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LUCK OR SOMETHING LIKE IT For the first time, country music legend Kenny Rogers tells the story behind his legendary career, detailing his rise through the ranks of country music to become one of the top-selling country artists of all time. For over fifty years, Kenny Rogers has been a fixture on the American country music scene. From his career-launching string of hits with First Edition to selling millions of records with Dolly Parton to becoming one of Nashville’s most accomplished and beloved artists, his life in music has stretched across decades and influenced musicians around the world. Now for the first time, this living legend is ready to share the story of his incredible rise to fame, detailing his highs, his lows, and how he’s kept it all going throughout his most tumultuous times. With this book Rogers tells the full story of his life, detailing the important role that his faith and his upbringing played in giving him the perseverance he needed to get his career off the ground and how he built his reputation on hard work above all else. Featuring a cast of characters ranging from Elvis to Dolly to Ray Charles, Rogers’ story offers a candid and eye-opening look at the world of country music, showing how mainstream success led to crossover artistic partnerships that pushed his musical boundaries, but forced him to go against the trends of the Nashville establishment as he combined country music with other sounds from pop music.With behind the scenes tales from the road, the secrets behind his biggest hits, and never before told personal stories from his life, Rogers’s life defines an era in music history that is rapidly slipping away, a time when country music was more than just a part of pop culture-it was a way of life. Kenny Rogers is one of country music’s most accomplished artists. One of the highest selling country music artists of all time, his career has lasted for more than fifty years and in that time he has recorded more than 60 albums and sold tens of millions of records around the world. William Morrow UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: Mel Berger at William Morris Endeavor Publication: October 2012 (JS) Estimated length: 336 pages, 35-40 color photos Manuscript available: April 2012
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight champion, mixed martial arts superstar, and athletic specimen Georges St-Pierre is the near-perfect combination of three energy systems – the mind, the heart and the feet. The mind represents the rational Georges and expresses his strategic approach in all things. The heart shows the human side of the man and guides his actions. The feet are the physical demonstration of Georges as one of the best hand-to-hand weapons ever made. Together they express, tangibly, the perfection of his overall approach to martial arts and life. Divided into three sections accordingly, Georges' memoir-cum-martial arts manifesto takes us from his childhood as a bullied outcast in French Canada to the journey into adulthood and becoming the UFC champion of the world, to illustrate the constantly evolving, Far Eastern-inspired philosophy that guides him in his quest to set an example for all aspiring martial artists. William Morrow Publication: April 2013 (JS) Estimated length: 320 pages Manuscript available: May 2012 Solo, Hope *SOLO: A Memoir of Hope A candid and moving memoir about familial loss and reconciliation by the incomparable goalkeeper for the women’s US national soccer team. Hope Solo is the best women’s goalkeeper in the world, and one of the most charismatic athletes in America. An Olympic gold medalist, she has been a member of the U.S. national team since the year 2000, gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated twice and ESPN: The Magazine once. At the 2011 World Cup, she was awarded the Adidas Golden Glove by FIFA as the tournament’s top goalkeeper. Hope Solo’s story is a cross between “The Glass Castle” and “A League of Their Own.” Her father was a philanderer and a conman throughout her childhood. He was imprisoned on charges of embezzlement, and drifted into homelessness before re-uniting with Hope in college. Hope brings the same non-judgmental eye to her upbringing that Jeanette Wells brought to her acclaimed memoir. Much has been written about Hope’s close-knit relationship with her father, who was outwardly an unconventional parental presence. Behind many successful female athletes there’s a devoted dad and Hope was no different, only her story bends the familiar arc of that theme. He not only taught her the game but also instilled in her the athlete’s mentality that defines her. Hope’s repeated triumphs over adversity – from her benching during the 2007 World Cup, after the sudden death of her Dad, to her return to the pitch after shoulder surgery -- will resonate with readers of all ages. Hope has never played it safe, which is what makes her a fitting archetype – as an athlete and a woman – for this moment in time. Harper Publication: August 2012 (JS) Estimated length: 240 pages, 16-page color insert Manuscript available: April 2012 Sullivan, Rosemary *STALIN’S DAUGHTER STALIN'S DAUGHTER will be a work of narrative nonfiction on a grand scale, one that promises to combine popular history and biography to tell the incredible story of a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators. Svetlana