Deal Announcement: Blogger Claire Gallam selected to develop the next "Everything" cookbook with Adams Media

Has everyone heard of the "Everything" series from F+W Media? Check out this link for their cookbook offerings and here for everything else. And then visit the blog The Realistic Nutritionist and fall in love. And then read this and maybe you'll be as happy as I am today:

Non-fiction: Cooking

Blogger behind The Realistic Nutritionist Claire Gallam, ed.'s THE EVERYTHING WEEKNIGHT GLUTEN-FREE COOKBOOK, as part of their Everything series, to Lisa Laing at Adams Media, in a nice deal, by Beth Phelan at The Bent Agency.

Claire Gallam, the blogger behind The Realistic Nutritionist and author of Eat Skinny, Be Skinny (Skyhorse, April 2014), has been tapped as the next author in their "Everything" series. She'll be developing a cookbook of easy-to-make gluten-free recipes that are perfect for the weeknights. 

Let's congratulate her! Find her on her blog, