Amanda Downum’s STILL SO STRANGE, collecting together her short fiction and including a previously unpublished story, to Sandra Kasturi at ChiZine Publications by Jennifer Jackson.
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February 3, 2017
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Dana Leydig at Puffin has acquired Austin Siegemund-Broka and Emily Wibberley’s UPSTAGED, pitched as a modern-day retelling of Romeo & Juliet, about a teen girl who always winds up playing the Rosaline in her off-stage relationships—the girl before he finds “the one”—but when cast as Juliet in her school play she begins to notice the Romeo she never expected. Publication is scheduled for Summer 2018; Katie Shea Boutillier of Donald Maass Literary Agency brokered the deal for world English rights.
February 1, 2017
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Ada Harper’s A CONSPIRACY OF WHISPERS, a twist on an alpha/omega-style romance set in a world where fertility is a rare and valuable genetic trait, and assassin Olivia Shaw must keep her status as an undocumented fertile woman a secret from the noble who hired her, to Angela James at Carina Press, in a two-book deal, by Caitlin McDonald.
January 24, 2017
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In an eight book deal, Jo Ann Ferguson, writing as Jo Ann Brown, will finish her Amish Hearts series which began with AMISH HOMECOMING in 2016, and then launch a spin-off series called Harmony Creek, acquired by Tina James at Harlequin Love Inspired via Jennifer Jackson.
January 11, 2017
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C.L. Polk’s debut fantasy novel WITCHMARK, in which a doctor returned from a recent war has faked his death to work at a cash-strapped veteran’s hospital, but when a fatally poisoned patient exposes his secret healing powers to a witness, he must put his anonymity and freedom at risk to investigate his patient’s murder, plus an untitled sequel, to Carl Engle-Laird at Tor.com, by Caitlin McDonald.
January 10, 2017
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Three new historical mystery works by best-selling author Anne Perry for publication in 2018, to include the 24th in her William Monk series, the 16th of her Christmas novellas, and the 33rd in her Thomas Pitt series, moving the series into the first decade of the 20th Century with a cast of younger characters and featuring Thomas Pitt’s now-grown son Daniel, in a significant deal to Susanna Porter at Ballantine, by Donald Maass, in association with Meg Davis at Ki Agency in London.
December 5, 2016
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Leslie S. Klinger and Laurie King editing their third anthology of Sherlock Holmes inspired stories, including contributions from Cara Black, Rhys Bowen, Feed Barrel Coleman, Jamie Freveletti, Gregg Hurwitz, and more, to Claiborne Hancock at Pegasus Books, by Donald Maass.
December 2, 2016
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Liz Gorinsky at Tor Books has acquired Mary Robinette Kowal’s THE CALCULATING STARS and THE FATED SKY, an historical science fiction duology in which the devastation of a meteorite hit accelerates the 1950’s space program and building on the universe of her Hugo Award-winning novelette “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” for publication in 2018 via Jennifer Jackson.
November 23, 2016
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Alyssa Raymond and William Kiester at Page Street have bought Lynn Slaughter’s It Should Have Been You, in which a cyberstalked high-school advice columnist takes matters into her own hands to figure out the secrets behind her twin sister’s murder, putting herself in grave danger. Publication is slated for winter 2018; Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency brokered the deal for world rights.
November 10, 2016
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Justina Ireland’s THE NEVER AND THE NOW and a sequel, a futuristic spy duology about cyborgs’ multigenerational battle to be recognized as people, not property, plus a stand-alone science fiction novel, to Miriam Weinberg at Tor, by Amy Boggs.
November 8, 2016