Hi Friends,   Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years on Death Row as an innocent man—he was released in 2015 thanks to the tireless work of his attorney, Bryan Stevenson. I met Ray (as his friends call him) in 2016 when I began working with him as his collaborative writer for The Sun Does Shine, which became a New York Times Bestseller, reached #1 on Amazon, and was a 2018 Oprah Book Club pick. Ray has become a big part of our IA family, and is someone I personally admire, love, respect, and never...

Hi Friends,   Dr. Becca Levy’s closeness with her lively and whip smart grandmother made her wonder—why do some people seem to grow in vitality as they age and others do not? What she found from her world-leading research at Yale astonished her and transforms what we know about aging: our age beliefs can add or detract up to seven years from our lives.  Dr. Levy is one of the world’s leading experts and a pioneer in the field of aging, and her revolutionary new book that publishes...

IDEA ARCHITECTS (IA), a leading non-fiction US literary agency is thrilled to announce that after twenty years as CEO, Doug Abrams will be transitioning to President and Founder, focusing on overall growth and strategy for the agency, strategic partnerships, film and television development, and book and film writing. Lara Love Hardin (COO) and Rachel Neumann (CSO)  have been promoted to Co-CEOs, and will be bringing their decades of agenting and publishing experience to leading and growing the...

Hi Friends,   We want to share with you the debut memoir by Dr. Benjamin Gilmer, a front-line doctor with an amazing true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal. With deep compassion and an even deeper sense of justice, Dr. Benjamin Gilmer’s dive into the mystery of the "other" Dr. Gilmer is a story we didn't want to wait to share, so we are offering you this exclusive sneak peek at the...

Hi Friends,   We are excited to share with you here Silvia Vasquez-Lavado’s unforgettable memoir, In The Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage. This is the debut book from IA True, our memoir division that develops remarkable first-person stories of resilience, justice, and inspiration into book and film. The early response to Silvia's book has been astounding, but not surprising. When we first met Silvia, and she told us her story, we were smitten with her charm, her...

Hi Friends, Happy new year! We know a new year doesn’t mean an automatic reset;  we don’t leave our worries and anxieties behind just because we crack open a new planner or flip the page on our calendar. But the new year is a good time to reorient, realign, and reignite our intentions. It can spark that voice inside of us that encourages us to focus on the things that matter to us most. Our inner voice can be our biggest advocate— but it can also turn into our biggest critic.   This...

Dear Friends, As you no doubt have heard, Archbishop Tutu has left our world at age 90. Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and support as we grieve the loss of our beloved Father, known to all as Arch, who blessed the world with his boundless love, his moral vision, and his infectious laughter, which I still hear ringing in my ears and lightening my grief. I feel so grateful to have been able to spend so much time with him and to have known his fierce and generous love. I'm also so...