DEADWEATHER AND SUNRISE (Chronicles of Egg, Book 1) by Geoff Rodkey (Putnam, May '12)

On May 23, 2011, Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency was established. Designed to navigate the changing world of 21st Century book publishing, HSG is devoted to representing its clients in both the most traditional ways and, as the industry continues to shift, in ways not even conceived of until a short time ago. I am one of the three principals in HSG, alongside my former Russell and Volkening colleagues Carrie Hannigan and Jesseca Salky.

I represent fiction and nonfiction (mostly fiction, more than half of which is crime-related (mystery, thriller, creepy...)), adult and YA/middle-grade (though not picture books).

I am 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.

NOTE: Transitions from place to place are time consuming and cause even greater inefficiencies that typical workload delays. I realize I've never even caught up from my last move, and I'm afraid the ugly truth is that it's taking me WAY longer than I would like to respond to queries--despite my best efforts. I'm making serious efforts to improve, however, and if you have submitted to me and not received a response, please hang in there. Thank you in advance for your patience. I look forward to hearing from you.

My story: 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 worked at Writers House until November 2009, building a list of novelists, YA and children's book authors, and the occasional
nonfiction writer; then moved on to R&V, where I was an agent until May 2011.

Also, I am the Tuesday blogger on Hey, There's a Dead Guy in the Living Room. http://heydeadguy.typepad.com/heydeadguy/

Osahon Akpata, Authoress, Jay Bailey, Howard Berk, Nancy Bilyeau, Sheila Webster Boneham, Ph.D., Dr. Otis Brawley, A.B. Bourne, Eric Burns, Krishnadev Calamur, Dana Cameron, Jeff Cohen, Jack Dougherty, Victoria Dougherty, Gerald Elias, Richard Folkers, Joshua Gaylord (Alden Bell), Paul Goldberg, Traci Hall, Lauren Hennessy, Wayne Henninger, Julia Hersey, Linda Hull, Whitney Johnson, Toni LoTempio, Jennifer O'Connell, Roland Orzabal, Duane Ostler, James Phelan, Keith Raffel, Robert Repino, Geoff Rodkey, Tania Roxborogh, Eric Sakas, Linda Sands, Eric Seder, David Sharpe, Samuel Thomas, Ph.D., Gregory Wallance, Helen Wan, Laurence Westwood, Bradley Wind, Julian Yeo, Cali Yost

January 6, 2012
Fiction: Debut
Time Inc. Assistant General Counsel Helen Wan's THE FIRM OUTING, about a young Chinese-American attorney up for partner at a prestigious New York law firm, navigating her way through the firm's old-boy network until an offensive incident at the summer outing makes her question her choices, to Brenda Copeland at St. Martin's, in a pre-empt, by Josh Getzler at Hannigan Salky Getzler (World English).
Film: Dana Borowitz at UTA ( BorowitzD@unitedtalent.com )
Translation: Jesseca Salky ( jsalky@hsgagency.com )

September 9, 2011
Children's: Young Adult
James Phelan's ALONE: Chasers; ALONE: Survivor; ALONE: Quarantine, in which a 17 year-old is on a summer exchange program in New York City when his subway car is rocked by an explosion; he and his three friends crawl from the wreckage to discover a city in chaos, where the only other survivors seem to be infected with a virus that turns them into predators, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington, in a three-book deal, for publication every few months beginning Fall 2012, by Josh Getzler at Hannigan Salky Getzler (NA).

September 9, 2011
Fiction: Mystery/Crime
Former Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers President Linda Joffe Hull's ETERNALLY 21, the first of a new series featuring Mrs. Frugalicious, who trolls the malls for savings -- until she's framed for shoplifting and suspected of murder, to Terri Bischoff at Midnight Ink, in a three-book deal, by Josh Getzler at Hannigan Salky Getzler (World).

July 25, 2011
Fiction: Mystery/Crime
University of Alabama, Huntsville Professor Samuel Thomas's debut BLOODY NEWES FROM YORK, set in York during the English Civil War and introducing a gentlewoman and midwife and her badass assistant who race to save a friend from being burnt at the stake for treasonous murder, to Charlie Spicer at Minotaur, at auction, in a two-book deal, by Josh Getzler at Hannigan Salky Getzler (NA).

