Jeff Somers sold The Digital Plague to Devi Pillai at Orbit. In this new book, “a plague decimates the entire Eastern seaboard, a plague that can be traced back to killer-for-hire Avery Cates. Agent Janet Reid at Imprint Agnecy got Somers “a nice deal.” Orbit expects to publish in April 2008.
Somers is the author of The Electric Church, which has its own web site at the-electric-church.com. Somers himself has a site at jeffreysomers.com/blather.