"Another winner from a perceptive and humblingly prolific scholar of Old Hollywood" says Kirkus Reviews of Nat Segaloff's forthcoming book The Secret Hitchcock: How Hollywood's Legendary Director Lived through Cary Grant and James Stewart - available now for preorder.
Where do book ideas come from?
While most people would assume that book ideas come from the authors who write them, sometimes literary agents have ideas they pitch to their clients because they feel a particular client might like the idea:
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Congrats to my client author Wayne Byrne on the publication of his new book on the Halloween movie series: YOU CAN’T KILL THE BOOGEYMAN! We sold this to one publisher that got sold and the acquiring editor left, but here it is, hot off the presses!
Hats off to my author client Stephen Rebello on the forthcoming publication of his book on Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers On A Train and hats off to other clients of mine who provided blurbs on the back of the book: Nat Segaloff, Robert Hofler, Andrew J. Rausch and Alain Silver.
Fabulous Wall Street Journal review for my author client Nat Segaloff’s just released book “Bogart and Huston: Their Lives, Their Adventures, and the Classic Movies They Made Together”:
https://t.co/rw5TQYtRFz
Wonderful review from Publisher's Weekly for my author client Stephen Rebello whose new book Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock’s Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train. The book drops Sept 16 and is available for pre-order now.
https://t.co/K4soz0WMcy
Dropping on July 29 is the revised edition in paperback of my client Nat Segaloff's book THE EXORCIST LEGACY: 50 Years of Fear. On the left is the hardcover cover - which cover do you prefer?
Now available for pre-order at 50% off the cover price (only for the next 6 days until May 23 so hurry!) my client Anthony Uzarowski's new biography of Lauren Bacall:
https://t.co/HdvEwRb3s3
BIG BOOK DAY! 2 new hardcovers just arrived that I agented, both published by Citadel Press, a subsidiary of Kensington Publishing. Congrats to my clients Elizabeth J Rosenthal and Nat Segaloff.
Proud to be holding in my hands the brand new (and first ever) biography of actress Vera Miles by my client, Christopher McKittrick. You can order Vera Miles: The Hitchcock Blonde Who Got Away wherever good books are sold.
Now available for pre-order:
Criss-Cross: The Making of Strangers on a Train, Hitchcock's Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece by Stephen Rebello - publication date 9/16/25
https://t.co/uYmWW56FaV
Mojo Magazine Review of Now You're One of Us: The Incredible Story of Redd Kross by @JeffReddKross , @stevensmcdonald and Dan Epstein:
"A hilarious, engaging page-turner as uplifting as any of their overdriven power pop anthems."
Book drops on Oct 29 @OmnibusPress
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to my client, author Paul Gambino @rebelinkeditor . Today 8/20/24 is the release of his latest book, The Art of Gothic Living: Dark Decor for the Modern Macabre:
Available now for pre-order: SHEMP!: The Biography of The Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard, a the Face of Film Comedy by Burt Kearns
https://t.co/NyYiKTtr9y
"If Marlon Brando were alive today, this biography may well be the one he would have made his favorite."
Nice review of Lee Sobel Literary Agency client author Burt Kearns' new book MARLON BRANDO: Hollywood Rebel.
https://t.co/uAuU3mj2cH
BIG CONGRATS to Lee Sobel Literary Agency client author Paul Gambino on this great review of his new book The Art of Gothic Living: Dark Decor for the Modern Macabre from Publishers Weekly:
Full review: https://t.co/nhu4Jhg3Xu