Publisher's Weekly named THE CARDTURNER by Louis Sachar (Delacorte) one of the “Best Children's Books” of 2010.

Gayle Trent’s THE QUICK AND THE THREAD nominated for Romantic Times’ Best Mystery and Suspense Novel award in the “Amateur Sleuth” category.

ABC purchases William Martin’s book, CITY OF DREAMS for original television series.

SANCTUARY LINE by Jane Urquhart and CITIES OF REFUGE by Michael Helm, both published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart, were long-listed for the Giller Prize.

The 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize awarded to THE BOOK OF NIGHT WOMEN by Marlon James. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is “the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States. The Prize celebrates the power of literature to promote peace and global understanding.”

The PEN American Center awarded Paul Harding, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning TINKERS, the Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers.

THE LADY MATADOR'S HOTEL by Cristina Garcia (Scribner) and SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (Algonquin) 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 was THE PASSAGE by Justin Cronin.

The Goi Peace Award selection committee bestowed 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 was nominated for best novel for the Strand Critics Awards.

20th Century Fox 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 PublishersMarketPlace. com. This is the ninth year in a row for Trident to retain the number one position in sales out of every Literary Agency.

“Winter's Bone,” a film based on Daniel Woodrell's novel WINTER'S BONE, was 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 producing. (The book had been optioned by Paramount, intended for Ridley Scott and Tom Cruise).