Dru Paggliasotti sold The Clockwork Heart to Juno Books. According to Editor Paula Guran, the book is a slushpile survivor. “The Clockwork Heart is a steampunkish romantic fantasy featuring Taya, one of Ondinium’s metal-winged couriers, who is privileged to travel freely across the city’s sectors and mingle indiscriminately among its castes. But even she can’t outfly the tangled web of terrorism, loyalty, murder, and secrets that is cast around her when a daring mid-air rescue leads to her involvement with the Forlores: handsome, brilliant Alister, who sits on Ondinium’s governing council and writes programs for the Great Engine, and awkward, sharp-tongued Cristof, who has exiled himself from his caste and repairs clocks in the lowest sector of the city. What secrets are they hiding, and how far can love carry them in a city that beats to the ticking of a clockwork heart?”
Juno expects to publish it in 2008.