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WE SHARE THE SAME SKY has a new look!

Rachael Cerrotti’s WE SHARE THE SAME SKY: A Memoir of Memory and Migration has a new cover, which I love. “Rachael Cerrotti’s narrative, and all Holocaust-related memoirs, should be told and retold, read and reread. Though the survivors are leaving us now, their stories remain and will be part of our collective memory: the part […]

HOW FREAKING ROMANTIC, Emily Harding

From the co-author of the For the Love of Austen series comes a feisty debut rom-com, How Freaking Romantic (Gallery Books, July 2025). In this sharply funny solo debut, an aspiring lawyer is forced to work alongside the opposing counsel in her best friend’s divorce case, which leads to the biggest irreconcilable difference of all: love. Beatrice Nilsson is […]

THE MINIATURIST’S ASSISTANT, Katherine Scott Crawford

“The Miniaturist’s Assistant is a multifaceted love story wrapped in a mystery that unfurls on the changing winds of history. A rollicking, page-turning tale, this unforgettable novel explores time travel, art, passion, the complexity of past sins, and the abundant promises embedded in the here and now. Katherine Scott Crawford has written a beautiful book steeped […]

JDA is pausing new submissions as of 10/1/25

Due to an avalanche of submissions, we’ll be pausing new submissions as of 5/27/2025, unless we have specifically requested materials.  Thank you for your understanding and good luck in your search for representation.–Joelle Delbourgo

FOLLOWING NATURE’S LEAD: Ancient Ways of Living in a Dying World, Mark D. Usher

In the spirit of E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, a dazzling and revelatory exploration of what ancient ideas and ways of living can teach us about creating a more sustainable world How should we think and live in a world facing environmental catastrophe? In this urgent, original, and wide-ranging book, classicist and farmer M. D. […]

CRISIS ON MOUNT HOOD: Stories From 100 Years of Mountain Rescue, Christopher Van Tilburg

In Crisis on Mount Hood: Stories from 100 Years of Mountain Rescue (Mountaineers Books, May 2025), author and emergency room doctor Christopher Van Tilburg looks at the history of America’s oldest all-volunteer mountain rescue team, the Hood River Crag Rats, and his own three-decade commitment to search and rescue. Centered on Oregon’s iconic 11,249-foot-high Mount Hood, […]

SCOUT CAMP: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America, James Renner

In his most explosive book to date, SCOUT CAMP: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies inside the Boy Scouts of America (Citadel, February 2025), acclaimed journalist, author, creator of the True Crime This Week podcast, and former Boy Scout James Renner, explores the dark side of an American institution, its pervasive culture of sexual abuse, and the traumatic—even […]

THE POWER OF COLLABORATION, Tricia Cerrone and Edward J. van Luinen

Former Walt Disney Imagineering creative executive and storyteller Tricia Cerrone and CEO of Global Talent Builders Edward J. van Luinen share a roadmap to building stronger leaders, happier teams, and big results in an increasingly competitive marketplace. (Bloomsbury, World Rights, Fall 2026)

Hays

Tommy Hays is an acclaimed Southern writer, whose fiction grows out of his emotional connections to places he’s lived and known—Greenville, South Carolina; Asheville, North Carolina; and Atlanta.  His novel, The Marriage Bed, was published by Blair in March 2026.  His prior novels are The Pleasure Was Mine (St. Martin’s Press 2005), In the Family […]

BEYOND THE PINK, Eleonora Teplinsky MD

Head of breast medical oncology at Valley-Mount Sinai and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s patient-centered guide to breast cancer, focusing on the physical and mental health challenges of young breast cancer previvors survivors and thrivers. (Grand Central Balance/Hachette, world rights, Spring 2026)