Recent Deals, as posted on Publishers Marketplace:
ADULT
I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER author Dan Wells' THE HOLLOW CITY, about a man with schizophrenia who realizes that some of the monsters he sees are real, again to Moshe Feder at Tor.
NY Times bestselling and multiple Bram Stoker Award winning author Jonathan Maberry's two new Joe Ledger thrillers in the series that started with PATIENT ZERO, along with a standalone zombie novel, in a good deal, to Michael Homler at St. Martins.
NYT bestselling author L.A. Banks' untitled fallen angels series to Jennifer Heddle at Pocket, in a good deal, for two books.
Darrin Doyle's THE GIRL WHO ATE KALAMAZOO, the darkly comic tale of the world's most gifted "eatist" and her destructive consumption of a city, as told by her sister, out guide into the disquieting lives their family and their often fatally flawed way of loving, to Vicki Lame at St. Martin's.
ZOOLOGY author Ben Dolnick's YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, an intimate look at the way a young mother's death changes and shapes a family over the course of almost twenty years, again to Jennifer Jackson at Vintage.
CHILDREN'S
Leila Howland's NANTUCKET BLUE, about a 17-year old and her summer of a lifetime on Nantucket, where she makes mistakes in friendship and in love, but also discoveries about her mother's time on the island at 17 that might bring them closer together, while falling for a forbidden and surprising new love interest, to Emily Meehan at Disney-Hyperion, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal.
Erin Bowman's THE LAICOS PROJECT, about a 17-year-old who has grown up in a primitive town where boys are Heisted on their 18th birthday never to be seen again, and who is determined to find out the truth behind the disappearances, to Erica Sussman at Harper Children's, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, in a three-book deal.
Author of I AM NOT SERIAL KILLER Dan Wells's PARTIALS, about a teenage girl in an America decimated by a civil war with partials -- a fully-organic, artificial race of genetically-enhanced people -- who realizes that the key to the survival of humans and partials alike depends on her unique connection to both, to Jordan Brown and Ruta Rimas at Balzer & Bray, in a three-book deal, in a good deal.
IT'S RAINING CUPCAKES author Lisa Schroeder's IMPOSSIBLY SMALL, about a girl who has spent her first ten years locked in a tower room with her gypsy mother, and survives their dreary life by listening to her mother's stories and secretly visiting the hummingbirds in the garden, until the wicked queen forces her to live in the castle, to Christy Ottaviano at Christy Ottaviano Books.
Kimberly Baker's debut PICKLE, pitched as part FRINDLE part FIGHT CLUB for middle-schoolers, about a twelve-year-old boy who finds himself outgrowing his best friend while managing a group of new friends into a league of undercover pranksters, to Deirdre Langeland at Roaring Brook Press, in a pre-empt.
Amy McNamara's debut LOVELY, DARK, AND DEEP, about a high-school senior, who, in the aftermath of a car accident that kills her boyfriend and throws her carefully planned future into complete upheaval, retreats to the deep woods of Maine to live with the artist father she barely knows and meets a boy who threatens to pull her from her safe, hard-won exile, to Alexandra Cooper at Simon & Schuster Children's
OVERBOARD author Elizabeth Fama's SYRENKA, which intertwines two tragic love stories: in 1872, Ezra's romance with the fierce and beautiful mermaid Syrenka ends in a series of horrific murders; and when present-day Hester meets and falls in love with Ezra's ghost they untangle the connections between the early deaths of the women in her family, the forgotten murders, and the mysterious Syrenka, to Beth Potter at Farrar, Straus Children's, in a pre-empt, in a very nice deal.
Veera Hiranandani's debut THE WHOLE STORY OF HALF A GIRL, in which the child of a Jewish-American mother and an Indian father is forced to change schools when her father loses his job, causing her to question her own cultural identity and the father she thought she knew, to Francoise Bui at Delacorte.
Robison Wells' YA debut dystopian thriller VARIANT, a modern-day LORD OF THE FLIES, set at a boarding school where not everything is as it seems and every day is a fight for survival, in a significant deal, in a three-book deal, to Erica Sussman at Harper Children's.
Children's/Young Adult: I HEART YOU, YOU HAUNT ME author Lisa Schroeder's new verse novel, THE DAY BEFORE, about 16-year old Amber, who goes to the beach alone to spend one perfect day before her world is turned upside down, and meets and feels a strong connection to a boy, Cole, who she slowly discovers is looking for his own escape, but for a very different reason, to Annette Pollert at Simon Pulse.
Jeff Hirsch's debut, THE LONG WALK HOME, a Post-Apocalyptic story, set after "The Collapse," when America was destroyed by a war with China and a pandemic flu, about what happens when a boy who has spent his whole life only surviving finds a place where he can truly live, in a two-book deal, in a very good deal, at auction, to David Levithan and Cassandra Pelham at Scholastic.
