Anne Perry’s 31st novel in the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt series, 22nd novel in the Inspector Monk series, and 14th Christmas novella to Susanna Porter at Ballantine, by Donald Maass.
Oct 302014
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Jay Stringer’s WAYS TO DIE IN GLASGOW, a dark but farcical Scottish crime novel featuring a reluctant female P.I., her gay brother, a gangland legend writing his memoirs, an ex-con with an anger management problem, and a less-than-perfect police officer, to Emilie Marneur at Thomas & Mercer, by Stacia Decker.Oct 212014
For Simon & Schuster’s new SF imprint, Saga Press, Joe Monti took world English rights, in a six-book deal, to Chuck Wendig’s Miriam Black series. The books follow the titular heroine, who is cursed with the ability to see the death of every person she touches. Through the deal, Saga will release the three backlist titles in the series—Blackbirds, Mockingbird, and The Cormorant (all originally released by Angry Robot)—first as e-books, then as trade paperbacks. The deal also covers three new titles. The books are currently in development as a TV series with the cable channel Starz. Wendig was represented by Stacia Decker.
Oct 092014
Michael Strother at Simon Pulse has pre-empted world English rights to Violent Ends, a novel with 17 authors, edited by Shaun David Hutchinson, author of the upcoming The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley. The story centers on a 16-year-old school shooter, with each chapter set at a time before the shooting and told by characters who knew him, trying to answer one question: Why? Contributing authors include Kendare Blake, Steve Brezenoff, Delilah Dawson, Trish Doller, Margie Gelbwasser, Christine Johnson, E.M. Kokie, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Tom Leveen, Hannah Moskowitz, Elisa Nader, Beth Revis, Mindi Scott, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, Courtney Summers, Blythe Woolston. Fall 2015 is the projected pub date; Amy Boggs negotiated the deal.
Sep 262014
Debut author Camille Griep’s LETTERS TO ZELL, an epistolary novel that is part fantasy, part women’s fiction, about four fairy tale princesses who are disillusioned with their Happily Ever Afters and decide instead to live the lives they actually want instead of the lives they are expected to lead, until their decisions threaten to destroy the whole Realm of the Imagination, to Jason Kirk at 47 North, by Cameron McClure for publication in Spring 2015.
Sep 242014
Trade paperback rights to three of Robert McCammon’s backlist titles: THEY THIRST, BLUE WORLD, and THE HUNTER FROM THE WOODS, to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press, to be published simultaneously in mid 2015.Aug 182014
Cassandra Rose Clarke’s Our Lady of the Ice, pitched as The Yiddish Policeman’s Union meets The Windup Girl, in which a female investigator tussles with a dangerous gangster just as both humans and robots agitate for independence in a domed Argentinian colony in Antarctica, to Navah Wolfe at Saga Press by Stacia Decker.
Aug 082014
UK rights to Emily Winslow’s third suspense novel, THE RED HOUSE, about when Maxwell and his fiancé Imogen move to Imogen’s childhood home and Maxwell starts having strange and impossible memories of his own childhood, until he begins to suspect that he may be Imogen’s younger brother who was lost at age 3, and even worse, he suspects Imogen knows that he is, to Susie Dunlop at Allison & Busby, for publication in 2015, by Cameron McClure.
Aug 062014
British Fantasy Award nominee Molly Tanzer’s first novel, VERMILION, an alternate history steampunk set in 1870 America featuring a 19-year-old half-Chinese girl who passes as a boy so she can work as an exorcist, and whose investigation into why so many poor young Chinese workers are disappearing from Chinatown leads her to a sanatorium in the Rocky Mountains, and a very undead villain, to Ross E. Lockhart at Word Horde for publication in Spring 2015, by Cameron McClure.
Aug 052014
Kerrie Hughes and Jim Butcher’s FIERCE, a new contemporary fantasy anthology featuring the fierce breed of warriors who use their unique abilities to fight back the darkness and often skirt its edges (including stories by Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Mercedes Lackey, Rob Thurman, Kat Richardson and others), to Anne Sowards of Roc, in a very nice deal, by Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency and Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.