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Subject:

Latest Book Sales

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 08:14:20 07/12/05 Tue

Fiction:
Women's/Romance Nalini Singh's SLAVE TO SENSATION, about a young woman born to a race without emotions and her encounter with a group of sensual changelings, and a second untitled book, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley, in a nice deal, at auction, by Nephele Tempest of The Knight Agency (NA).
Nephele.Tempest@knightagency.net

July, 2005

Fiction:
General/Other Author of His Mother's Son, Cai Emmons' THE STYLIST, about a young woman who, in an attempt to escape the shadow of her domineering father and the life of privilege in which she was raised, lives anonymously in Hoboken and works as a stylist in a hair salon, until a final confrontation with him forces a moment of reckoning, to Claire Wachtel at William Morrow, by Deborah Schneider at Gelfman Schneider (NA).

7 July, 2005

Fiction:
General/Other The next two books in Ann Ross's series of Southern comic Miss Julia novel, to Pam Dorman at Viking, in a significant deal, by Deborah Schneider at Gelfman Schneider (NA).
7 July, 2005

Fiction:
General/Other Jane Stuart's A DANGEROUS DRESS, in which a recent college graduate in the Midwest finds a 1920's dress in her closet that leads her to Paris and then New York, and a yet-to-be-written novel, to Claire Zion at NAL, by Bill Contardi of Brandt & Hochman (world English).
bill@billcontardi.com

7 July, 2005

Fiction:
Debut Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack's LITERACY AND LONGING IN LA, about a woman who likes to disappear into her books because of their capacity to heal, who also has to deal with two very different men in her life -- one, the owner of a bookstore; the other, her ex-husband, to Danielle Perez at Bantam Dell, in a two-book deal, by Molly Friedrich at Aaron Priest Literary Agency (NA).
dperez@randomhouse.com
6 July, 2005

Fiction:
Women's/Romance Sylvia Day's Georgian-set erotic romance about a popular Earl jilted by his fiancee, to Kate Duffy at Kensington Brava, in a nice deal, including a second historical erotic romance, by Evan Fogelman at the Fogelman Literary Agency.
sylvia@sylviaday.com
6 July, 2005

Fiction:
Sci-Fi/Fantasy David B. Coe's THE SORCERERS' PLAGUE begining the fantasy series Blood of the Southlands, to James Frenkel of Tor, in a very nice deal, for three books, by Lucienne Diver of Spectrum Literary Agency (NA).
Lucienne@spectrumliteraryagency.com

6 July, 2005

Fiction:
Sci-Fi/Fantasy David B. Coe's series THE CASEFILES OF JUSTIS PEARSON, four books in a gritty urban fantasy detective series, to Stephen Pagel at Meisha Merlin, in a very nice deal, by Lucienne Diver of Spectrum Literary Agency.
Lucienne@spectrumliteraryagency.com

6 July, 2005

Fiction:
Women's/Romance Vickie Taylor's two romantic suspense novels involving a secret society of gargoyles, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley, in a nice deal, by Lucienne Diver of Spectrum Literary Agency (NA)
Lucienne@spectrumliteraryagency.com

6 July, 2005

Fiction:
Debut Anonymous's ACADEMY X, told from the perspective of a hapless high-school English teacher, a comic novel about the world of New York's elite private high schools and what parents and students will do to gain admission to an Ivy League college, to Gillian Blake at Bloomsbury, in a very nice deal, by Judith Riven at Judith Riven Literary Agent (world).
rivenlit@att.net

Subject: Shy Away from Anonymity? Absolutely!
Author: Anonymous [Edit]	Date Posted: 20:36:42 07/11/05 Mon Label me naive...I forgot the post would be anonymous. Here's me laying claim... Shy Away from Chick-lit? Absolutely Not! was written and posted by Alyssa Goodnight, author of Unladylike Pursuits. www.AlyssaGoodnight.com www.alyssagoodnight.blogspot.com

Subject: Shy Away From Chick-lit? Absolutely Not!

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 20:31:19 07/11/05 Mon

In my opinion, chick-lit is the tall, thin fashionable cousin of romance, and I’ve a suspicion that that’s the secret behind the flak the genre is getting from literary aficionados and critics alike. The books are published in trade size with stylish covers, minus the bodice ripping drawings of two apparently anonymous people caught up in an unlikely embrace (because rarely do the cover models mirror the book’s characters). A great many of them center around or resolve with a romance of some sort—and why shouldn’t they? Romance is a part of life—if we’re lucky—and we shouldn’t be too proud to read or write it. But chick-lits are modern novels for modern women. And these could either be women too proud to pick up a romance novel, women who simply can’t relate to the all-encompassing role of romance in the life of a romance novel protagonist, or women who can relate to a inherently flawed heroine.

I have to admit that I’m still new to chick-lit and just getting my feet wet. But everything I’ve read from this (still relatively new) genre has been so fresh and different that I haven’t minded a truckload of character flaws. Instead I find myself rooting for them to grow-up and live as happily ever after as possible.

Recently I had an epiphany. I had arguably just written and self-published a “historical chick-lit” without even knowing it. My Regency-era protagonist is a woman with attitude, zest for life, and a sarcastic sense of humor; she is fighting her rite of passage every step of the way, and she's got quite a bit of baggage (most notably an impending engagement). Meanwhile, she's trying for one last grand adventure before marriage, sparring with a sexy stranger, and unaware that her best friend has called dibs on her husband of choice. One stand-out difference? Fashion—She’ll gleefully trade in her gowns for the garb of a stable-boy.

