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. His most recent novel, Night Fall, hit #1 on The New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists, 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.  His upcoming novel, Wild Fire, featuring John Corey from Night Fall, Plum Island and The Lion’s Game, will have a first printing of one million and is a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

Christopher Moore’s most recent novel, A Dirty Job, was a major New York Times bestselling work, with several weeks on that list.  It also debuted at #1 on the Book Sense National Bestseller list for hardcover fiction, where it was also chosen as a Book Sense Pick for April, #9 on the Publishers Weekly Bestseller list, and #9 on the Wall Street Journal list for the first week in April.  A Dirty Job also landed at the #1 spot in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Phoenix and the Pacific Northwest during the first week of sales.  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.

Sarah Dunn, an award winning writer of Murphy Brown, Veronica’s Closet and Spin City, triumphed with the Generation X classic, The Official Slacker Handbook.  Sarah’s first novel, The Big Love, quickly became a national bestseller and a worldwide phenomenon with foreign rights sold in over twenty countries.  The movie rights were sold to Universal Pictures for over one million dollars.  In a starred Publishers Weekly review, The Big Love was hailed as “…a delightful exploration of the empowerment that comes from escaping a Big Love turned Bad Love.”  Sarah’s upcoming novel, I’m Not Myself, will be a more than worthy successor to The Big Love.  I’m Not Myself is a story of life, love, and friendship in Manhattan.  It is the first book in a substantial seven-figure deal with Little, Brown. 

Olivia Goldsmith is one of the most successful contemporary female authors with more than 10 million copies in print in the U.S., international bestsellerdom, and her famous novel, The First Wives Club, selling in the millions and will soon appear on Broadway.  Her tenth novel Dumping Billy, spent several weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, and will be made into a motion picture by Universal.  Her other bestsellers Bad Boy, Pen Pals, Switcheroo, and Young Wives have all been optioned by movie studios.  People praised, “What a great feeling to fall into the capable hands of Olivia Goldsmith.” 

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.

Jeff Lindsay’s chilling thriller, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, published in August of 2004 was sold to Doubleday as part of a high, six figure, two-book deal.  This debut novel earned him glowing reviews.  The New York Times raved “Demonology has a dastardly new darling” and named Darkly Dreaming Dexter as one of the Top Ten books of the summer in 2004.    Sales throughout Europe and Asia went into a second printing prior to publication and the book is now in its ninth printing in the US.  Jeff’s second novel Dearly Devoted Dexter was met with the same enthusiasm and success and left fans hungry for his third book, Dexter in the Dark, which is due out in the Summer of 2007.  Dexter will make his television debut in a Showtime Series entitled “Dexter,” will premier in October 2006 with Michael C. Hall to star as Dexter. 

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 lists. His latest book, The Cat Dancers, was praised by Publisher Weekly in a starred review, citing “well-drawn characters, intelligent, realistic dialogue, and top-notch writing.”  His books compare favorably to the best suspense novelists’ in the country, with stunning review response as well.  His previous novel, Firefly, was called “addictively enthralling” by Entertainment Weekly.

Nancy Geary, a former Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, achieved major commercial triumphs with her first three novels, Misfortune, Redemption, and Regrets Only.   All three novels were brilliantly received both here and abroad and earned Nancy People’s acclaim as a novelist who “picks apart every flake of the upper crust.”  In a departure from her celebrated novels of suspense, Nancy made her fiction debut with   Being Mrs. Alcott in the summer of 2005, which Booklist hailed as “an equally exquisite study of human nature.” 

Amanda Brown is the author of the bestselling Legally Blonde, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie starring Reese Witherspoon.  Her latest project is a young adult series of books, entitled Elle Woods, based on the character from Legally Blonde. She is also co-author of School of Fortune (with Janice Weber), which was bought at auction by St. Martin’s. 

Thomas Christopher Greene’s impressive debut novel, Mirror Lake, was published in August of 2003 and recently appeared on Waterstone’s UK list of “The One that Got Away” for books that should have been bestsellers.   His second novel, I’ll Never Be Long Gone, preempted by William Morrow/HarperCollins, was published in October of 2005 and sold to Random House UK for six-figures.  Tom has earned an international following, which is sure to grow with his next novel. The Envious Moon, a classic story of great love and great tragedy, is due out next summer

Charles Wohlforth’s exceptional non-fiction book, The Whale and the Supercomputer, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, has been noted as “a fascinating dispatch from the front lines of global warming.”  This extraordinary work has been alternately hailed as “beautifully written” by Publishers Weekly in its starred reviewand “a fascinating narrative” by Men’s Journal.  The Whale and the Supercomputer’s several awards, citations and short-list mentions include winning the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology and the Whitman Bassow Award from the Overseas Press Club of America for best reporting in any medium on international environment issues.

Alan Weisman, a distinguished professor and published writer, is writing a non-fiction book about the world without humans, entitled The World Without Us.  The book is a very fresh, learned, but highly readable and entertaining look at the resilience of the earth—with or without us. 

Matthew Scott Hansen’s debut novel of suspense, The Shadowkiller, was sold at auction to Simon & Schuster in a substantial World English rights deal and it will be a lead title for Simon & Schuster’s Winter List.  Thanks to Matthew’s background in Hollywood screenwriting, The Shadowkiller is an intensely cinematic tale of a Bigfoot terrorizing suburban Seattle.   Matthew left screenwriting to become a full time writer and has sold four non-fiction books, one of which, Andy Kaufman Revealed!, was a bestseller for Little, Brown.  While in Los Angeles, Matthew worked for Carsey-Werner Productions, Fox Television, and producer Norman Lear.

Janice Weber is one of the foremost concert pianists in the world as well as a distinguished novelist in her own right.  Her first novel, The Secret Life of Eva Hathaway, was a bestseller and sold to paperback for a significant sum, as well as being hailed as a “mordantly witty first novel” by Publishers Weekly.  Her project with co-writer Amanda Brown, School of Fortune, was bought at auction by St. Martin’s Press.

Emily Benedek is the author of The Red Sea, a gripping and intelligent thriller set in post-9/11 Israel and America, sold to St. Martin’s at auction.

Ann Cardinal, Lisa Alvarado, and Jane Alberdeston Coralin are the authors of a warm and funny Y/A novel about three Latina girls entitled Sister Chicas, which met with tremendously favorable reviews in USA Today and The Boston Globe.

Perri Knize is in the process of writing a non-fiction/memoir about the search for the perfect piano and the world of dedicated piano collectors entitled, Grand Obsession.  It will be published by Scribner as a lead title in Fall 2007.

Suzy Spencer, New York Times bestselling true-crime author of Breaking Point, a book about Andrea Yates, is currently writing a book on alternative sexual habits in America which will be a lead title for Berkley Books.  She is the author of The Fortune Hunter, about the Celeste Beard case, with film rights sold to Lifetime. 

Frances Park, author of several critically acclaimed books at Talk Miramax, has written a beautifully rendered novel entitled The Divine Jig.  Her most recent novel was called “exquisitely rendered” by USA Today.

Kirstin Peterson, a graduate of Harvard Law School and Northwestern Medical School, is writing a taut and stunning novel of medical suspense.

Russell Peterson, Ph.D., a distinguished professor at the University of Iowa, will publish his non-fiction book, Strange Bedfellows: The Politics of Late Night Comedy with Rutgers University Press in Spring 2007.  Strange Bedfellows will be the first book to examine thoroughly the interplay between politics and late-night comedy.

Ari Berman, a very important political journalist, is the Washington, D.C. correspondent for The Nation and author of "The Daily Outrage," The Nation’s popular political blog. Ari is at work on his new non-fiction book.