Darby Harn sold a major fantasy novel, The Book of Elizabeth, to Sean Wallace at Prime Books, for an anticipated hardocover publication in early 2009.
Wallace provided this summary of the book: “Alice remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall. How she doesn’t know, because it never happened; there was never a Wall. There was never a Berlin. In their place is a new world, a new history unburdened and unfettered of the past except for a small few like herself, swept out of their proper places in time and stranded with their memories in the new now, people from every era, poets, gladiators, peasants and queens.
“Queen Elizabeth the First finds herself, for the first time in her life, free; free of the weight of her office, her world and the constraints of her time. She relishes the opportunity to establish her own personal identity, her own personal destiny but she cannot avoid being at the center of a great struggle. Some, like Alice, want to learn the truth of what happened, and if possible, put things back the way they were meant to be… but in embracing the virgin world, the queen has no intent to restore the past but to see it banished, even from her own mind, forever…”