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We are popping the champagne corks today for Steve Ulfelder – PURGATORY CHASM is an Edgar nominee for best first novel!

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Edward de Steiguer’s  WILD HORSES OF THE WEST has been selected to receive a Southwest Book Award, sponsored by the Border Regional Library Association. The awards banquet will be held on February 25th, 2012 in El Paso.

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Congratulations to Patrick Lee for his Starred Publishers Weekly review for DEEP SKY: “Lee, who tosses in a neat variant on time travel, smoothly combines the pulse-pounding suspense of the TV show 24 with the SF intrigues of the X-Files.”

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RAISED BY THE CHURCH by Edward Rohs with Judith Estrine is “required reading” in the New York Post!

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NOT JUST FOR KIDS. Congratulations to Patrick Carman on his rave LA Times review for DARK EDEN, calling it “a compelling read that transposes the best aspects of classic horror storytelling onto a modern backwoods adventure reluctantly experienced by seven terrified teens… a fast-paced thrill ride.” Read the full review here.

Publishing Perspectives also has this great story on Rewiring the Book.

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Romantic Times 2011 Award Nominations have been announced! We’re thrilled to see Molly Harper on the list with a nomination for best Shapeshifter Romance for HOW TO FLIRT WITH A NAKED WEREWOLF.

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Kirkus has given Julie Cross’s forthcoming young adult time travel novel TEMPEST a Starred Review, calling it “equal parts adventure, romance, science fiction and touching family drama; readers will turn the last page and find themselves wishing they could ‘jump’ to the future and read the sequel.”

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Congrats Scott and Joan Bolzan and Caitlin Rother: MY LIFE DELETED hit#16 on the NYT ebook nonfiction list and #29 on the  NYT combined print & ebook nonfiction list for the week of 10/23/2011!

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Jennie Bentley’s FLIPPED OUT – No.5 in her DIY mystery series – hit #33 on the NYT mass market fiction list for the week of 10/23!

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Congratulations to the wonderful Ina May Gaskin for winning the 2011 Right Livelihood Award! The Award was established in 1980 to honor and support those “offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today.” It has become widely known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize” and there are now 145 Laureates from 61 countries. Find out more here: http://www.rightlivelihood.org/inamay_gaskin.html

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Congratulations to Irene Fleming for winning the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Award for Fiction for EDGE OF RUIN.

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2012 CONFERENCES

January 12: Marissa Walsh, Becky Vinter and Brooks Sherman will attend 2012 Writers Digest Conference in New York, NY.

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NEW DEALS

Josh Farrar’s A SONG FOR BIJOU, a post-Haiti earthquake love story, set in Brooklyn, to Stacy Cantor Abrams at Walker Children’s, for publication in 2013, by Marissa Walsh at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Waverly Curtis’s DIAL “C” FOR CHIHUAHUA: A Sullivan and Sullivan Mystery, the first in a cozy mystery series featuring an amateur P.I. and her talking adopted dog, whose courage and derring do are matched only by his impeccable fashion sense, to Michaela Hamilton at Kensington, byStephany Evans of FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Jessica Corra’s debut AFTER YOU, featuring a seventeen-year-old girl who can rewind moments in her life and change the present, but when her twin sister kills herself, she has to face that trying to rewrite the past might be risking her own future pitched as Before I Fall meets The Sky is Everywhere, to Kate Harrison at Dial Children’s, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Winner of the 2010 William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers Stephanie Evans’s FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, in which a Church of Christ minister discovers that listening is not just “an act of love;” it’s dangerous, to Shannon Jamieson Vazquez at Berkley, in a nice deal, for publication in Spring 2012, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management.

Mindee Arnett’s debut THE NIGHTMARE AFFAIR, set at a supernatural boarding school where a sixteen-year-old girl (half human, half Nightmare) feeds on the dreams of a hot guy only to discover that he’s dreaming of a murder — and it comes true, pitched as Harry Potter meets Veronica Mars, to Whitney Ross at Starscape, in a three-book deal, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Author of BREAK and INVINCIBLE SUMMER Hannah Moskowitz’s FISHBOY, featuring a sixteen-year-old boy whose family, in an effort to cure his ailing brother, relocates to a remote island where legendary magic fish are said to have healing powers, and he discovers the island has terrible secrets, including a half-teenager, half-fish, again to Anica Rissi at Simon Pulse, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Kristin Halbrook’s debut WILL AND ZOE, featuring two teenagers who, in search of a better life, run away to Vegas, but realize they can’t run fast enough when they end up wanted by the police, out of money, and out of options, pitched as a YA Bonnie and Clyde, to Sarah Barley at Harper Children’s, in a two-book deal, in a very nice deal, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management (NA).

