Monday, January 17, 2011

Some Very Good Deals

I love to hear when someone I know lands a book deal. So it's been pretty exciting already this month to see the names of some familiar bloggers on the pages of Publisher's Marketplace. Here are just a few:


Robin Mellom's THE CLASSROOM, pitched as MODERN FAMILY for middle graders, in which a documentary crew descends on Westside Middle School to chronicle the life of a seventh grader and epic worrier, and his classmates, to Christian Trimmer at Disney-Hyperion, in a six-figure deal, in a 4-book deal, for publication in Summer 2012 by Jill Corcoran at The Herman Agency.

Author of BAD TASTE IN BOYS and Class of 2011 member, Carrie Harris's next Kate Grable novel BAD HAIR DAY, again to Wendy Loggia at Delacorte, in a nice deal, for publication in Summer 2012 and 2013, by Kate Schafer Testerman at kt literary (World English).


Ellen Oh's PROPHECY: The Dragon King Chronicles, in which an elite warrior and bodyguard to her cousin, the young prince, is feared and mistrusted by all except a select few in the Kingdom who know of her power as a demon hunter, and how she may be the vanguard in the coming war against invading forces, to Phoebe Yeh at Harper Children's, in a good deal, in a three-book deal, for publication in Summer 2012, by Joe Monti at Barry Goldblatt Literary (NA).


Visit their blogs and offer your congratulations, too!!

21 comments:

C.R. Evers said...

There is quite a lot of good news lately, isn't there. YaY! So exciting to know some of these people too! double YaY, Yay!!!!

S.A. Larsenッ said...

Congrats to all! Such wonderful news!

Christine Fonseca said...

So awesome to be surrounded by such reat talent. Cheers all the way around.

Bish Denham said...

Wonderful news! I love recognizing names. Kind of like friendship by proxy. :)

Angela said...

Congratulations to all the wonderful new writers landing contracts!

storyqueen said...

Yay for everyone!!

Unknown said...

Wow! It is so exciting when you know someone and thier journey! Especially loved your blog posts on beta readers. I am just beginning my writing journey and appreciated the information.

Faith E. Hough said...

Wonderful news; thanks for passing it along!

Karen Jones Gowen said...

Wow, that's awesome! I love to hear news like this, even though I don't know these bloggers, I'm happy for them. Rock on writing world!

Kristan said...

Woot woot! Congrats to all of them. Can't wait to see some more familiar names up there... ;)

Christina Lee said...

It IS exciting isn't it?

Becky Levine said...

I hadn't heard about Robin's news--that's fantastic! :)

Kelly Polark said...

I love to hear about their successes too!!! I hope they do book tours so I can congratulate them in person!

Robin Mellom said...

Aww, thanks for the shout-out! Can't wait to see YOUR name in the PM announcements! :-)

Stina said...

I'm so excited for these writers. Two who I've been following for a while. :)

Tiana Smith said...

I love hearing good news for others! Nope, I'm not jealous at all ... :)

Jan Markley said...

A success for one is a success for all writers!

Carolina M. Valdez Schneider said...

I heard about Robin and Carrie's major SCORES! But I don't know Ellen. Will be sure to stop by! Congratulations to all!

Lori W. said...

Thanks for sharing this! It's always nice to read about good news and especially inspiring when you read about how hard these writers worked.

Hardygirl said...

It's so fun to see all that good news!

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Ello - Ellen Oh said...

Thanks so much! I'm so touched that you blogged about my deal! I really appreciate all the support I've been getting. I'm still in shock, you know.

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