Karen Fox reprints recent sales from Publisher’s Lunch on her website, along with a host of other helpful information such as Brenda Hiatt’s "Show Me The Money" regarding romances advances. The Publisher’s Lunch replay provides some insight into who is buying what, when, for how much and with what agent. Familiar names pop up over and over. New names, folks who blog hop, folks with blogs and folks who have been writing forever – you can find them all here. It’s interesting reading. Here are two highlights from the April selections so far:
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
After a quick check of her website, her previous books appear to be Zebra Historicals from 1999-2002. Her new deal is with Berkley Sensation and she calls the August 2006 release a "rompy, erotic suspense novel." Looks like a new-to-erotica writer snagging a multi-book deal with Berkley. Not EC or Black Lace or even Brava, but one of the less-usual suspects, Berkley. Berkley has made a grab for several writers lately for erotic anthologies. Half of Brava and a third of EC seem to be headed to Berkley. No question about that. If you write sexy, looks as if Berkley could be a good starter (or forever) home .
And what about this one:
Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s debut DAIRY QUEEN, about the summer that a fifteen-year-old girl running her family’s dairy farm in Wisconsin, simultaneously decides she wants to play on the high-school football team and falls for the rival team’s quarterback, who she happens to be training, to Margaret Raymo at Houghton Mifflin Children’s, in a significant deal ($251,000 – $499,000), for two books, by Jill Grinberg at Anderson Grinberg Literary Management (NA). Karen_walsh@hmco.com — Publisher’s Lunch, 4/5/05
A debut writer getting a two-book deal in that price range is, well, shocking. Maybe not to others, but to me it is. Do you hear that sound? That’s the thundering of footsteps as hordes of unpublished (and some published) writers run to their keyboards to try their hands at YA. I don’t know what else to say but, damn, that’s quite a deal. There isn’t much writing related stuff out there in virtual land under this lady’s name. Guess that’s what "debut" means. And, what a hell of a way to make an entrance.
Congrats ladies.
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