I love Sarah Dessen. . .
Sarah Ockler’s debut TWENTY BOY SUMMER, pitched as in the tradition of Ann Brashares and Sarah Dessen, following a sixteen-year-old girl with a life-shattering secret as she navigates the unfamiliar landscape of changing friendships, burgeoning sexuality, loss, and the meaning of true love, to Jennifer Hunt at Little, Brown, for six figures, in a pre-empt, for two books, by Ted Malawer at Firebrand Literary.

This sounds fascinating.
Anna Levine’s FREE FALL, about an eighteen-year-old who, with months to her military service in Israel, struggles to assert her independence as she discovers new friendships and falls in love for the first time, to Virginia Duncan at Harper, in a pre-empt, by Rosemary Stimola at Stimola Literary Studio

Ugh, the MILF Anthology?
Elsbeth Potter’s DUCAL SERVICE, about a 40 year-old duchess who runs off with the stable boy based on a short story published in THE MILF ANTHOLOGY (Thunder’s Mouth Press), to Susan Pezzack at Harlequin Spice, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in 2008, by Lori Perkins (World).

Is this Dahl’s first non historical?
Victoria Dahl’s TALK ME DOWN, about a young woman who goes back to her small hometown in Colorado and causes a huge stir with her secretive career, a mysterious stalker, and her burgeoning relationship with the town sheriff, to Tara Parsons at HQN, in a two-book deal, by Amy Moore-Benson of AMB Literary Management (world).

The author is an actress? I wonder if that helps or hurts the sale of the book.
Actress Amber Benson’s DEATH’S DAUGHTER, the story of a young woman trying to make it as a young urban professional in NYC who slowly comes to realize that her father is actually the Grim Reaper and that she must rescue him after he’s kidnapped by unknown forces in order to save her entire family (not to mention the world), to Ginjer Buchanan at Penguin, in a very nice deal, in a three-book deal, by Brendan Deneen at Objective Entertainment.

These sound like the titles to Harlequin Spice books.
Mario Acevedo’s JAILBAIT VAMPIRE and WEREWOLF SUPER SEX CLUB, the next two books in the Felix Gomez vampire private detective series, to Diana Gill at Eos, in a good deal, by Scott Hoffman at Folio Literary Mangement. Film and TV rights are with Howie Sanders at UTA.

Sharon Cullars wrote a book with a similar theme.
Karen White-Owens’s YOU’RE ALL I NEED, an older woman falls for the younger brother of a high school girlfriend, again to Kate Duffy at Kensington Dafina, by Pam Strickler

Kimberly Van Meter’s new novel in her Emmett’s Mill series, to Johanna Raisanen at Harlequin Super, by Pam Strickler.

She writes for Kensington? or Harlequin? I want to read her.
Wendy Corsi Staub’s two more paranormal suspense novels in her LILY DALE series, to Emily Easton at Walker, by Laura Blake Peterson at Curtis Brown (World English).

Beyond the Blue author Leslie Gould’s new novel, to Guideposts, in a nice deal, by Chip MacGregor at MacGregor Literary.

G-Spot and Candy Licker author Noire and NYT bestselling author of Sweeter Than Honey and When Somebody Loves You Back Mary Morrison’s an anthology of erotic proportions, to Selena James to Kensington, by Ken Atchity of AEI Literary Management.

Debby Giusti’s DEADLY SECRETS and DEADLY LEGACY, again to Jessica Alvarez at Steeple Hill’s Love Inspired, by Deidre Knight of The Knight Agency.

Jeane Westin’s THE VIRGIN’S DAUGHTERS, exploring the constricted heart of the most famous queen in history, Elizabeth I, again to Ellen Edwards at NAL, in a nice deal, for publication as a trade paperback original, by Danielle Egan-Miller of Browne & Miller Literary Associates (NA)

Editor of SnapeNews Racheline Maltese’s THE BOOK OF HARRY POTTER TRIFLES, TRIVIAS & PARTICULARITIES, the first in a series of Harry Potter trivia and fact books covering the entire Potter series and more, to Rachel Trusheim at Sterling & Ross, for publication in November 2007 (world).

Had no idea she was so popular.
NYT bestselling author Kat Martin’s next two trilogies, contemporary romance and historical romance, to Margaret Marbury and Susan Pezzack at Mira, in a major deal, for seven figures, by Robert Gottlieb and Kimberly Whalen at Trident Media Group.

I didn’t realize the Elemental Witches was a closed series. I might try another book.
Witch Fire author Anya Bast’s final two books in the Elemental Witches quartet, plus the first in her new Urban Fae series, Wicked Enchantment, again to Cindy Hwang for Berkley Sensation, in a nice deal, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.

Some readers argue that Adams and Clamp aren’t writing romances. I’ve never read.
C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp’s next three paranormal romances, comprising the final book in their USA Today bestselling Thrall vampire trilogy, one more in their Sazi series plus a stand-alone novel, again to Anna Genoese at Tor, in a very nice deal, by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House.

NO REGRETS and NO CONTROL author Shannon Butcher’s NO ESCAPE, to Michele Bidelspach at Grand Central, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Nephele Tempest at The Knight Agency (World).

Connie Hall’s THE GUARDIAN, a paranormal romance about shapeshifters for the Nocturne Line, to Natashya Wilson at Silhouette, in a nice deal, by Pam Ahearn at the Ahearn Agency (world).

Gerri Russell’s WARRIOR’S LADY, finishing up the Stones of Scotland historical romance trilogy, to Leah Hultenschmidt at Dorchester, by Pam Ahearn at Ahearn Agency (world).

Marliss Melton’s TIES THAT BIND, continuing her Navy SEALS series, to Michele Bidelspach at Grand Central, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Pam Ahearn at Ahearn Agency (world).