Simon & Schuster turned 100 in April 2024 and with this anniversary came a curated list of classic, enduring works called the "Simon & Schuster 100.” We are moved and grateful to see Wally Lamb's extraordinary novel, SHE'S COME UNDONE, gracing this list.

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Annalee Newitz’ THE FUTURE OF ANOTHER TIMELINE is included in Elle magazine’s roundup of novels about reproductive rights. "In Annalee Newitz’s novel, a group of women, who come from different time periods where abortion is banned, travel through time to make edits to history to try to make abortion legal.”

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Robert Zubrin’s book, THE NEW WORLD ON MARS: What Will Create on the Red Planet, was cited in the Congress’ publication, The Hill, and received a full-out rave in Forbes.

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Congrats to James R. Hansen, whose high adventure tale, COMPLETELY MAD: Tom McClean, John Fairfax and the Epic Race to Row Solo Across the Atlantic, garnered a full-page review in the New York Times Book Review. Here, Hansen is lauded for “impressive research, fine storytelling skills and mastery of detail.”
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Publishers Weekly “Deals" column trumpets Annalee Newitz’s impressive three-book deal!
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Robert Zubrin’s new book, THE NEW WORLD ON MARS, has garnered a bouquet of powerful endorsements, including one from Michio Kaku: "Dr. Zubrin has written a magnificent book which will set the Gold Standard for all future books about Mars. He is a pioneer and a visionary, but his conjectures are always based on solid science. His book takes us one step closer to the day when we can live and thrive on another planet.” – Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of The God Equation and Quantum Supremacy.

Our authors Rachel Rabkin Peachman and Anna C. Wilson won the prestigious National Association of Science Writers (NASW) Science in Society Awards for their brilliant book, WHEN CHILDREN FEEL PAIN: From Everyday Aches to Chronic Conditions, WHEN CHILDREN FEEL PAIN. This book was also a runner-up for The Next Big Idea Club:
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Brad Schreiber, author of REVOLUTION’S END, won the 2022 William Randolph Hearst Award for Outstanding Service in Professional Journalism:
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"CBS News Sunday Morning” featured author and fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell in a segment based on her book SKIRTS, a cultural history of modern skirts and dresses. In her interview, she touts the freedom of skirts, points out the original sexless nature of miniskirts, and touches on men projecting strength in skirts.
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Author John Egenes’ transporting, elegiac memoir, MAN & HORSE, was delightfully featured in the film BARBIE and in the press for the
movie. People magazine took notice.
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Author of two agency books, THE FRENCH HOUSE and ONE GREAT GAME, novelist, memoirist, and journalist Don Wallace published a comprehensive and fair-minded piece in Honolulu Magazine on the government's response to the Maui crisis. It closes with a sober assessment: "Climate change has made clear we aren’t First World anymore, not when it comes to fires, floods and pandemics. We’re on an island far out in the Pacific, where fate means we should be each other’s own first responders.”
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Novelist and memoirist Joyce Maynard continues to be a bestselling author is France; here she is profiled in French Elle magazine.
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Annalee Newitz’s STORIES ARE WEAPONS lands on PW’s Spring list of the Top Ten Politics and Current Events books!
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Longtime Chester Agency author Robert Zubrin has been actively publishing op-eds (both in the US and in Ukraine) on the war. Here, he speaks in Kyiv:
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Annalee Newitz’ THE TERRAFORMERS was chosen as a best Science Fiction and Fantasy novel of 2023 (thus far) and is a Barnes & Noble Best Science Fiction of the Year. THE TERRAFORMERS was also chosen for the Los Angeles Times Book Club, an Amazon Pick of February 2022 and a PW Book of the Week! In addition, here are two review excerpts that are all-out raves. Washington Post: "The reader of Annalee Newitz’s third novel, “The Terraformers,” will surely walk away, stunned and bedazzled…this generously overstuffed tale has enough ideas and incidents to populate half a dozen lesser science fiction books. But the reading experience is never clotted or tedious, never plagued by extraneous detours…[Newitz has] gifted us a vibrant, quirky vision of endless potential earned by heroism, love and wit.” The San Francisco Chronicle: “The Terraformers” by Annalee Newitz is undoubtedly destined to become a classic of the hopepunk movement... It takes genuine faith in the future to write science fiction like this, to ask the big questions and offer so many wild and wondrous answers. If you’ve been looking for an antidote to the apocalypse, this novel is for you.”
Amazon Pick of February 2022

We are over the moon and the stars to read this rave from The Washington Post for Amy Poeppel's THE SWEET SPOT: "a warm and charming comedy of manners that hits every note just right...The Sweet Spot is smart, sparkling and very very funny. Don’t let it slip past you unread.”

Novelist and inspirational author Jan Goldstein devoted his podcast “All That Matters” to our deceased founder and president Linda Chester — a beautiful tribute to her spirit and personal mandate to spread compassion and knowledge through books.
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Lovely news: When Children Feel Pain by Rachel Rabkin Peachman and Anna C. Wilson is a Publishers Weekly Book of the Week.
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We are over the moon about Annalee Newitz' three starred reviews for The Terraformers. Here is the glowing Publishers Weekly review: "Newitz performs a staggering feat of revolutionary imagination in this hopeful space-opera."

