This is my headlining deal.
Ann Aguirre’s two next installments in the Sirantha Jax series, again to Anne Sowards at Ace, in a nice deal, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.


Is this O’Clare’s first NY published deal?
Lorie O’Clare’s PARADISE ISLAND, about a world where all is not as it appears, and falling in love might prove the most dangerous adventure of all, to John Scognamiglio at Kensington, in a two-book deal, by Roberta Brown of the Brown Literary Agency.

Hmmm.  Sounds kind of interesting.  A twist on the old “bet” trope.
Emma Wildes’s ONE IMMORAL PROPOSAL, in which two titled gentlemen of the ton put forth a slightly drunken, very public wager on which one’s the better lover and a surprising woman steps forward to “judge,” to Becky Vinter at NAL, in a two-book deal, by Barbara Poelle of Irene Goodman Agency (World English)

I love TNT’s The Closer (although the production company is different) so this could be very good.
Tess Gerritsen’s THE MEPHISTO CLUB, optioned to Bill Haber at Ostar Enterprises in conjunction with TNT, as the basis for a television crime drama, by Jane Rotrosen Agency and CAA, for publication in 2006.

This was marked as a Fiction/Thriller sale rather than a romance but I assume that it is romance.
USA Today bestselling author Cheyenne McCray’s THE FIRST SIN, the first in a hot and edgy suspense series featuring two cops undercover in the dangerous world of international vice, to Monique Patterson at St. Martin’s, in a two-book deal, by Nancy Yost of Lowenstein-Yost (NA).

This is probably a very good anthology collection.
NYT bestselling author Cherry Adair’s latest headling [sic] short story for an untitled romantic suspense anthology, also featuring Lora Leigh and Lorie O’Clare, to Rose Hilliard at St. Martin’s, by Kimberly Whalen at Trident Media Group (world).

I am determined to read one of these books.  I’ve bought the first three.
Robyn Carr’s next three books in her Virgin River series, to Valerie Gray at Mira, by Liza Dawson of Liza Dawson Associates (world).

Anne Soward’s edits Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, and Ann Aguirre so I am all over this.
Alison Sinclair’s DARKBORN, LIGHTBORN, and SHADOWBORN, a fantasy trilogy of magic and manners, espionage and romance in the tradition of Sarah Monette and Ellen Kushner, to Anne Sowards at Ace, by Caitlin Blasdell at Liza Dawson Associates (World English).

Witches Gone Wild?  I wonder if they ever serviced Client No. 9.
50 WAYS TO HEX YOUR LOVER and HEX APPEAL author Linda Wisdom’s books #3 and #4 in the Witches Gone Wild series, in which 700-year-old youths, who were banished before graduation along with the other 11 seniors at the Witches Academy, relive the Salem Witch trials and confront a werewolf pack in modern day California, to Deb Werksman at Sourcebooks Casablanca, in a nice deal, for publication in Spring and Fall 2009, by Laurie McLean at Larsen/Pomada Literary Agents (World).

Hmm, a surf-star hero in jeopardy.  Could be fun or could be lame (although that could be said about most any book).  I re-read this and thought it said smurf-star hero which could never be fun.  Too short and too blue.
Jill Sorenson’s CUTBACK, featuring a surf-star hero in jeopardy and FBI agent on his trail, and DARK CANYON, featuring a wildlife biologist heroine who must work with lone-wolf sheriff to uncover perpetrator behind what look like mountain lion maulings, to Shauna Summers at Bantam Dell, in a nice deal, for publication in Spring and Fall 2009, by Laurie McLean at Larsen/Pomada Literary Agents (World).

2010!
Lisa Marie Wilkinson’s STOLEN PROMISE, in which a South Carolina plantation owner travels to England to explore his Gypsy heritage and soon finds himself wed to a spirited Romany woman, much to the chagrin of his fiancee back home, to Helen Rosburg at Medallion Press, in a nice deal, for publication in 2010.

I think Lockwood once wrote a chick lit book I liked.
Cara Lockwood’s BARD HIGH series, in which students discover that the books they’re reading in class have an uncanny influence over the events in their lives, to Susan Alder at Stun Productions, by Sean Daily at Hotchkiss and Associates, on behalf of Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency.

I understand that this is a non erotic book so I am really interested in seeing where it goes.
Maya Banks’s THE DARKEST HOUR, about a man who receives a mysterious phone call on the one year anniversary of his wife’s death suggesting that his wife is not dead after all, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley Sensation, in a three-book deal, by Roberta Brown of the Brown Literary Agency.

I love gustatory books.  Sherry Thomas’ Delicious is about a chef.  Food can be very sensuous.
Frances Mallary’s HIS JUST DESSERTS, wherein the heroine, a pastry cook who works in the kitchens of the Prince Regent under history’s first “celebrity chef” until a poisoned dessert changes her fortune, to Lucia Macro at Avon, by Meredith Bernstein.