Now I’m wondering if marketing the book as Historical Chick-Lit would be possible and if so, would it be a smart move. It couldn’t be any worse than marketing it as a romance—same critics, different tune. But what would those modern women think of harking back to history for a bit with a good book? And could I pull it off with a mass-market paperback with a black-background cover? Admittedly I don’t have a whimsical, colorful cover, but if a reader takes the time to examine it closely, she (or he!) may be pleasantly surprised. Set off to the side is a book entitled, Mirror of the Graces by A Lady of Distinction. This is an actual book published during the Regency to instruct young ladies on decorum and behavior. Smack in the middle of the cover is a work-in-progress sheet of parchment entitled “Opportunities for Adventure by A Spinster of Daring”. Maybe a chick-lit ancestor...

Subject: Article: THIS IS CHICK-LIT: DEFINING A SUBGENRE by: Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 16:51:28 07/11/05 Mon

THIS IS CHICK-LIT: DEFINING A SUBGENRE by: Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Back in April, the following listing appeared on Publishers Marketplace:

“THIS IS NOT CHICK LIT: A Collection of Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers, selected and introduced by Elizabeth Merrick, founder of the Cupcake Reading Series and blog, created to support women writers of literary fiction, including stories by Francine Prose, Myla Goldberg, Vendela Vida, Aimee Bender, Curtis Sittenfeld, Jennifer Eagan, and Samantha Hunt, to Julia Cheiffetz at the Random House publishing group (NA). NA rights: rbernstein@randomhouse.com.”

Pretty much well every writer I know who has ever been tarred with the pink Chick-Lit brush was incensed at this announcement. And I would imagine that the writer listed as Jennifer Eagan here was pretty incensed too, given that they spelled her name wrong: it’s Egan. We were incensed at what seemed to be a pretty blatant bitch-slap at those of us the writers in the above collection clearly deemed to be less than. We were incensed that while they were taking a swipe at our much-maligned subgenre, they were at the same time capitalizing on its name for exploitation purposes, a topic I detailed at length in an essay at www.beatrice.com on April 26. I mean, can you imagine titling any other collection in this way? Can you imagine calling a book THIS IS NOT MYSTERY? Or THIS IS NOT SCI-FI/FANTASY? Or THIS IS NOT WESTERN? The notion of defining art by what it’s not – the mind reels.
And yet…and yet…this whole tempest has got me thinking: What exactly is Chick-Lit? And, if I can’t define it for everyone else, can I at least define it for me?
Ask a half dozen writers for definitions of Chick-Lit and you’re likely to get a half dozen different answers. In that regard, the designation of Chick-Lit has become similar to the diagnosis of PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified) for autism, an umbrella term that I’ve come to learn can cover nearly every child you encounter if you look at them in the right way; or perhaps, I should say, the wrong way. In terms of writing, the Chick-Lit diagnosis has become so widespread as to be nearly meaningless. Sometimes, the designation is handed out merely by virtue of which publisher publishes one’s books. Lisa Tucker’s The Song Reader, a serious and thoughtful coming-of-age story, gets the designation because her publisher is DownTown Press. Caren Lissner’s Carrie Pilby, a wonderful and quirky novel about the inherent social difficulties of being an incredibly intelligent female, also gets that designation because her publisher, like mine, is Red Dress Ink, and even though Elinor Lipman wrote an identically themed novel, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, which was deemed literary because the publisher is Random House. To some degree I’ve begun to feel like so many of us are the literary equivalent of octoroons back in slave days: just a little smidgen of pink on our book jackets and it’s back down on the farm for us.
I would hazard to say the most common definition of Chick-Lit I hear runs something along the lines of, “A frothy confection about a modern twentysomething woman juggling relationships and career, often in urban settings.”
I don’t know about you, I mean, I guess I’d read that book, but I certainly wouldn’t read dozens just like it year after year as many devotees of Chick-Lit currently do. I’d get bored with the sameness. Don’t they get bored with the sameness? And yet they don’t. Here’s why I think that is:
The books, quite simply, aren’t the same.
Never mind that the books frequently feature twentysomething women, although not all do (my most recent, A Little Change of Face, features a 39-year-old librarian), never mind they often have urban settings, although not all do (Lee Nichols’ Tales of a Drama Queen jumps right to mind, quickly followed by Heather Cochran’s Mean Season). And, hey, what’s wrong with books being about the juggling of careers and relationships? Isn’t that what modern life is made up of? (I recently read that the literary novelist Kazuo Ishiguro gave his daughter The Devil Wears Prada so she’d have a better grasp of the real world, a tidbit that caused some pause in the literary world but didn’t surprise me one bit having read Laura Miller’s essay in the New York Times Book Review earlier this year where she bemoaned the lack of the workplace as a theme in the modern literary novel, suggesting that one of the reason’s for Chick-Li’s resounding success is that it addresses that thing – the working life – that matters, by necessity, to modern readers so very much.) And while I’m saying “hey” and getting outraged over here: Hey, what’s the matter with some of our writerly energies being focused on relationships, i.e. love? Would not the world be a better place if we were all a little more concerned with love?
But back to our definition.
For me, what makes a book Chick-Lit all comes down to the tone. No matter how often the books deal with serious issues – and a surprising number of them do, witness Caren Lissner’s second book, Starting from Square Two, about a young widow making her way back into the world – there is always a certain comic appreciation or irony to the writer’s voice. In fact, I would argue that the best Chick-Lit books are not frothy confections at all, although we have our share of those, just as every genre has its share of books that are more style than substance. But, for me, the best books are always those that strike a perfect balance: books that are neither so light there’s no weight to them; books that are neither so dark that not even a glimmer of light ever shines through. Most of all, they are books that not only have plot but also have theme.
A quick survey of my own books will highlight what I’m talking about.
On the surface, The Thin Pink Line is about a woman who fakes an entire pregnancy. Scratch the surface, and you see that it’s about how all too frequently we live our lives pursuing things – husbands, babies – more because everyone else is doing it than that we’ve given any real thought to the thing itself.
On the surface, Crossing the Line continues the madcap adventures of sociopathic anti-heroine Jane Tyler. Scratch the surface, and it’s about the joys and perils and responsibilities of cross-cultural adoption.
On the surface, A Little Change of Face is about an attractive librarian who alters her looks for the worse. Scratch the surface, and it’s about the ambivalence of women – nay, all human beings – concerning the importance of physical attractiveness and how we all want to be perceived as being physically beautiful while at the same time free to feel certain that we are loved for who we are.
You get the idea.
The books I love to write most, and read most, are books that say something about who we are and how we live our lives. If a book can do that, and make me laugh several times along the way, that’s all to the good.
Channeling Martin Luther King here:
I have a dream.
I dream that one day all books will be judged not by the pinkness of our book jackets but by the contents and the characters portrayed on the pages in between.
May it be so.

