PLANT-BASED DESSERTS AND BAKES, Karla Salinari
Vegan Caribbean-inspired sweets, offering healthy, nourishing takes on traditional treats from cookies, cakes and pies to custards, ice cream and preserves by the author of Abuela’s Plant-Based Kitchen and certified holistic health coach. (Skyhorse, World Rights, Spring 2027)
BIG REACTORS: Practical Strategies for Parenting Highly Sensitive Children, Claire Lerner
An invaluable, practical guide that shows parents how to help their highly sensitive child learn to manage their big emotions and thrive. Highly sensitive children (HSCs) process and react to experiences more deeply than other children. They are sometimes called “spirited,” “deeply feeling,” or “big reactors.” These children are amazing-fierce and feisty, persistent and passionate, […]
ALIENATED, Julie L. Hall
An exploration of how broken attachment, trauma and narcissistic culture have eroded families and society, and how reconnecting to our evolved human needs and capacities can help us to heal and forge a healthier future, from the author of The Narcissist in Your Life and “The Narcissistic Files,’ a resource focused on narcissism and its impact. […]
SALT SISTERS and Untitled Novel, Lindsey J. Palmer
Twin sisters confront their lifelong differences when their paths collide in Cape Cod in a novel that explores the complexities of sisterhood, the twin bond, motherhood and grief–and the courage it takes to let go of what no longer serves you to build a more authentic life. (Lake Union, World Rights, Summer 2026, Summer 2027)
COCKTAILS AROUND THE CLOCK, Nicola Nice
Sociologist, spirits entrepreneur, cocktail historian and Tales of the Cocktail Award-winning author of The Cocktail Parlor uncovers the history, meaning and magic of the cocktail hour and its evolution from a simple pre-dinner libation to a cornerstone of modern hospitality and well-being. (Countryman Press, World English, Fall 2027)
REAR WINDOW, Jennifer O’Callaghan
REAR WINDOW: The Making of a Hitchcock Masterpiece in the Hollywood Golden Age (Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing, September 2025) gives us the definitive, in-depth look inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window—the all-time classic of voyeurism, paranoia, and murder that became one of Hollywood’s greatest achievements and turned generations of viewers into “a race of Peeping Toms.” A […]
MARCO POLO AND THE SILK ROAD, Philip Freeman
Chair of Humanities at Pepperdine University and author of ALEXANDER THE GREAT and JULIUS CAESAR Philip Freeman’s biography of Marco Polo, whose journey along thousands of miles of the Silk Road was chronicled in his own Travels and other medieval sources, from his boyhood in Venice to his trek across Asia to China as a teenager, his years and […]
Bergeron
Josee Bergeron is a Canadian Métis, mother of five, freelance writer, and owner of Backwoods Mama (since 2009) with an educational background in nursing (BScN) and writing (SFU Creative Writing Certificate – currently enrolled). In her upcoming book, Beyond the Front Door, she tells the story of how she, an advocate of raising outdoor children, […]
JDA is currently closed to queries. Check this space for further updates.
Due to the volume of queries we receive, we periodically have to pause queries, sometimes for months at a time. We regret this inconvenience, but it is impossible to keep up with the flow and do justice to the queries we are currently reviewing. We wish you the best in your search for representation. –Joelle […]
THANK YOU FOR REMEMBERING, Emily Harding
A woman with amnesia wakes up a year after a terrible accident to discover that her life has irrevocably changed. She teams up with a charming neighbor to put the pieces of her life back together. (Gallery, World rights, Summer 2026).