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.
Adam Christopher’s THE L.A. TRILOGY, set in an alternative 1960s Los Angeles and starring a robot detective and his boss, pitched as inspired by Raymond Chandler’s parody of science fiction in a letter to his agent, to Natalie Laverick at Titan books by Stacia Decker.
Lisa Nicholas’s debut THE FARTHER I FALL, about a British army veteran who gets a job as the tour manager for a recently-out-of-rehab rocker, only to discover the job and the man are more exciting and more dangerous than she ever expected, to Kristine Swartz at Intermix in a two-book deal, for publication in Jan 2015, by Jennifer Udden.
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Constellation 3, a new volume collecting short stories set in their popular Liaden Universe, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books by Jennifer Jackson.
Debut novelist Seth Dickinson’s THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT, an epic fantasy geopolitical tragedy pitched as Game of Thrones meets Germs, Guns and Steel, and two additional novels to Marco Palmieri at Tor Books in a pre-empt by Jennifer Jackson.
New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s 4th and 5th fantasy novels in the Others series, following VISION IN SILVER (Penguin/Roc, March 2015), continuing the epic story of humans trying to survive in a world that belongs to the Others, in a two-book deal to Anne Sowards at Penguin/Roc by Jennifer Jackson.
MacKinlay Kantor’s ANDERSONVILLE, the 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War, to Phil Budnick at Plume, for republication in Winter 2015, to coincide with the 60th Anniversary of the book’s original publication, by Cameron McClure.