Lauren Baratz-Logsted is the author of The Thin Pink Line and Crossing the Line. Her third novel, A Little Change of Face, will be published in July 2005. Her essay, “If Jane Austen Were Writing Today,” is collected in Flirting with Pride and Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece, edited by Jennifer Crusie and due out from Benbella Books on September 1.

Subject: SHALLA Q&A Press Release
Author: Anonymous [Edit]	Date Posted: 16:44:29 07/11/05 Mon Hi Writers, Here's our latest Press Release on our Q&A with Writers House Literary Agent Daniel Lazar http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200507/1121125096.html

Subject:

KATHA KSHETRE

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 21:14:30 07/08/05 Fri

Katha Kshetre is an international literary quarterly dedcated to short fiction from all over the world
The current issue is out.
Contributors are:
Dr.Huns Kung, Germany
Dr.Stephen Gill, Canada
Sumit Talukdar, West Bengal
Ruth Y Nott, USA
Dr.Kazuyosi Ikeda, Japan
Robert P Herbst, USA
Dor Mallikarjun Patil, Dharwad
For printout copy
Sigle USD$2.50
Annual Subcription us USD$10.00
We are non-paying journal
We do not solicit contributions
Contributors are family members of katha Kshetre or special invitees
Membership fee is USD$100.00 (Till the year 2010 )
The members are allowed to contribute one piece per year.
The members receive the books published by Kathalok @50%discount and free shippment
Members receive the print copy till the year 2010
For details contact
J.Kaval
Editor - Publisher
A copy in CorelD format will be once sent to any one who is interested in viewing.

Subject: Books at cheap rate

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 20:58:20 07/08/05 Fri

Kathalok Publications, 90, Guniagrahara, Sivakotte post, bangalore-560089, karnataka, India
Many Rooms Many Voices (collection of short stories)pages 200.price USD$10.00
Tapestry (Collection of short stories) pages 90. Price USD$6.00
Midnight Daughter (novel) by Dr.Ryyazulla. Pages.220. price USD$10.00
For A Good Turn (collection of stories) Prof.Abdul Majeed. Pages.130 Price USD$5.00
Rinny's Stories (collection of stories) by Rinny Eapern, pages. 115. price USD$6.00

If You are interested to know the writers and culture of India and city of Bangalore buy these books
If your order for all books shipment is free
For USD$37.00 you get 5 book. Damn cheap
J.Kaval
Publisher

Subject: Books at cheap rate

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 20:55:56 07/08/05 Fri

Subject:

katha Kshetre Short Story contest 2005

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 20:40:05 07/08/05 Fri

Dear writers of fiction
Respond positively

This is not Spam or Cheating the public.
Katha Kshetre
(An international literary quarterly dedicated to short fiction)
Short Story Contest 2005.

The story could be on any theme except erotica or pornographic and unpublished.
Word count- maximum 3000.
Snail mail and Email submissions are accepted but no attachment.
Entrance fee is USD$3.00 per story payable by cheque (check) in favor of Katha Kshetre. No pay pal or Intl. Coupon.
The MS will not be returned.
The stories that reach the top ten will receive books worth of USD$40.00. (According to US & UK std books will cost equivalent to US D$100.00)
The stories that reach the top ten will be published, subject to editing, in Katha Kshetre journal.
The other stories that are found good will also be published in KK.
It is our intention to bring out later an anthology (E.Book) of the selected stories.
Katha Kshetre will have only one time right.
The authors are free to market their stories anywhere.
The story along with the cheque should reach:

Katha Kshetre, #90, Guniagrahara, Sivakotte Post, Bangalore -560089, Karnataka, India.

On or before 30-09-2005 (post marked 30th Sep 2005)

For details contact: < kathalok@yahoo.co.uk > < kathalok@vsnl.net >
Visit: www.writergazette.com/KATHALOKshtml

NB: If one joins the Katha Kshetre family by paying USD$100.00, he/she gets the journal till 2010, one of his/her contribution will appear in the KK per year and need not pay entrance fee for the contest 2005
Thank you
J.Kaval M.A, B.D, D.J
Editor-Publisher

Subject:

SHALLA Q&A with Writers House Lit Agent Daniel Lazar, July 20

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 12:14:45 07/06/05 Wed

Subject:

SHALLA Q&A with Manus & Associates Lit Agent Stephanie Lee, Aug 24

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 12:13:30 07/06/05 Wed

Permission to forward is granted and requested:
***********************************************************
The ShalladeGuzman Writers Group, a non-profit, completely-free writer’s group, is pleased to announce our online Q&A with Manus & Associates Literary Agent, Stephanie Lee, on August 24, 2005.

