Charlotte Gusay Literary Agency


		The Castle Way tells the story of Anthony Russell, an aristocratic boy (Lord Ampthill, former Chairman of Committees, House of Lords, father; Duke of Bedford, cousin; Bertrand Russell, philosopher, cousin) who grew up in the prettiest castle in the world but struggled to find his way in the bizarre surroundings and lifestyle he found himself in due to Read More>>
		"I feel that this is a book that I have been taking submissions for over the past ten years as hundreds of poets/artists/writers have handed me their work with hopes that I would read it. My goal is to create an important book that connects varied voices into a cohesive work of art that stands out as a generational testament of our times. This collection will feature the writings of young street poets, students, and outsiders, and will serve as the definitive handbook for all artists who seek confirmation of their creative visions and outlook." --niggytardust, aka Saul Williams
		[Note: This title Mother Ash by award-winning Greek author Alexis Stamatis has been cancelled. Unfortunately, the publisher was unable to obtain the funding required to pay for the translation. ] Award-winning Greek novelist Alexis Stamatis introduces the reader into the earthly paradise of Greece, with its spectacular sunsets and crisp blue ocean views. However, this beautiful façade hides a world of deception, lust, greed, death, and ultimately redemption. Alkis and his family have been tortured read more >>
		The Charlotte Gusay Literary Agency represents the film rights to this prolific and well known Irish writer’s novel Light a Penny Candle and it is now on offer for film adaptation. (First published by Viking in 1982; Signet edition now in its eighth printing.) read more >>
		Wild West 2.0 covers many issues about what can and cannot be said or done about your reputation and your privacy on the internet including First Amendment rights, free speech, libel, slander, the internet as tattoo parlour, scarlet content on the internet, trashy websites, cyber-gossip and people believing only the gossip even when presented with proof of the truth, google insurance, electronic warfare, google is not God, online stalker + lurking = sturking, bolstering or cleaning up the dirt about your online life, google as machine and indeed, that machine is US, you and me. Among much innovative thinking about the internet and savvy techno charm, Michael Fertik and co-author David Thompson tell you why it is important and how to protect and defend your reputation on the internet, including not only you, but your children’s reputation and your company’s reputation and much more. read more >>
		What does it take to go from being simply average to becoming a top-ranked sales professional? Honesty Sells has the answers—not quick fixes, gimmicky systems, tricks, or flimsy techniques. The book does not teach you how to manipulate customers to do what you want. Honesty Sells will demonstrate how an optimum model of sales behavior—one that is used by the top 10 percent of sales performers everywhere—can help you build an open, honest and profitable relationship with your customers, no matter how time-impoverished, overworked, understaffed or under-resourced they, and their clients may be. read more >>
		Bestselling and well-known Greek writer Alexis Stamatis' novel American Fugue was inspired by the American midwest when he was in the United States in 2004. American Fugue was published September 2008 by Etruscan Press. Author Alexis Stamatis has published eight novels and six collections of poetry published in Greece. Two have been translated and published, two into English and Bar Flaubert - into several foreign editions, including a recently released UK edition from Arcadia Publishing. read more >>
		On December 17, 1996, masked members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), a deadly band of insurgents, stormed the lavish birthday party of the Japanese ambassador to Peru. They seized his residence and demanded the release of four hundred of their comrades from prison – or they would kill all the hostages. One of the hostages, Luis Giampietri, a former field commander of special operations forces, would play a crucial role in a complex commando rescue operation planned by Peru’s president, Alberto Fujimori. Here is Giampietri’s riveting inside account of the unnerving ordeal, the rescue that took all of 41 seconds from start to finish, and the operation’s unexpected ramifications. By turns encouraging and cautionary, this book is an invaluable account of one of the most dramatic terrorist hostage incidents in history.. read more >>
		In its presentation of 17 extraordinary homes, this sumptuous book takes the reader behind the gates of some of today’s most inspiring residential estates, from the exclusive neighborhoods of Beverly Hills to the bluff tops overlooking the Pacific Ocean. read more >>

		"BEACHGLASS takes you into the rooms of AA and rehab with the startling, powerful clarity of one who knows this precarious terrain all too well. A new and promising talent, Wendy Blackburn writes with a refreshing sense of honesty, hope and renewal." —James Brown, author of THE LOS ANGELES DIARIES read more >>

		“hip-hop’s poet laureate…Saul Williams isn’t out to save hip-hop, but he is out to elevate the art form [and] is effectively breaking boundaries while blurring the line between poetry and rap.”—CNN "A profound poet who inspires us." —Russell Simmons read more >>

		David Shields’s NYT bestseller The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (Knopf/Vintage) has been optioned for film development by producer/screenwriter Lindsey Simpson. Time Magazine’s Lev Grossman called the book “an edifying, wise, unclassifiable mixture of filial love and Oedipal rage.” Shields and Simpson are collaborating on the screenplay in which a writer probes his family members to develop a novel based on the pains of growing up at every age. His research reveals more about his body and his family than he ever could have planned for. But the outcome is a witty and insightful commentary on what it means to grow up and die.

New and Noteworthy
The following is an interview by editor/writer Jeff Rivera with literary agent Charlotte Gusay from Galley Cat (May 17, 2010.) Galley Cat is the savvy publishing website which "publishes" book/publishing news, book reviews and all things up to date on publishing every day under the "banner" of MediaBistro. Read More >>

Charlotte Gusay’s love of the literary has deep roots. She founded and ran for many years the prestigious book shop George Sand, Books on Melrose in West Hollywood. In 1988 (two years after a new little girl came into her life), she closed the book shop and started her literary agency. Much to her delight...
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