JUST SOLD: Author of Private Arrangements, Sherry Thomas's next two historical romances, again to Caitlin Alexander at Bantam, in a very good deal.

JUST SOLD: Kristina Riggle's Real Life & Liars, about a fading flower child who has her own idea about how to treat her breast cancer which doesn’t include surgery, much to the dismay of her three grown children whose personal crises just might shake her resolve, to Lucia Macro at Avon, in a very nice two-book deal at auction.

JUST SOLD: Simone Elkeles's Zero Tolerance, a Romeo and Juliet story about a gang member who wants to change his life for the girl on the right side of the tracks, but the consequences of leaving the gang are more than he bargained for, to Emily Easton at Walker.

JUST SOLD: Literary agent Lucienne Diver's Vamped, pitched as Clueless meets Buffy The Vampire Slayer about a selfish, now undead teen fashionista (bitten by the geeky chess champion turned vampire hottie) who must unselfishly save her classmates from fashion disaster and their same fates, to Andrew Karre at Flux, in a nice deal.

JUST SOLD: RITA-award winner Linnea Sinclair's Hope's Folly, the third book in the Gabriel’s Ghost SF series where a former Fleet admiral finds himself aiding the rebels, dodging death threats, and alarmingly attracted to his former CO’s daughter who’s now assigned as his bodyguard, plus another book set in that universe again to Anne Groell at Bantam, in a very nice deal.

JUST SOLD: Megan Crewe's Giving Up The Ghost, about a teen outcast who sees ghosts and uses the secrets they dig up to expose her fellow students' deceits but must choose between revenge and compassion when the popular student council V.P. comes to her for supernatural help, to Robin Tordini at Holt, in a nice deal.

JUST SOLD: Helen Stringer's House of Mists, about a girl who lives with the ghosts of her parents in the north of England and when they disappear, along with all the ghosts in the world, it’s up to her, an always-in-trouble classmate named Steve, and the one remaining ghost (from 1912) to find out why, to Jean Feiwel at Feiwel & Friends, in a significant deal for two books, in a two-day auction.

JUST SOLD: Jana DeLeon's Ghost-In-Law and the second book in a new series of humorous romance/mystery hybrids where a woman is haunted by her dead ex-mother-in-law who cuts her son and worthless husband from her will, opting instead to leave her fortune to the heroine—making her a moving target, again to Leah Hultenschmidt at Dorchester, in a nice deal,

JUST SOLD: New York Times Bestselling author Ally Carter's next Gallagher Girls novel and the first book in a new YA series pitched as Ocean's 11 meets Veronica Mars, about a girl from a family of high-end conmen who must choose between leaving the family business or saving her art thief father by pulling one last heist, again to Donna Bray at Hyperion Children's, in a major deal.

JUST SOLD: Lisa Shearin's next two in the Raine Benares Series again to Anne Sowards at Ace.

JUST SOLD: Jamie Ford’s debut Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet, a story set in Seattle and told in alternating time periods, when a Chinese boy falls in love with a Japanese girl during the Japanese internment in 1942, and later in 1986 when the belongings of Japanese families are discovered in the basement of a condemned hotel and he must confront the memories and choices he made years ago, to Jane von Mehren at Ballantine, in a good deal, at auction.

JUST SOLD: Sarah Rees Brennan’s debut urban fantasy trilogy starting with The Demon's Lexicon, about two brothers hunted throughout England by a powerful magician's circle after their mother steals a charm and when the eldest is marked by a demon, the younger uses swords and dark arts in an effort to save him but unwittingly uncovers the darkest of secrets, to Karen Wojtyla at Margaret K. McElderry, in a major deal, at auction.

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