Stalina, who died on November 29, 2011 at the age of 85, was the only daughter and last surviving child of Josef Stalin. Beyond her controversial defection from the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalina’s journey from the beloved daughter of a fierce autocrat to her death in small-town Wisconsin could fill countless volumes. Once the young darling of her people, she was a woman controlled by a tyrannical father who dictated her every move, once sentencing a man she loved to ten years hard labor in Siberia. After Stalin’s death, Svetlana was shunned by the new regime. She famously defected to the United States in a cloak and dagger journey from India. Publicly burning her passport upon her arrival in New York city, she renounced both her father and the Soviet Union. She eventually married William Wesley Peters, Frank Lloyd Wright’s chief apprentice, and moved to Taliesin West, Wright’s desert compound in Arizona. In the 1980s, she returned to the Soviet Union, this time renouncing the US. She would return two years later, claiming to have been manipulated by her homeland. A woman shaped and torn apart by her father’s legacy, she married three times and bore three children. Svetlana Stalina died as Lana Peters in Wisconsin, where she lived out a much quieter third act. Rosemary Sullivan is an acclaimed biographer, poet and editor. She is the author of 9 books of non-fiction, including the award-winning VILLA AIR-BEL, which was awarded a Canadian Jewish Book Award; LABYRINTH OF DESIRE: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession; BY HEART: Elizabeth Smart/A Life; and the #1 bestseller THE RED SHOES: Margaret Atwood, Starting Out. Her biography of Gwendolyn MacEwen, SHADOW MAKER, won the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award, the City of Toronto Book Award and the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography. Sullivan’s journalistic pieces have won her a National Magazine Awards silver medal and a Western Journalism first prize for travelogue; her academic honors include Killam, Trudeau, and Guggenheim Fellowships. A professor of English at the University of Toronto, Sullivan lives in Toronto. Harper Rights sold: Czech/Albatros; Danish/Informations Forlag; Dutch/De Geus; Finnish/Otava; Polish/Znak; Portuguese in Brazil/Globo; Russian/Astrel; Slovak/Ikar; Swedish/ Norstedts; UK/Fourth Estate VILLA AIR-BEL sold: Czech/Mlada Fronta; Dutch/De Geus; Italian/Edizioni dell'Altana; Portuguese in Brazil/Rocco; Spanish/Debate (imprint of Random House Mondadori); UK/John Murray Publishers Publication: Fall 2014 (JS) Estimated length: 320 pages, 16-page color insert Manuscript available: April 2014 Proposal Available Entertainment / Pop Culture Aerosmith with Stephen Davis *WALK THIS WAY: The Autobiography of Aerosmith The New York Times bestselling autobiography of Aerosmith (originally published in 1997), the legendary rock group that lived by the motto, “Anything worth doing was worth overdoing,” reissued in time for the band’s 40th Anniversary. The most candid rock ‘n’ roll autobiography ever written, WALK THIS WAY is the complete story of Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer, five incomparable and uncompromising musicians who pulled themselves up from nowhere to become true rock icons; who crashed and burned spectacularly, and who rose up gloriously from the ashes to reclaim their rightful title as World Champion Rockers. With a new afterword from the band, this gorgeous fresh package will appeal to all Aerosmith fans. !t Books Rights sold in Finland/Like; UK/Virgin Publication: December 2012 (CB) Estimated length: 528 pages; 6 x 9; b&w photos throughout Manuscript available: April 2012
From prolific, talented American songwriter and musician Shawn Colvin comes DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH, her candid, colorful coming-of-age story recounting over 30 years touring, writing, and living to make music, with plenty of behind-the-music stories along the way. During much of 1997, the song that captured the public imagination was not your typical pop song. It was a song about a woman undone, a would-be arsonist, and ultimately, a survivor, named “Sunny.” That song, “Sunny Came Home,” launched singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin to stardom, after 20 years working in the music business. Like Sunny, Colvin knows a thing or two about surviving heartache—and setting fires—and now for the first time, she tells her story. It is the coming-of-age of a passionate young musician in the late ‘70s and ‘80s, making every mistake on the road out of small-town, prairie South Dakota; and it is also the maturation of a woman finding her voice, and learning to care for a child as well as herself. With perspective and humor she describes driving cross-country on tour in vans full of boys, and falling in and out of love; making music of all genres with lifelong friends, and meeting heroes like Joni Mitchell; facing addiction and staying sober, weathering divorce and raising a daughter on her own—and learning to channel it all into the culmination of her talent and experience, in songwriting. Shawn Colvin’s breakthrough success was the album A Few Small Repairs in 1996, featuring the song “Sunny Came Home,” a top 10 hit which won Grammys for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Colvin has released ten albums, won three Grammy Awards and been nominated for seven others. The book will coincide with the release of her new album. William Morrow Publication: June 2012 (JS) Estimated length: 240 pages: b&w photos throughout Galley available
