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Saturday, August 05, 2006 Latest Women's/Romance Publishing News Per Publishers Lunch ANNIE FREEMAN'S FABULOUS TRAVELING FUNERAL and forthcoming THE SUNDAY LIST OF DREAMS author Kris Radish's next three novels, continuing her exploration of female friendship, personal transformation, empowerment, and support through life's challenges, ranging from coping with loss to discovering that your estranged daughter is running a sex toy shop in Manhattan, again to Kate Miciak at Bantam Dell, in a major deal, for seven figures, by Ellen Geiger at Frances Goldin Literary Agency (world English). eg@goldinlit.com Eloisa James' DESPERATE DUTCHESSES, a mix of wit and scandal, about a group of wild duchesses and the wilder games they play, from high stakes chess to strip dominoes, to Lucia Macro at Avon, in a major deal, in a multi-book deal, by Kimberly Witherspoon and David Forrer at Inkwell Management (NA). THE LIST, which brings together three NYT bestselling authors, Julia Quinn, Connie Brockway, and Eloisa James in a humorous, sexy tale of a nobleman handed a list of potential brides, but told that with his reputation, he's unlikely to win any of them. He discovers that winning a woman's hand may not be the problem, but desiring to kiss it - and keep her - is another story, to Lucia Macro at Avon, in a good deal, by Kimberly Witherspoon and David Forrer at Inkwell Management for James, and Steve Axelrod and Damaris Rowland at Rowland & Axelrod, for Quinn and Brockway (NA). Nina Foxx's NO GIRL NEEDS A HUSBAND 7 DAYS A WEEK, in which three friends find that their lives change radically when one is betrayed by her husband; the other risks her independence when she thinks she's falling in love, and the third sees her sanity at stake when her prominent husband is thrown into jail, dubbed "Girlfriends" meets "Desperate Housewives," to Carrie Feron at Avon, for publication in June 2007, by Elaine Koster at the Elaine Koster Agency. Patrice Michelle's RESURRECTION, in a world where vampires are long thought extinct, a librarian's fictional novel opens the floodgates for the Sanguinas' return, to Ann Leslie Tuttle at Harlequin Nocturne, in a three-book deal, by Deidre Knight of The Knight Agency (world). deidre.knight@knightagency.net Golden Heart finalist Christine Wells's SCANDAL'S DAUGHTER, to Leis Pederson at Berkley Sensation, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Jessica Faust at BookEnds (world). jfaust@bookends-inc.com Susan Page Davis's FRASIER ISLAND, about Navy officers on a secret mission, to Kim Moore at Harvest House, in a nice deal, by Tamela Hancock Murray at Hartline Literary Agency. Karen Rose Smith's THE BRACELET, to Beverley Sotolov at Harlequin Everlasting, in a nice deal, by Evan Marshall at the Evan Marshall Agency (world). evanmarshall@TheNovelist.com The Key "nice deal" $1 - $49,000 "very nice deal" $50,000 - $99,000 "good deal" $100,000 - $250,000 "significant deal" $251,000 - $499,000 "major deal" $500,000 and up
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