WORKSHOP: Online Q&A (Ask your questions and get answers)

Moderator:
Shalla de Guzman
www.shalladeguzman.com

SHALLA Q&A Description: Ask our featured Literary Agent and get answers. Write non-fiction? Chick Lit? Multi-cultural? Commercial Literary? Like to know more about Manus & Associates Literary Agency? Ask Stephanie.

Who’s Stephanie Lee?

Stephanie Lee has been with Manus & Associates Literary Agency, www.ManusLit.com -- a national firm representing authors for over 20 years from offices in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area -- since 1997. She brings to the agency and her clients the benefits of extensive studies in the craft of writing. She holds a B.A. in literature and creative writing (fiction) from Stanford University, has studied poetry and fiction at Oxford University, and has been selected for writing workshops with some of New York’s top editors. She is considered to be an editorial agent, actively involved in the development and marketing of her clients’ work.

Stephanie's list includes prescriptive nonfiction including women’s issues, GenX/GenY issues, dating/relationships, and self-help served with humor, and narrative non-fiction, intriguing memoirs, popular science, and popular culture. Her fiction interests include commercial literary fiction, women's fiction, chick-lit, multi-cultural fiction, and new voices. Examples of her clients and projects: “Tales from the Scale: Real Women Weigh in on Thunder Thighs, Cheese Fries, and Feeling Good…At Any Size” (Adams Media), edited by popular blogger Erin J. Shea; “Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals: Adventures in Love and Danger” (Three Rivers), a memoir by Wendy Dale; “Love Like That” (Red Dress Ink), a novel by Amanda Hill; “I Can’t Believe I’m Buying This Book: A Commonsense Guide to Successful Internet Dating” (Ten Speed Press) by Evan Marc Katz, whose second book co-written with TelevisionWithoutPity.com writer Linda Holmes, “Why You’re Still Single,” will be out with Plume next year.

Cost of each SHALLA Q&A is: FREE
JOIN US: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShalladeGuzman

Yours truly,
Cynthia Alvarez
SHALLA Q&A Assistant
ca93335@yahoo.com

Subject:

RWA Legal Analysis of Agency Contracts

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 12:07:07 07/04/05 Mon

RWA will be undertaking an a legal analysis of agency contracts, as well as the agency clauses in publishing contracts, with an eye to educating members about what these clauses mean and how the wording in these clauses can affect authors' intellectual property rights and
writing income.

If you have signed with an agency in the last year, or if you have seen a change in contract terms in either your agency contract or in the agency clause of your publishing
contract in the last year, RWA would like to hear about it. Please forward a copy of your agency contract and, if possible, the agency clause of your publishing contract (this is the provision inserted by the agent into your publishing contract which states the name of the agent and
how they are to be paid, and is usually near the end of the contract) either by snail mail or e-mail to:

Nicole Burnham
RWA Region One Director
PO Box 229
Hopkinton, MA 01748

nic@nicoleburnham.com

If e-mailing, please be sure to put "RWA Contract Analysis" in the subject line. If you wish, feel free to mark out the author name and any monetary amounts (though percentages are helpful.) All author names will be kept strictly confidential.

Information gathered will be used for articles in the RWR, workshops, and other educational programs to better inform members of the meaning and effect of contract language. If you have any questions about this program, please e-mail Nicole Burnham at nic@nicoleburnham.com.

Permission is granted to forward this post in its entirety.

Nicole Burnham

Subject:

Recent Book DEALS

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 11:25:13 07/03/05 Sun

Fiction: Debut: Yale University lecturer Sarah Bilston's BEDREST, about a New York attorney's struggle to stay sane when she's sentenced to three month's bedrest at the end of her pregnancy, to Alison Callahan at Harper, in a major deal, for two books (SLEEPLESS NIGHTS is the second), by Kathleen Anderson at Anderson Grinberg Literary Management, on behalf of Kevin Conroy Scott of Conville & Walsh (NA).
kathy@andersongrinberg.com

29 June, 2005

foreign_fic Russian rights to Nuria Masot's THE SHADOW OF THE TEMPLAR, about a knight of the 13th century in search of a manuscript that could change the course of history, to Tanya Belonovskaya at Neva, by Bernat Fiol at Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency.
bernat@antoniakerrigan.com

28 June, 2005

fiction_mystery Ellen Crosby's THE MERLOT MURDERS and an untitled second mystery, set at a family-owned vineyard in Virginia wine country and full of details about wine-making, to Sarah Knight at Scribner by Dominick Abel at the Dominick Abel Literary Agency (World).
sarah.knight@simonandschuster.com , dominick@dalainc.com

28 June, 2005

fiction Debrah Morris's ORPHANHOOD, a humorous 1955-era novel in which two young orphans set out on a road trip and find a new life, and a second untitled novel, in a nice deal, to Ellen Edwards at NAL, by Pamela Harty of The Knight Agency (NA). Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

14 June, 2005

foreign_fic Rights to Raymond Khoury's first novel LAST TEMPLAR, a thriller about the hunt to find four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar who storm the opening night of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and steal artifacts including an arcane medieval decoder, to Rowohlt in Germany; Presses de la Cite in France; House of Books in Holland; Cicero in Denmark; Damm in Norway; Prisma in Sweden; Tammi in Finland; Ediouro in Brazil; Urano in Spain; Sonia Draga in Poland; Ucila in Slovenia; Livani in Greece; with auctions underway elsewhere, by the William Morris Agency. Ziji publishes in the UK in July 2005, and Dutton has US rights.
TFisher@wma.com

26 May, 2005

fiction_romance Shannon McKelden's VENUS ENVY, about a goddess-turned-fairy godmother who isn't about to let any reluctant Cinderella get in her way, to Natasha Panza at Tor, for their new chick lit line, in a nice deal, by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency (world English).
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

