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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 …
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