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Hmm. Could be funny.
Lois Winston’s LOVE, LIES, AND A DOUBLE SHOT OF DECEPTION, being charged with your husband’s murder sure can be a relationship killer, to Leah Hultenschmidt at Dorchester, by Carolyn Grayson at Ashley Grayson Literary Agency.
Did the query letter start with “It’s a cross between Mark Twain and Jane Austen.”
Laurie Viera Rigler’s CONFESSIONS OF A JANE AUSTEN ADDICT, a literary homage, comedy, and exploration of identity, destiny, and the nature of time, that tells the story of a contemporary thirty-something LA woman and Jane Austen fan who wakes up inside the body of an Englishwoman in Austen’s time, to Trena Keating at Dutton, in a significant deal, at auction, for two books, by Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
Shoot. For some reason I thought Backspace was going to be some science fiction site but alas it is a writer’s website.
Founder of the web site Backspace Karen Dionne’s FREEZING POINT - already endorsed by Lee Child, David Morrell, Douglas Preston, Gayle Lynds, John Case and John Lescroart - in which extremists plot to stop an energy company from melting icebergs into drinking water - neither realizing that the water is contaminated with an unknown, deadly disease, to Natalee Rosenstein of Berkley, by Jeff Kleinman at Folio Literary Management.
I see “Ranch” and think, well, the wrong kinds of ranches.
FICTION: WOMEN’S/ROMANCE
Roxanne Rustad’s SNOW CANYON RANCH series, to Johanna Raisanen at Silhouette Love Inspired, in a three-book deal, by Roberta Brown of the Brown Literary Agency (world).
Look Jayne, more Next books
FICTION: WOMEN’S/ROMANCE
Donna Fasano’s HINDSIGHT and THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, to Tara Gavin at Harlequin Next, in a nice deal, by Evan Marshall at the Evan Marshall Agency (world).
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