BANQUO'S SON by Tania Roxborogh

Left Harcourt in 1993 to get my MBA. After Business School I spent 11 years owning and operating a minor league baseball team. I got out of baseball in late 2006 and rejoined the book world on the agent side. I am at Writers House, where I am now seeking submissions for myself. I'm particularly into foreign and historical thrillers and mysteries, so send me your ruthless doges and impious cardinals...and your farmhouse cozies! Give me atmosphere, let me learn something about another time or another place (or both), and kill off nasty Uncle Mortimer in the process--I'll be yours! I take middle grade and YA mystery or adventure series, but not so much fantasy, and definitely not picture books. (There are many others who specialize in these books.) And please don't send religious fiction--I don't have contacts in the Christian book market.

Tania Roxborogh, Cali Yost, Victoria Dougherty, Keith Raffel, Blaize Clement, Neal Boulton, Angela Choi, David Raterman, Joshua Gaylord, Gerald Elias, Sheila Boneham, Jay Bailey, Marie Manderson, James Phelan, Julia Hersey, Linda Sands

Fiction:Debut
San Francisco attorney Angela Choi's HELLO KITTY MUST DIE, Palahniuk-meets-Bret Ellis-Meets-Joy-Luck Club-Meets-Margaret Cho, the story of a Chinese-American woman whose immigrant parents think she should be a Hello, Kitty -- Blank and doll-like, married to the Nice Chinese Boy; but she's also involved with a serial killer, to Benjamin LeRoy at Bleak House, by Josh Getzler at Writers House (NA).

Non-fiction:Reference
Dog breed expert Sheila Boneham, Ph.D's 17th book about dogs, a guide to Brittany Spaniels, to Stephanie Fornino at TFH, as part of its new breed series, for publication in 2011, by Josh Getzler at Writers House.

Thriller
Former dot-com CEO Keith Raffel's SMASHER, the follow-up to 2007's dot-dead, which combines Silicon Valley intrigue with a secret that may have cost a young scientist in the 1950's a Nobel Prize -- and her life, again to Bill Krause at Midnight Ink, by Josh Getzler at Writers House.

Sports

South Florida Adventures magazine publisher David Raterman's FLORIDA MARLINS: A HISTORY, the first complete history of the baseball franchise from (Jeff) Abbott to (Eddie) Zosky, and A GUIDE TO SOUTH FLORIDA ADVENTURES, with recommendations and itineraries for extreme and casual sportspeople living or vacationing in South Florida, to John Byram at the University Press of Florida, in a two-book deal, by Josh Getzler at Writers House (NA).

Debut fiction

Manhattan high school teacher Joshua Gaylord's first novel, pitched as History Boys meets Blue Angel, about the intertwining -- and often darkly surprising -- relationships between the teachers and students at a school for girls, to Sally Kim at Harper, at auction, in a very nice deal, by Josh Getzler at Writers House (NA).

FOREIGN RIGHTS: FICTION
Australian and New Zealand rights to Joshua Gaylord's HUMMINGBIRDS, to Colette Vella at Pier 9, for publication in October 2009, by Angharad Kowal for Josh Getzler at Writers House.

Mystery/Crime

Associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony Gerald Elias's DEVIL'S TRILL, a classical music-world mystery series featuring a blind, vulgar, reclusive, miserable violin master, who stands accused of theft (of a three-quarter-sized violin) and murder (of a rival) and must clear his name by journeying through the halls of wealth and across continents, to Michael Homler at Minotaur, in a two-book deal, for publication in Fall 2009, by Josh Getzler, in his first deal at Writers House, on behalf of Simon Lipskar (World).

FOREIGN RIGHTS: FICTION
Australian and New Zealand rights to Joshua Gaylord's HUMMINGBIRDS, to Colette Vella at Pier 9, for publication in October 2009, by Angharad Kowal for Josh Getzler at Writers House.

MBA, Columbia Business School; BA, U. Penn, English/Creative Writing; Radcliffe Publishing Course; Bennington Writers Workshop.

Email only please. Query Letter plus 5 or so pages. (If a chapter is 6, go for it!) Synopsis is not necessary.