Publishing professional Bev Katz Rosenbaum's new YA novel, I'M GOOD AND OTHER LIES, in which a teenage girl deals with a distinct lack of friends, a soul-crushing part-time job, a heartbreak, an addict parent, and a diagnosis of depression, all of which are compounded by quarantine, has been acquired by Barry Jowett at Cormorant Books, for publication in fall 2021. The author is represented by Stacey Kondla.
Journalist and poet Robert Earl Stewart's memoir THE RUNNING-SHAPED HOLE, pitched as David Foster Wallace meets David Sedaris, in which the author makes good on a deathbed promise to his mother, reverses the disastrous course of his eating, loses 140 pounds, and after several mishaps, eventually runs the Detroit Free Press Half-Marathon, to Scott Fraser at Dundurn Press, for publication in spring 2022, by Sam Hiyate at The Rights Factory (world).
Author of THE LAST COWBOY LeeGowan's THE BEAUTIFUL PLACE, pitched as a sequel to Sinclair Ross's classic novel AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE, narrated by Philip Bentley's grandson, who loses his job, wife, and home and takes up a quest to rescue his grandfather's body from a high-security cryonics facility, to Elizabeth Philips at Thistledown Press, for publication in summer 2021, by Sam Hiyate at The Rights Factory.