26 May, 2005

fiction_romance Anne Mallory's PRIDE AND PATIENCE and ONE RECKLESS KNIGHT, two Regency-set romances featuring mystery, humor and romance, to Selina McLemore at Avon, in a nice deal, by Paige Wheeler at the Creative Media Agency.paige@thecmagency.com

26 May, 2005

non-fiction_health Eva Marie Everson's SPA FOR THE SOUL, a look at the various ways in which women "treat" themselves physically, and the overlying correlation to the spiritual body, to Jeanette Thomason at Baker Books, in a nice deal, by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency (world).
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

2 May, 2005

non-fiction_health Eva Marie Everson's SPA FOR THE SOUL, a look at the various ways in which women "treat" themselves physically, and the overlying correlation to the spiritual body, to Jeanette Thomason at Baker Books, in a nice deal, by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency (world).
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

22 April, 2005

foreign_ukfic Former doctor-turned-novelist and author of Green River Rising Tim Willocks' THE RELIGION, set during the Siege of Malta of 1565, when 800 Knights of Jerusalem faced off against 30,000 Ottoman troops, to Dan Franklin at Cape, for publication in fall 2006, by Al Zuckerman at Writers House.

21 April, 2005

fiction_debut Yale grad Diana Peterfreund's CONFESSIONS OF A (SECRET) SOCIETY GIRL, following the irreverent and intrigue-filled adventures of an average college student who just happens to be a member of one of the most notorious secret societies in the world, to Kerri Buckley at Bantam Dell, in a significant deal, at auction, by Deidre Knight of The Knight Agency (NA). Film rights are with Matthew Snyder at CAA.
MSnyder@caa.com ,
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

15 April, 2005

fiction_romance Gena Showalter's THE MISADVENTURES OF WONDER GIRL, where a formula is placed in a woman's morning latte causing her to develop unexpected super powers; A WOMAN'S PLEASURE where the king of the nymphs is the most darkly seductive creature every formed, and yet one stubborn woman continues to resist him; and CATCH A MATE, where a wager between two unlikely people becomes an irresistible seduction neither can resist, again to Tracy Farrell at HQN, in a good deal, by Deidre Knight of The Knight Agency (world).
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

15 April, 2005

fiction_scifi Author of Gil's All Fright Diner A. Lee Martinez's IN THE COMPANY OF OGRES, a humorous fantasy novel about an army officer who has the annoying habit of returning from the dead, so he's assigned to lead the army's worst unit where his unique talents just might come in handy, and A NAMELESS WITCH, about a pair of star-crossed lovers: A white knight who is dedicated to the eradication of all evil and a witch with no name who is a cannibal with an overwhelming desire to nibble on his flesh, to Paul Stevens at Tor, in a nice deal (world).
Paul.Stevens@tor.com

8 April, 2005

fiction_romance Shelley Bradley's first two eroticas, one about a personal security specialist who lures his enemy's sister into a trap he's set for revenge -- only to find that his trap is a two-way street, and the second about the sexual lessons an idealistic ingenue seeks to learn at the hands of a brash ex-Special Forces soldier, to Louisa Edwards at Berkley, by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency (NA). Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

23 March, 2005

fiction_romance Chris Marie Green (AKA Crystal Green)'s VAMPIRE UNDERGROUND series, about a stuntwoman turned slayer as she searches for her missing father only to uncover an erotically charged vampire society that languishes below the streets of Los Angeles, to Ginjer Buchanan at Berkley, in a very nice deal, by Pamela Harty of The Knight Agency (NA).
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

22 March, 2005

fiction_romance Sandra Moore's DEAD RECKONING, about a charter yacht captain who sails her motor yacht to a private island in order to save her sister from a drug smuggler, but discovers the DEA agents posing as crew may not be who they say they are when a series of "accidents" threatens her life, to Stacy Boyd for Harlequin Bombshell, in a nice deal, by Pamela Harty at The Knight Agency (world).
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

16 March, 2005

fiction_romance Terry Watkins' DANCING WITH FIRE, featuring smokejumper Anna Quick, recruited by the CIA for a rescue mission in Malaysia, although no one bothers to tell her she's being used as a pawn in a conspiracy that will result in a terrorist attack, to Kathryn Lye at Harlequin for Bombshell, in a nice deal, by Pamela Harty at The Knight Agency (world).
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

13 March, 2005

foreign_ukfic 29-year-old Robyn Young's first novel THE BRETHREN, set during the Crusades, alternating two narrative -- the rise to power of former slave Baybars in Egypt and Palestine, and the coming of age of a Scottish boy and his graduation as a Templar Knight, whose story includes a search for a secret document that may have immense consequences for the balance of power between the East and West, to Nick Sayers at Hodder & Stoughton, in a significant deal, by Rupert Heath (world).
Rights: briar.silich@hodder.co.uk
rupert@rupertheath.com

13 March, 2005

non-fiction_popcult Host of ESPN2's "Motoring Music City" and the weekly radio show, "The Racing Zone" Liz Allison'sGIRLFRIEND'S GUIDE TO NASCAR, a light-hearted look at everything a female car racing fan needs to know, from flags to tailgates, to Christina Boys at Center Street, in a very nice deal, by Pamela Harty at The Knight Agency (world.)
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

11 March, 2005

non-fiction_parenting Following their book, Sex, Lies, & the Media, which looks at media's influence on youth culture especially as it pertains to their sexuality, Eva Marie Everson and Jessica Everson's SEX, LIES & HIGH SCHOOL, Sex, Lies, & High School, a guide for parents as they help their teens through those four difficult years, again to Mary McNeil at Cook Communications, in a nice deal, by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency (world).
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

