Scott Reardon’s debut The Prometheus Man, about a CIA team put together to take down a genetically engineered soldier gone rogue, and another book, to Wes Miller at Mulholland Books in a mid-six-figure deal by Stacia Decker.
Camille Griep’s second novel, a retelling of the Trojan War set in a modern post plague country, focusing on the historical characters of Cassandra and Cressida, tragic figures in Greek mythology and again in Shakespeare, where the two women are pitted against each other by the men in power, and each woman chafes against the expectations and limitations of her community, again to Jason Kirk at 47 North, for publication in Spring 2016, by Cameron McClure.
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s next two novels in the popular Liaden series, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Two new anthologies from Leslie S. Klinger: In the Company of Sherlock Holmes II (with Laurie King) and In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe, to Claiborne Hancock at Pegasus Books, by Donald Maass.
Cherie Priest’s BRIMSTONE, in which a shellshocked WW1 survivor may be receiving via the ashes of burned buildings love letters from his dead wife and seeks the help of a friendly medium in a historic spiritualist community as inspired by a real place and a real set of bizarre (otherworldly?) incidents, to Anne Sowards at Penguin Random House by Jennifer Jackson.
Crime novelist Emily Winslow’s memoir, JANE DOE JANUARY, about the author’s rape in 1992 and the cold-case prosecution of her rapist over 20 years later which pulls her back home to America from her far-away married life in England, exploring her desire for retribution and the ways in which the criminal justice system both validates us and fails us, to Deb Brody at William Morrow, by Cameron McClure.
Molly Tanzer’s THE PLEASURE MERCHANT, a novel set in 18th century London where Tom Dawne, a former wigmaker’s apprentice and aspiring gentleman finds his modest desires changing as he climbs the social ladder, until he is offered his greatest pleasure, but for a price, to Cameron Pierce at Lazy Fascist by Cameron McClure.
Woke Up Lonely author Fiona Maazel’s third novel, What Kind of A Man, about a man with dubious superhuman abilities who is being blackmailed with incriminating photos of an assault he doesn’t remember committing, whose search for the truth leads him to uncover secret research at a neurological institute his parents founded, to Fiona McCrae at Graywolf Press, by Stacia Decker.
Advice Goddess Amy Alkon’s next science-based advice book, “Unf*ck Yourself!”, a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps guide to living a happier life by learning how to grow a pair, again to Michael Flamini at St. Martin’s Press by Cameron McClure at the Donald Maass Literary Agency in association with Ken Sherman at Ken Sherman & Associates.
Bram Stoker Award nominee Ronald Malfi’s THE NIGHT PARADE, a psychological horror novel about a man and his 9-year-old daughter who are on the run through an America whose population has been decimated by a mysterious plague, pitched as in the vein of BIRD BOX, plus a second novel, again to Peter Senftleben at Kensington, for publication in Summer 2016, by Cameron McClure.