JUST SOLD: Film Rights to RITA-award winning author Linnea Sinclair's The Down Home Zombie Blues, pitched as CSI: Miami meets Men in Black, where an intergalactic operative hooks up with a local Florida homicide cop in an undercover caper to save the planet, optioned to C. Duke Marsh, by Sean Daily at Hotchkiss & Associates, on behalf of Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency.

JUST SOLD: New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger's Heartless and Timeless, the fourth and fifth novels in the Alexia Tarabotti Parasol Protectorate series, again to Devi Pillai at Orbit, in a good deal by Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency.

JUST SOLD: Mari Mancusi's Night School and Blood Ties, the fifth and sixth installments of the Blood Coven Vampire series, about two identical yet very different twins and their romantic adventures in the vampire world to Kate Seaver at Berkley Jam, by Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency.

JUST SOLD: Allison Rushby's Paparazzo Jo, about a 16-year old Hollywood paparazzo who wants out of LA and accepts a final big-paying gig only to learn she will have to betray the only star she's ever liked, to Stacy Cantor at Walker, in a nice deal, by Sara Megibow of Nelson Literary Agency.

Upcoming Conferences

Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Conference Denver, CO September 10-12, 2010

MileHi Con Denver, CO October 22-24, 2010 (Sara Megibow)

San Miguel Int'l Writers' Conference San Miguel de Allende, Mexico February 18-20, 2011

Missouri Writers Guild Conference St Louis, MO April 8-10, 2011

Houston SCBWI Houston, TX April 9, 2011 (Sara Megibow)

Book Expo America New York, NY May 23-26, 2011

RWA National New York, NY June 28-July 1, 2011

Romance Writers of Australia Conference Melbourne, Australia August 2011