Usually, I don’t mind spending money on my hobby, but I am for some reason too cheap to pay $20 a month to join Publisher’s Marketplace. I figure if I hunt hard enough, I should be able to find the same info for free, and I do love hunting stuff down online. But, I really am nosy enough to want to know what is going on. So, in that spirit, this is what I have found out is in the works…
“Nice deal” $1 – $49,000
“Very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000
“Good deal” $100,000 – $250,000
“Significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000
“Major deal” $500,000 and up
- NYT bestselling author Larissa Ione‘s first two books in new dark vampire series, to Lauren McKenna at Pocket, in a significant deal, by Kimberly Whalen at Trident Media Group.
- NYT bestselling author Jennifer Ashley‘s next two historical romances in the Mackenzie series, her next two paranormal romances in the “Shifters Unbound” series and six e-novellas to extend and promote the two series, to Kate Seaver at Berkley Sensation, in a significant deal, by Bob Mecoy at Creative Book Services.
- Leigh Evans‘ next title in her upcoming MYSTWALKER series,to Holly Blanck at St. Martin’s, in a very nice deal, by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency.
- Dee Carney‘s HUNGER AWAKENED, an erotic paranormal romance, in which Alice Bowman is hiding an illness that’s left her homeless until her Good Samaritan act for a stranger leads her into the world of vampires, where she’s drawn to both the luxury Sebastian offers her and to the man, to Angela James of Carina Press, for publication in spring 2013.
- Seventeen-year-old Abigail Gibbs has landed a six-figure deal with HarperCollins, signing for world rights to two books, THE DARK HEROINE:DINNER WITH A VAMPIRE, and its sequel. The book has been released as a serial, via Wattpad, beginning when the author was 15. HC said that, to date, it’s been read nearly 17 million times. William Morrow has just released an e-book edition of the work—it’s about an 18-year-old who gets swept up in a glamorous world and falls for a charismatic but dangerous figure—and is planning a paperback for March.
- Wendy Higgins‘s SWEET PERIL and SWEET RECKONING, books 2 and 3 of the SWEET EVIL trilogy, in which a half-angel/half-demon is our last hope to rid the earth of demons and must choose between her love for Kaidan (son of the demon of Lust) and her angelic destiny, to Alyson Day at Harper Children’s, for publication in Summer 2013 & 2014, by Jill Corcoran at The Herman Agency (World).
- TOUCH OF DEATH author Kelly Hashway‘s INTO THE FIRE, in which a sixteen-year-old descendant from the mythical phoenix bird is nearing her rebirth where she will forget everything, including the love of her life and she attempts to embrace her last days with him even if it means drawing deadly phoenix hunters to her doorstep, to Georgia McBride at Month9Books, in a three-book deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in spring 2014, by Lauren Hammond of ADA Management Group.
- Kendra Leigh Castle‘s SYMPATHY FOR THE DEMON, where a fallen angel plays bodyguard to a mortal woman who unwittingly stumbles into the plans of a band of rogue vampires, the first book in a new series about a group of outcast fallen angels making good as they hire on as heavenly mercenaries, slaying demons — and finding their hearts along the way, to Liz Pelletier at Entangled, in a three-book deal, by Kevan Lyon at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.
This is cool info! I’m glad to see Wendy Higgins got her next two books picked-up. I haven’t read Sweet Evil yet, but will be very soon and the reviews have been very, very positive. Great news about Larissa too!!
I love finding this stuff, but it seems hard to track down new deal info. I might just have to break down and get the subscription to Publisher’s Marketplace.
I am reading Jennifer Ashley’s Mackenzie series and i love it. I am excited that there are more to come. Larissa Ione is an autobuy for me. She has yet to disappoint me.
I was wondering which way Larissa would go…either more into the angels, or the vamps. Looks like the vamps won.
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Eh, new vampire series by Larissa Ione? I’m curious if its a really new series or connected with her Demonica. She also promised that she will back to Demonica again.
I am thinking it will be connected to the Demonica series, like the Lords of Deliverance are. I wondered where she would go after the Lords wraps up, so good to know.
Someone in my book group wrote to Larissa about the new series and she wrote her back: (quoted from my friend) “she said that yes she is branching out with a different publisher and is starting a series about Vampires in a whole new world and setting.”
Nice…thanks for the info, Amber. This sounds promising.