Brava to author Joyce Maynard whose new novel, THE BIRD HOTEL, will be published by Arcade circa Mother Day's 2023. Per the publisher, THE BIRD HOTEL is a "big sweeping story spanning four decades narrated by an American woman escaping her tragic past in a small Central American village. It follows the gradual reclamation of her life through her experiences as an unlikely hotel owner and the many people she meets on her journey." The book is loosely informed by Joyce's experience at her breathtaking lake house on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, where she hosts memoir workshops and helps writers translate their own stories.
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Brava to client Rachel Rabkin Peachman whose article in The New York Times reveals the disturbing pattern of how children of color often have their pain ignored or devalued by clinicians. Rachel is the co-author, with Anna C. Wilson, of WHEN CHILDREN FEEL PAIN, a major work devoted to the subject of children and pain.
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Annalee Newitz: FOUR LOST CITIES
One of the pinnacles of pop culture success is having one's book be a part of Jeopardy answer. We were tickled to have this honor bestowed on Annalee Newitz's FOUR LOST CITIES!

Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman: THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE KILLED HIS DOG
Congratulations to Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman — their John Wick oral history, THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE KILLED HIS DOG, was excerpted in Entertainment Weekly, and this story was picked up by Variety, IndieWire, the London Independent, Yahoo, NME, and more!
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Our first Mongolian language edition ever: Robert Zubrin's (with Richard Wagner) classic THE CASE FOR MARS! Robert visited Mongolia on behalf of this book, conducted research, and also gave a talk.

Kudos to agency partner and author, Laurie Fox, on the film adaptation of her second novel, THE LOST GIRLS, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Iain Glen and Louis Partridge! To support the film, this novel was re-released by Simon & Schuster as a paperback media tie-in edition. Vulture included THE LOST GIRLS' film release in Summer 2022.
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They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog, the John Wick oral history by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman published by St. Martin's Press receives a rave from Booklist!

FOUR LOST CITIES: A SECRET HISTORY OF THE URBAN AGE by Annalee Newitz is showcased in the New York Times Paperback Row!

Brava to Gayle Brandeis, whose breathtakingly beautiful essay collection, DRAWING BREATH, was acquired by Overcup Press!

World-renown Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh passed away in January 2022. We are most grateful to representing his books, including THE ART OF POWER, that were published by HarperOne.
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A fabulous review of Laura Stanfill's SINGING LESSONS FOR THE STYLISH CANARY in Buzzfeed!

Major sale! James R. Hansen, author of the authorized biography of Neil Armstrong, First Man, that was made into the Oscar-winning major feature film of the same name, has a new biography in progress on the controversial and entirely riveting subject of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's marriage and exploits.

We kicked off 2022 with terrific news: Annalee Newitz's FOUR LOST CITIES was selected by NPR's Science Friday as one of the best science books of 2021.
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Felicitaciones to biographer and art professor Celia Stahr, whose extraordinary FRIDA IN AMERICA was published in Italian with this striking cover.

Gershwin Goes Country! Michael Feinstein, author of GERSHWIN AND ME, has released a new country album featuring some fabulous collaborators.
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A fascinating read, the marvelous and twisty tale of David Corbett's path to publishing his first novel, THE DEVIL'S REDHEAD We are honored to represent his 4 works of his masterful crime fiction and his brilliant book on writing characters, THE ART OF CHARACTER.
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Joyce Maynard's novel COUNT THE WAYS is named one of Amazon's 6 "Best Book Club Reads of 2021":
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Author of Looking for Miss America, Margot Mifflin is quoted in Rolling Stone's article on the Miss America pageant:
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Space and energy scientist and author Robert Zubrin is quoted in Time's "Person of the Year" cover story on Elon Musk: "Genius is a word that is frequently associated with Musk; wisdom is not," he says wryly.

Annalee Newitz's FOUR LOST CITIES is named an NPR Best Book of the Year: "Annalee Newitz sifts through the mystique around their demises in this graceful, engrossing urban history, unearthing not only fascinating narratives but poignant warnings about why some places slide into the past.
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Laura Stanfill's SINGING LESSONS FOR THE STYLISH CANARY is a Rumpus Book Club pick!
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The Wall Street Journal names Elizabeth Brundage's VANISHING POINT one of the Best Novels of the Year!
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David Bianculli, author of the Smothers Brothers biography, DANGEROUSLY FUNNY, is a riveting guest on Marc Maron's WTF podcast on "Canceled Comedy."
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Joyce Maynard's COUNT THE WAYS is named a Amazon Best Book of the Year: 2021, and wins the Grand Prix Francaise for Best American Novel!
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Father of the cell phone, Marty Cooper's memoir, CUTTING THE CORD, is featured on CBS News.

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We're delighted by this tender and knowing review of Erica Heller's collection ONE LAST LUNCH in Honeysuckle magazine by Michael James Moore: "The pulverizing essays by Erica Heller that begin and end this book of lamentations are superb."
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