Publishers Marketplace: Steven Harris/Michele Martin

CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING PROJECTS BEING SOLD TO PUBLISHERS:

HUMOR:

Robert Wuhl – Assume the Position...With Mr. Wuhl started out as two celebrated comedy specials on HBO, written by and starring Emmy award-winning writer, veteran comedian, actor, producer and director Robert Wuhl. Now, as a book, Assume thePosition...With Mr. Wuhl offers readers more history and more humor including (for the first time in print) some of the favorite stories from the TV specials and stage show, along with material not included in the shows, enlivened by provocative illustrations and photographs.

David Comfort – FOR DOGS ONLY - Think about it: Puppies learn to Come, Sit, Stay, and Shut up in a few months; it takes your average kid 18 years, if ever. What’s more, obedience school costs $200, college costs $200,000; and the puppy comes away with more than just a smart mouth, a maxed-out Visa, and a nose ring. So, at long last, why not a serious text for the brains in our partnership, the one without a learning disability: the dog?

Lisa Blythe Perlman - MOMMY PHOBIA - Our culture, obsessed with celebrity baby-bumps and couture maternity clothes, is about to get a wake-up call with Lisa's side splittingly funny and hip take on motherhood. Stand-up comic Perlmans narrative chronicles, with both humor and sincerity, the transition from a selfish life of wine and workouts, to one of selfless love and caring.

Pauline Campos – Move over Erma Bombeck, 20 and 30 something mommies have a new leader, and she has rallied the mommy blogosphere behind her. @ WIT’S END: SURVIVING MOTHERHOOD, MUFFIN TOPS, AND THE NEVER ENDING SEARCH FOR SANITY is Campos’ hilarious take on new motherhood. Although she began this quest alone, she quickly had company; lots of company, with 4,000 twitter followers, and invitations to contribute to other sites such as the humorous www.AnArmyofErmas.com, which has been recognized by the Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop. Pauline also garnered the support of many top mom bloggers, including Tiffany Romero of Bloggy Bootcamp and www.SITSgirls.com fame and Lissa Rankin, best selling author and the woman behind www.owningpink.com.

RELATIONSHIPS

Tamsen Fadal and Matt Titus- Tamsen Fadal is an Emmy Award winning television journalist. Bestselling authors Fadal and Titus can be seen weekly hosting a nationally syndicated television show for Better TV and both are regularly featured as relationship and lifestyle experts on ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS’s Early Show another other network television shows. Matt and Tamsen also write for Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Huffington Post and other print media.

SELF-HELP

Regena Thomashauer – Relationship expert and bestselling author, Thomashauer, popularly known as Mama Gena, teaches women how celebrate their passions, indulge their appetites and adore their lives. Thomashauer is the author of three books, is internationally known and has been profiled extensively including by The New York Times, New York Magazine and Elle. She has appeared on 20/20, NBCs Today Show and many other television and radio stations. She has taught tens of thousands of women how to use the power of please to have their way with the world.

Gabrielle Bernstein – author of Add More Ing to Your Life; Spirit Junkie and a forthcoming book (all published by Random House) is a motivational speaker and spiritual guru that The New York Times called “a guru for the next generation”.

Rhonda Shappert - 250,000 girls compete in around 5000 beauty pageants each and every year. For roughly half of the girls, approximately 125,000 every year, it’s their first time doing a pageant. Most get overwhelmed or intimidated at their first pageant, and will never do another. So every year, there is a potential book audience of 125,000 parents who require guidance on how to properly prepare their child for the rigorous preparation that is involved. And, there is no real Internet source for this information. Yet, here’s the biggest surprise of all – there is virtually almost no books on this subject in the Chains or the Independents around the country. Rhonda’s WINNING THROUGH PAGEANTRY: BEAUTY PAGEANT PREPARATION FOR EVERYONE will be the first.

Jonas Elrod - Oprah Winfry recently premiered Elrod’s documentary, Wake UP, and interviewed him on the OWN Network. Filmmaker Elrod wrote and directed the documentary about his own extraordinary experience coming into contact with the deceased. In his memoir, Shift Happens, he takes his story much further, portraying one man’s journey looking for truth and meaning. Has written for the Huffington Post, and has been interviewed and profiled widely.

