Publishing Industry News
November 2009: Quill & Quire blog reports that Harlequin is starting a digital e-publishing only imprint, Carina, which, although it will focus on the romance genre, will be open to others including but not limited to sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, and horror. Authors will not receive an advance but they will receive a higher royalty rate. Read more about it here.
June 2008: According to Publisher’s Lunch, Nancy Yost is leaving Lowenstein-Yost Associates Inc. to start up her own literary agency. She may be reached at nancy@nyliterary.com.
May 2009: Douglas Clegg sold a new horror novel, “Isis”, to to Roger Cooper at Vanguard Press via agent Simon Lipskar of Writers House. The book will come out in September. For full story, click here. — SFSCOPE
Brandon Sanderson’s new novel, “Warbreaker”, is coming out in a physical edition in June of this year, but he’s also offering it for free off his website. For the full story, click here. –SFSCOPE
Former Del Rey editor Liz Scheier is now working for ScrollMotion that develops the Iceberg, the ereader app for the iPhone. For the full story, click here. –SFSCOPE
March 2009: Realms of Fantasy is not dead. It was sold to Tir Na Nog press, who has plans to start printing it as early as May 2009. Read the full article here.
February 2009: Realms of Fantasy has sadly been closed down by the publisher.
Locus magazine reports that Liz Scheier of Del Rey is no longer working there, having been let go in January.
September 2008 - Cindi Myers reports that Five Star books no longer publishes science fiction or fantasy
AUGUST 2008: Cyndi Myers reports in her weekly newsletter that Rosalind Greenberg has been named the new Novel Acquisitions Editor for all lines of Five Star, taking over those and all editorial oversight duties from John Helfers.
JUNE 2008: Cyndi Myers reports in her weekly newsletter that Harlequin is starting a new Young Adult line under its MIRA imprint. Some of the authors to be published under the new YA imprint include Gena Showwalter and Rachel Vincent. The books, to be published in trade paperback format, are slated for a 2009 release. The submissions accepted are agented ones only, and the editors want “paranormal, fantasy/sci- fi, relationship/ romance and social issues” specifically aimed at teens.
Les Bonnes Fees (http://www.les- bonnes-fees. com/guidelines. html) ) Is a monthly e-zine devoted to fairy tales and folklore. They publish nonfiction about fairy tales, but also fiction — both new, modern fairy tales and re-tellings of old tales. They pay one to three cents a word for up to 3000 words. Reprints are welcome.
Love Stories Magazine is looking for stories about love and romance of 3,000 to 5,000 words that can be contemporary, historic, inspirational, paranormal, or anything else as long as love and romance are the focal point of the story. They want some sexuality to be incorporated into the story, but nothing too graphic (i.e. suggestive phrases should be used in place of body parts and foul language). Payment is upon publication, $300. Full guidelines are available at <http://www.grassrootsmag.com/wrgu.html>.
MAY 2008: Cyndi Myers reports on her weekly newsletter that Jennifer Klonsky is now editorial director at Simon Pulse. Michael del Rosario is now associate editor there.
Lucienne Diver of the Spectrum Literary Agency has moved to the Knight Agency Publisher’s Weekly reports that author Richard Kadrey’s “Sandman Slim” has been sold to Diana Gill at Eos in a three-book deal by Ginger Clark at Curtis Brown. Kadrey has been an accomplished author for many years now, has been in the game for twenty some odd years, and started out writing cyberpunk, most notably, a novel called METROPHAGE.
MARCH 2008: Del Rey has announced some exciting new acquisitions. The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick, published in the UK by Gollancz, will be put out in North America by Del Rey next year. It’s an epic fantasy trilogy about a ship on it’s way to make peace with a foreign empire that discovers great treachery aboard.
Betsy Mitchell has acquired debut author Harry Connoly’s paranormal novel, Harvest of Fire, and its two sequels about a driver for a sorceress whose ties to a secret society endanger both their lives.
Liz Scheier has acquired Ice Song by Kirsten Imani Kasai, and its sequel, about a mother who pursues a madman who has stolen her infant twins.
To support the upcoming release of the graphic novel, Dark Wraith of Shannara, Terry Brooks will appear at numerous events in the coming weeks and months, including the New York ComicCon, which is April 18-20, 2008, in the Jacob Javits Center, New York City. www.nycomiccon.com.
Michael Moorcock, who has been awarded the highest honor that the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, puts out, “Grand Master”, for his overall contributions to the field of fantasy. His most famous series is “Elric of Melnibone,” everyone’s favorite ass-kicking albino prince, who, incidentally, has his lapses of weakness because of an illness he has had from birth, but that doesn’t stop him from battling evil.
[From CindiMeyer.com:]
* Editor Erin Numiata is leaving Avalon books as of February 29, 2008 to focus on her role as literary agent at Folio.
* Sally Doherty has joined Holt Children’s as executive editor. Ms. Doherty has previously worked for Bantam, Harper Collins and Scholastic in various capacities.
* Kate Harrison is a new senior editor at Dial Children’s, moving from Harcourt Children’s.
* Jessica Dandino Garrison has been promoted to editor at Dial Children’s.
Publishers: Lachesis Publishing (http://www.lachesis publishing. com) publishes horror, science fiction, fantasy, fantasy romance and erotic romance. Based in Nova Scotia, Canada, Lachesis publishes in both ebook and print format. Currently, they are open to romance submissions only. Please check their guidelines on the website.
Highland Press (http://www.highland press.org) is a Florida based publisher of all types of genre fiction in trade paperback format. The editors are currently open to submissions of historical, contemporary and inspirational romance, as well as women’s fiction, science fiction and fantasy and young adult and children’s books. They are not interested in erotica. Please see their detailed submission guidelines on the website. Please address all submissions to Leanne Burroughs
Parker Publishing (http://www.parker- publishing. com) is actively seeking submissions of African-American romance and erotic romance. Parker publishes mainstream fiction under its NOLA imprint. Parker’s Isis imprint features paranormal and speculative fiction. Romance is published under the Noire Allure imprint. Noire Passion is the home for all erotic romance titles. These stories may be about African-American couples or couples in which only the heroine is African-American. Noire Allure manuscripts should be 80,000 -90,000 words, while Noire Passion titles may be 70,000 – 90,000 words. Parker also publishes multi-ethnic young adult stories under its Moxie imprint.
* Liz Scheier, formerly of NAV/Roc, is now an editor at Del Rey and has been since May 7th. http://sfscope.com/2007/05/liz-scheier-now-at-del-rey.html
* Kristin Doyle is no longer with Bantam/Dell
July 21, 2007: Del Rey’s Liz Scheier has bought world rights to two untitled historical fantasies from author Patricia Nagle. They are the beginning of an imaginative new series in which a vampire queen fights to preserve her race, an evolutionary offshoot of the Elven. Liz also bought three books in an epic fantasy series from debut author Peter Brett, in which humankind fights to overcome the demons who rule their world after nightfall.
Chris Schluep (editor, among other works, of Drew Bowling’sTower of Shadows, published by Del Rey) has purchased the paperback rights to David Marusek’s short story collection Getting to Know You, published in hardcover by Subterranean Press.