I wonder why more series romance sales aren’t reported?  Because they would all sound the same?
Sara Orwig’s STETSONS AND CEOs, in which three billionaire CEO cousins make a bet to see who can acquire the most money in one year by legal means, to Melissa Jeglinski at Silhouette Desire, in a nice deal, in a three-book deal, by Maureen Walters at Curtis Brown.

It sounds like too much.  One myth is not enough, let’s have three.  Let’s include more than one faery tale trope: beauty and the beast? forbidden spells? duel for domination?
Robin Haseltine’s THE CURSE OF THE DRAGON’S SPELL, in which a witch and warlock use forbidden spells during the Duel for Ultimate Dominion of her coven, in a modern fairy tale take-off of Beauty and the Beast that blends Mayan, Egyptian, and Greek mythologies with natural disasters mirroring the tumultuous years that gave us tsunamis, mudslides, and hurricane Katrina, to Margaret Esch and Dona Paus at Tiger, by Kelly Mortimer at Mortimer Literary Agency.

Vamps, I have heard, are the new alpha male.
Raz Steel’s LOVE WITHOUT BLOOD, about a female doctor in the Witness Protection Program who wonders if the vampire she’s asked to hunt is the one who attacked her, or the one she’s falling in love with, to Chris Keeslar at Dorchester, by Kelly Mortimer at Mortimer Literary Agency.


Cynthia Hickey’s CANDY-COATED SECRETS, the follow-up to FUDGE-LACED FELONIES and the second book in the author’s Summer Meadows Mystery Series, in which Summer nearly joins the circus, not knowing that strolling down Highway 64 with an elephant will lead to murder, land her up to her neck in another mystery, and drag her unwilling fiancee into battling man’s darker side, again to Susan Downs at Heartsong Presents: Mysteries!, by Kelly Mortimer at Mortimer Literary Agency.

Francis’ last book was through Penguin, Ace, I think.
Diana Pharaoh Francis’s BITTER NIGHT, in which a woman is sent to investigate a murder that hasn’t happened yet, and what she learns triggers a battle between two feuding witches and sets off a war of magic that draws in both the Uncanny and the Divine and has the potential to remake the world, to Jennifer Heddle at Pocket, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Lucienne Diver of Spectrum Literary Agency (NA).

Janine and Robin love Hart’s writing.
Megan Hart’s PLEASURE AND PURPOSE, a sensual trio of novellas featuring handmaidens who are selected to serve three men from the Royal court, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley Sensation, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.

Not sure what I think about the whole tattoo motif.  Loved the Kushiel series, though.
Anna Evans’s SKIN DEEP, a tattoo artist goes to find his former high school flame hoping she’ll allow him to alter the ink he gave her years ago only to end up falling harder for her the second time around, to Kerry Donovan at NAL, by Caren Johnson at Caren Johnson Literary Agency (World English).

This is another author(s) that I want to read.
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s untitled sequel to Scout’s Progress set in the authors’ Liaden Universe series, to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books, by Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

Sounds very Martha Stewart-ish.
GOOD THINGS author Mia King’s TABLE MANNERS, about another year of creative chaos for lifestyle maven and comeback queen Deidre McIntosh, to Wendy McCurdy at Berkley, by Jenny Bent at Trident Media Group (World English).

Is this Pineiro’s jump to mainstream?
NYT and USA Today bestselling author Caridad Pineiro’s TAINTED BLOOD, in which a gene therapy victim’s world spins out of control as she discovers her body has taken on strengths of a superhuman quality and she is being hunted for a murder she did not commit, to Selina McLemore at Grand Central, by Kevan Lyon at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency (World English).

Ah, a Golden Heart winner.  Did you know that JR Ward aka Jessica Bird was a Golden Heart winner?
2007 Golden Heart winner Robin Kaye’s next two books in a fun, contemporary romantic series, to Deb Werksman at Sourcebooks, in a two-book deal, for publication in Spring 2009, by Kevan Lyon at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency (World).

Edwards also writes erotica/erotic romance for Berkley Heat.
Bonnie Edwards’s POSSESSING MORGAN, in which a tow truck operator and premier repo artist locks horns with a tycoon in a romantic game of “who’s stalking who?”, to Brenda Chin at Harlequin Blaze, by Emily Sylvan Kim at Prospect Agency (World),

Hmm, doesn’t really sound like a book I would like to read.  To save a marriage, you allow your husband to have sex with anyone, then he gets to brag about it to you? What’s the point of punishment then?  He gets to suck you off?
Jo Davis’s THE SEVEN CONFESSIONS OF ALEXANDER QUINN, about a wife who takes extreme measures to save her marriage by granting her lonely husband seven occasions of sinful pleasure with any lover he chooses, providing he confesses to each one and agrees to accept his punishment, to Tracy Bernstein at NAL Heat, in a two-book deal, by Roberta Brown of the Brown Literary Agency.

If the beach house wasn’t a wedding chapel before how can there be an entirely new clientele.  Unless the clientele for the beach house was somehow related to the Empire’s VIP Club. Sorry.  I’ll be making jokes about that forever.
Janice Thompson’s CLUB WED, in which a young woman inherits the family’s beach house, she turns it into a wedding chapel, and draws an entirely new clientele, to Jennifer Leep at Revell, in a nice deal, in a three-book deal, by Chip MacGregor at MacGregor Literary.