Ellen Whitehurst - More Magazine called Ellen Whitehurst a “mini holistic empire.” A popular writer for Seventeen Magazine, Redbook Magazine, and Monster.com, Whitehurst is the author of Make This Your Lucky Day (Ballantine 2008), She now hosts a Feng Shui Tip of the Day on iVillage.com. Ellen has also authored two of the Top Ten and bestselling (ever) reports on DailyOM.com .She regularly contributes to the Huffington Post, John Edward’s InfiniteQuest.com, PNN.com, and Radio-TV Interview Report. Ellen was recently named the Health and Wellness Expert on DoctorOz.com.

Dr. Hillary Goldsher - The rate of intimate partner victimizations for females age 12 or older is 4.3 victimizations per 1,000 females, and Dr. Goldsher’s groundbreaking book, TAMING THE PERFECT STORM: PREDICTING AND PREVENTING INTIMATE PARTNER HOMICIDE will grasp the psychological and risk factors that contribute to the occurrence of IPH so that more people will learn to intervene and prevent its occurrence.

Latham Thomas - “Latham Thomas is a fitness and nutrition powerhouse” Dr. Mehmet Oz. and has been featured as a nutritionist and lifestyle on the Dr. Oz Show. She has also been featured as a nutrition expert for CBS news. And Fox News LIVE. She is a pregnancy coach for many celebrities and has been featured in NY Daily News, NY Post, Time Out NY, Fitness Magazine, Elle Magazine, Essence.com, New York Observer- Playground, Vital Juice Daily, Working Mother Magazine, Ideal Bite, Urban Baby, Honey Magazine, Your Bella Life, Social Workout.

Terri Cole – Terri Cole is a licensed psychotherapist and an expert in transforming fear into freedom. Terri has spent the last two decades empowering companies, celebrities, professional athletes, Broadway performers, supermodels, and individuals across the globe to Live Fearless and Free.

HEALTH

Dr. Edward Friedman with William Cane – HORMONE RECEPTORS: NATURE’S ANTIDOTE TO PROSTATE CANCER, BREAST CANCER AND ALZHEIMER’S -- written by an expert in the field, will be the first book to explain how prostate cancer, breast cancer, and Alzheimer's are linked, how they can be prevented, and how they can be treated, and reversed, with hormones more effectively and with no side effects than with any other therapy available, including surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.

Lissa Rankin, M.D. - Dr. Lissa Rankin is an OB/GYN physician and integrative medicine doctor, author, an A-list blogger, and a professional artist, as well as a sought-after media presence, magazine contributor, public speaker, workshop and teleseminar leader, and online entrepreneur. She has written two books- What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend (St. Martin’s Press, 2010) and Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art With Wax (Random House, 2010). She is also the founder of OwningPink.com.

Debbie Rosas- Two time author and co-creator of Nia Fitness, Debbie has trained everyone from Gloria Steinem, Dean Ornish and Donna Karan to Dr. Christiane Northrup and Dr. Bernie Siegel since its inception in 1983. Nia is the integration and conditioning of the body, mind, emotions and spirit based on martial arts, dance arts and the healing arts. Today there are 1500 teachers worldwide. Nia has trained hundreds of thousands of students. Debbie and Nia have been featured in the New York Times Styles section and just about every where else. Her proposed book is The Bodys Way.

Richard Ash, M.D. – Richard N Ash, M.D. is an internal medicine specialist, and a recognized leader in the field of integrative and environmental and runs the world renowned Ash Center for Comprehensive Medicine in Manhattan. Dr. Ash is the star of his own popular radio show, Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired? which has been airing weekly on WOR for over 10 years. Dr. Ash owns and operates a state of the art yoga studio and store called The WellNest in Sag Harbor, New York.

