February 16, 2007
FRIDAY MARKETPLACE ROUND UP
Some random Friday marketplace snippts:
Silhouette Romantic Suspense is looking for YOUR manuscript and Editor Patience Smith will be on hand at eHarlequin to take your pitch!
To enter, send a 2 paragraph blurb of your manuscript to Hosty Rae by March 9th.
Five entries will be chosen by Patience Smith and be announced March 12th.
Pitches will happen March 15, 1pm EST. Rules and details on eHarlequin.
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VERY COOL new site: Romance Novel Television at romancenovel.tv – TV for romance booklovers has launched!
It’s a place to connect with your favorite authors. Every week romancenovel.tv features exclusive on-camera interviews, behind-the-pages stories, and special features all dedicated to romance novels. New videos daily, contests and giveaways.
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What’s selling in Women’s Fiction?
This past week’s deals from PublishersMarketplace :
Maura Hamilton’s debut SHADES OF PASSION, a paranormal historical romance with Gothic overtones, and an untitled historical romance, to Ellen Edwards at NAL, by Evan Marshall at the Evan Marshall Agency (world).
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Debby Mayne’s IF THE DRESS FITS, about a bridal shop owner who faces challenges of the heart when a businessman makes an offer she can’t refuse - but must, to JoAnne Simmons at Barbour, in a nice deal, by Tamela Hancock Murray of Hartline Literary Agency.
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Jodie Dittman writing as Jo Davis’s debut romantic suspense series, centered around the A-shift firefighters of Station Five, to Tracy Bernstein at NAL, in a three-book deal, by Roberta Brown of the Brown Literary Agency (world).
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Kerry Reichs’ debut THE BEST DAY OF SOMEONE ELSE’S LIFE, following one woman through a year and a half of weddings and changes, looking at friendships, relationships, and family bonds, and at growing up and sometimes growing apart, to Carrie Feron at Avon, by Lisa Grubka at the William Morris Agency (NA).
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Jane Tara’s debut FORECAST, about a psychic weatherwoman who lives with her other-worldly mom and grandmom and falls in love with the very down-to-earth weatherman she’s replacing, to Leah Hultenschmidt at Dorchester, for publication in November 2007, by Ken Atchity at AEI Literary Management (NA).
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Cathryn Fox and Sylvia Day’s SPELLBOUND I: MAGIC AND MAYHEM, two intertwined contemporary paranormal novellas about a fantasy lover spell gone awry, again to Lucia Macro at Harper, in a nice deal, by Bob Diforio at D4EO Literary Agency for Fox, and by Pamela Harty at The Knight Agency for Day (world).
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Author of SECRET SOCIETY GIRL and the upcoming UNDER THE ROSE Diana Peterfreund’s next two books in the series, following an Ivy League senior’s spring break on her society’s private island, and her final challenges in tapping a new class of knights, graduating from college, and maybe even falling in love, again to Kerri Buckley at Bantam Dell, by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency (NA).
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Diane Whiteside’s THE BLUE-EYED DEVIL, in which a man’s deadly skills are needed to keep an intellectual woman safe in early 1900s Europe after she steals secret plans which could trigger a war, THE ARIZONA DEVIL, where the values of the old west collide with the greedy extravagance of Victorian Newport society during a family feud, and one other historical, to Kate Duffy at Kensington, in a very good deal, by Elaine English of Elaine English Literary (world).
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TREASURE and DAD FOR LIFE author Helen Brenna’s new novel for Harlequin’s NASCAR series, to Tina Colombo at Harlequin, for publication in May 2008, by Tina Dubois Wexler at ICM (World).
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Anne Stuart’s untitled novella for Christmas anthology, to Marsha Zinberg at Harlequin, in a nice deal, by Jane Dystel at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management (World).
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