BUSINESS Former portfolio manager and creator of the Instagram @socialcapofficial and TikTok @socialcap accounts Tyler Gardner's MONEY BOSS, offering an approach to money based on self-awareness and self-compassion by providing clarity on how to align financial goals with personal values and addressing fears and misconceptions that keep people from getting rich, with concrete advice to start building wealth whether you have $1,000, $100,000 or $1 million to invest, to Merry Sun at Norton, in a major deal, at auction, by Lynn Johnston at Lynn Johnston Literary. Rights: [email protected]
BUSINESS Chairman of BBDO Worldwide Andrew Robertson's THE CREATIVE SHIFT, a solution to nurturing creative and necessary disruptions demanded by shifts in the market for new products, services, and messaging, while keeping the rest of the business alive and well, to Colleen Lawrie at Public Affairs, in a good deal, at auction, for publication in fall 2025, by Lynn Johnston at Lynn Johnston Literary. Rights: [email protected]
MEMOIR/HUMOR Annabelle Gurwitch's MY YEAR OF YEESH, a memoir in which a reluctant skeptic of a certain age, faced with her impending mortality, makes the unexpectedly positive and life-altering decision to embrace (almost) every opportunity that comes her way, like selling merch out of a van for a heavy metal band's European tour, to Zibby Owens and Kathleen Harris at Zibby Books, with Leigh Haber editing, at auction, for publication in 2026, by Lynn Johnston at Lynn Johnston Literary. Rights: [email protected]
BUSINESS Leadership coach and former venture capital executive Liz Tran's AQ: THE SUPER INTELLIGENCE WE NEED FOR AN UNSTABLE WORLD, arguing that leaders and ambitious young employees need to develop an “agility quotient,” a new kind of intelligence alongside IQ and EQ that will help them navigate a world filled with increasing change and uncertainty, based on the author's assessment of 200 successful founders and executives, to Amy Li at Crown Currency, in a good deal, at auction, by Lynn Johnston at Lynn Johnston Literary. Rights: [email protected]
ADVICE Dr. Evelyn Carter, PhD's DETECTING BIAS, challenging readers to go beyond overt forms of racial bias, such as racial slurs, to identify and respond to subtler expressions that often do more harm and that many white people have been socialized to ignore, to Talia Krohn at Little Brown Spark, by Lynn Johnston at Lynn Johnston Literary. Rights: [email protected]
TELEVISION RIGHTS Annabelle Gurwitch's YOU'RE LEAVING WHEN, drawing from a chapter about girlfriends on a Golden Girls-esque adventure, to Hallmark, with Andi McDowell to star, the author cowriting with Emmy Award-winning TV writer Neena Beber, and Front Street Pictures producing, by Bradley Glenn at Don Buchwald & Associates and Jonathan Levy at UTA, on behalf of LynnJohnston at LynnJohnston Literary.
BUSINESS Founder of FirstGenLiving Maria Melchor's ALWAYS HAVE ENOUGH, drawing on the author's experience growing up an undocumented immigrant and becoming the first in her family to create generational wealth to provide a formula for financial success, aimed at the growing community of first-generation professionals and those who do not have access to family money, to Karina Leon and Talia Krohn at Little Brown Spark, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Lynn Johnston at Lynn Johnston Literary. Rights: [email protected] GENERAL NONFICTION Priya Vulchi's A FIRE BESIDE YOU, argues that not only does friendship deserve a central role in our lives but it can be a revolutionary act, drawing on historical contexts from Aristotle to American activists, and her experience advocating for racial justice with her platonic life partner, to Krishan Trotman at Legacy Lit, in a good deal, at auction, by Lynn Johnston at Lynn Johnston Literary. Rights: [email protected]
BUSINESS McKinsey senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and Maria del Mar Martinez's THE OTHER 50 PERCENT, based on proprietary research about how women can build the "experience capital" that makes up half of average lifetime earnings and that they need to maximize in order to overcome the "broken rung," where 10 percent more men than women are promoted to first-time managers, a gap that puts women behind for pay raises and promotions throughout their career, to Jeff Kehoe at Harvard Business Review Press, in a good deal, at auction, for publication in early 2025, by Lynn Johnston at Lynn Johnston Literary. Rights: [email protected]
ADVICE Author of ON BEING HUMAN Jennifer Pastiloff's MAY YOU REMEMBER: ALLOW YOURSELF TO LET GO, LET LOVE, AND BEGIN AGAIN, a first-person guide to reclaiming the lost parts of yourself that you forgot, abandoned or depleted and understanding that no matter where you are, you can always begin anew, to Maya Ziv at Dutton, by Lynn Johnston at Lynn Johnston Literary. Rights: [email protected] NARRATIVE New Yorker contributor Jennie Erin Smith's THE VALLEY OF FORGETTING, the story of the world's largest cluster of early-onset Alzheimer's patients, from an isolated hillside community near Medellin, Colombia, the result of a genetic mutation that traces back to a single conquistador - and the extraordinary ongoing research there that could lead to a new treatment for the disease, to Cal Morgan at Riverhead, in a pre-empt, by Lynn Johnston at Lynn Johnston Literary.
How inspiring to watch young women of color take action to teach themselves and educate their peers about racial literacy. A good reminder that we have so much more in common than what separates us.https://t.co/HhzrRCzysS
