Publishers Marketplace: The Latest Deals: “Bestselling author of THE SOCIOPATH NEXT DOOR Martha Stout PhD’s THE PARANOIA SWITCH: The Psychology of Trauma and The Politics of Fear, on what terror and fear politics have done to our minds, and to the very biology of our brains, to Sarah Crichton at Sarah Crichton Books, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, by Susan Lee Cohen at Riverside Literary Agency (world English).”
This is an important subject.
A significant deal in the Publishers Marketplace lexicon is a lot of money (251-499K).
Update: a reader wrote to ask me for more info. I don’t know anything beyond what is posted above, but my guess is that the thrust of her book is that we all have a degree of post-traumatic stress in current environment. It is well known that trauma affects chemistry and operation of certain centers in the brain (the amygdala).
From a publishing point of view, this is a lot of money for a non-fiction book about psychology, which suggests that 1) THE SOCIOPATH NEXT DOOR must have sold quite well and 2) they are planning to promote the bejeezus out of THE PARANOIA SWITCH.
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