From Publisher's Marketplace, Dec. 9, 2011
Rights to Julie Kibler's CALLING ME HOME, to Garzanti in Italy, Znanje in Croatia, Plaza & Janes in Spain, and Empuries for Catalanese rights, by Jenny Meyer on behalf of Elisabeth Weed at Weed Literary.
From Publisher's Marketplace, Sept. 19, 2011
Julie Kibler's CALLING ME HOME, in which an 89-year-old recounts the story of her forbidden relationship with the black son of her family's housekeeper and its tragic consequences in 1930s Kentucky, as she travels cross-country to a funeral with her dear friend, a young black hairstylist with family troubles of her own, to Hilary Rubin Teeman at St. Martin's, at auction, for publication in 2013, by Elisabeth Weed at Weed Literary (US/CAN/OM).
elisabeth@weedliterary.com
Foreign rights: to Jenny Geras at Pan Macmillan in a pre-empt, to Piper in Germany, to Belfond in France, to Aschehoug in Norway, to Artemis in Holland, to Novo Conceito in Brazil, by Jenny Meyer at Jenny Meyer Literary Agency on behalf of Elisabeth Weed.
From The Bookseller, Sept. 20, 2011
Pan Mac pre-empts literary debut