Mary Ann Browning – Mary Ann Browning is a much sought after trainer, counting among her clients celebrities, socialites, and business executives. She owns and runs Browning’s Fitness Centers in 5 locations throughout New York City. Mary Ann is a certified trainer in MESC, NASM, AFTA, Pilates, Spinning, Swimming and Running Coach, Sports and Nutrition, and Yoga. She has competed in the Boston Marathon and the New York Marathon as well as 37 marathons worldwide, and 6 Iron Man competitions. Mary Ann holds a degree in Sports and Nutrition.

PARENTING

Anne Zachry, Ph.D. - Dr. Anne Zachry has been a pediatric occupational therapist for 20 years and has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology. She has published numerous articles and parenting courses. Her work has been quoted or published in national trade and peer-reviewed journals. She publishes websites and blogs on her area of expertise and has lectured extensively on topics related to infant and childhood development.

Dennis Ranahan - PORTRAIT IN BLACK - The penultimate biography of former Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis by one of his right-hand men during the heyday of the Raiders.

CURRENT EVENTS

Don Stuart, J.D. - BARNYARDS AND BIRKENSTOCKS: WHY FARMERS AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS NEED EACH OTHER - Farmers and environmentalists fight over nearly every environmental issue. They have created a political stalemate that threatens the nation’s food and our environment. Mr. Stuart shows how to end that fight.

OCCULT/NEW AGE

John Holland –John Holland is an internationally renowned psychic medium and teacher who lectures, demonstrates, and reads for private clients. He’s been featured on The History Channel, A&E, Unsolved Mysteries, and in numerous articles; as well as becoming a familiar voice on radio stations throughout the world. He’s the author of the bestsellers Power of the Soul, Born Knowing and Psychic Navigator, and 101 Ways to Jump-Start Your Intuition. John’s latest book “The Spirit Whisperer” and The Psychic Tarot Oracle Cards.

Robert Ohotto – Robert Ohotto is a world renowned radio show host, and intuitive counselor, coach and life strategist. He is the author of the groundbreaking book, Transforming Fate Into Destiny. Robert is recognized as a trailblazing presence in the field of psych-spirituality. He is highly sought after for his dynamic lectures and intuitive consultations. Robert is often invited as a guest on Television and Radio.

Laura Benko – Laura Benko has been a Feng Shui consultant for the past ten years. She has trained and mentored with many world-renowned Feng Shui Masters, is a Red Ribbon member of the International Feng Shui Guild and the Feng Shui, Home & Garden Expert for the weekly television show, Live It Up! Laura appears every Friday morning on the magazine-style, inspirational show Live It Up! (WLNY Channel 10/55). Laura contributes to several magazines and blogs and has lectured around the country. She was featured on Martha Stewart Living Radio and The Nate Berkus Show and has teaches Feng Shui to licensed architects and interior designers at Pratt Institute.

Joe Nunziata - is a life and business coach, author and an expert in the field of emotional regression and energy clearing who requently appears on television. He has been delivering his life changing message at events and seminars since 1992, and has been working in the areas of personal development and human potential for over 20 years. His unique blend of spirituality, psychology, philosophy, and the power of energy results in revolutionary new programs and seminars. Joe's books and programs include Karma Buster, Spiritual Selling, Finding Your Purpose, No More Mental Barriers, and Change Your Energy.

MEMOIR

Terri Porter – Terri Porter is an experience television producer working for Inside Edition and American Journal. She worked with ABC, Columbia Tri-Star, The Learning Channel, Lifetime Television, and in syndication as the producer of American Adventurer. She wrote and produced a documentary for Discovery Channel and has worked on Animal Planet and help to launch My First Place for HGTVCurrently, she works as a freelance producer with High Noon and the Food Network on their Challenge series.As an author, Terri’s previous nonfiction work in the Los Angeles Times, Life and Style section, entitled “A Struggle to Stay Calm When Baby Can’t,” led to writing opportunities with Lifetime Television and The Learning Channel, as well as a guest appearance on The Leeza Gibbons Show. Other pieces of her nonfiction work were featured in EMMY, The Magazine of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (October 2002); and in Saturn Cycling Magazine (May 2003); another won her Second Place in the 2002 Donna M. Chavez Personal Success Systems Writing Contest. She is an award-winning public speaker on the topic of Hodgkin’s disease.