Book & Novel Sales
| Poet Jillian Weise sells interstitial novel | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | May 13, 2009 | ||
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Poet Jillian Weise sold The Colony, in which a 25 year-old who starts up a relationship with a swashbuckling, suicidal cowboy and develops a friendship with Charles Darwin...
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| Sandi Tan's first novel tells the ghost history of Singapore | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | May 13, 2009 | ||
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Sandi Tan sold The Black Isle to Grand Central Publishing. The book tells the "ghost history" of Singapore, from the point of view of an elderly psychic...
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| Mercury Retrograde buys eight novellas and a first novel | |
| People > Book & Novel Sales | May 12, 2009 |
| Poet Edward Morris sold an eight-novella series entitled There Was a Crooked Man, and Leona Wisoker sold her first novel, Secrets of Blood and Sand, to small press publisher Mercury Retrograde... | |
| Stephen Deas sells new YA fantasy trilogy to Gollancz | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | May 11, 2009 | ||
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New British author Stephen Deas just sold his second YA fantasy trilogy, hard on the heels of the publication of the first book in his first trilogy. The new series...
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| Janet Mullany sells Jane Austen vampire novel to Harper | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | May 8, 2009 | ||
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Janet Mullany sold The Immortal Jane Austen to May Chen at Harper, via agent Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency. The book is "a humorous novel about Jane Austen in Regency England who joins the vampire resistance in Bath when England is invaded by French forces."
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| Anjali Banerjee sells magical realist novel to Berkley | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | April 29, 2009 | ||
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Anjali Banerjee's newest novel follows a recently divorced Indo-American woman to the Pacific Northwest, where she learns to talk with the spirits of dead authors in her new bookstore...
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| Douglas Clegg sells new horror novel to Vanguard | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | April 29, 2009 | ||
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Douglas Clegg's Isis will be published by Vanguard Press in September. It tells the story of a woman seeking her dead brother...
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| Leah Cypess sells two YA fantasies to Greenwillow | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | April 28, 2009 | ||
 New author Leah Cypess sold two YA fantasy novels to Greenwillow, including Shifter, in which Isabel can't imagine being the legendary shape-shifter everyone claims she is...
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| Lori McDonald sells fantasy romance trilogy to Dorchester | |
| People > Book & Novel Sales | April 28, 2009 |
| New author Lori McDonald has sold a fantasy romance trilogy to Dorchester. The first book, The Battler, will appear in February 2010, and "is set in a fantasy world where elemental beings..." | |
| Norton to publish posthumous J.G. Ballard collection | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | April 21, 2009 | ||
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W.W. Norton will publish The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard in September, including two stories never published in the States...
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| Ian Randal Strock joins Fantastic Books as a freelance acquisitions editor | |
| People > Publishing Personnel | April 21, 2009 |
| SFScope Editor Ian Randal Strock is now also acquiring books for Wilder Publications' Fantastic Books. His first acquisition is a reprint collection by Lou Antonelli entitled Fantastic Texas... | |
| Jim Butcher sells Dresden Files short story collection | |
| People > Book & Novel Sales | April 16, 2009 |
| Jim Butcher sold an untitled Dresden Files short story collection to Anne Sowards at Penguin via agent Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. The book, which will collect earlier short stories featuring characters from the Dresden Files series, will include some brand new stories, and is expected to be published in Autumn 2010. | |
| Seth Grahame-Smith sells two books to Grand Central for half a million dollars | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | April 10, 2009 | ||
 The author of the current surprise hit, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, will be writing Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and another book...
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| Unpublished Kurt Vonnegut collection coming in November | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | April 10, 2009 | ||
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Delacorte will be publishing Look at the Birdie, a collection of 14 unpublished Kurt Vonnegut stories, in November. They'll also be reissuing fourteen of his novels later this year and early next...
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| Colin Harvey sells two to Angry Robot | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | April 7, 2009 | ||
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Colin Harvey sold two new novels to Angry Robot Books. Winter Song and Damage Time are unrelated to each other...
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| Unpublished Michael Crichton novel to appear later this year | |||
| People > Books | April 6, 2009 | ||
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A completed novel and a partial novel have been discovered among the late Michael Crichton's files. The former will be published later this year; the latter will be co-written...
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| Award-winner Greg Bear to write video game tie-in trilogy | |
| People > Book & Novel Sales | April 6, 2009 |
 Greg Bear is writing a trilogy of novels based on the Xbox 360 game series Halo, set in the time of the Forerunners, and delving into the mysterious backstory of the Halo universe...
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| Tad Williams starting new fantasy series with DAW | |
| People > Book & Novel Sales | April 3, 2009 |
| Tad Williams's new urban fantasy series will follow Doloriel, an angel working as an afterlife investigator... | |
| David J. Halperin sells Journal of a UFO Investigator to Viking | |
| People > Book & Novel Sales | March 25, 2009 |
| Religious Studies Professor David J. Halperin sold his first novel, a Wizard of Oz-like journey with UFOs, to Viking. Journal of a UFO Investigator will appear in early 2011... | |
| John Joseph Adams sells zombie and Sherlock Holmes anthologies to Night Shade | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | March 23, 2009 | ||
 Editor John Joseph Adams sold two new anthologies to Night Shade Books: original/reprint combination The Living Dead 2 and reprint antho The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...
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| Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern sell Fermi Paradox-themed anthology | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | March 16, 2009 | ||
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Co-editors Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern sold a Fermi Paradox-themed original anthology, Is Anybody Out There?, to DAW Books via Martin H. Greenberg's Tekno Books. Expected publication date is 2010.
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| James Enge sells second sequel to The Blood of Ambrose | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | March 13, 2009 | ||
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James Enge has sold a second sequel to The Blood of Ambrose to Pyr via agent Michael Kabongo of the OnyxHawke Agency...
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| Audrey Niffenegger sells second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, for $5 million | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | March 12, 2009 | ||
 Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife, sold her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, for nearly $5 million...
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| Orson Scott Card sells YA series to Simon & Schuster | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | March 9, 2009 | ||
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Orson Scott Card's new YA steampunk/fantasy series will debut in 2011 from Simon & Schuster's Pulse line...
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| Anousheh Ansari's memoir to be published by Palgrave | |||
| People > Book & Novel Sales | March 4, 2009 | ||
 First female space tourist Anousheh Ansari is co-writing her memoir with Homer Hickam. Palgrave Macmillan just bought the rights to the book...
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