was released in May, 2007.

Avon, August, 2008
UK and Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.
Brazil: Editora Record
France: Fleuve Noir

Calonita, Jen
SECRETS OF MY HOLLYWOOD LIFE.

Kaitlin Burke has been on a blockbuster night-time TV soap opera since she could walk. Now she's 15 and she needs a break -- a break from the hangers-on, the wannabes, and the bad behavior of Hollywood. All she wants is to be normal. She wants to go to high school (not be privately tutored on the set). But when you're the most popular teen star around, how do you hit class without causing a major commotion and a rush of paparazzi?


In Kaitlin's case, you go in disguise. Disguised as just any normal girl, Kaitlin tries to experience "regular life," but discovers that regular life can be awfully complicated, too -- especially when her fellow child actress and rival, Sky Mackenzie blows her cover, and the nice high school kids who befriended Kaitlin realize that they've been used.

Though Kaitlin is an insider -- throughout the book she shares Hollywood celebrity secrets -- she's really just a nice girl in an insane town. More PRINCESS DIARIES than GOSSIP GIRL, there's a sweetness here (and no sex or cursing) even in this manic Hollywood world.

Jen Calonita has interviewed everyone from Reese Witherspoon and Lindsay Lohan to Ashton Kutcher. An entertainment journalist for the past eight years, she has written for Entertainment Weekly, Glamour and Marie Claire. She lives in Merrick, New York with her husband and newborn son.

Little, Brown, May 2006
UK and Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.
Brazil: Editora Record
Germany: Schneider
Japan: Shogakukan
Russia: AST

Calonita, Jen
SECRETS OF MY HOLLYWOOD LIFE: On Location

It seems like the summer of dreams come true for Hollywood sweetheart Kaitlin Burke: the media loves her, super cute Austin is finally her boyfriend, and she’s starring in a movie by her all time favorite director, Hutch Adams. But life on set is not so perfect — with a slimy ex-boyfriend, a conniving rival actress, and a scheming new studio executive on the scene, it’s a whole lot messier.

Little Brown, May, 2007
UK and Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.
Brazil: Record
Germany: Schneider
Japan: Shogakukan

SECRETS OF MY HOLLYWOOD LIFE: Family Affairs

      • The third in this sensational-but-still-sweet series


Her sure-to-be-blockbuster movie has wrapped, and teen movie star Kaitlin Burke returns to life on the set of her prime time television drama Family Affair. After 10 seasons of filming the hit TV show, she thought she’d seen it all, but with a plotting new actress on set, all bets are off. The new diva, Alexis, makes even Kaitlin’s long-time nemesis Sky seem like a puppy in comparison. Can Kaitlin keep her sane boyfriend, her insane job, and her composure in the face of this new star power?

Little Brown, May, 2008
UK and Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.
Germany: Schneider

And the 4th and 5th in this sensational YA series will be published in 2009 and 2010.
(In these two, Little Brown has World English; LDLA controls translation.)

Calonita, Jen
SLEEPAWAY GIRLS

15-year old Samantha (Sam) Montgomery is forced to spend the summer as a C-I-T (counselor in training) at the legendary sleepaway camp, Whispering Pines. Bookish and shy, Sam learns quickly that her co-counselors are keeping some serious secrets and developing back-stabbing crushes, 2 cute boys bring Sam out of her shell ­ just in time to discover the relationship budding between her single mom and the camp's widowed owner. This sexy, funny novel is perfect for girlish teens (12 and up) and told from the POV of our sweet rookie counselor.

Little, Brown, Spring, 2009
UK and Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.

* A more literary and boy-centered Gossip Girls

When Mauricio Londoño enters the intense and elite St. Stephen’s School for Boys, he can’t even conceive of the things that five of his classmates will do to be be expelled before the end of the year. This is upmarket fiction about boys, but not necessarily for boys. It is the territory of PREP, but it is also for everyone fascinated with the secret lives of boys.

Susan Fine has taught English and history for 16 years to middle and high school students in Los Angeles, Boston, Taipei, and New York, including five years as English Department Chair at a private boys school in New York City. Her undergraduate degree is from Smith; she has a Masters in English Literature from Middlebury, and a Masters in Education from Harvard. She is the co-author of your own Zen in the Art of the SAT (Houghton Mifflin, 2005). She lives in Chicago. This is her first novel.

Flux, Spring 2009
Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.

