Nick DiChario sold his second novel, Valley of Day-Glo, to Rob Sawyer at Robert J. Sawyer Books, via agent Christine Cohen of the Virginia Kidd Agency...
Edward M. Lerner sold Countdown to Armageddon, which will be serialized in seven parts, to Baen's Universe. The story is set during the battle of Tours...
Darin Bradley, the editor of ezine Farrago's Wainscot, has sold a best-of anthology to Drollerie Press. The anthology will be titled Crawlspace: Selections from the 2007 Farrago's Wainscot Exhibition, and will be published...
Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan sold The New Space Opera II to Diana Gill at Eos. "Following the critically-acclaimed The New Space Opera, this anthology will include stories from noted authors including David Weber, Elizabeth Moon, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Neil Asher and many more."
Elizabeth Haydon sold the last book in the Symphony of Ages series, the fourth and fifth in the Ven Polypheme series, and a new trilogy to Tor, in a major...
Jonathan Maberry, who won this year's Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, sold three books to St. Martin's. The first, Patient Zero, deals with a police detective working to stop a plague turning people into zombies...
Nick Mamatas sold collection You May Sleep... to Sean Wallace at Prime Books. The book is scheduled to be published in early Spring 2008. Agent on the deal was Michele Rubin of Writers House.
Literary author Justin Cronin, writing as "Justin Ainsley," sold a postapocalyptic vampire trilogy to Ballantine for more than $3.5 million. The story is set in 2016 and "revolves around a US government project gone awry...
Scottish author Gary Gibson sold a three-book series to Pan Macmillan's Tor UK. The three books form a connected series, and will be entitled Stealing Light, Stealing Fire, and Stealing Time. The first is scheduled to be published on 5 October 2007...
Sebastian Faulks, author of Engleby, joins a growing list of authors writing James Bond novels. His, Devil May Care, will be published to coincide with what would have been creator Ian Fleming's 100th birthday...
Karen Miller's Innocent Mage is scheduled to be published this September by Orbit, with its sequel, The Awakened Mage, following early next year. They've already been published by HarperCollins Australia. Additionally, agent Lindsay Rosoff (of the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency) reports that Orbit has bought Miller's three-book "Godspeaker" trilogy, which is also being published by HarperCollins Australia. The first book Empress of Mijak has recently been published.
Sharon Shinn sold the fifth and sixth books in the Twelve Houses series and a collection of short stories to Berkley via agent Lindsay Rosoff at the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency. She also sold two YA novels, one to Spain and one to Japan....
New author Jasper Kent sold world rights to Twelve and an unwritten sequel to Simon Taylor at Transworld UK (Bantam Corgi). The novel is set during the Napoleonic wars and features supernatural elements...
Stacia Kane sold Personal Demons out of the slushpile to Paula Guran at Juno Books. The novel features a therapist who will slay personal demons... that really exist...
Carolyn Turgeon sold Godmother, a novel "about Cinderella's fairy godmother and the secret she's hiding about the fateful night of the ball, which has cursed her to live out her days on earth as a human," to Lindsey Moore at Three Rivers Press. Agent for the deal was Elaine Markson of the Elaine Markson Agency.
