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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
World Fantasy Award winning and bestselling author Robert McCammon’s THE BORDER, a novel reminiscent of SWAN SONG and STINGER, set two years after Earth was caught in the middle of a vicious and long-standing war between two alien civilizations and hideously altered, about a teenage boy who may be the key to preserving humanity, to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press, at auction, for publication in Spring 2015, by Cameron McClure.
Adam Christopher and Chuck Wendig to write the re-launch of Archie Comics’ THE SHIELD, with a gender-flipped hero, to Alex Segura at Archie Comics, by Stacia Decker.
Owen Laukkanen’s Books 5 and 6 in the Anthony-, Barry-, and Thriller-nominated Stevens and Windermere series, to Neil Nyren at Putnam by Stacia Decker.
Michael Fletcher’s BEYOND REDEMPTION, a fantasy set in a world where belief defines reality and delusions are the often the strongest beliefs, focusing on a powerful sociopath looking to create a new God and a group of deranged thieves intent on using this new deity for their own purposes, to David Pomerico at Harper Voyager, in his first buy for the imprint, by Cameron McClure.