July 25, 2011
Nonfiction: Lifestyle
Harvard Business Review contributor and President of Clay Christensen's investment firm Rose Park Advisors, Whitney L. Johnson's DREAM. DARE. DO.: Remarkable Things Can Happen When You Dare To Dream, based on Johnson's Dare to Dream blog, a manual to inspire women to first value their dreams, then define them, and finally to execute them, whether the dream is to have a career or family, or both, to run a marathon or start taking ballet lessons, to Erika Heilman at Bibliomotion, for publication in May 2012, by Josh Getzler at Hannigan Salky Getzler.
( jgetzler@hsgagency.com )

July 13, 2011
Mystery/Crime
Dog breed expert and author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting and Owning a Dog Sheila Boneham, Ph.D's DROP DEAD ON RECALL, the first of a new series featuring an animal photographer and her Australian Shepherd, to Terri Bischoff at Midnight Ink, in a three-book deal, in a pre-empt, by Josh Getzler at Hannigan Salky Getzler (World).
jgetzler@hsgagency.com Audio:jsalky@hsgagency.com

June 29, 2011
Children's: Middle grade:
Screenwriter of RV and Daddy Day Care Geoff Rodkey's debut THE CHRONICLES OF EGG, alternately pitched as The Princess Bride with 13 year-olds and Harry Potter with Pirates, to Jennifer Besser at Putnam Children's, in a major deal, in a three-book deal, for publication beginning in summer 2012, by Josh Getzler in his first deal since moving to Hannigan Salky Getzler (NA).
Film: Devra Lieb at the Gersh Agency ( dlieb@gershla.com )
Foreign Rights to Sarah Hughes at Penguin Children's UK, at auction, in a good deal, by Kate McClennan at Abner Stein; to Carlsen in Germany, at auction, in a significant deal, by Annelie Geissler at Mohrbooks; to Ediciones B for Spanish & Catalan rights, at auction, by Txell Torrent at MB Agency; to Giunti in Italy, at auction, by Luigi Bernabo Associates; all three-book deals on behalf of Jesseca Salky and Josh Getzler at HSG.

April 21, 2011
Fiction:Mystery/Crime
An Uninvited Ghost author EJ Copperman's next two books in the Haunted Guesthouse mystery series featuring an innkeeper, her daughter, and the two bickering ghosts who live in the house and help her solve mysteries, again to Shannon Jamieson Vazquez at Berkley Prime Crime, by Josh Getzler at Russell & Volkening (World English).
Josh@Randvinc.com

April 21, 2011
Non-fiction:Lifestyle
CEO of Work+Life Fit, consultant, speaker, and author of Work+Life: Finding the Fit That's Right for You Cali Williams Yost's TWEAK: 52 Under-the-Radar Ways to Keep Your Job, and Have a Life…without Anyone Noticing, to Kate Hartson at Center Street, for publication in Jan 2013, by Josh Getzler at Russell & Volkening (World).
josh@Randvinc.com

July 30, 2010
Fiction: Debut
InStyle magazine deputy and books editor Nancy Bilyeau's historical thriller THE LAST NUN, about a novice who is imprisoned in the Tower for breaking the sacred rule of enclosure and, in exchange for her freedom and her father's life, is charged to find a hidden legendary relic that could save the way of life that she loves from Cromwell's advancing army of destruction, to Trish Todd at Touchstone Fireside, in a very nice deal, at auction, by Josh Getzler at Russell & Volkening (NA).

June 17, 2010
Fiction:General/Other
HUMMINGBIRDS author Joshua Gaylord's FRONTIERLAND, set in 1975 Orange County, interweaving the stories of a twelve year-old tomboy and an ex-beauty queen both searching for escape, moving to Marjorie Braman at Holt, by Josh Getzler at Russell & Volkening (World).

March 23, 2010
Fiction: Mystery/Crime
Utah Symphony associate concertmaster Gerald Elias's next two books in a classical music-world mystery series featuring a blind, vulgar, reclusive, miserable violin master -- Death And The Maiden and Death And Transfiguration, again to Michael Homler at Minotaur, by Josh Getzler at Russell & Volkening (world).
Josh@randvinc.com

March 8, 2010
Non-fiction: Memoir
Oncologist and American Cancer Society chief medical officer Otis Webb Brawley, MD's WHAT I KNOW, WHAT I DON'T KNOW, AND WHAT I BELIEVE: A Doctor's Education, offering his perspective on the state of medicine today, with specific attention paid to cancer treatment; with Cancer Letter Editor Paul Goldberg co-writing, to Nichole Argyres at St. Martin's, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2011, by Josh Getzler, in his first deal since moving to Russell & Volkening (world). josh@randvinc.com

Fiction: General/Other
HUMMINGBIRDS author Joshua Gaylord's THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS, about a young woman on a road trip through the post-apocalyptic South as she evades zombies, and the more dangerous threat of the brother of a man she killed in self-defense, all the while ruminating on what it means to be human, to be alive, to live, to die, to Marjorie Braman at Holt, in a very nice deal, at auction, to be published pseudonymously so as not to conflict with his Harper novels, by Josh Getzler at Writers House (NA).