CAMILLE MCPHEE FELL UNDER THE BUS and LOST IT author Kristen Tracy's untitled sequel to the forthcoming THE REINVENTION OF BESSICA LEFTER, again to Wendy Loggia at Delacorte, in a two book deal.
Children's/ Middle Grade: Former Sports Illustrated Kids baseball editor, and GENTLEMEN author Michael Northrop brings his knowledge of the sport and love of the game to his first novel for middle-grade readers, PLUNKED, the story of a young slugger, part Wimpy Kid, part Rocky Balboa, who loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch and has to dig deep to avoid giving up the sport he loves, in a two book deal, again to Anamika Bhatnagar at Scholastic.
Children's/ Picture Book: MODERN LIFE author and Finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, Matthea Harvey's CECIL, THE PET GLACIER to Anne Schwartz at Schwartz & Wade.
SHADOWED SUMMER author Saundra Mitchell's THE VESPERTINE, a new take on Gothic romance about a Gilded-Age girl who stirs forbidden desires and long-hidden secrets with her new gift of prophecy- power she may share with an intriguing boy who seems to come and go with the mists, by Sara Crowe at Harvey Klinger, Inc., to Julie Tibbott at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's.
THE BROTHER TORRES author Coert Voorhees' ANNIE FLEET AND THE GOLDEN JAGUAR, about a scuba diving, treasure hunting, female young Indiana Jones-type who has to balance her global search for Cortez’s fabled golden statue against a possible romance with the son of the world’s most famous movie star, again to Ari Lewin at Hyperion.
Children's/Young Adult: Marianna Baer's debut IMMACULATE in which 15 year old Quinn struggles with the impossible fact of her virgin pregnancy while others, including her Brooklyn City Council-candidate father, impose their own ideas and agendas -- she's repressing a rape, she's lying because it's incest, she's divine... along with a second novel, FROST HOUSE, the story of Leena Thomas, a senior at a New England boarding school, who must take increasingly desperate measures to feel safe when confronted not only with an eccentric, unstable new roommate, but with the demons, both psychological and supernatural, haunting her dorm, to Kristin Daly at Balzer & Bray in a good deal, in a pre-empt.
SUCK IT UP author Brian Meehl's untitled new novel which follows a home-schooled teenager, on a cross country adventure to find a father he's never met, whose unique copy of HUCK FINN provides him with a mysterious map to a priceless treasure; and a sequel to SUCK IT UP, again to Michelle Poploff at Delacorte.
Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of PATIENT ZERO, Jonathan Maberry's young adult debut ROT & RUIN, in which a fifteen-year old boy is forced to learn the harsh realities of the art of killing zombies from his older brother as they struggle to survive in the wastelands after the zombie apocalypse, to David Gale at Simon & Schuster Children's, in a good deal, in a two-book deal.
FOREIGN
Rights to Erin Bowman's THE LAICOS PROJECT, to Carsten Polzin at Piper in Germany, in a three-book deal, in a pre-empt, and in Italy to Ornella Robbiati at Sperling & Kupfer, also in a pre-empt.
German rights to Dan Wells's A NIGHT OF BLACKER DARKNESS, again to Carsten Polzin at Piper.
Polish rights to Jeff Hirsch's THE ELEVENTH PLAGUE, to Papierowy Ksiezyc.
German rights to Dan Wells's THE HOLLOW CITY again to Carsten Polzin at Piper.
Italian rights to Dan Well's I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER to Fazi.
Italian rights to Saundra Mitchell's Edgar nominated SHADOWED SUMMER, to Giunti.
French rights to John Ford's Edgar Award and Agatha Award nominated THE MORGUE AND ME, to La Martininère Jeunesse.
German rights to Nina Lacour's HOLD STILL to Fischer Schatzinsel.
German rights to Megan Frazer's SECRETS OF TRUTH AND BEAUTY to Carlsen Verlag at auction.
Dan Wells's I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER, about a 15-year-old who works in his family's mortuary and has an unhealthy obsession with serial killers, and his struggle to control his dark side when a real monster comes to his small town, to Hannah Shepard for the new teen fiction list at Headline, in a pre-empt, in a three-book deal.
German rights to Dan Wells' I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER, about a 15-year-old who works in his family's mortuary and has an unhealthy obsession with serial killers, and his struggle to control his dark side when a real monster comes to his small town, to Carsten Polzin at Piper, in a significant deal, for three books, at auction, by Bastian Schlueck at Thomas Schlueck Agency, on behalf of Sara Crowe at Harvey Klinger.
