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Pocket Books to republish seven Permuted zombie titles
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Pocket Books signed a co-publishing deal with Permuted Press to capitalize on the current zombie craze. The first of the Permuted titles to appear from Pocket will be...

David Barnett sells popCULT! to Pendragon Press
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UK author David Barnett sold limited-edition rights to popCULT! to Welsh publisher Pendragon via John Jarrold...

Adam L.G. Nevill sells two untitled horror novels in auction to Pan Macmillan
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Adam L.G. Nevill, whose first horror novel, Banquet for the Damned, was published in September 2008, sold two untitled novels in an auction conducted by agent John Jarrold and won by Pan Macmillan...

Thomas A. Easton sells small collection to SRP Publisher
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Thomas A. Easton sold Maine Quartet to SRM Publisher. The book, a short collection, will be published on 17 July...

James A. Hetley sells Dragon sequel "Dragon's Bones" to SRM
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James A. Hetley sold stand-alone novella 'Dragon's Bones' to SRM Publisher, Ltd. It continues the story from Dragon's Eye and Dragon's Teeth...

Rob Thurman sells A Thousand Doors to Roc
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Rob Thurman sold new novel A Thousand Doors to Roc via agent Lucienne Diver. The novel finds assassins and genetic engineering...

Alan Goldsher's Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion sells to Pocket
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Ghostwriter/music writer Alan Goldsher's new novel follows the rise to infamy of an undead Beatles in their attempt to take over the world...

Roby James sells historical fantasy A Song of Awakening to Norilana
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Roby James, editor of the Warrior Wisewoman series, sold A Song of Awakening to Norilana. The historical fantasy is set in a time...

Lian Tanner sells fantasy trilogy to Delacorte
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Australian playwright Lian Tanner sold her second (and third and fourth) children's novels to Delacorte. Museum of Thieves is the story of...

Violette Malan sells fourth Dhulyn & Parno novel to DAW
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Violette Malan keeps rolling with her Dhulyn and Parno series. This time, she sold book #4, The Path of the Sun to Sheila Gilbert at DAW. As always, agent on the deal was Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky.

Pyr buys next, unwritten steampunk novel from Tim Akers
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On the strength of his first book (due out from Solaris in August), Lou Anders at Pyr SF bought Tim Akers' second, as-yet-unwritten novel, The Horns of Ruin...

Gollancz to pay Alastair Reynolds £1 million for ten books
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Alastair Reynolds has signed a ten-book deal, lasting ten years, for £1 million with his British publisher Gollancz in what is probably the biggest...

Frederic S. Durbin sells The Star Shard to Houghton Mifflin
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Frederic S. Durbin's The Star Shard will be an expansion of a novella recently serialized in Cricket Magazine...

Angry Robot buys books from Broaddus, Forbeck, and Shevdon
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Maurice Broaddus sold a trilogy, and Matt Forbeck and debut novelist Mike Shevdon each sold two books, to Angry Robot Books...

Debut novelist Jon Sprunk sells trilogy to Pyr
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Lou Anders at Pyr Books bought Jon Sprunk's debut fantasy trilogy. The first book, Shadow's Sun, should be out in Summer 2010...

Screenwriters Epstein & Jacobson sell YA fantasy trilogy to Harper Children's
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Screenwriters Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson have teamed up yet again, this time for a prose fantasy trilogy called The Familiars...

Chloe Neill sells two more Chicagoland Vampires
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Chloe Neill sold the third and fourth books in her acclaimed Chicagoland Vampire series to Jessica Wade at NAL via agent Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency...

John Joseph Adams' new anthology to explore evil geniuses and mad scientists
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John Joseph Adams sold original anthology The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination to Tor Books. In the book, we'll explore the world of mad scientists and evil geniuses from their own point of view...

Jane Yolen and Rebecca Guay sell graphic novel to Dark Horse
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Jane Yolen's words and Rebecca Guay's paintings combine to create the world of The Last Dragon, a YA graphic novel Dark Horse will publish in 2010...

Jasper Kent's third historical vampire novel sells to Transworld
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Jasper Kent sold his third historical novel to Simon Taylor at Transworld, via agent John Jarrold...

Link & Grant sell YA steampunk anthology to Candlewick
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Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant sold YA anthology Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories to Deborah Noyes Wayshak at Candlewick Press, for publication in Fall 2011...

Lucienne Diver sells Revamped, offers more news
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Flux has bought the sequel to Lucienne Diver's debut YA novel. The author also offers an interview and a contest to win Vamped...

Jim C. Hines sells fourth "Princess" book to DAW
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Jim C. Hines will continue his "Princess" series with DAW Books with Secret of the Snow Queen in 2011...

Brandon Sanderons starts new series at Tor, for big money
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Brandon Sanderon sold the first four books in The Way of Kings, which will be published alternating with the last three books of The Wheel of Time. With performance bonuses, the advance on the new series could top $2.5 million...

George Mann sells six books to Snowbridge, and two to Pyr
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George Mann sold the second half of his Newbury and Hobbes six-book steampunk series, as well as the beginning of a new series, and a collection, to indy publisher Snowbridge. Pyr will also be publishing...
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