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Thomas Koloniar sells post-apocalyptic zombie novel to William Morrow
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Thomas Koloniar sold Cannibal Reign to Matthew Benjamin at William Morrow. The story is set "in a post-asteroidal world where the sun has ceased to shine and human kind has begun to savagely feed upon itself, the last five green berets on earth have chosen to make a stand"...

"Ben Macallan" sells new urban fantasy series to Solaris
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Pseudonymous author Ben Macallan sold the beginning of a new urban fantasy series to Solaris via agent John Jarrold, who describes the book...

Alex Irvine writing Transformers origins novel for Del Rey
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Alex Irvine's Transformers: Exodus will be published by Del Rey this summer. The book tells the origin stories of Megatron, Optimus Prime...

Molly Cochran sells gothic YA novel to Simon & Schuster
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Molly Cochran sold gothic YA novel Legacy to Paula Wiseman Books at Simon & Schuster...

Eric Brown sells eighth novel to Solaris
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Eric Brown's eighth novel for Solaris will be Kings of Eternity, which will be released next Spring...

Karen Marie Moning sells new "Fever" trilogy to Delacorte, and linking graphic novel to Del Rey
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Karen Marie Moning sold a new three-novel "Fever" spin-off series to Delacorte Press, and a graphic novel linking the old and new series to Del Rey...

"J.K. Beck" sells books 4-6 of the "Shadow Keepers" to Bantam Dell
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Julie Kenner, aka J.K. Beck, sold the fourth, fifth, and sixth novels in the paranormal romance series that will debut this August...

Terry Goodkind moving back to Tor with three-book deal
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After jumping from Tor to Putnam with three books, Terry Goodkind is moving back to the publisher that was his home for 15 years...

John Grant sells Denying Science to Prometheus
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John Grant's Denying Science will be the fourth in his explorations of science and culture, this time from Prometheus Books...

Greg van Eekhout sells three books to Tor based on one short story
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Greg van Eekhout sold a three-book series based on his "The Osteomancer's Son" to Tor Books...

A. Lee Martinez sells Catching the Moon to Orbit
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A. Lee Martinez has sold two new books to Orbit US via agent Sally Harding. Catching the Moon involves great apartments, doomsday cults, devouring of the universe, and more...

J.M. McDermott sells new and reprint novels to Apex
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Apex Book Company will be bringing J.M. McDermott's debut fantasy novel, Last Dragon, back into print, and publishing his second, Maze...

Steven Harper sells new steampunk series to Ace
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Steven Harper sold a new steampunk series, "The Brain Plague", to Ace. The first volume, The Doomsday Vault, will mix zombies, mad scientists, and air pirates...

Jeff Hirsch sells YA post-apocalyptic debut, The Long Walk Home, to Scholastic
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Debut novelist Jeff Hirsch's two-book deal with Scholastic will see post-apocalyptic YA novel The Long Walk Home published sometime in 2011...

Ilsa J. Bick sells YA zombie novel to Egmont
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Primarily known for Star Trek and BattleTech novels, Ilsa J. Bick turns to dark YA writing with Ashes, a post-apocalyptic zombie novel for Egmont...

Robin Wasserman sells horrific YA novel to Knopf
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Robin Wasserman's The Book of Blood and Shadow will focus on a girl whose best friend is murdered, apparently by her boyfriend, and the competing secret societies...

Debut author Lauren DeStefano sells dystopian YA trilogy to Simon & Schuster Children's
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Lauren DeStefano's The Last Chemical Garden will be set in a world where males die young, and females, younger...

Gabrielle Zevin sells dysptopian YA trilogy to FSG
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Gabrielle Zevin sold the "Birthright Series", set in a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, to Farrar, Straus and Giroux's Books for Young Readers...

Suzanne McLeod sells Spellcrackers.com books 4, 5, and 6
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After publishing the first two-third of the Spellcrackers.com trilogy, Gollancz has bought the rights to the fourth, fifth, and sixth books from Suzanne McLeod...

Lauren Oliver sells middle-grade trilogy to Harper
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Lauren Oliver's The Story of Liesl & Po was pitched as the story of a girl, a ghost, two boxes, som ashes, some magic dust, and a magician's apprentice...

Harry Turtledove sells epic disaster trilogy to Roc
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Harry Turtledove's Supervolcano will look at what happens when the lurking danger under Yellowstone awakens...

Karen Miller sells new series to Orbit, and continues a pseudonymous series
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Karen Miller's "the Tarnished Crown" will see publication from Orbit starting in 2012. Additionally, her "Rogue Agent" series (written as by K.E. Mills) will expand to at least five books...

Josephine Angelini sells "Percy Jackson for girls" YA series to Harper
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Josephine Angelini's debut trilogy will open with Starcrossed, when a modern American high school girl discovers her connection to Helen of Troy...

Kevin D. Anderson sells zombie/trekkie mash-up to Quirk
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Publishers Lunch is reporting that Kevin J. Anderson Kevin David Anderson has signed to write Night of the Living Trekkies for Quirk Books. Agent Scott Miller at Trident Media Group handled the deal with Quirk Associate Publisher Jason Rekulak. The book will be "a mash up mixing a zombie apocalypse with the enduring mythology of Star Trek."...

Terry Brooks sells three more Shannara novels to Del Rey
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Betsy Mitchell bought three new Shannara novels from Terry Brooks, continuing the series in the era following High Druid...
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