Lauren Dane’s OUTSHINED, about a cop returning home to rekindle romance with the free-spirited rocker who awakened his desires ten years before, again to Leis Pederson at Berkley Heat, in a nice deal, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.

Four books a year?  That’s very ambitious.
Sylvia Day’s next three historical romances, bringing the author to 12 books in three years, to Kate Duffy at Kensington Brava, in a very nice deal, by Pamela Harty of The Knight Agency.

What does sexually ambiguous mean?  Transgender?  Hermaphrodite?
Kate Pearce’s next two titles in her HOUSE OF PLEASURE series, about sexually ambiguous Regency Rakes and the women who love them just as they are, again to John Scognamiglio at Kensington, in a nice deal, by Deidre Knight of The Knight Agency.

Wouldn’t it be nice to just once read about a powerful woman and the man she’ll pay anything to possess?
Jasmine Haynes’s two collections set in a glitzy sensual world of powerful men and the women they’ll pay anything to possess, to Wendy McCurdy for Berkley, in a nice deal, by Lucienne Diver of Spectrum Literary Agency

Westerns, right?
Jodi Thomas’s two historical romances in her Whispering Mountain series, to Wendy McCurdy at Berkley, in a good deal, by Gail Fortune of the Talbot Fortune Agency (NA).

Donna Fletcher’s two Scottish historical romances, to Esi Sogah at Avon, in a nice deal, by Gail Fortune of the Talbot Fortune Agency (world).

Sounds a bit similar to Tinker.
Tanya Huff’s ONE WOMAN’S JUNK, in which a junkyard becomes a focal point for a half-breed Dragon Prince, leprachauns, witches, sorcerors, and much much more in a new urban fantasy that will be the author’s 24th novel for DAW, to Sheila Gilbert at Daw, in a very nice deal, for publication in Fall 2009, by Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky Literary Agency (NA).

Candace Gold’s A HEATED ROMANCE, to Leanne Burroughs at Circles of Gold, for publication in March 2008.

Michele Ann Young, Kimberly Ivey, Billie Warren Chai’s BRIDES OF THE WEST, all three of the stories in this anthology are based on women who gambled their future in blindly accepting complete strangers for husbands; it was a different era when a woman must have a husband to survive, to Leanne Burroughs at A Wee Dram, for publication in February 2008.

Almost Taken author Isabel Mere’s ALMOST GUILTY, to Leanne Burroughs at Regency Royale, for publication in February 2008.

Hmm, a Butcher doing urban fantasy romance?  This has bestseller all over it.
NO CONTROL author Shannon Butcher’s BURNING ALIVE, a paranormal romance, to Cindy Hwang at Penguin, in a pre-empt, in a good deal, in a three-book deal, by Nephele Tempest at The Knight Agency (NA).


Lisa Childs’ IMMORTAL BRIDE, about a woman who returns from the dead to avenge her murder — convinced her husband is her killer, to Tara Gavin for Silhouette Nocturne, in a three-book deal, plus one-ebook, by Jenny Bent at Trident Media Group (world).

Marie Bostwick’s SUNLIGHT IN THE COURTYARD, again to Audrey LaFehr at Kensington, in a nice deal, for three books, for publication in June 2009, by Jill Grosjean at the Jill Grosjean Literary Agency.

Oysters & Chocolate sound horrible together.  I get that it is supposed to be erotic but the idea of eating the two foods together is not very enticing.
Jordan LaRousse and Samantha Sade’s OYSTERS & CHOCOLATE: An Erotic Anthology, featuring short stories from the creators of OystersandChocolate.com, to Lindsay Nouis at NAL, in a nice deal, by Emmanuelle Alspaugh at Wendy Sherman Associates (World).

Wow.  Goodbye, Kensington, hello Avon marketing machine.
Author of WHAT A WOMAN NEEDS, WHAT A GENTLEMAN WANTS and WHAT A ROGUE DESIRES Caroline Linden’s trilogy of historical romances, billed as the Regency era meets James Bond, starting with A VIEW TO A KISS, to Lyssa Keusch at Avon, by Stephanie Kip Rostan at the Levine Greenberg Literary Agency (world).

Pun intended right?
Lisa Beth Kovetz’s THE TUESDAY EROTICA CLUB RIDES AGAIN, the sequel to The Tuesday Erotica Club, again to Hillel Black at Sourcebooks, for publication in Spring 2009, by Adam Chromy at Artists and Artisans (World).

I’m not thrilled with “spitfire” but I totally love Romancing the Stone.
Elisabeth Naughton’s MAKE ME BELIEVE, in the tradition of Romancing The Stone, while racing against the clock, between the flying bullets, blackmail, and murder, a spitfire archaeologist and her thief partner search for three legendary (and priceless) artifacts, to Leah Hultenschmidt at Dorchester, in a nice deal, in a three-book deal, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency