Date |
Genre |
Book Deal |
| Feb08 | Fiction: Inspirational | Rita winner and triple finalist Tamera Alexander's IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, the first in a series set during the Civil War about an impoverished woman who becomes an assistant to the owner of a plantation and the richest woman in America -- involving blockade running, runaway slaves, the art world, and a master gardener who teaches her where true beauty can be found. Sold to Bethany House. |
| Feb08 | Fiction: Inspirational | Candace Calvert's THE HEALER'S HEART, part of a new Shift in Faith series based on the author's career experience of critical incident counseling, in which a nurse is involved in a tragic daycare explosion, the process re-opens her own emotional wounds, and God prepares her heart for a love that was nowhere in her plans. Sold to Tyndale. |
| Feb08 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Bonnie Vanak's KATIA'S STORY. Sold to Harlequin. |
| Feb08 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Lisa Renee Jones's THE COSTUME SHOP, in which a woman encounters adventure and romance playing a new role. Sold to Harlequin. |
| Jan08 | Fiction: Women's Romance | RITA finalist and Daphne DuMaurier award winner Nina Bruhns's RUN TO DANGER, in which a black-ops hero and a nurse are kidnapped and taken on a suicide mission to Sudan where they must foil a terrorist, rescue a prisoner, and live long enough to fall in love. Sold to Berkley. |
| Jan08 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Kimberley Raye's BEDTIME STORIES FOR LOVERS, a signature story of love and laughter perfect for Valentine's Day reading. Sold to Harlequin. |
| Jan08 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Samantha Hunter's THE TEMPTRESS, a woman receives the wrong costume from a costume shop and ends up with an unexpected romance. Sold to Harlequin. |
| Jan08 | Fiction: Inspirational | RITA winner Tamera Alexander's THE INHERITANCE, in which a woman arrives in Colorado to find her relatives have died of cholera leaving her to raise their five-year old daughter and her younger brother alone with help only from the local sheriff as she discovers "an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade." Sold to Thomas Nelson. |
| Nov07 | Fiction: General / Other | Joyce Lebra's THE SCENT OF SAKE, about a 19th century Japanese woman who overcomes tremendous obstacles to build a sake empire and a family dynasty at a time when women were forbidden to do business. Sold to William Morrow. |
| Nov07 | Fiction: Inspirational | Christy award winner and multiple RITA winner Robin Lee Hatcher's HEART RINGS, a story that bridges the generation gap between mother and daughter as they learn to accept each other based on love and not appearances. Sold to Steeple Hill. |
| Oct07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | USA Today bestselling author Leigh Greenwood's NIGHTRIDERS western historical romance. Sold to Leisure. |
| Oct07 | Fiction: General / Other | Christy Finalist Harry Kraus's SALTY LIKE BLOOD, about a surgeon whose young daughter is kidnapped, destroying his marriage and medical practice and testing his faith in God as he desperately attempts to find and rescue her, and THE SIX LITER CLUB, about a young woman surgeon's life and death challenges in the operating room as well her relationships as the dark past of her parents who were murdered as missionaries in Africa is revealed. Sold to Howard Books. |
| Oct07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Two-time RITA finalist Anna Schmidt's MISTLETOE REUNION, in which a divorced couple is stranded at an airport during the holidays and reconciled through the prayers of their daughter. Sold to Steeple Hill. |
| Oct07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Environmental geologist Samantha Hunter's NO RESERVATIONS. Sold to Harlequin. |
| Oct07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | USA Today bestselling author Kimberly Raye's SLIPPERY WHEN WET, a love story set in the world of auto racing. Sold to Dorchester. |
| Oct07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Malena Lott's DATING DAVINCI, the story of a young widow and mother who finds 'vita allegre' with the help of a handsome, 25-year-old Italian immigrant named Leonardo da Vinci as they experience their own renaissance with her as his Mona Lisa. Sold to Sourcebooks. |
| Oct07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Zuri Day's DISGUISED, in which a woman takes on a maid's persona to invade a P.I.'s personal life as he investigates corruption in LA's multi-billion dollar real estate industry. Sold to Dafina. |
| Oct07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Lutishia Lovely's A PREACHER'S PASSION, the follow-up to Love Like Hallelujah, in which the main character finds out that meeting the man of her dreams and turning that dream of a "happily ever after" into reality is often a tricky ride. Sold to Dafina. |
