Dear Author: Romance Book Reviews, Author Interviews, and Commentary

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 the life of a drowning woman, to Dawn Davis at Amistad, in a major deal, for two books, in a pre-empt.
Bigger money.
Reif Larsen’s debut novel THE SELECTED WORKS OF T.S. SPIVET, the story of a 12-year old genius mapmaker from Montana, to Ann Godoff at Penguin Press, in a major deal, reportedly for approximately $900,000, at auction, for publication in summer 2009 (US).
This sounds more like Mira than Spice.
Essence bestselling author Kayla Perrin’s OBSESSION, “Unfaithful” meets “Fatal Attraction” in this erotic thriller; a male lover turns stalker when a wife refuses to leave her husband, to Audible.com, to Susan Swinwood at Mira Spice (World).
She complained that he never gave her anything.
Sheramy Bundrick’s THE SUNFLOWERS, which imagines Vincent Van Gogh’s relationship with the Arles prostitute to whom he gave his severed ear, to Lucia Macro at Avon, for publication in Fall 2009 …

Interesting.
Susan Vaught’s DIARY OF A BIG FAT FAT GIRL, in which a high school senior starts a searing and humorous column in the school paper to fight for her rights as a fat girl, air her fears about her football-player boyfriend’s impending weight-loss surgery, and (she hopes) win a college scholarship, to Victoria Wells Arms at Bloomsbury, by Erin Murphy of Erin Murphy Literary Agency.

Interesting. Does the RITAs do this? Nope.
Science Fiction Writers of America’s Nebula Awards Awards Showcase 2008, edited by Ben Bova, to Ginjer Buchanan at Roc, by Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary Agency (world English).

Laura Resnick’s husband father. I’ve never read him but I love her work.
Mike Resnick’s STALKING THE VAMPIRE, involving a PI and supernatural creatures in New York City, and the earlier novel STALKING THE UNICORN, to Lou Anders at Pyr, by Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary Agency (world English).

This is sold as a Fiction: Thriller.
Kayla Perrin’s WE’LL NEVER TELL, in which what starts as a plan to teach a man-stealing sorority sister a lesson goes horribly wrong, resulting in murder, to Jennifer Enderlin at St. Martin’s, by Helen Breitwieser at Cornerstone Literary (NA).

meh.
Carol Snow’s HERE TODAY, GONE TO MAUI, …