http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/ Rights news, rights offerings, and book proposals posted by members of Publishers Marketplace en-us 2009-07-03T21:42:21+00:00 Publishers Marketplace Publishers Marketplace hourly 1 2004-11-01T12:00:00+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/images/PM_rssimg.gif http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6440 The author is a distinguished AIDS scientist, director of the Harvard AIDS Prevention Research Project and Research Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has served on the President's Advisory Council on AIDS. This is the story of how Dr. Green fell afoul of the AIDS Establishment by saying that "The Pope Was Right. Condoms aren't working in Africa." His position was based on the best current science. But he has been attacked by AIDS organizations that ... ANDY ROSS, ANDY ROSS AGENCY 2009-07-03T21:42:21+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6439 As a child Heather Swan had dreamed of flying like a bird, but then life got in the way. She married, had kids, found a corporate job and became a single mother. Then, in her mid-thirties, she met Dr Glenn Singleman, a BASE jumping champion. He persuaded her that anyone could do what he did - it was just a matter of conquering fear by mastering the mind. Heather was to become living proof of that. It wasn't easy. Her problems began immediately when she discovered that she was terrified ... Margaret Gee, Margaret Gee Literary Agency 2009-07-03T09:50:08+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6438 As a child Heather Swan had dreamed of flying like a bird, but then life got in the way. She married, had kids, found a corporate job and became a single mother. Then, in her mid-thirties, she met Dr Glenn Singleman, a BASE jumping champion. He persuaded her that anyone could do what he did - it was just a matter of conquering fear by mastering the mind. Heather was to become living proof of that. It wasn't easy. Her problems began immediately when she discovered that she was terrified ... Margaret Gee, Margaret Gee Literary Agency 2009-07-03T09:49:15+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6437 KINGDOM OF A THOUSAND DAYS is set in early nineteenth century Africa. Based on true events, it is fast moving, salted with intrigue, mystical prophecy and the authentic voices of those who were actually there. In September 1838, a recent series of events unleashes powerful memories in Captain Charles McLean. He re-lives a frightening experience from his past. Reluctantly, he opens the carved box which he has kept locked since leaving Africa. Inside are three objects - a blade, a leopard ... Margaret Gee, Margaret Gee Literary Agency 2009-07-03T04:57:13+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6436 Synopsis - First in series The Kabalyon Key And The Winston Family Chronicles (novel series) The Jefferson Code - Book Two James Winston, a rogue computer hacker from MIT, is presented an offer he can't refuse by the National Security Agency. Aided by a cast of sinister characters and intellectual highbrows, Winston must decipher the mysterious structure of a deadly computer virus and avert a global crisis before the virus shuts down the World Wide Web. Time is ticking ... From the ... Charles Westbrook, Encycloware 2009-07-02T15:03:57+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6435 The greatest fiction writers in history could never have conjured up a plot as incredible as the one Paul House and his Mom, Joyce have lived. Now both are putting pen to paper to tell the story of Paul House's wrongful conviction for rape and murder, his 22 years on Tennessee's death row and how, even after DNA proved his innocence, prosecutors fought to keep him in prison. House Arrest will provide readers a look at life on death row through the first-person eyes of a truly ... Jonathan Clements, Nashville Agency 2009-06-30T23:28:35+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6434 For Nolwenn witch Talaith, a bad day begins with being dragged from bed by an angry mob intent on her crispy end and culminates in rescue by - wait for it - a silver maned dragon. Existence as a hated outcast is nothing new for a woman with such powerful secrets. The dragon, though? A tad unusual. This one has a human form to die for, and knows it.According to dragon law, Talaith is now his property, for pleasure...Or otherwise. But if Lord Arrogance thinks she's the kind of damsel to ... Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency 2009-06-30T19:06:53+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6433 It's not always easy being a female warrior with a nickname like Annwyl the Bloody. Men tend to either cower in fear - a lot - or else salute. It's true that Annwyl has a knack for decapitating legions of her ruthless brother's soldiers without pausing for breath. But just once it would be nice to be able to really talk to a man, the way, she can talk to Fearghus the Destroyer.Too bad that Fearghus is a dragon, of the large, scaly and deadly type. With him, Annwyl feels safe ... Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency 2009-06-30T18:36:58+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6432 Adaptation of the author's 2007 mass-market thriller THEY HUNGER, art by Kewber. A rafting expedition and an FBI manhunt collide with a cataclysmic storm and mysterious, bloodthirsty creatures in the remote Southern Appalachians. Scott Nicholson 2009-06-30T17:55:21+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6431 More than an anthology, Metatropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder and project editor John Scalzi who combined their talents to build a new urban future, and then wrote their own stories in this collectively-constructed world. The results are individual glimpses of a shared vision, and a reading experience unlike any you've had before. Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency 2009-06-30T16:34:49+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6430 A race of awful smelling and hideously ugly, but nonetheless peaceful and friendly, aliens hires a Hollywood agent to pitch them to the people of Earth. Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency 2009-06-30T16:30:28+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6429 When a human diplomat murders his alien counterpart setting the stage for a war on Earth by a vastly superior alien race, career diplomat Harry Creek is given the bizarre task of finding the one thing that can prevent catastrophe: a missing sheep. Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency 2009-06-30T16:26:28+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6428 The fourth installment of Hugo Award winning author John Scalzi's Old Man's War series in which Zoe Boutin, adopted daughter of John Perry and Jane Sagan, gives her first-person account of the events portrayed in The Last Colony. Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency 2009-06-30T16:09:28+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6427 In the third installment of Hugo Award winning author John Scalzi's Old Man's War series John Perry, Jane Sagan, and their adopted daughter Zoe Boutin are sent to lead a secret colony on behalf of the Colonial Union, which is under threat of attack from an axis of alien species intent on stopping the spread of humanity throughout the universe. Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency 2009-06-30T16:04:47+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/rights/display.cgi?rights_no=6426 The second book in the Old Man's War series by Hugo Award Winning author John Scalzi, in which Jane Sagan member of the elite Ghost Brigades of the Colonial Defense Forces must flush out a plot by deranged military scientist Charles Boutin to bring down the Colonial Union. Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency 2009-06-30T15:57:17+00:00