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, Wild Fire, hit #2 on The New York Times and # 1 on the 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, The Gate House, a sequel to the DeMille’s classic bestseller The Gold Coast, will have a first printing of 1.3 million and is a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.  Visit the author’s website at nelsondemille.net.

Christopher Moore’s most recent novel, A Dirty Job, was a major New York Times bestselling work, spending several weeks on that list.  It debuted at #1 on the Book Sense National Bestseller list, #1 on The Los Angeles Times Bestseller list, #9 on the Publishers Weekly Bestseller list, #9 on the Wall Street Journal list and was one of Library Journal’s Best Books of the Year.  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.  Chris is the only author to have won best novel in General Fiction and Fantasy categories with for the Quill awards—a nationwide poll of readers and booksellers.  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.  Chris’ upcoming novel, Fool¸ is a story of a bawdy and lascivious—but quick as a whip—court jester in Elizabethan England and sure to be a success, with a print order of 350,000 copies in hardcover.  Visit the author’s website at chrismoore.com.

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.  Hailed as being “a refreshing, and oddly hopeful, look at the fate of the environment,” by Business Week, The World Without Us 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.  The book quickly became an International bestseller, with over two million copies sold in over 30 languages.  Alan has also written Gaviotas, the story of a self-sustaining community in the brutal savannas of war-ravaged Colombia, with an upcoming 10-year anniversary edition to be released.

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. His latest book, The Moonpool, is the third 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.

Jeff Lindsay’s chilling thriller, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, was sold to Doubleday as part of a high, six figure, two-book deal.  This debut novel earned him glowing reviews and became the Showtime Series “Dexter” starring Michael C. Hall, a #1 ranked cable TV show, with 3rd and 4th seasons upcoming.  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.”   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 his third book, Dexter in the Dark, debuted at #7 on The New York Times Bestseller list.  Jeff’s upcoming Dexter by Design is due out in 2009.

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” and Time Magazine hailed it as a “Must Read of Summer.”  Sarah’s upcoming novel, Secrets to Happiness, will be a more than worthy successor to The Big Love.  Secrets to Happiness is a story of life, love, and friendship in Manhattan.  It is the first book in a substantial seven-figure deal with Little, Brown.

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 The 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.”

Charles Wohlforth’s exceptional non-fiction book, The Whale and the Supercomputer, has been alternately hailed as “beautifully written” by Publishers Weekly in its starred review and “a fascinating narrative” by Men’s Journal.  The Whale and the Supercomputer 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.  Charles’ upcoming book, Hidden Waters, will explore the human heart and learn why the oceans are dying, with hope to redeem nature and ourselves.

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, which Booklist hailed as “an equally exquisite study of human nature.”

Thomas Christopher Greene’s impressive debut novel, Mirror Lake, earned accolades both here and in the UK.   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.  With The Envious Moon, a classic story of great love and great tragedy, Tom earned an international following that continues to grow.

Matthew Scott Hansen’s debut novel of suspense, The Shadowkiller, was sold at auction to Simon & Schuster in a substantial World English rights deal.  Thanks to Matthew’s background in Hollywood screenwriting, The Shadowkiller is an intensely cinematic tale of a Bigfoot terrorizing suburban Seattle.

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 celebrated as “an enjoyable mixture of farce and fairy tale” by Publishers Weekly.

Perri Knize is the author of a non-fiction/memoir about the search for the perfect piano and the world of dedicated piano collectors entitled Grand Obsession.  Knize was hailed by The Washington Post as having written “a memoir about passion and ephemerality with lasting elegance and grace.”

Former Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman scribe Lynn Philips’ guide Self-Loathing for Beginners caused Library Journal to rave that it is a “smart, accessible title” that “will entertain audiences from precocious high schoolers to retirees.” The Chicago Sun-Times notes that Self-Loathing for Beginners “is so smart and densely funny that several times I had to pause, just to hate myself for not writing it.”