SELECTED BENT AGENCY DEALS

NONFICTION

Laura Kindred and Alexandra Lydon's WORST LAID PLANS, a compilation of real-life, first person accounts of terrible sex based on the authors' live storytelling event of the same name which plays at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and Los Angeles, to David Cashion at Abrams Image, at auction, for publication in 2010, by Jenny Bent on behalf of Sarah Self at The Gersh Agency (NA).

Celia Rivenbark's next two humor collections, covering everything from psychos who still think Clay Aiken will marry their daughters to using her mom as a "beard" to crash senior bingo to campaigning (unsuccessfuly) to get in her hometown's hall of fame, to Jennifer Enderlin at St. Martin's, in a good deal, for publication in September 2010, by Jenny Bent (world).

Desiree Washington's WHAT WE DON'T TELL, chronicling her twenty-year struggle from the time she filed rape charges (as an 18-year-old honor student and pageant contestant) against former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, to Malaika Adero at Atria, at auction, by Jenny Bent (world English).

FICTION

Amanda Ashby's untitled series about middle-grade series about a girl who accidentally gets turned into a djinn (genie) the day before starting sixth grade and has to learn to deal with her new powers without her mom finding out, to Karen Chaplin at Puffin, in a three-book deal, by Jenny Bent (world English).

Elle Jasper's THE DARK INK CHRONICLES, pitched as LA INK meets TWILIGHT/LOST BOYS in which a gorgeous, tough-as-nails tattoo artist pairs up with Savannah's unlikely guardian-unpredictable, a sexy vampire, and together they take on a pair of blood-thirsty vampire brothers determined to control the city's youth, to Laura Cifelli at NAL, in a three-book deal, by Jenny Bent (World English).

Kieran Kramer's THE IMPOSSIBLE BACHELORS series, focusing on four Regency-era bachelors commanded by the Prince Regent to participate in a bet to see who among them will remain unwed another year, to Jennifer Enderlin at St. Martin's, in a good deal, in a four-book deal, for publication in spring 2010, by Jenny Bent(world).

New York Times bestselling author Julia London's THE SECRETS OF HADLEY GREEN, Desperate Housewives set in Regency England featuring love and scandal (and a mysterious narrator) in a small enclave south of London, to Maggie Crawford at Pocket, in a significant deal, in a four-book deal, for publication in fall 2010, fall 2011, by Jenny Bent at The Bent Agency (world).

LuAnn McLane's THE CRICKET CREEK BASEBALL Trilogy, in which three hometown heroes save the town from its financial woes and manage to find love along the way, to Laura Cifelli at NAL, in a three-book deal, by Jenny Bent (World English).

John McNally's AFTER THE WORKSHOP, a comic novel of an Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate and failed writer who, as a media escort living in Iowa City, loses one author and her baby, is harangued by an evil publicist, and is paid a midnight visit by a reclusive author with designs of his own, to Jack Shoemaker at Counterpoint, for publication in 2010, by Jenny Bent at The Bent Agency (world English).

Beth Pattillo's THE TRUTH ABOUT JANE EYRE, in which a contemporary would-be governess discovers she may have far more in common with Charlotte Bronte herself than she does with the author's fictional heroine, to Beth Adams at Guideposts, by Jenny Bent (world).

Lori Roy's BENT ROAD, in which the disappearance of a young girl in Kansas sets in motion twin mysteries: Is her abductor the same one who committed a doppelganger crime some years before?, to Denise Roy at Dutton, in a good deal, at auction, by Jenny Bent (world English).

New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands’ next three Regency-set historical romances, to Erika Tsang at Avon.

Lori Wilde's next two books set in Twilight, Texas, featuring former high school sweethearts who get a second chance at love, to Lucia Macro at Avon, by Jenny Bent at The Bent Agency (world English).