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.
Jo Ann Ferguson writing as Jo Ann Brown’s AN AMISH HOMECOMING, the first in new series “Close to Paradise,” to Tina James at Harlequin Love Inspired, in a six-book deal, by Jennifer Jackson.
Shaun David Hutchinson’s WE ARE THE ANTS, about a boy who is (maybe) abducted by aliens and told the world will end in 144 days unless he pushes a big red button, but in the aftermath of his boyfriend’s suicide, he’s not sure the world is worth saving, again to Michael Strother at Simon Pulse, in a two-book deal, by Amy Boggs.
Wen Spencer’s THE BLACK WOLVES OF BOSTON, about a werewolf victim, a vampire of vampires and a half-angel girl child teaming up in Boston to fight a huntsman, a creature created by witches, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen, by Donald Maass.
Les Klinger and Laura Caldwell’s ANATOMY OF INNOCENCE, a non-fiction anthology of the stories of exonerees told by well-known mystery writers, all proceeds going to Life After Innocence, to Bob Weil at W.W. Norton, by Donald Maass.
Matthew C. Funk’s The City of NO, a mesmerizing literary debut in which a rogue cop in post-Katrina New Orleans will do anything to save young women targeted by human traffickers, while hunting the men who once exploited her, to Richard Thomas at Dark House by Stacia Decker.
Robert McCammon’s novella THE LAST TRAIN FROM PERDITION, a sequel to his novella I TRAVEL BY NIGHT, about Civil War veteran and half-vampire gunslinger Trevor Lawson who is searching for the vampire queen LaRouge, the one who turned him, so he can recapture his humanity, to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press by Cameron McClure.