USA Today bestselling author Teddy Harrison writing as Thea Harrison’s next three Elder Races paranormal romances, set in a world where fae, vampyres, gryphons, and a business dragon live, work, and love right alongside humans, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley Sensation in a six-figure deal by Amy Boggs.
Andrea Portes’ ANATOMY OF A MISFIT and an untitled YA novel to Kristen Pettit at Harper Children’s in a six figure deal by Katie Shea.
Philip K. Dick Award winner Brian Francis Slattery’s THE FALL OF THE FAMILY HIGHTOWER, a literary novel describing the twisted fates and turbulent histories of two boys named after the grandfather they share, a self-made man, sometime criminal, and son of Cleveland, Ohio, to Amber Qureshi at Seven Stories by Cameron McClure.
Robert McCammon’s THE RIVER OF SOULS, the fifth novel in his series of historical thrillers featuring the “Early American James Bond,” where a man joins a search party up a haunted river, to find a slave accused of murder, though he knows that the true murderer is among the search party, to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press, for publication in Spring 2014, by Cameron McClure
New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS, beginning a new series “The Cinder Spires”, to Anne Sowards at Roc, in a seven-figure deal, in a three-book deal, by Jennifer Jackson.
Cherie Priest’s MAPLECROFT, a reinvention of the infamous legend of Lizzie Borden in which she and her scientist sister continue to investigate the monsters behind their parents’ death and build their defenses, little knowing that soon they and a few companions will be all that stands between humanity and the creatures that may destroy them, to Anne Sowards at Roc, in a two-book deal, by Jennifer Jackson.