Josin L. McQuein’s debut ARCLIGHT, a science fiction/dystiopian thriller, where a parasitic race is driving humanity to the point of extinction, and no one who leaves the last safe enclave ever returns until one teenage girl, a stranger, stumbles out of the Dark, to Martha Mihalick at Greenwillow, in a two-book deal, in a major deal, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management (NA).

Founder and President of Gifted Journeys and former Cycle Director of the Egg Donor Program, Wendie Wilson-Miller’s THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO EGG DONATION:  A COMPASSIONATE AND COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR ALL PARENTS-TO-BE, co-authored with Erika Napoletano, the first handbook on navigating the landscape of egg donation, to Noreen Henson at Demos, by Stephany Evans of FinePrint Literary Management.

Sean Hill’s VERY SHORT STORIES, based on his hilarious and macabre @VeryShortStory Twitter feed, which counts Rainn Wilson and Dita Von Teese among its fans (and 78,000 followers), to Kelly Reed at Ulysses Press, for publication in December 2011, by Marissa Walsh at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Elizabeth Norris’s UNRAVELING, a romantic thriller about a 17-year-old girl who briefly dies after being hit by a car and is drawn into a tense relationship with the male classmate she is convinced saved her, pitched as Before I Fall meets Fringe, to Kristin Daly Rens at Balzer & Bray, in a pre-empt, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

National Journal correspondent Marc Ambinder and The Atlantic contributor D.B. Grady’s SECRETS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AND WHAT YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW, a portrait of the inner workings of the most secretive levels of the federal government, to Eric Nelson at Wiley, at auction, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management (NA).

Nikki Loftin’s debut novel THE SINISTER SWEETNESS OF SPLENDID ACADEMY, pitched as Coraline meets Hansel and Gretel, about a young girl whose seemingly delightful new school hides frightening secrets, to Laura Arnold at Razorbill, in a two-book deal, for publication in Summer 2012, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Sarvenaz Tash’s THE MAPMAKER AND THE GHOST, about a girl who sets out to make the most accurate map of her hometown that ever existed, and discovers that there is no adventure without danger, pitched as MATILDA meets THE GOONIES, to Stacy Cantor Abrams at Walker Children’s, for publication in April 2012, by Marissa Walsh at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Self-publishing success Samantha Hoffman’s WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT, about an oft-divorced and now happily unmarried woman who receives a marriage proposal from her boyfriend on her 50th birthday – the same day she reconnects with her high school sweetheart online, to Brenda Copeland at St. Martin’s, by Stephany Evansof FinePrint Literary Management.

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award semi-finalist Rebecca Coleman’s THE KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD, in which a Waldorf School teacher enters into a ruinous affair with a cocky young male student, to Susan Pezzack-Swinwoodat Mira, for publication October 2011, by Stephany Evans of FinePrint Literary Management.

Gareth Jefferson Jones’s GRIMM CITY, based on never-before-published Grimm fairy tales, pitched as SIN CITY by way of Neil Gaiman, and to be written by K.W. Jeter, to Brendan Deneen at Thomas Dunne Books, by Peter Rubie at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

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New Sub-Rights Deals:

Rights to Sarah Wylie’s debut ALL THESE LIVES, to Heyne in hardcover and Bertelsmann Juvenile in paperback, by Friederike Biesel at Thomas Schluech Agency; Complex Chinese rights to Omnibook Press, by Gray Tan at The Grayhawk Agency, both in association with Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Italian rights to Evan Mandery’s Q: A (Timeless) Love Story, to Neri Pozza, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management.

Evan Mandery’s Q: A (Timeless) Love Story, a twisted love story of a successful writer who meets his future self, who advises him not to marry Q, the love of his life, to Clare Reihill at Harper UK, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management.

Polish rights to Lisa Desrochers’ debut trilogy PERSONAL DEMONS and ORIGINAL SIN, to Polish Ksiaznica, in a three-book deal, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management in association with Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Turkish rights to debut author Lisa Desrochers’s PERSONAL DEMONS and ORIGINAL SIN, to Artemis Yayinlari, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management in association with Nurcihan Kesim Literary Agency, on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Russian rights to debut author Lisa Desrochers’s PERSONAL DEMONS, to Eksmo, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management, on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Portuguese rights to debut author Lisa Desrochers’s PERSONAL DEMONS, to Grupo Saída de Emergencia, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management in association with International Editors’, on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

Italian rights to debut author Lisa Desrochers’s PERSONAL DEMONS, to Newton Compton, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management in association with Piergiorgio Nicolazzini Literary Agency, on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.

French rights to debut author Lisa Desrochers’s PERSONAL DEMONS and ORIGINAL SIN, to Bragelonne, by Jacqueline Murphy at FinePrint Literary Management in association with Donatella D’Ormesson, on behalf of Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management.