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BESTSELLERS!! Huge congrats to Jana DeLeon and Liliana Hart on hitting the USA Today Bestseller List this past week. Jana's REEL OF FORTUNE landing at #21 and Liliana's WHISKEY AND GUNPOWDER at #85.
As announced in Variety, LaToya Morgan is developing a TV series at AMC based on Hugh Howey’s WOOL, the first book in the Silo Series. Morgan will executive produce the project in addition to writing the pilot. Howey is also attached as a producer. She is write/co-executive producer on AMC’s “Into the Badlands.” Her other television credits include “Shameless” and “Parenthood.”
As announced in Hollywood Reporter, BCDF Pictures has acquired the film and TV rights to Marie Lu’s sci-fi book franchise LEGEND, PRODIGY, CHAMPION and has set Joseph Muszynski to write a new script based on the first novel. Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of BCDF Pictures are producers.
Big Congrats! J.D. Barker's THE FOURTH MONKEY wins the 2018 Audie Award for best thriller/suspense.
And the news keeps getting better. Another huge congrats to JD Barker & Dacre Stoker as DRACUL is also a Publishers Lunch Fall 2018 Buzz Book! Crazy fun news day at NLA!
Crazy happy day! Congrats to Miranda Asebedo, Heather Kaczynski, & Marie Lu. THE DEEPEST ROOTS, ONE GIANT LEAP & WILDCARD are all Publishers Lunch FALL 2018 Buzz Books!
Congrats to Lisa Shearin! THE GHOUL VENDETTA wins the RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Urban Fantasy novel.
Huge congrats to Ally Carter on NOT IF I SAVE YOU FIRST landing on the New York Times bestseller list at #5 the first week out!
Big congrats to Ally Carter! NOT IF I SAVE YOU FIRST has been named an Indie Next pick for Spring 2018.
SOLD!! Heather Alexander at Audible Originals took world English rights to a novella prequel to the bestselling Gallagher Girls series, by Ally Carter. The title will follow three characters from the books during their first week of seventh grade at their all-girls spy school; it’s set to debut as an audio original and was sold by Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency.
SOLD!! Catherine Onder at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt bought North American rights, at auction, to Ally Carter’s first middle grade series. The first title in the two-book deal, The Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Virtue, is slated for fall 2019. HMH said the series was pitched as what would happen “if little orphan Annie went to live with Batman.” The book follows, HMH explained, a girl and her group of “ragtag” friends “as they teach a mysterious billionaire that he has a family worth fighting for.” Kristin Nelson represented Carter.
Throwing confetti! JD Barker's THE FOURTH MONKEY is nominated for a 2018 Audie Award for Best Thriller audiobook!
Congrats J.D. Barker! The Horror Writers Association has announced the 2017 Bram Stoker Award Preliminary short list ballot. Barker's debut THE FOURTH MONKEY made that list for Superior Achievement in a Novel.
A double nomination for Josh Malerman! The Horror Writers Association has announced the 2017 Bram Stoker Award ballot finalists. BLACK MAD WHEEL for Superior Achievement in a Novel; and GOBLIN for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection.
Wonderful congrats to Jamie Ford. LOVE AND OTHER CONSOLATION PRIZES is a 2017 Library Journal Best Book of the Year (Historical Fiction).
Three cheers for J.D. Barker! His first thriller THE FOURTH MONKEY debuted on Germany's National Bestseller List making this novel an international bestseller.
Three cheers for Marie Lu! BATMAN: NIGHTWALKER hits the New York Times Bestseller list in the #5 spot.
Big congrats to Marie Lu! Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble named WARCROSS a 2017 Best Book of the Year! As did PopSugar, Bustle, Paste Magazine, The Boston Globe and Vulture Magazine.
SOLD!! Emily Easton at Crown has preempted for six figures, in an exclusive submission, Scott Reintgen's debut middle grade novel, When in Fancy. Indira Story finally gets the call to audition at Protagonist Preparatory, only to botch her audition and end up being designated as a side character. When a darker plot threatens the school, Indira must find out if a side character like her can really save the day. Publication is set for spring 2020; Kristin Nelson brokered the two-book deal for North American rights.
SOLD!! E.R. Ramzipoor’s THE VENTRILOQUISTS, set during WWII and inspired by true events, a literary debut that follows a ragtag gang of resistance fighters – including a misfit news editor, a forger, and a young boy -- who go to extraordinary lengths and risk their lives to publish a satiric newspaper mocking the Reich, all while pretending to work for the Nazis, celebrating freedom of expression and those who have the courage to defend their values and their very way of life, pitched as All The Light We Cannot See meets “Ocean’s Eleven,” to Erika Imranyi at Park Row Books, by Kristin Nelson.

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