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	Nicholas Ellison Nicholas Ellison was Editor-in-Chief of Delacorte Press and Funk & Wagnalls, and Senior Editor at Harper & Row and Thomas Y. Crowell. During his tenure as Delacorte's Editor-in-Chief, he either edited or published authors as varied as Kurt Vonnegut, Irwin Shaw, Danielle Steel, James Clavell, Robert Parker, Thomas Berger, James Kirkwood, and Tim O'Brien. Nicholas Ellison, Inc. is a separate, independent division of SJGA. Mr. Ellison's father was the president of a distinguished publishing house, Howell Soskin, as well as teaching law and writing at Columbia University. He was also the book reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune. His mother is the author of the Winnie-the-Pooh Cookbook, and has authored over 20 children's books. Publishing seems to run in his family. With a select and very successful list of non-fiction projects, Mr. Ellison represents fiction primarily and his projects range from belles lettres to popular entertainment. Mr. Ellison works with each author meticulously from concept to finished work, and every one of his authors has had and will have his/her books on the New York Times or Publisher's Weekly bestseller lists; or they are bestselling authors within their genre, i.e., mystery. Mr. Ellison wrote a book while in college in Paris, and had internships with Doubleday in Paris and Harry Abrams in New York. He has taught creative writing at two universities and was a professional boxer for two years in Boston, a pursuit which has served him well in dealing with editors.

Nelson DeMille—one of the top three bestselling male authors in the world, with more than 50 million books sold—has a record fourteen Main Selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club and Literary Guild and regularly sets new records for commercial success, here and abroad. June 2010 will see the release of The Lion, DeMille's follow up to his best-selling The Lion's Game, and another in his series of acclaimed, fan-favorite John Corey novels. The Gate House, now available in paperback, is a sequel to the DeMille’s classic bestseller The Gold Coast. The Gate House had a first printing of 1.3 million and hit #1 on The New York Times, as well as regional lists around the country. Nelson DeMille novels are continually in high demand in Hollywood—Mayday appeared as a CBS-TV primetime movie in November 2005, and The General’s Daughter was one of the top grossing films in Paramount’s history. Film versions of a number of DeMille’s novels are in the works. Visit the author’s website at nelsondemille.net.

Christopher Moore—Bite Me: A Love Story is the third book in Chris’s vampire series after the original Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck: A Love Story. Bite Me debuted at #5 on The New York Times bestseller list, #3 on The Los Angeles Times bestseller list, #6 on the Toronto Globe & Mail bestseller list, and was #1 Indie Pick. In his recent novel, Fool, Chris Moore’s work reaches a new height of epic hilarity and brilliance. A story of a bawdy and lascivious—but quick as a whip—court jester in Elizabethan England, both story and prose attain a level of sophistication in scope and style that reaches beyond Chris’s now famous works. The novel spent over 25 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list; was #1 IndieBound pick; #1 in 20 major cities; including San Francisco, Denver, Seattle, Posrtland. With seven of his nine books currently under film option, Christopher Moore has been hailed as “deft and funny” by The New York Times Book Review, “as funny as writing gets” by the Toronto Star, and as “the 21st century’s best satirist” by the Rocky Mountain News. Visit the author at ChrisMoore.com

Alan Weisman—in his forthcoming book, Countdown, Alan Weisman will probe as a journalist, not preach as an activist one possible, controversial solution to save the planet. That option: gradually and non-violently reducing our numbers to an optimum level so that the dangerous human output of CO2 from our activities, industries, and lifestyles does not continue to threaten our existence. One of the most brilliant journalists and environmental writers in the world, Alan Weisman is writing what will surely be an instant classic and his most important book to date. Alan Weisman’s hugely successful The World Without Us spent 26 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller list and considers what would happen if human beings disappeared due to climate change, disease or war. The book was selected as Nonfiction Book of the Year by Time and Entertainment Weekly; Best Book of the Year by Salon, Mother Jones, Canada National Post; #1 Nonfiction Audio Book of the Year by iTunes; and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was an international bestseller, with over two million copies sold in over 30 languages.

Jeff Lindsay— Dexter by Design, the fourth in the highly successful series, debuted at #8 on The New York Times Bestseller list in September ’09, coinciding with the fourth season of Showtime’s #1 ranked cable TV show, “Dexter.” Eight million viewers tuned in to see Michael C. Hall as Dexter in Showtime’s Season Four debut. The New York Times named Darkly Dreaming Dexter as one of the Top Ten books of the summer in 2004, raving “demonology has a dastardly new darling.” Jeff’s second novel, Dearly Devoted Dexter was met with the same enthusiasm and success and his third book, Dexter in the Dark, debuted at #7 on The New York Times Bestseller list. Foreign sales remain particularly strong.

Sarah Dunn—SECRETS TO HAPPINESS is a major novel as well as a magnificent tour de force. Its humor is at once ribald and subtle; her examination of modern relationships is slyly brilliant. Time magazine writes, “Dunn is a wise and brilliant writer who doesn’t sacrifice emotional complexity for low humor—she gives you both.” The New York Times lauded her debut novel, THE BIG LOVE as “Charming. There's genuine wit at work here… The Big Love has a worried, wisecracking voice.” Likewise, Time acclaimed it as “Perfect. Like a highlights reel from Sex and the City. It's that funny.” Visit the author at SarahDunnBooks.com.

Charles Wohlforth—. The Fate of Nature: Recovering Our Inborn Ability to Rescue the Earth,will explore the human heart and learn why the oceans are dying, with hope to redeem nature and ourselves, and will be published as a lead title from St. Martin’s Press. Charles’ previous book, The Whale and the Supercomputer is an exceptional work of non-fiction was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & Technology and the Whitman Bassow Award from the Overseas Press Club of America for best reporting in any medium on international environment issues. Visit the author at Wohlforth.net

P.T. Deutermann is one of the fastest rising stars in the pantheon of suspense novelists, and his novels are regularly on the USA Today Bestseller list. In winter of 2011, Deutermann's The Captain, a thrilling World War II novel and a departure from his previous novels of suspense, will be released. His most recent book, Nightwalkers, is the fourth in his Cam Richter series, which Publishers Weekly says “thriller fans will look forward to.” The Cam Richter series has previously been praised in starred Publishers Weekly review for “Well-drawn characters, intelligent, realistic dialogue and top-notch writing." His previous novel, Firefly, was called “addictively enthralling” by Entertainment Weekly. Visit the author’s website at PTDeutermann.com.

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason reached #2 on The New York Times bestseller list as well as dozens of regional bestseller lists around the country. Hailed as “profoundly erudite” (The New York Times) and “an astonishingly good debut” (Kirkus Reviews), The Rule of Four is in production at Warner Brothers Studios.

Emily Benedek is the author of Red Sea, a gripping and intelligent thriller set in post-9/11 Israel and America. The Red Sea will be published as the lead trade paperback for St. Martin’s Press for Fall 2009, and has been lauded by Library Journal as “densely plotted and cagily realistic.” Benedek is currently at work on her hotly anticipated follow up to Red Sea.