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).

January 12, 2012
Audio Rights
Geoff Rodkey's THE CHRONICLES OF EGG trilogy, to Jennifer Bassuk at Audible, by Jesseca Salky on behalf of Josh Getzler at Hannigan Salky Getzler.

January 12, 2012
International Rights: Children’s
Hebrew rights to Geoff Rodkey's THE CHRONICLES OF EGG trilogy, to Keter, by Efrat Lev at Deborah Harris Agency in association with Jesseca Salky on behalf of Josh Getzler at Hannigan Salky Getzler.

January 12, 2012
International Rights: Fiction
Polish rights to Nancy Bilyeau's THE CROWN, to Filo, by Aleksandra Lapinska at ANAW Literary Agency in association with Jesseca Salky on behalf of Josh Getzler at Hannigan Salky Getzler.

January 5, 2012
Film Rights
Nancy Bilyeau's THE CROWN, about an aristocratic young nun in Tudor England who must find a legendary crown in order to save her father and preserve the Catholic faith from Cromwell's ruthless terror, to co-Producer of "Best Actress" Thelma M Adams at Thelma M Adams Productions, by Josh Getzler at Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency.
JGetzler@hsgagency.com
thelmadams@aol.com

November 16, 2010
International rights: Fiction
Rights to Nancy Bilyeau's THE LAST NUN, to DTV in Germany, at auction, in a two-book deal, in a good deal, by Sebastian Ritscher at Mohrbooks; to Artemis in the Netherlands, by Marianne Schonbach at Marianne Schobach Agency; to Presenca in Portugal, by Amaiur Fernandez at MB Agencia Literaria, bringing the total territories outside the US to six, on behalf of Jesseca Salky and Josh Getzler at Russell & Volkening.
Jesseca@randvinc.com
Josh@randvinc.com

OCTOBER 12, 2010
Film rights
Keith Raffel's SMASHER, to screenwriters John and Patricia Zussman, by Kemper Donovan at Circle of Confusion, on behalf of Josh Getzler at Russell & Volkening. Josh@randvinc.com

AUGUST 16, 2010
International rights: UK Fiction
Foreign rights to InStyle Magazine deputy editor Nancy Bilyeau's THE LAST NUN, to Orion in UK, at auction, in a two-book deal, in a good deal, by Kate Walker at Abner Stein; to Sperling in Italy, by Daniela Bernabo at Bernabo Agency; to Sextante in Brazil, by Tassy Barham, on behalf of Jesseca Salky and Josh Getzler at Russell & Volkening. Jesseca@randvinc.com
Josh@randvinc.com .

November 3, 2009 International rights: Children's
Australian and New Zealand rights to T.K. Roxborogh's BANQUO'S SON Trilogy Books 2 and 3, an epic tale of love, loss and revenge set amidst the turmoil of Scotland after Macbeth, to Vicki Marsdon at Penguin New Zealand, for publication in Fall 2010 and Fall 2011, by Angharad Kowal at Writers House on behalf of Josh Getzler.

October 30, 2009 UK Fiction
Joshua Gaylord writing as Alden Bell's THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS, to Julie Crisp at Tor UK, in a two-book deal, for publication in August 2010, by Angharad Kowal at Writers House on behalf of Josh Getzler.

Foreign rights: Fiction
German rights to Angela S Choi's HELLO KITTY MUST DIE, to btb, at auction, by Bastian Schlueck on behalf of Maja Nikolic and Josh Getzler at Writers House. jgetzler@writershouse.com

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.

Carrie Hannigan, Principal/Agent: channigan@hsgagency.com
Jesseca Salky, Principal/Agent: jselky@hsgagency.com

Assistant: Maddie Raffel mraffel@hsgagency.com

Email only, please. Query Letter plus FIRST 5 or so pages. (If a chapter is 6, go for it!) Synopsis is not necessary. PLEASE no religious fiction or picture books.