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Congratulations to A.S. King, whose story "Monica Never Shuts Up," published in Washington Square, been nominated for Best New American Voices 2010.


       

Congratulations to Patrick Carman, author of Dark Hills Divide and Atherton:  House of Power, both of which have made the Oregon Battle of the Books List 2008-2009.



Congratulations to author Rowan Jacobsen, whose book A Geography of Oysters has won a 2008 James Beard Foundation Award in the reference category.  A Geography of Oysters was also nominated as a finalist in the Food Reference/Technical Category of the 2008 IACP Cookbook Awards.




Congratulations to Jane King Hession and Debra Pickrel, authors of Frank Lloyd Wright in New York, which won the Gold medal in the Architecture category of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards.




Congratulations to Patrick Carman, author of Atherton #2:  Rivers of Fire, which has been selected as a Summer 2008 BookSense Children's Pick.



Congratulations to Christine Goff, author of Death Shoots a Birdie, which has been named a finalist for the "Top-Hand" Best Genre Fiction Novel Award from the Colorado Authors' League.


       

The Spring 2008 issue of the UK's Quarterly Review contains an interview with "Cult Novelist Tito Perdue" and an essay on Perdue's ouevre, "Lee Pefley: Sociopath and Sage."





CONFERENCES


July 10, 2008 - Peter, Stephany, and Gary will be at ThrillerFest at the Grand Hyat  in NYC.

July 24 - 26, 2008 - Amy will participate in the Midwest Writers Workshop in Muncie, IN.

August 8, 2008 - Stephany will be panelling at the Backspace Conference in NYC.

August 21, 2008 - Diane will participate in "Speed-dating with Publishers and Literary Agents," a pitch session in Freeport, ME, sponsored by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.

September 27 - 28, 2008 - Stephany will present and critique at the Chattahoochee Valley Writers' Conference in Columbus, Georgia.

October 24 - 25, 2008 - Stephany will participate in the New Jersey Romance Writers Conference in Iselin, NJ.

October 24 - 26, 2007 - Amy will participate in SEAK:  Medical Fiction Writing for Physicians in Falmouth Cape Cod, MA.




NEW DEALS


Debut novelist Patti DeLois's BUFFLEHEAD SISTERS, a two-book deal, about a young girl who longs for a sister and finally gets one: Sophie, a strange, imaginative girl who claims to have magical powers but hides a deep secret that later turns her sister's world upside down, to Jackie Cantor at Berkley, in a very nice deal, by Diane Freed at FinePrint Literary Management (World English).
 
Instructor in the art of comforting and bereavement counselor Val Walker's THE LANGUAGE OF COMFORTING: WHAT TO SAY AND DO FOR PEOPLE IN DISTRESS, a guide to providing thoughtful and effective comfort to individuals in distress based upon suggestions from people in a diverse array of fields, from social work to pet therapy, to Sara Carder at Jeremy Tarcher, by Diane Freed at FinePrint Literary Management (World English).

Amy Reed's untitled novel, about a brilliant, isolated girl, who moves from her sheltered island to a suburb of Seattle, and is thrown into a hidden and dangerous world -- one where she must either surrender or fight for survival, to Anica Rissi at Simon Pulse, in a nice deal, for publication in Fall 2009, by Amy Tipton at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Kelly Gay's THE BETTER PART OF DARKNESS, the first in an urban fantasy series featuring a female cop, a single mom and demon hunter keeping the peace in downtown Atlanta after all hell - and heaven - breaks loose, to Ed Schlesinger at Pocket, in a two-book deal, by Colleen Lindsay at FinePrint Literary Management (world English).

IACP and James Beard nominee, Rowan Jacobsen's AMERICAN TERROIR:  THE TASTE OF A CONTINENT, the first guide to the "flavor landscape" of North America's most iconic foods, in a very nice deal, to Kathy Belden at Bloomsbury, by Stephany Evans at FinePrint (world).

 Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead author Alan DeNiro's TOTAL OBLIVION, MORE OR LESS, in which a teenage girl travels the Mississippi with her dysfunctional family in a bizarre post-apocalyptic America, to Juliet Ulman at Bantam Dell, in a nice deal, by Colleen Lindsay at FinePrint Literary Management (World English).

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley's KISS KOMPENDIUM, a compilation of all KISS comics featuring the adventures of the band's four superhero characters defeating evil with comic icons like Spiderman, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, and Wolverine, with a foreword by star of A&E's Family Jewels Gene Simmons, to Julia Abramoff of Collins Design, for publication in Fall 2009, by Gary Heidt at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Dawn Rae Downton's THE LITTLE BOOK OF CURSES AND MALEDICTIONS FOR EVERYDAY USE, the modern day guide to exacting stylish revenge using spells, incantations, hexes, imprecations, and execrations for the worst messes (and people) in your life, to Ann Treistman at Skyhorse, in a nice deal, for publication in October 2009, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management (world English).

Grief counselor and popular blogger Susan Elliott's GETTING PAST YOUR BREAKUP: How to Turn a Devastating Loss into the Best Thing that Ever Happened to You, a tough-love guide to letting go and taking charge of your life, to Katie McHugh at Da Capo, by Diane Freed at FinePrint Literary Management (World).

Founder/director of UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center Susan Smalley, PhD, and MARC's director of Mindfulness Education Diana Winston's FULLY PRESENT:  The Practical Art and Science of Mindfulness, a secularized, cutting-edge exploration of the science and practice of mindfulness, to Matthew Lore at Da Capo, at auction, by Stephany Evans at FinePrint Literary Management (NA).

 Adam Eisenberg's A DIFFERENT SHADE OF BLUE, the first on-the-record, in-their-own-name look at what it's like to be a female cop told by officers in the Seattle Police Department, and focusing on The First Nine female beat officers, to Lynn Price at Behler, in a nice deal, for publication in July 2009, by Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management (NA).

The sequel to Concetta Bertoldi's DO DEAD PEOPLE WATCH YOU SHOWER?: And Other Questions You've Been All But Dying to Ask a Medium, again to Jennifer Pooley at HarperPaperbacks for publication in January 2009, by Stephany Evans at Fine Print Literary Management (W). 
NEW SUBRIGHTS DEALS

James O. Born's WALKING MONEY, SHOCK WAVE, and ESCAPE CLAUSE, thrillers involving Florida state cop Bill Tasker, to Lynn Piser at Books in Motion by Joanna Stampfel.

Randall Silvis' ON NIGHT SHORE, a historical thriller based on Edgar Allen Poe's early years as investigative journalist, to Lynn Piser at Books in Motion by Joanna Stampfel.