Jeff Carlson sold Mind Plague to Anne Sowards at Ace via agent Donald Maass for a “solid” deal in five figures. The sale also activated a purchase clause in Carlson’s contract with German publisher Piper Verlag, which secured Mind Plague for a mid-five-figure advance, plus bestseller bonuses which, if attained, will double that amount.
Mind Plauge will be the third volume in the “so-called Nanotech Trilogy,” following last summer’s Plague Year and the upcoming Plague War, which is due out at the end of July.
The third book is tentatively scheduled for publication in Summer 2009. Piper Verlag plans to release the nanotech Plague novels beginning in September as “part of a special marketing campaign aiming to link phantastic and mainstream novels in order to widen the range for ‘phantastic thrillers’ in both the mainstream and the science fiction/fantasy market,” including advertising, special pages in Piper catalogues, and cross-promotion in genre and non-genre media.