Guillette, Suzanne
MUCH TO YOUR CHAGRIN: A Memoir of Embarrassment

Suzanne Guillette is about to get everything she wants. She’s 29 and just been signed by an agent, Jack, who is massively excited about her book proposal -- a collection of other people’s embarrassing stories. Jack also happens to be falling in love with her. But Jack isn’t the Prince Charming he seems to be, and as their relationship starts its spectacular implosion, Suzie clings to her clever book idea. After more heartbreak — oh, yes, this is classic bad break-up material -- she realizes that maybe it’s her own embarrassing story that she’s meant to tell. Told in a unique and captivating voice, and anchored by the equally laugh- and cringe-inducing embarrassing stories she is collecting for her book, MUCH TO YOUR CHAGRIN is a hilarious and heartwarming memoir. This is a world of embarrassments you won’t want to leave. The collecting of these stories – so light, catchy, and funny at the start -- turns into much more. It invites all of us to talk about and examine own embarrassments.

Suzanne Guillette received her undergraduate degree in Philosophy from George Washington University. She got her Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Non-Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. MUCH TO YOUR CHAGRIN is her first book.

Atria, Fall, 2008

James, Syrie
THE SECRET DIARIES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE

In the perfect follow-up to the international bestseller The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen, Syrie James once again takes you into the mind and hear of one of the most beloved authors in history: Charlotte Bronte. Though a spinster for most of her life, Charlotte Bronte did eventually marry but the story of her courtship and marriage remains largely unknown, until now. THE SECRET DIARIES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE tells the hidden story of Charlotte's relationship with the man she started out hating but grew to love deeply set against the backdrop of her and her sisters' amazing literary successes.

Avon, Spring, 2009
UK and translation rights: LDLA

THE LOST MEMOIRS OF JANE AUSTEN: A Novel

In this rich, wonderful work of historical fiction, Jane Austen reveals her own love affair that inspired every one of her beloved novels.

Left nearly penniless after her father’s death, Jane Austen has long since given up writing when she meets the handsome, well-read and charming Mr. Ashford, a man who is truly her equal in intellect and temperament. Inspired by their burgeoning romance— as well as the people she encounters and the events unfolding around her, which alternate from heartbreaking to hilarious—Jane begins revising a book she began years earlier, hoping to be published at last.

The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen seamlessly weaves together fact and fiction in a tale that is as witty, heartfelt and suspenseful as one of Jane Austen’s own novels—a tale that will introduce new readers to the delights of Miss Austen, and reward her legions of fans with just the kind of romantic relationship they might wish for this much-loved author.

Syrie James is a Jane Austen scholar and a long-time admirer of Miss Austen’s work. A member of the Writer's Guild of America, she is an award winning playwright and screenwriter who has written extensively for both film and television; this is her first work of historical fiction. Syrie, her husband and their two sons live in Los Angeles.

Avon, December, 2007
UK and translation rights with LDLA, Inc.

Czech Republic: Euromedia
Holland: A.W. Bruna (Signature)
Hungary: Kelly Kiado
Italy: Piemme
Poland: Wydawnictwo Otwarte
Russia: Exmo

Jones, Jaida and Danielle Bennett
HAVEMERCY

This stunning epic fantasy debut introduces two exciting new authors—and a world brimming with natural and man-made wonders, extraordinary events, and a crisis that will test the mettle of men, the boundaries of magic, and the heart and soul of a kingdom...

Bantam/Spectra, Summer, 2008
LDLA, Inc. has translation rights.
Russia: AST

Lockhart, E., Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myracle
HOW TO BE BAD

These three bestselling and critically acclaimed authors team up to write this tale of three girls, two boys, one road trip, a lot of roadside attractions and a weekend adventure that will test the bonds of friendship old and new.

E. Lockhart is the author of The Boyfriend List, Fly on the Wall, The Boy Book, Dramarama, The Boys Club and A Real, Live Boyfriend. Under Emily Jenkins, she writes for younger children and adults, and has been the recipient of the Charlotte Zolotow honor and two Boston Globe/Horn Book honors.

Sarah Mlynowksi’s first novel for teens, Bras & Broomsticks, has been sold in twenty-four countries. Sarah has also written Milkrun, Fishbowl, As Seen on TV, Monkey Business and Me vs. Me for adults (which together have sold over a million copies worldwide); two sequels to Bras & Broomsticks -- Frogs & French Kisses and Spells & Sleeping Bags; She is co-author of See Jane Write, a non-fiction guide to writing. Delacorte will publish her next novel for kids, GIMME A CALL, in 2009 (see below). For more information, please visit www.sarahmlynowski.com.

Lauren Myracle, who holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College, is the author of six novels for tweens and teens, with more in the works. Her breakout success came with the publication of ttyl, the first novel written entirely in instant messages. ttyl and its sequels, ttfn, and l8r, g8r are New York Times Best-Sellers. Lauren’s other titles include Kissing Kate, Eleven, Rhymes with Witches, Twelve, and The Fashion Disaster that Changed My Life.

