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This week features big scores for the apocalypse, zombies, and urban fantasy…and a couple of historical romances tossed in. All pretty unexciting.
Never heard of the author, but this sounds kinda cool.
Richard Kadrey’s SANDMAN SLIM, after eleven years in Hell (where he worked as an assassin), a magician/hitman returns to Los Angeles to find out who betrayed him and murdered his girlfriend, to Dino De Laurentiis Company, in a major deal, by Holly Frederick at Curtis Brown on behalf of Ginger Clark at Curtis Brown.
Post-apocalyptic fiction is seeing a boost – does it have anything to do with the Cormac McCarthy book? Pretty sure that Oprah’s done with the apocalypse.
Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead author Alan DeNiro’s TOTAL OBLIVION, MORE OR LESS,in which a teenage girl travels the Mississippi with her dysfunctional family in a bizarre post-apocalyptic America, to Juliet Ulman at Bantam Dell, in a nice deal, by Colleen Lindsay at FinePrint Literary Management (World English).
Zombies seem to be extremely popular for YA lately. I’m wondering if it’s because they’re the target movie-goer audience, and zombie movies seem to be on the rise ( pun intended).
Christopher Golden’s SOULLESS, about seven very different teenagers with …
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