FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AUGUST 30, 2005
PMA CONSUMMATES “ORGASMIC DEAL”
WITH ST. MARTIN'S PRESS
WITH ST. MARTIN'S PRESS
Peter Miller, President of PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc., is proud to announce the sale of the North American English Language Rights to The One Hour Orgasm written by Drs. Leah and Bob Schwartz to Jennifer Weis, Executive Editor, and Matthew Shear, Publisher, of Griffin/St. Martin's Press. Griffin will be repackaging and taking over distribution of The New York Times Bestseller, The One Hour Orgasm for publication in Summer 2006 in Trade Paperback. This book will be followed by a second major new book, as of yet untitled book, also concerning the topic of orgasm, by Dr. Leah Schwartz, Walter Maksym and Satoko Kitamura, in the Spring of 2007. PMA manages Foreign and other Subsidiary Rights for these titles. The “Venus Butterfly” technique detailed in the book is based on over 30 years of research and courses taught at More University and the Institute of Human Abilities in Northern California. Both tasteful and explicit, the book provides one of the most effective methods for couples to improve their intimacy with one another. With a commitment of just a few minutes a week, the doctors promise immediate results that will put relationships back on the road to pleasure, excitement, fun and fulfillment.
“Dr. Leah” and her late-husband, “Dr. Bob,” known for decades as America's foremost relationship and sex educators, received their Ph.D.s in Life Styles and Sensuality, respectively, from California's More University. They have coached countless couples on how to enjoy fuller, more joyful relations in and out of the bedroom. Their loving collaboration, The One Hour Orgasm™, was recently featured in the blockbuster movie Meet the Fockers and parodied in Mad Magazine. They have been enthusiastically received on such nationally and internationally prominent venues as Oprah, HBO's Real Sex, Barbara Walters, The View, CNBC, and Sally Jesse Raphael. In addition to more than 2,000 other radio and television shows throughout the world. They have been quoted in USA Today and in major magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Men's Health and Redbook. Together, they also created the Diets Don't Work™ Seminars in 1978, and subsequently wrote Diets Don't Work™, the Harvard University School of Public Health's recommended book that became the first ever self-published New York Times Bestseller in the 1980s.
Dr. Leah's collaborators on Perfect Pleasure: Beyond the One Hour Orgasm™, companion book are Walter Maksym and his wife, Satoko Kitamura, who received Expansion of Sexual Potential Certifications from More University. Walter, a long time advisor to More University, the late Dr. Victor Baranco, its founder and creator of the “More Philosophy,” the late Dr. Bob, and The Institute of Human Abilities is a Master of the “More Philosophy.” Known as “The Orgasm Professor,™ ” he holds a Masters of Communication Degree from More University in addition to several Law Degrees from other universities. An Author, Publisher and Film Producer who has taught and lectured law and other subjects, Walter is also the owner of Perfect Pleasure: Beyond the One Hour Orgasm™ and Diets Don't Work™ and is the President of Diets Don't Work, Inc., an educational corporation. He has appeared on Oprah, CNN, Fox, and numerous other TV, cable and radio shows, served as a Commissioner of the Illinois Supreme Court and has long been the Lawyer Super-Lawyers, Judges, educational institutions and entrepreneurs seek out when they need the best.
For more information, contact Peter Miller, PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc. at 212.929.1222 or
