THE LADY MATADOR'S HOTEL by Cristina Garcia (Scribner) and SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (Algonquin) have both been selected for the September 2010 "Indie Next List".

The Best Books of the Year... So Far are hand-picked by Amazon.com Books editors and represent their favorite titles in four categories: an overall Top 10, plus 10 books each in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers. One of Top 10 books of the year so far * "The Passage" by Justin Cronin

The Goi Peace Award selection committee will bestow the 2010 Goi Peace Award on Deepak Chopra, M.D., a world authority in the field of mind-body medicine, in recognition of his visionary leadership in promoting global peace and well being through human empowerment.

T. Jefferson Parker has been nominated for best novel for the Strand Critics awards

20th Century Fox has acquired the film rights to Jane Heller's AN EX TO GRIND, with Cameron Diaz and Benicio del Toro attached to the project. Laura Bickford ("Duplicity") and Julie Yorn ("Bride Wars") will produce the film

Paul Harding's book TINKERS won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Trident Media Group was the number one agency in the world for sales of book contracts in 2009 according to Publisher's Market Place. Com. This is the ninth year in a row for Trident to retain the number one position in sales of all Literary Agencies.

"Winter's Bone", a film based on Daniel Woodrell's novel WINTER'S BONE, has been chosen for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, as well as the 2010 Berlin Film Festival.

Trident sold Isaac Asimov's 1955 time travel novel THE END OF ETERNITY to New Regency, with Vince Gerardis at Created By producing. (The book had been optioned by Paramount, intended for Ridley Scott and Tom Cruise).

The Boston Globe has chosen the GILEAD by Marilynne Robinson as one of the best books of the decade.

C.E. Morgan was named one of the 2009 National Books Awards "5 Under 35"

Vu Tran was the winner of a 2009 Whiting Award for fiction

Trident Media Group was the number one agency in the world for sales of book contracts in 2008 according to Publisher's Market Place. Com. This is the eighth year in a row for Trident to retain the number one position in sales of all Literary Agencies.

Trident sells second I, ROBOT movie for the Isaac Asimov Estate to Fox Movie Studio in a major deal.

Trident sells Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATION trilogy to Columbia Pictures for the Isaac Asimov Estate in a major deal. Director Roland Emmerich and his producing partner Michael Wimer will produce.

See front page of Variety 1/20/09 for more details and the New York Times Arts and Leisure section 1/20/09.

"MAKING JACK FALCONE" by Jack Garcia, New York Times hardcover bestseller

Lawrence Hill has been named the 2009 winner of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's annual Canada Reads competition for SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME

Laila Lalami, author of the forthcoming novel SECRET SON, has been selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader 2009.

Marilynne Robinson's HOME has been nominated for the L.A. Times Book Prize in Fiction.

MERMAIDS IN THE BASEMENT by Michael Lee West has been nominated for the 2009 SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alli) Award for Fiction.

The Fellowship of Southern Writers has awarded Moira Crone with the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction.

Mary Alice Monroe's TIME IS A RIVER was nominated for a SIBA Award.

Guggenheim Fellowship (officially a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship) Ridenhour Prize

James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism

Gil Adamson’s "THE OUTLANDER" has been chosen by The Washington Post Book World as 1 of 5 best novels of 2008

"INTO THE DEVIL'S DEN" by Katherine Ramsland won Book of the Year in the 2008 New Mexico Book Awards.

North American rights to bestselling Russian fantasy writer Alexei Pekhov's "SHADOW PROWLER" and two more books in his trilogy, which have sold over a million copies in Russia, were sold to Tom Doherty at Tor in a pre-empt, with Pat LoBrutto editing, by Robert Gottlieb and John Silbersack at Trident Media Group. "SHADOW PROWLER" was translated prior to the sale.

"LOSING IT: AND GAINING MY LIFE BACK ONE POUND AT A TIME" by Valerie Bertinelli #1 New York Times Hardcover Bestseller

"sTORI TELLING" by Tori Spelling New York Times Hardcover Bestseller

"DEAD HEAT" by Joel C. Rosenberg New York Times Hardcover Bestseller

According to PublishersMarketplace.com Trident Media Group is rated the NUMBER ONE Literary agency in America in deal making for publishing contracts since year 2000

"THE NIGHT TOURIST" Katherine Marsh has won the 2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in the Juvenile category

Lawrence Hill - The Commonwealth Prize - "THE BOOK OF NEGROES" (HarperCollins Canada)(Please note that the above book was published under a different title in the US: SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME (Norton))

Chris Abani - Pen Beoynd Margins Award - "SONG FOR NIGHT" (Akashic Books)

Naeem Murr - Pen Beyond Margins Award - "THE PERFECT MAN" (Random House)

USA Today Top Summer Reading list:

• "SOMEWHERE IN HEAVEN" by Christopher Anderson (Hyperion)
  
• "TIME IS A RIVER" by Mary Alice Monroe (Pocket Books)
  
• "WAR JOURNAL" by Richard Engel (Simon & Schuster)

"DUNE" by Frank Herbert won an Audio Award for Best Science Fiction Audiobook of 2007.