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Deal announcement: Two book deal for Tera Lynn Childs

I'm so excited to report that Tera Lynn Childs is returning to the world she created with her Oh.My.Gods series and publishing GODDESS IN TIME with HarperTeen Impulse.  I know her fans will be as thrilled as I am.  She'll also be doing another novella in the Forgive My Fins series!  Please join me in congratulating Tera on twitter at @Teralynnchilds and check out her fabulous website here. 

		May 8, 2013
		Digital: Young Adult		Tera Lynn Childs's GODDESS IN TIME, a companion story to her Oh. My. Gods. series in which the teen descendant of a Greek god goes on a quest to travel back in time and undo the biggest mistake of her life, and an untitled novella set in the underwater world of her Forgive My Fins mermaid series, to Sarah Shumway at Harper Teen Impulse, by Jenny Bent at The Bent Agency (world).

Deal Announcement: Six Book Deal for New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde

I'm so pleased to announce a new deal for New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde.   She's doing six more books with Avon Books, again with her wonderful editor Lucia Macro. I've worked with Lori for a long time and I couldn't be more thrilled about her success--couldn't happen to a nicer or more talented author!   Please check out Lori's terrific blog here or say congratulations to her on twitter at @loriwilde. 

		May 7, 2013
		Fiction: Women's/Romance		NYT bestselling author Lori Wilde's untitled contemporary series, to Lucia Macro at Avon, in a major deal, in a six-book deal, by Jenny Bent at The Bent Agency (World English).

Deal Announcement - Four-Book Deal for Debut Author Ruth Fitzgerald!

I am thrilled to announce a four-book deal for debut author Ruth Fitzgerald's EMILY SPARKES AND THE FRIENDSHIP FIASCO, a voice-driven, hilariously funny story about eleven-year-old Emily and her adventures (and disasters) trying to find a replacement best friend. 

I first met Ruth while running a workshop on 'Voice and Engaging Writing' for the SCBWI. I asked everyone to read the first two pages of their works-in-progress and when Ruth started to read from Emily Sparkes, I wondered if she should have been teaching the class instead of me! I signed her soon afterwards as the rest of the book was just as fantastic, and I'm so pleased Kate and the lovely folks at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers UK thought the same. We couldn't ask for a more enthusiastic home for Ruth and Emily.

Congratulations, Ruth!

		May 6, 2013
		International rights: UK Children's		Ruth Fitzgerald's debut EMILY SPARKES AND THE FRIENDSHIP FIASCO, in which an eleven-year-old has to cope with her best friend moving away and her mum having a new baby, all while competing with her 'sworn enemy' to win the friendship of the glamorous new girl, to Kate Agar at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers UK, for publication in 2015, in a four-book deal, by Gemma Cooper at The Bent Agency (world).

For more info on Ruth, check out our website. For the deal announcement on the Little, Brown website, click here. And if you are on twitter, go congratulate her @writingruth