Steve Ross Negotiates His First Book Deal at Abrams Artists Agency

In his first book deal at a new literary agency, Steve Ross has sold You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises for Men and Women by trainer Mark Lauren to Ballantine after a two-day auction.

Ross–the former president of HarperCollins’ Collins Division–was named director of the brand new book division of Abrams Artists Agency in July.

Here’s more about the book: “an ingeniously simple exercise program for using the body you have to build and sculpt the body you want. Author Mark Lauren has trained nearly 1,000 elite US military Special Ops soldiers using this program. His collaborator on the book, Joshua Clark, was an NBCC Finalist for his memoir about surviving Katrina, Heart Like Water, and is also a certified personal trainer.”