This week features some big names in epic fantasy and a gangsta chef. Really.
Not sure if this will be mainstream or fantasy (PM is mixed) but the rumor is that this went for a ridiculous amount of money.
NYT bestselling author Terry Goodkind’s contemporary thriller set in an American city, and two other novels, moving to [...]

This week we have a Harry Potter-esque cartographer, a vampire Jane Austen, lots of ‘end of the world’ antics in YA, and a bunch of other stuff that leaves me completely unmoved.
Big money.
Screenwriter Attica Locke’s debut novel BAYOU CITY, about a former civil rights attorney who becomes the target of murder investigation after saving [...]

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 [...]

This week is headlined by Harlequin superstar Gena Showalter, and nine million vampire books.
I’m intrigued (mostly by the pricetag and the fact that this is the headline for the new line) This is big money, but they don’t specify how many more books are contracted. Still, Harlequin loves Showalter. Perhaps Gena should write some vampire [...]

This week features…a whole lotta nothing. Everyone was at BEA, so the list is short.
Count me in!
N.K. Jemisin’s THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS, combining the politics of George R. R. Martin with the magic of Neil Gaiman, to Devi Pillai of Orbit, in a good deal, at auction, in a three-book deal, for publication in Fall [...]

Deals for May 22 – 28th
And let me guess, they both have mommy issues. Pass.
RITA-nominated author Kate Moore’s INTO THE DARK and INTO THE LIGHT, the first two books in a Regency historical romance trilogy, concerning the sons of a famous courtesan, to Wendy McCurdy at Berkley, in a nice deal, by Pam Ahearn of [...]

This week is an eclectic mix - some old-school type stuff, some already-played-out stuff, and zombies.
I loved the movie Lost In Translation, and this sounds like a literary parallel. I’d buy it.
Malena Watrous’s REPEAT AFTER ME, in an effort to outpace her grief, a young American woman moves to rural Japan shortly after her [...]

This is kind of long – these are all the May deals I thought were interesting. I whittled out some of the guy-oriented books and some of the mystery/inspirational. I’ll do it on a weekly basis after this.
Major deal = $$$ money.
NYT bestselling author of WHAT THE DEAD KNOW and ANOTHER THING TO FALL Laura [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Definitely a buy for me.
Joyce Lebra’s THE SCENT OF SAKE, about a 19th century Japanese woman who overcomes tremendous obstacles to build a sake empire and a family dynasty at a time when women were forbidden to do business, to Carrie Feron at William Morrow, at auction, by Natasha Kern at Natasha Kern Literary [...]

Being pop culturally deficient, I can say I’ve never seen either Ocean’s 11 or Veronica Mars so I don’t know what the book could possibly be like.
NYT bestselling author of CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY and I’D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU BUT THEN I’D HAVE TO KILL YOU Ally Carter’s next Gallagher [...]

I’ve sadly been falling down on posting these. I logged in today at Publishers’ Marketplace and saw that there were 455 new deals since I had last checked. Zoinks.
I think I read one Jane Green book. Why do I think she writes about infidelity alot?
Three more books by British writer Jane Green, [...]

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, [...]

Doubleday signed Michael Wolff who will be writing the biography of Rupert Murdoch including the recent takeover of Dow Jones. The deal is “high six figures” and will be edited by Phyllis Grann.
Tony Blair hired Robert Barnett to shop the Blair memoir. Barnett, a DC attorney, also agented the book deals for former [...]

Sadly I didn’t even know that there was a Wild Riders series let alone that there was a second book to the series. Must read Jaci’s blog more often.
Jaci Burton’s RIDING TEMPTATION, the second in her Wild Riders erotic suspense series, in which ex-Harley riding bad boys turned government agents go undercover in New [...]

This looks hilarious.
Drew Ferguson’s THE SCREWED-UP LIFE OF CHARLIE THE SECOND, about a dorky seventeen-year-old who can’t pass his driver’s test, can’t stand his overbearing parents, can’t stop masturbating, and, most of all, can’t find a guy to make out with, to John Scognamiglio at Kensington, by Jennifer DeChiara at the Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency [...]

I keep saying I need to read her.
THE ALIBI MAN author Tami Hoag’s three new suspense novels, again to Nita Taublib and Danielle Perez at Bantam Dell, by Jane Rotrosen Agency.

