A Selection of Sales by the Brown Literary Agency in 2010:
Over the years, the agency has sold to every major New York Publisher: Avon/Harper Collins, Penguin Putnam, Random House, Simon and Schuster, St. Martin’s Press, Grand Central, Harlequin, Kensington, and Dorchester.
♦ Meljean Brook’s continues her Iron Seas novels which combine nanotech and pirates with a gritty, gaslit Victorian atmosphere to create swashbuckling steampunk romances to Cindy Hwang for Berkley Sensation in a three-book deal.
♦ Cindy Holby writing as Kassie Tayler. ASHES OF TWILIGHT begins her steampunk/dystopian series with a girl who works as a coal miner to support a domed city and how she unwittingly becomes the catalyst in a rebellion that ends the dome and the levels of hierarchy within her society to Holly Blanck at St. Martins Griffin in a three-book deal.
♦ Cynthia Cooke’s RUNNING WITH WOLVES begins her new Colony series when a lonely woman falls in love and embraces her transformation into a werewolf only to discover she is preordained to be the mate of the ruthless Alpha Pack leader who will kill her if she denies him, to Tara Gavin at Harlequin Nocturne in a two-book deal.
♦ USA Today bestseller Emma Holly’s THE PRINCESS’S ASSASSINS, taking place on alternate Victorian earth in a new demonic-erotic series, to Cindy Hwang for Berkley Sensation, in a two-book deal.
♦ Sable Grace’s SALVATION, the next book in the Dark Breed series where an ex-Vampyre is called upon to save the world from the most dangerous god ever to be resurrected, to Erika Tsang at Avon in a two-book deal.
♦ Marty Ambrose’s KILLER KOOL, the fourth book in The Mango Bay Mystery series, features amateur sleuth and journalist, Mallie Monroe, who deals with murder and mayhem on a tropical island in Southwest Florida to Lia Brown at Avalon Books.
♦ Cindy Holby’s GODSEND, the first book in the Angels End western historical series, about an outlaw who poses as a preacher to escape the man who is trying to kill him, and the widow who believes his ruse and nurses him back to health when he shows up wounded in Angels End, Colorado, to Kate Seaver for Berkley Sensation in a two-book deal.
♦ Dianne Castell writing as Duffy Brown’s ICED CHIFFON, opening with a woman renovating her Victorian home and opening a consignment shop where murder and designer clothes touch the lives of customers, neighbors, and her ex-husband to Faith Black at Berkley Prime Crime, in a three-book deal.
♦ Kate Angell’s newest Barefoot William series where the beach, boardwalk, and romance come together beneath the Florida sun, to Alicia Condon at Kensington Brava in a two-book deal.
♦ Jo Davis’s dark, edgy new erotica series BAD VAMPS, about a coven of powerful vampire brothers who run a sultry New Orleans resort where extreme fetish isn’t the only delicacy on the menu, and where guests who check in sometimes don’t check out, to Tracy Bernstein at NAL Heat, in a two-book deal.
♦ Anne Marsh’s fallen angels in search of their soul mates continues in HIS DARK BOND, to Alicia Condon at Kensington Brava, in a two-book deal.
♦ Sarah McCarty continues her Hell’s Eight Series with Harlequin Spice in a four-book deal to Susan Swinwood.
♦ Red Garnier’s law enforcement novella, to Monique Patterson at St. Martin’s Press for publication in a summer 2011 anthology.
♦ Sandra Hyatt’s FALLING FOR THE PRINCESS, in which a princess must pretend she’s engaged to a man who’s against everything she represents, and A ROYAL LESSON IN SEDUCTION, in which a prince, with a duty to marry well, finds himself falling for his chauffer’s daughter, to Charles Griemsman at Silhouette Desire.
♦ R.G. Alexander’s TEMPT ME, a three-novella single-author erotic anthology about the magic of Sedona, three friends, and one simple ritual that tempts them with their heart’s desires, to Kate Seaver at Berkley.
♦ Saskia Walkers’s WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM JOE, a short story about a man who will go to any lengths to win his woman, even if that means sharing her with another man, to Adam Wilson at Spice Briefs.
♦ Lorie O’Clare’s next novel in her island fantasy novels, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington Aprhodisia, in a two-book deal.
♦ Christina Crooks’ PLAYING DIRTY, a BDSM romantic suspense novel about a dating coach struggling with sinister sexual desires, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington Aphrodisia.
♦ USA Today bestselling author Emma Holly’s novella for a contemporary erotic romance anthology, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley.
♦ Sandra Hyatt’s Christmas novella, to Charles Griemsman at Silhouette Desire.
♦ Lorie O’Clare’s next three books in her Bounty Hunter Series, to Monique Patterson at St. Martin’s.