8 March, 2005

fiction_romance Adrianne Byrd's WHEN YOU WERE MINE, about a
screenwriter who is devastated when her (almost) fiance, a Hollywood cosmetic surgeon leaves her for a up and coming silicon-stuffed model/actress, and enlists the help of an old friend and producer, who tutors her in the ways of getting her man back, to Evette Porter at BET, in a nice deal, by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency (world).
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

2 March, 2005

children's_ya Tim Tharp's KNIGHTS OF THE HILL COUNTRY, set in rural Oklahoma where football is everything, the star of the high school football team struggles to not only play the game well but live life the right way, to Michele Burke at Knopf Children's, in a nice deal, by Emily Sylvan Kim at Writers House (NA).
esylvan@writershouse.com

9 February, 2005

fiction_romance Shelley Bradley's STRIP SEARCH, about a CPA determined to avenge his past when he goes undercover as an exotic dancer in Vegas, working for a sexy Mafia Princess who may not be innocent in all the ways that matter, to Louisa Edwards at Berkley, by Deidre Knight at The Knight Agency (world English).
Deidre.Knight@knightagency.net

9 February, 2005

foreign_fic Greek rights to Nuria Masot's LA SOMBRA DEL TEMPLARIO (The Shadow of the Templar), about a knight of the 13th century in search of a manuscript that could change the course of history, to Alexandria Publications, by Bernat Fiol at Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency.
bernat@antoniakerrigan.com

7 February, 2005

fiction_romance Agent Deidre Knight's three paranormal romances, featuring heroic, bold characters who fight to save Earth as they come face to face with people from their near future and alternate pasts, gaining the opportunity to "reset" the unfolding of events, each
time with different results, to Louisa Edwards for NAL Eclipse (after the two "met" via Publishers Marketplace listing, and now they share three authors), by her sister Pamela Harty at The Knight Agency (NA).

13 January, 2005

non-fiction_religion Janice Thompson's I MUST DECREASE: TIPS, TESTIMONIES, AND TIDBITS FOR EVERY OUNCE OF THE JOURNEY, a daily weight-loss devotional for those trying to get in shape, to Paul Muckley at Barbour Books, in a nice deal, by Pamela Harty at The Knight Agency (world)
Pamela.harty@knightagency.net

Glossary

"nice deal" $1 - $100,000 "significant deal" $251,000 - $500,000
"good deal" $101,000 - $250,000 "major deal" $501,000 and up

--Publisher's Market: Go there and Subscribe to get more http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/

13 June, 2005

non-fiction_humor Kari Anne Roy's MAMA HAIKU, detailing the random, wondrous (and gross) joys of motherhood in verse, to Melissa Wagner at Quirk Books, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (world).
dlazar@writershouse.com

31 May, 2005

children's_middle Christopher Lincoln's debut, BILLY BONES, pitched as "Lemony Snicket meets Dickens," about the skeleton boy and an orphaned girl, who discover the mystery of their shared past through a rambling mansion, in an adventure winding from the Secrets Closet (where skeletons live) to a magical, bureaucratic Afterlife, to Amy Hsu at Little, Brown, for two books, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (NA).
Dlazar@writershouse.com

26 May, 2005

non-fiction_popcult TV critic Allison Klein's WHAT WOULD MURPHY BROWN DO: How the Women of Primetime Changed Our Lives, examining television's popular female leads (like Mary Tyler Moore, Roseanne, Kate and Allie, Carrie Bradshaw) affected by, and themselves influencing, the changing roles of real women regarding social issues like sex, family, careers and friendship, to Jill Rothenberg at Seal Press, in a pre-empt, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (world).

9 March, 2005

fiction_debut Pushcart finalist Evan Petee's debut WOLF BOY, pitched as "Ordinary People meets Bee Season," about a family coping with the sudden death of their oldest hero-son, and centered on the victim's young brother, who creates a comic book to channel his confusion and grief -- which will appear as a graphic subplot throughout (illustrations by Leah Kasztl), to Sally Kim at Shaye Areheart Books, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (NA).
dlazar@writershouse.com

27 January, 2005

non-fiction_science Pop culture author Laura Lee's BLAME IT ON THE RAIN: HOW WEATHER HAS CHANGED HISTORY AND SHAPED CULTURE, an entertaining, "pop-science" examination of weather's affect on history (such as a blizzard's effect on presidential elections) and on our world today (such as sunshine or rain affecting the mood on Wall Street), to Jill Schwartzman at Harper, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (world).
Jill.Schwartzman@HarperCollins.com

13 January, 2005

fiction_mystery David Campbell's debut novel, VENETIAN HOLIDAY, a caper featuring a grumpy police inspector and a beautiful cat burglar who forge an unlikely alliance in pursuit of a stolen Mona Lisa forgery through the canals of Venice, to Anne Merrow at Thomas Dunne Books, in a nice deal, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (world).
dlazar@WritersHouse.com

4 November, 2004

non-fiction_parenting Betty Londergan's I'M TOO SEXY FOR MY VOLVO, a humorous, no-holds-barred guide to pregnancy and motherhood, to Kate Epstein at Adams Media, in a pre-empt, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House.