The first definitive biography of Dennis Hopper, the multi-talented actor, filmmaker, photographer, painter, and sculptor, and regarded by many as one of the true “enfant terribles” of Hollywood, who died at the age of 74 in May 2010. Culled from first hand accounts, original interviews with Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, David Lynch and others, and excerpts from Hopper’s own writings, HOPPER! follows Hopper’s ever-shifting saga of reinvention, from his breakout role as a juvenile delinquent in Rebel Without a Cause, five decades of filmmaking, including Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Hoosiers, Speed, and more. Hopper was a movie star, madman, dreamer, survivor, and a pioneer on the Pop Art scene. This is an unconventional biography for an unconventional life, a uniquely American epic of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and what lies on the other side. Tom Folsom is a former editor at Rugged Land Books, a writer, director and producer of TV documentaries for A&E and Showtime. He is the author of THE MAD ONES: Crazy Joe and the Revolution of the Edge of the Underworld, and the co-author of MR. UNTOUCHABLE: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Heroin’s Teflon Don. !t Books Publication: February 2013 (CB) Estimated length: 352 pages; 12-20 photos Manuscript available: May 2012 Proposal available Gordon-Levitt, Joseph
“With more than 40,000 participants working together….Gordon-Levitt’s hitRECord offers a creative opportunity for fresh talent to team together and expose their art.” —Time magazine From hitRECord and Golden Globe-nominee Joseph Gordon-Levitt comes the follow-up to the immediately popular TINY BOOK OF TINY STORIES: Volume I, a uniquely crafted and creative collection of tiny stories, from voices around the world. The universe isn’t made of atoms; it’s made of stories. To create THE TINY BOOK OF TINY STORIES, Gordon-Levitt directs thousands of collaborators to tell tiny stories through words and art. With the help of the entire creative collective, Joe culls, edits, and curates the massive numbers of contributions into this finely tuned collection. Reminiscent of the 6-Word Memoir series and the PostSecret books, THE TINY BOOK OF TINY STORIES brings together art and voices from around the world to unite and tell stories that defy size. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an actor who recently starred in (500) Days of Summer and the Academy Award-nominated Inception. He is just beginning production on The Dark Knight Rises, the third installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. He regularly hosts hitRECord events throughout the country. !t Books
Estimated length: 96 pages; 4 ½ x 6 ½; b&w illustrations throughout Manuscript available: June 2012
From the Grammy Award-winning punk rock band Green Day, and published in conjunction with their soon-to-be-announced 2012 album, this will be a visually stunning chronicle of the life and times of Green Day – as told by the band itself. Green Day has sold over 65 million records worldwide. Even as Green Day’s albums continue to be critically acclaimed and commercially viable, the inner workings of the band – their sources of creative inspiration, their day-to-day lives, motivations, and influences – have remained relatively unknown. Lavishly produced, GREEN DAY will contain hundreds of images that detail the band in its various incarnations on stage and off as captured by photographer Gavin Bond, the band’s “fourth” member. The book features an intimate introduction by the band that details the genesis of Green Day, and each chapter contains first-person accounts by each member. Interviews with legends and contemporaries are scattered throughout, giving fans an in-depth look at the band that made punk rock cool again. GREEN DAY isn’t just the first book to be written by the band, it is also the biggest and boldest document ever produced on the band, by the band. Harper Design Publication: September 2012 (CB) Estimated length: 192 pages; 300 color photos throughout Manuscript available: May 2012
For the first time in paperback, and with a new updated Afterword from the author, Playboy’s legendary founder Hugh Hefner invites you into his world with this illustrated treasury of advice and maxims, and it is the only book ever written by the iconic Hef himself! Hef reveals observations for men of all ages, teeming with the often wry and also heartfelt wisdom of the quintessential self-made multi-millionaire cultural icon. This heavily illustrated book has a simple and clean design, and it spans all corners of a man’s life: love, ladies, sex, work, family, dreams, play, parties, ambition, friendship, games, competition, failure and hurt, and success and endurance. And more, it is a sexy and stylish survival guide for men wondering how to play the role of Hugh Hefner in their spare time. !t Books Publication: December 2012 (CB) Estimated length: 192 pages; 5 x 7 1/8; 2-color illustrations and full-color photos throughout Manuscript available