| Oct07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Sarah Abbott Price's DESTINY BAY, in which a woman and man face imminent danger from the terrifying madman who calls himself The Lover as they discover dark unimaginable secrets about the death of the woman's mother. Sold to Dorchester. |
| Oct07 | Nonfiction: How-To | Toby Hemenway's GAIA'S GARDEN, an updated revised version. Sold to Chelsea Green. |
| Aug07 | Nonfiction: Parenting | Childbirth expert and clinical hypnotherapist Giuditta Tornetta's PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH: A Guide for a Drug-Free, Joyful Birthing Experience, encouraging women to embrace pregnancy and birthing as a sacred experience by helping them to prepare, envision, and create an environment for themselves in which this is possible, including the Nine Basic Human Rights paralleling the nine months of pregnancy. Sold to Cumberland House . |
| Jul07 | Fiction: Suspense | IPPY Award Winner for Best Mystery and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Winner Clyde Ford's Precious Cargo a nautical suspense novel in which a boat's anchor rises with the body of a young woman impaled on the flukes and investigator Charlie Noble discovers the waters under a Pacific Northwest Island have become a killing field. Sold to Vanguard Press. |
| Jul07 | Nonfiction: Spiritual | Popular CBA author, Surgeon and Christy Nominee Harry Kraus's Surrender to Love: Discovering the Life God Intended You to Live takes an in-depth look at one of the Bible's chief metaphors for the church, the body of Christ and examines how the wonderful way God has put together the physical body in function and form, can show us how love can be realized in the life of the believer and the church. Sold to Crossway . |
| Jun07 | Fiction: Inspirational Romance | Two-time RITA Finalist, Anna Schmidt's Love and Forgiveness, Sunrise for Miss Nola and For the Love of a Child, three inspirational historical romance novels. Sold to Steeple Hill's Love Inspired |
| Jun07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Prolific up and coming romance author Lisa Renee Jones' Texas Undercover in which the passion is hot, the danger intense and the undercover good guys know just when to be bad to take you on a wild Texas ride. Sold to Harlequin Blaze. |
| May07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Nina Bang's hilarious and sexy paranormal romance The Jersey Devil and 3 more books in her Woo Woo Inn Series. Sold to Dorchester. |
| May07 | Fiction: Inspirational | Essence Bestseller, Christy Finalist and RITA finalist Angela Benson's novel Up Pops the Devil, the story of Preacher Winters and four women in his life who complicate his re-entry into society as a law-abiding Christian man after being incarcerated for two years. Sold to HarperCollins. |
| May07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | USA Today bestselling author Kimberly Raye's Bite Me, her next novel in her series of vampire love stories about Lil Marchette's Dead End Dating matchmaking service for hip intelligent paranormal singles in which Lil meets an unmatchable mafia don who threatens death if he isn't partnered. Sold to Ballantine. |
| Apr07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | USA Today best selling author Kimberly Raye's Untitled #1 plus 2 other novels as well as a cowboy anthology story. Sold to Harlequin Blaze |
| Apr07 | Fiction: Women's Historical | A'isha, Beloved of Muhammad , a debut historical novel by journalist Sherry Jones. Set in seventh-century Arabia, this is the vivid story of the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad, recreating A'isha's marriage at the age of nine, her struggle for personal freedom in a society where women had few rights, and her dedication to The Prophet's vision of a true faith. |
| Mar07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Author of Make Me A Match, and The Sexist Man Alive, Diana Holquist's two new untitled contemporary romances. Sold to Warner Books. |
| Mar07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Leanna Ellis 's Elvis Takes A Back Seat, in which a young widow determined to fulfill her husband's last request hauls a three-foot bust of Elvis strapped in the back seat of a vintage Cadillac from Texas to Memphis with adventures and insights about Elvis and life along the way. Sold to Broadman & Holman. |
| Feb07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Nadine Dajani 's The Princess Complex and Cubanista, Lebanese multicultural women's fiction author of Fashionably Late. Sold to TOR Books. |
| Feb07 | Fiction: Women's Romance | Author of Make Me a Match and The Sexiest Man Alive Diana Holquist 's two new untitled contemporary romances. Sold to Warner Books. |