26 May, 2004

fiction_debut Award-winning playwright and co-creator of the international theatrical sensation "Tony n' Tina's Wedding" Judy Sheehan's debut novel VIRGIN MOTHER, a humorous and heartfelt autobiographical novel about a single thirty-something Irish Catholic New York woman's search for motherhood, following her ups-and-downs in life, family and love as she goes through the process of adopting a baby girl from China as a single mom, to Maureen O'Neal at Ballantine, in a good deal, by Simon Lipskar and his associate Daniel Lazar at Writers House (NA).
slipskar@writershouse.com

22 May, 2003

fiction Stephanie Kallos's BROKEN FOR YOU, said to be "in the John Irving/Anne Tyler vein," telling a moving story around a set of quirky but thoroughly authentic characters, to Lauren Wein at Grove/Atlantic, at auction, as their lead fiction title for spring 2004, by Simon Lipskar at Writers House--the author was found by his assistant Daniel Lazar, who read a story of hers in an online literary magazine (world). Film rights are with Howard Sanders at UTA.
slipskar@writershouse.com

8 May, 2003

non-fiction Daniel Lazare's RENDER UNTO CAESAR, a political book on Judaism, Christianity and Islam that looks at the stereotypes about each of the religions, to Vicky Wilson for Pantheon, for six figures, by Kathleen Anderson at Anderson Grinberg (NA).
KAndersonGrin@aol.com

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MORE HISTORICAL CHICK LIT

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 10:17:20 07/01/05 Fri

THE ACCIDENTAL DUCHESS by Jessica Benson, a first-person
regency with a touch of chick lit

OBSESSION by A.S. Byatt

Rules of Engagement by Kathryn Caskie

Unladylike Pursuits by Alyssa Goodnight

Other good chick lit reads:
High-Maintenance by Jennifer Belle
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (check out character development)
Sarah Dunn's Big Love
Megan Crane's English as a Second Language (check out dialogue)
Lee Nichols' "Hand-Me-Down"
"Tales of a Drama Queen" (check out voice)

Subject: LIST OF HISTORICAL CHICK LIT
Author: Anonymous [Edit]	Date Posted: 08:22:58 06/30/05 Thu "A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur's Court" by Marianne Mancusi "The Secret History of the Pink Carnation" by Lauren Willig

Subject:

Contest: INVITATION TO WRITE AN EPIC ROMANCE

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 14:54:45 06/29/05 Wed

INVITATION TO WRITE AN EPIC ROMANCE

What: In this contest, we are inviting submissions from writers interested in being part of our new program. The books will be 75-80,000 words in length. Please check eHarlequin for further information on the series.

To enter the contest, please submit a detailed outline of your story (indicating, where appropriate, points of view you plan to use, the narrative structure and timelines), plus the first chapter. The complete submission must total no more than 50 pages.

Who: All published and unpublished writers are welcome to enter. We particularly encourage writers new to Harlequin.

When: The contest closes October 31, 2005.

Where: Please send your submission to:

Paula Eykelhof

Executive Editor

Harlequin Books

225 Duncan Mill Road

Don Mills, Ontario

M3B 3K9

Why (or The Prize): There will be three winning entries. The prize for each is a detailed and personal critique with one of the program’s editors—and, of course, the possibility of publication.

Subject: New Editor at Berkeley
Author: Anonymous [Edit]	Date Posted: 06:35:43 06/22/05 Wed From Publishers Weekly: Berkley Leah Hultenschmidt has been named a senior editor. She'll be acquiring romances, chick lit, mysteries and nonfiction.

Subject: The ShalladeGuzman Writers Group's Latest Press Release
Author: Anonymous [Edit]	Date Posted: 14:55:14 06/21/05 Tue http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200506/1119394340.html

Subject:

Contests for Free Books

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 11:37:39 06/21/05 Tue

TRUE HOLLYWOOD LIES Celebrity Trivia Contest!

To celebrate the 9/27/05 launch of her debut novel TRUE HOLLYWOOD LIES [Avon], every Monday until then, Josie Brown is running a weekly True or False trivia contest on her site: http://www.josiebrown.com.

The top five winners with the most cumulative right answers over the full contest period will receive a free autographed copy of her book, so enter today!

Subject:

Shalla de Guzman: SHALLA Q&A with Jean Adams

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Date Posted: 10:10:05 06/20/05 Mon

Subject:

Shalla de Guzman: SHALLA Q&A with Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Author:
Anonymous
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Date Posted: 10:08:58 06/20/05 Mon

Permission to forward is granted and requested:
***********************************************************

The ShalladeGuzman Writers Group, a non-profit, completely-free writer’s group, is pleased to announce our online Q&A with chick lit author and freelance editor, Lauren Baratz-Logsted, on July 12, 2005.

WORKSHOP: Online Q&A (Ask your questions and get answers)

Moderator: Shalla de Guzman
www.shalladeguzman.com

SHALLA Q&A Description: Ask our featured chick lit author and freelance editor Lauren Baratz-Logsted and get answers. Write comedy, chick lit? Get tips. Like to know about Red Dress Ink? Ask Lauren.

Who’s Lauren Baratz-Logsted?

Lauren Baratz-Logsted worked as a buyer and seller for an independent bookstore in Westport, CT, for 11 years before leaving in 1994 to take a chance on herself as a novelist. Over the next eight years, as she waited for her writing ship to come in, she paid the mortgage by taking jobs as a reviewer (she reviewed 292 books for Publishers Weekly), a freelance editor (she edited nealy 100 books, one of which was a finalist for a small-press book award at BEA in 1998 and one of which she got the authors a two-day gig on Good Morning America), a freelance writer (she wrote many reader's companions for publishers before they became common and publishers started going in-house for that kind of work), a sort-of librarian (Bethel Public Library created a job where she led monthly book discussions, arranged adult programming including authors' visits and led a biweekly writing workshop, all for four years), and a window-washer (she's arguably the only person who ever hosted a signing party for the late Robert Ludlum and washed his windows).