HarperCollins, Summer 2008

Rights for Brazil, Korea, Japan and The Netherlands are being handled by Barry Goldblatt, bgliterary@earthlink.net

UK and all other translation rights with LDLA.
France: Pocket Jeunesse
Holland: Gottmer
Spain: Marenostrum

Mlynowski, Sarah
GIMME A CALL

• The new stand alone novel by the author of BRAS & BROOMSTICKS
  
  
• Being 14 is tough. What if you could get advice from . . . your future self?

It’s 3 years from now, and Devi Banks is a mess. Her boyfriend just dumped her, and the only college that accepted her is known to everyone as Stupid State. Wandering around the mall, she drops her cell phone into a wishing fountain. When she fishes it out, something magical has happened. She presses SEND and suddenly Devi Banks is talking to . . . Devi Banks — three and a half years earlier!

Future Devi manages to convince Young Devi that she is who she says is -- herself! -- just older. They figure out that every time Young Devi does something different, Future Devi’s reality changes. Interesting. Handy! If she cancels that first date with Bryan, Bryan won’t end up dumping her! When she signs up for some activities at school (instead of hanging around Bryan all the time) Future Devi gets into a better university.

Future Devi is pleased, but she wants more. Young Devi becomes a nervous wreck waiting for Future Devi’s calls and direction. When Future Devi finds her old tests and starts calling Young Devi with all the answers, and with Young Devi exhausted from following her older self’s advice, both Devis starts to learn that instead of trying to change the past or fix the future, they might just focus on living in the present.

In the tradition of Freaky Friday, GIMME A CALL is as heartwarming as it is clever.

Delacorte, Spring 2009
UK and Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.
Brazil: Editora Record
France: Albin Michel
Germany: Random House Germany
Holland: Unieboek/Van Goor

Mylnowski, Sarah
BRAS AND BROOMSTICKS
Harry Potter meets Bridget Jones's little sister in this winsome novel for young readers. The first in a series of the misadventures of 14-year old Rachel, a self-absorbed but very funny high school girl who just can¹t get her magical powers to kick in.

"As the first in a series, this novel is a bewitching lure for fans of chick lit looking for supernatural twists on the theme of girl-meets-world." --The Bulletin

"Offers plenty of laughs and some deliciously complicated predicaments. Rachel and Miiri have enough depth, morals- and flaws- to draw sympathy from readers and keeps events interesting." -- Publishers Weekly

Sarah Mlynowski is the best-selling author of MILKRUN, FISHBOWL, AS SEEN ON TV, MONKEY BUSINESS, and ME VS. ME. all published by Red Dress Ink. This is her first book for teens. Born in Montreal, Canada, Sarah now lives in New York City.

Random House Young Adult
(Delacorte), February 22, 2005
Film rights optioned to Fox 2000

FROGS AND FRENCH KISSES

The sequel to BRAS AND BROOMSTICKS

Rachel has finally come to terms with the outrageously unfair fact that her younger sister, Miri, has inherited magical powers from their mom. But now the whole witchcraft thing is spiraling out of control. Mom is a magicaholic, Miri’s on a Save the World kick, and the one teeny tiny love spell that Rachel begged for has gone embarrassingly, horribly wrong.

Suddenly, the fate of everything is in Rachel’s hands.

Her family.

The world.

Senior prom.

Random House Young Adult
(Delacorte), June, 2006

SPELLS & SLEEPING BAGS
The third book in the hilarious series about Rachel Weinstein and her spellbound family

Rachel is ready for the best summer of her life. Not only have her magical powers finally kicked in, she is headed for Wood Lake, a small summer camp in the mountains with Miri (her sister), and Raf (the boy of her dreams).

Raf has broken up with the evil Melissa and it looks as though he will finally be Rachel's boyfriend! And loyal Miri is sneaking out every night to help Rachel hone her fledgling powers. But there's one twisted camper, a girl named Liana, who seems determined to destroy Rachel's happiness -- stealing Raf, even corrupting incorruptible Miri. Could Liana be a witch, too? Is the camp full of witches? Spells are hurled back and forth and, in the biggest show-down witches have ever known, family secrets are revealed that could explain ­ or could ruin ­ everything.

Random House Young Adult
(Delacorte), June, 2007

PARTIES & POTIONS

It’s debutante season for witches in this fourth book in the “Magic in Manhattan” series and Rachel is “coming out”!

Random House/Delacorte, December 2008
UK and Translation rights: LDLA, Inc.
Brazil: Editora Record
Czech Republic: Nakladatelstvi Jota
Finland: WSOY
France: Albin Michel
Holland: Unieboek

www.sarahmlynowski.com

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