The first and definitive guide to melancholy music—across genres and through time—that will lead fans through the albums and artists integral to the miserablist landscape. In A-Z format, this concise guide features the masters of meloncholy such as Robert Johnson, Leonard Cohen, Edith Piaf, Scott Walker, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Morrisey, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash. This is not only a compendium of the greatest sad songs and artists of the modern era, but will also include a collection of essays explaining the power of particular songs and artists and a top 100 list of the saddest songs of all time. It explains what draws us to sad music, and how sad music actually makes us happy. The author, a musician himself, plans to release an album to coincide with the publication of the book. !t Books UK rights: HarperCollins US; Translation: McCormick & Williams Literary Agency Publication: August 2012 (CB) Estimated length: 368 pages Manuscript available
From rock ‘n’ roll great Jerry Lee Lewis, and co-authored with bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Rick Bragg, this memoir promises to be as explosive as his legendary stage performances. Known for piano-driven smash hits such as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” Jerry Lee Lewis is equally known for a private life as wild as his stage act, from getting thrown out of Bible school (for playing his kind of music) to a marriage to his 13-year-old cousin that nearly destroyed his career. Born into a poor family, Lewis’s parents mortgaged their farm to buy him a piano. After being whacked by his teacher for playing his own style of music, he quit and taught himself to play. Lewis created his style by mixing rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, gospel, and country music. He quickly became part of the burgeoning new rock and roll sound, and began recording hits that brought him international fame. When he went on his now legendary, then catastrophic, tour of England, the press discovered that he had married his 13-year-old cousin Myra Brown and hounded him out of the country. Upon returning home, he found his career in ruins and most radio stations would not play his music. In the following years he battled financial setbacks, alcohol abuse, the early deaths of two of his children, and a rocky sixth marriage that ended in 2005. Now a free man and a proven trend-setter who pioneered a style of music he alone designed, Jerry Lee Lewis still tours the world and plays the piano like nobody else. !t Books World rights excluding France, Holland, and UK (Dunow, Carlson & Lerner) Publication: April 2013 (CB) Estimated length: 320 pages with photo insert Manuscript: June 2012
“On a day like this, I remember – I’m the President, but he’s The Boss.” -- President Obama, commenting on Bruce Springsteen, Kennedy Center Awards ceremony, 2009 From accomplished photographer Eric Meola, comes in intimate photographic look at Bruce Springsteen from 1977-1979, a period that marked a transitional time in Springsteen’s personal life and career while he created his fourth album, Darkness on the Edge of Town. While driving up and down Jersey’s legendary Highway 9, Meola “got” Springsteen so well that one of his shots—the image of Springsteen leaning on Clarence Clemons’ shoulder-would become the cover of the Born to Run album. This carefully curated collection of Meola’s photographs—some of which have never been published before—offers intimate portraits that provide a window into the early days and life of one of the world’s most legendary performers. With lyrics running through it, and a foreword by Springsteen, STREETS OF FIRE promises to be a work of art just as memorable and moving as the album Darkness on the Edge of Town. !t Books
Estimated length: 128 pages; 12 x 12; b&w photos throughout Manuscript available: May 2012
The ultimate girlfriend’s guide to pregnancy from maternity fashion designer, pregnancy guru, and star of Bravo’s Pregnant in Heels, Rosie Pope. Every mother-to-be wants a perfect pregnancy, but can be overwhelmed by the mountain of advice. Enter Rosie Pope—pregnancy guru, mother of two, and maternity fashion designer. Rosie cuts through the noise with MOMMY IQ, a reliable and relatable roadmap of the unique nine months ahead. Her blend of charm, wit, style, and razor-sharp expertise will give women the confidence and vital information they need to prepare and plan while enjoying pregnancy to the fullest. Rosie Pope Maternity is a high-end, renowned maternity fashion brand. !t Books Publication: October 2012 (CB) Estimated length: 288 pages; 50-60 color photos; b&w spot art Manuscript available
The internationally renowned supernatural entertainer Lior Suchard is known for combining his amazing magic skills with lots of humor. Lior Suchard is unique in his field and in his show, Supternatural Entertainment, he demonstrates breathtaking telepathic and extra-sensory abilities. His charm, creativity, and jaw-dropping magic turn his show into a rare and unforgettable experience. He shows his audience that reading someone’s mind can be as easy as reading a newspaper. In his mesmerizing book, he will show readers how to actualize their own abilities as mentalists. !t Books Rights sold: Croatian/Planetopia; Italian/Edizioni My Life; Russian/AST Publication: July 2012 (CB) Estimated length: 240 pages with 8-page color insert Galley available
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