In 2002, Red Dress Ink called with the offer of a two-book contract, the first book of which was THE THIN PINK LINE, a dark comedy set in London about a woman who fakes an entire pregnancy. Before that book was even published, RDI offered her a subsequent three-book contract. Her second novel, inspired by popular demand, was a sequel, CROSSING THE LINE. Her third book, A LITTLE CHANGE OF FACE, about an attractive CT librarian who alters her looks for the worse, was published on June 28, 2005. Her fourth, HOW NANCY DREW SAVED MY LIFE, will be published in July 2006. Lauren is keeping the world in suspense about Book 5. Lauren also has an essay in the forthcoming collection of stories and essays, FLIRTING WITH PRIDE & PREJUDICE, which will be published by BenBella Books on Sept 1 and has been edited by Jennifer Crusie.

Lauren lives in Danbury, CT, with her husband, five-year-old daughter and fifteen-year-old niece. She writes full time.

Cost of each SHALLA Q&A is: FREE

JOIN US: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShalladeGuzman

Yours truly,

Cynthia Alvarez
SHALLA Q&A Assistant
ca93335@yahoo.com

Subject:

SHALLA Q&A with MidNight Hour host & author Sally Painter

Author:
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Date Posted: 10:40:34 06/19/05 Sun

Permission to forward is granted and requested:
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The ShalladeGuzman Writers Group, a non-profit, completely-free writer’s group, is pleased to announce our online Q&A with vampire, sci fi/futuristic author and paranormal radio talk show host, Sally Painter, on July 14, 2005.

WORKSHOP: Online Q&A (Ask your questions and get answers)

Moderator: Shalla de Guzman
www.shalladeguzman.com

SHALLA Q&A Description: Ask our featured author and Midnight Hour host Sally Painter and get answers. Write time travel, paranormals? Get tips. Like to know about Ellora’s Cave? Ask Sally.

Who’s Sally Painter?

Sally Painter is published with Ellora's Cave and Midnight Showcase. She has held online paranormal workshops for the past two years and recently was offered her own paranormal talk radio show, Midnight Hour.

She is co-owner of World Romance Writers, (www.worldromancewriters.com ), an all inclusive writers group founded in 1999. A former RWA member, she was a founding member of From The Heart Chapter and served 2 terms as President and Vice-President. These days she focuses her attention on writing, WRW and her new radio show.

Her 'other world' encounters began as a child. In 1987, she started one of the most exciting adventures in her life when she participated as a subject in a three-year paranormal research study of various subjects, including psychometry, past life regressions and future life progressions.

As a published author, in Romantica™ and romance erotica, she writes vampire, time travel and scifi/futuristic. Currently, she is working on an urban fantasy for the new Cerridwen Press, an offshoot of Ellora's Cave and a new Romantica™ vampire tale. Sally uses her paranormal experiences to bring authenticity and depth to her stories and is working on a book series which reflects the influences of her Celtic seer heritage.

Her radio show, Midnight Hour, will air via the Internet, every Wednesday night at 12 Midnight, USA EST beginning July 6th. www.sallysmidnighthour.com

You can visit Sally and learn about her books at www.sallypainter.com

Her recent books:
Ellora's Cave:
LOVE ME TOMORROW, Fated Mates Anthology
ALL I WANT - Highlander meets Madame Curé in medieval Scotland time travel.
ALL I NEED - Vampire - 4 1/2 Stars Romantic Times.

DREAM LOVERS OF GARGOYLE CASTLE, Things That Go Bump in the Night Anthology,October, 2006

Midnight Showcase
VAMPIRE BEACH RESORT, Erotic-ahh Digest

Cost of each SHALLA Q&A is: FREE

JOIN US: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShalladeGuzman

Yours truly,

Cynthia Alvarez
SHALLA Q&A Assistant
ca93335@yahoo.com

Subject: NEW NOVELS OF V BRIGHT SAIGAL

Author:
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Date Posted: 21:34:42 06/15/05 Wed

Now and again with his new novel "Legacy Of Sin" V Bright Saigal entering the fiction world.Followed by a series of his works will be launched.Behind the Full Moon a romantic fiction and The Philosophy Of Governance a non-fiction on politics and economy will be launched in a short period of time.

Author's web site http://www.vbrightbooks.00server.com has been enriched with short stories and poems.New poems and short stories will be posted soon.A brief visit on his site will be a good experience for any reader.His third novel Conscript Memorial is in drafting stage.A communique says it will be finished in December 2005
Legacy Of Sin a fiction by V Bright Saigal:This is a social problem: keeping suspense till the end of the novel author takes the reader for a walk through various incidents which every one encounters one day.Every page is every one's story.You can find your experience and unforgettable moments of your life here.You may find someone like you somewhere here.

A master piece of real life with a bit of suspense.
Disappointments,achievements,smoke,shower and spirit of real life.Some human beings are trying to swim across the life,some of them drown,some luckier seeing the other side of the life.
A page of every one's life taken out and stitched together.
Here you cry,I cry,every one cries
Here You live, I live, every one lives.Some one takes all of us to the Western horizon of life.In the corner you may find someone like you in the fiction.

Subject:

HAUNTED MEMORIES by Melanie Atkins

Author:
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Date Posted: 04:28:53 06/14/05 Tue

What happens when the past you thought was dead comes back to haunt you? This debut author's first offering is already getting excellent reviews.

BLURB:

Olivia Bartlett is stunned to find her old friend, Deputy Tucker Hawkins, living in the house she has inherited, but she’s even more shocked to glimpse her cruel stepfather lurking in the shadows. Has Walter come back to haunt her, or is he really alive—and trying to kill her? To survive, she must turn to Tucker, who stakes his claim not only to the old house, but also to her heart.

HAUNTED MEMORIES is now available at Triskelion Publishing at http://www.triskelionpublishing.com/pd4.html

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