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.
Chuck Wendig’s ZEROES, a fast-paced, character-driven thriller pitched as Michael Crichton meets The X Files, about five hackers who are blackmailed into working for the U.S. government only to discover the sinister NSA program controlling them has far-reaching implications, in a two-book deal to Harper Voyager by Stacia Decker.
Jon McGoran’s third book in the Doyle Carrick eco-thriller series, after Drift and Deadout, when a whistleblower is murdered while trying to contact Doyle, the Philly cop is forced to delve into a biotech company’s dangerous involvement in foreign food aid, to Kristin Sevick at Forge by Stacia Decker.
Leah Ferguson’s ALL THE DIFFERENCE, written in alternating chapters, if she said yes and if she said no, about a career-focused 30-year-old who finds out that she’s pregnant on the day her long-term boyfriend proposes to her and is faced with making a choice, to Julie Mianecki at Berkley, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Elizabeth Bear’s The Lotus Kingdoms, a new fantasy trilogy set in the same world as The Eternal Sky, in which a brass automaton with a soul, the disenfranchised servant of a dead Caliph, and a priest with one golden eye are drawn into a high stakes political game involving two queens and the fate of their kingdoms, to Beth Meacham at Tor Books by Jennifer Jackson.