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A movie and a couple of Golden Hearts headline this week. Other than that, August continues to be slow, deal-wise.
We missed this one a few weeks back. By reading the pages on Courtney Milan’s website, it sounds like a light-hearted, fun story.
Golden Heart Nominee for Breath of Honor Courtney Milan’s PROOF BY SEDUCTION, about a rigidly logical marquis who uses the scientific method to save his heir from the clutches of a fraudulent fortune teller, only to fall for her and discover that the one hypothesis not susceptible to proof is love, to Ann Leslie Tuttleat HQN, in a good deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, by Kristin Nelsonat Nelson Literary Agency(World).
Emily Giffin goes to the big screen. I’m sure this has something to do in part with the success of the Sex and the City movie.
Emily Giffin’s chick lit bestseller SOMETHING BORROWED and sequel SOMETHING BLUE, optioned to Aaron Lubin and Pamela Schein Murphy at Wild Ocean Films, producing with Hilary Swank and Molly Smith at 2S Films, for Alcon Entertainment. (Rights were optioned previously to Palomar Entertainment.)
The Nocturne line seems to be doing well for Harlequin. They …
This is only to note that despite the poor sales of previous blogger books, certain types still sell. A significant deal in PublishersMarketplace parlance is $251,000 - $499,000. Part of the deal could have been based on her years as a columnist and not as a blogger.
NYT health columnist and “Well” blogger Tara Parker-Pope’s THE SCIENCE OF MARRIAGE, practical, evidence-based advice about what makes relationships work — and not work — based on marital health research, to Amy Hertz at Dutton, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in late 2009/early 2010, by Lynn Johnston at Lynn Johnston Literary (world).
Not sure who Tropper is but apparently he must sell alot of books. The major deal denotes advances of $500,000 and up.
Jonathan Tropper’s two upcoming novels, including one on fatherhood, moving to Ben Sevier at Dutton, in a major deal, in a pre-empt, for publication beginning in 2009, by Simon Lipskar at Writers House (NA).
Tamera Alexander is, I believe, an inspy author. Given the major deal status of this sale, I wonder how Avon Inspire is doing. I don’t read Inspy fiction but my mother does. I’ll have to buy her a few Alexander …
All the deals look pretty meh to me
Lisa Renee Jones’s HARD AND FAST, to Wanda Ottewell at Harlequin B, in a nice deal, by Natasha Kern at Natasha Kern Literary Agency (World).
Bonnie Vanak’s THE SCORPION AND THE SEDUCER, with exotic Egyptian characters and setting, a sequel to The Panther and the Pyramid, to Chris Keeslar at Dorchester, in a nice deal, by Natasha Kern at Natasha Kern Literary Agency (World).
Anna Schmidt’s LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE, set in turn-of-the-century Nantucket, to Melissa Endlich at Harlequin Love Inspired, in a nice deal, by Natasha Kern at Natasha Kern Literary Agency (NA).
Lisa Mondello’s CRADLE OF SECRETS, about about a woman who returns to a small New England town to find the truth about whether her parents were murdered after she finds out through DNA testing that she was adopted, to Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense, in a nice deal, for publication in November 2007, by Michelle Grajkowski of Three Seas Literary Agency.
Michele Dunaway’s PICTURE PERFECT, SWEET SENSATIONS, and EDUCATING HANK, to Beverly Sotolov at Harlequin, in a nice deal, by Jessica Faust at BookEnds.
Veronica Wolff’s LORD OF THE HOUNDS, pitched as in the venerable tradition of Diana Gabaldon, the story of a highland laird …
Military stories make me sad and I just don’t find them appealing right now, given the current state of things.
NYT bestselling author JoAnn Ross’s SHATTERED, the first in a trilogy featuring military heroes in southern romantic suspense novels about reunion, redemption, and danger, to Kara Welsh and Laura Cifelli at NAL, in a major deal, in a three-book deal, by Robin Rue at Writers House (world).
I might give this a chance because I think others have liked her Dorchester(?) books
Bonnie Vanak’s EMPATH, in which a veterinarian is a gentle-natured creature until she is seduced by an embittered warrior werewolf who has to mate with her and turn her into a killer to destroy the shapeshifters stalking his pack, to Ann Leslie Tuttle at Harlequin Nocturne, in a nice deal, by Natasha Kern at Natasha Kern Literary Agency (world).
Never read the debut.
Michelle Yu and Blossom Kan’s TRADING CHOPSTICKS, sequels to their debut China Dolls, to Diana Szu at Thomas Dunne Books, in a nice deal, by Natasha Kern at Natasha Kern Literary Agency (World English).
These were termed Paperback rights so I guess they were already published?
2006 Rita nominee Lyn Cote’s TEXAS: Star of Destiny historical trilogy, which follows three women …
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