Woot! I have no idea what Shift is about but I am sure it is good.
Nalini Singh’s SHIFT plus two [...]

Just found this old post.
It’s raining assassins this fall.
Author of ‘Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy Leslie Langtry’s next two fun contemporary romances in the Bombay family of Assassins series, to Leah Hultenschmidt at Dorchester, by Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency (World).
Sounds maybe, kind of, maybe not, interesting. Am [...]

I’ve been lax about this but thankfully there weren’t too many sales whilst I was absent.
I’m thinking that this is a romance, but I’m not familiar with Highland Press. It has a bit of an unbelievable feel to it since most kidnappings for ransom seem to take place overseas.
Ginger Simpson’s SPARTA ROSE, in which [...]

Normally I don’t report on non fiction deals because I don’t read non fiction for leisure. But these are bloggers we know writing about a topic we love. Congrats ladies.
Sarah Wendell and Lay-Ping “Candy” Tan’s SMART BITCHES WHO LOVE TRASHY BOOKS, based on the popular blog, a funny, somewhat bitchy and adoring look [...]

There were big deals for Cindy Gerard and Gena Showalter. I’ve not yet read Cindy (am going to) and have read just one Showalter. She’s someone that Bam loves muchly and thus I should also like but the one book that I read just hasn’t engaged me but apparently I am the only [...]

Carolyn Jewel’s SCANDAL, about a not-so-reformed Regency rake in love with a woman who knows first-hand just how badly he’s behaved and refuses to consider his serious offer of marriage, to Kate Seaver at Berkley, in a two-book deal, by Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency (NA).
I only mention this foreign rights sale so I [...]

Is it wrong for me to love the Supernanny?
Supernanny Jo Frost’s first book CONFIDENT BABY CARE, to Ian Marshall at Orion, for publication in August 2007, by Eugenie Furniss at William Morris Agency.
Obviously, these kids’ parents did not watch the Supernanny.
Paul Griffin’s TEN MILE RIVER, a gritty, urban, coming-of-age story about two adolescents on the [...]

I bought this based on someone’s recommendation several years ago and it was very entertaining if not a little unbelievable.
Ann Herendeen’s originally self-published first novel PHYLLIDA AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF PHILANDER, a “bisexual Victorian Regency romance” that marries camp and erotica to humorous effect, to Rakesh Satyal at Harper Perennial (world). rakesh.satyal@harpercollins.com
Another POD book. [...]

Hope this isn’t the Running with Scissors type of book where the story is based on a real family who didn’t authorize such a story.
Canadian magazine editor and journalist Elizabeth Kelly’s APOLOGIZE, APOLOGIZE!, about a wild, brilliant, wealthy, crazy Massachusetts family, to Jonathan Karp at Twelve in a pre-empt, and to Diane Martin at Knopf [...]

What can I say? Readers must like Atlantis.
USA Today bestselling author Alyssa Day’s ATLANTIS UNBOUND plus two more novels and a novella in her Warriors of Poseidon paranormal romance series, about a race of Atlantaen warriors tasked to protect mankind in its darkest hour, again to Cindy Hwang at Berkley, in a [...]

Yes, I had to go with the alliterative word, Porn, rather than erotica. In actuality, Pink is the psuedonym to some other unnamed author. But wouldn’t it be kind of fun if it were PINK writing about the exploits of Lady Delish, an alter ego of sorts of Pink in her latest video.
Pink’s [...]

Other than Cynthia Eden’s story about the psychologist to the paranormal, my interest in the following books are fairly low:

Michelle Willingham’s THE WARRIOR’S TOUCH and HER WILD IRISH ROGUE, the next two MacEgan brothers’ medieval historical romances, again to Joanne Carr at Harlequin Mills & Boon, by Carolyn Grayson at Ashley Grayson Literary Agency.
Kimberly Stuart’s [...]

She’s got a new book out next month which I haven’t yet read. I think I read some of her categories a long time back. She did write categories, didn’t she?
Prince of Magic author Linda Winstead Jones’s THE EMPEROR’S BRIDE, a new trilogy, to Wendy McCurdy at Berkley, by Richard Curtis of Richard [...]