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Sean Wallace looking to fill The Massive Book of Steampunk
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Editor Sean Wallace is gathering content for his recently sold The Mammoth Book of Steampunk. At the moment, he's only seeking reprints, but he'll be reading new stories sometime after the end of the month...

Tobias Buckell sells "The Executioness" to Subterranean
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Tobias Buckell's stand-alone novella The Executioness is already available for pre-order as both limited and trade editions...

Rjurik Davidson sells first two novels to Tor Books, via John Jarrold
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Australian author Rjurik Davidson's first two novels will be published by Tor Books, following a sale to James Frenkel. The first book, tentatively titled Caeli-Amur...

Jennifer Rardin sells new zombie series to Orbit
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Jennifer Rardin is starting a new zombie series with Orbit. Book Club of the Damned should appear in 2011 or 2012...

Fiona Patton, writing D.K. Johnston, starts new fantasy series with DAW
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Fiona Patton, writing as "D.K. Johnston", sold the first two books in a new fantasy series to Sheila Gilbert at DAW...

Chloe Neill sells Chicagoland Vampires 5-7 to NAL
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Chloe Neill sold books five through seven in her Chicagoland Vampires series to Jessica Wade at NAL via Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency. The fourth book in the series, Hard Bitten, is expected to be published in July 2011.

Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion coming from Radical Publishing and Disney films
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Disney will adapt Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion (written by Arvid Nelson, illustrated by Andrée Wallin), which Radical will publish next summer...

DD Barant sells three more Bloodhound Files
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DD Barant will be continuing the Bloodhound Files urban fantasy series for at least three more books...

PS Publishing announces a slew of acquisitions
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PS Publishing's upcoming titles include works by Kelly Barnhill, Eric Brown, Charles De Lint, Paul Di Filippo, Carol Emshwiller, Simon R. Green, Garry Kilworth, Brian Lumley, Paul Park, Richard Parks, Kit Reed...

Susan Sizemore sells two new Laws of the Blood books
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Susan Sizemore sold two new urban fantasy novels in her Laws of the Blood universe to Berkley Sensation...

Cassandra Clare to continue her The Mortal Instruments YA series
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Cassandra Clare sold books five and six in her YA series The Mortal Instruments to Margaret K. McElderry Books (Simon & Schuster). Book four is scheduled to appear in April...

Self-published Kit Berry sells fantasy quadrology to Gollancz
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Kit Berry's self-published YA fantasy series Stonewylde has been picked up Gollancz for traditional publication with wider distribution...

Peter V. Brett sells stand-alone novella to Subterranean
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Peter V. Brett sold a stand-alone novella, Brayan's Gold, to Subterranean Press, via agent Joshua Bilmes. The volume will be "heavily illustrated by artist Lauren K. Cannon."

Stephen Deas sells four more books to Gollancz
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In less than three years, Stephen Deas has signed three multi-book deals with Gollancz. This time, it's for four books, including one stand-alone novel...

Chaz Brenchley sells two new horror novels to Severn House
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Chaz Brenchley's two new horror novels will center around a strange country house in the north of England...

P.N. Elrod sells anthology to St. Martin's Press
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Agent Lucienne Diver reports that "P.N. Elrod has sold Hex Symbols, an all new star-studded anthology to Rose Hilliard at St. Martin's Press." Elrod is the author of the twelve (thus far) Vampire Files novels.

Rosemary Clement-Moore sells two more YA paranormals to Delacorte
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Rosemary Clement-Moore will continue her "Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil" YA paranormal series from Delacorte with two more books...

Marjorie M. Liu extends the Hunter Kiss series with Ace
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Marjorie M. Liu sold two more novels in her new Hunter Kiss urban fantasy series to Kate Seaver at Ace Books...

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter collaborating on Pratchett's The Long Earth
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Before Terry Pratchett's Discworld series became such a huge hit, he started work on The Long Earth, but he put it aside. Now, with the help of Stephen Baxter, it will be finished and published by Transworld...

Tanya Huff sells werewolf novel and Enchantment Emporium sequel to DAW
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Tanya Huff sold an as-yet untitled fantasy werewolf novel to Sheila Gilbert at DAW, for publication next year. Following that will be a sequel to her 2009 novel The Enchantment Emporium...

Leona Wisoker sells three sequels to Secrets of the Sands to Mercury Retrograde
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Mercury Retrograde published Leona Wisoker's Secrets of the Sands in March. Now they've "purchased" three sequels, to be called the "Children of the Desert" series...

Rob Thurman sells Chimera sequel to Roc
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Rob Thurman sold the sequel to her sf/suspense novel Chimera (which is due to be published this June) to Anne Sowards of Roc via agent Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency.

Erin Hoffman sells debut novel to Pyr
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Erin Hoffman sold her debut novel to Editorial Director Lou Anders at Pyr. The book, to be titles Sword of Fire and Sea, is the first book in Hoffman's "The Chaos Knight" series. Anders offers this brief description of the story: "Think Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion meets Avatar: The Last Airbender."

Violette Malan to sequelize The Mirror Prince
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Violette Malan sold a sequel to The Mirror Prince to Sheila Gilbert at DAW. Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky was the agent.

Diana Pharaoh Francis continues the Horngate Witches series
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Diana Pharaoh Francis sold books three and four in her Horngate Witches series to Pocket Books. Book one, Bitter Night, came out in October...
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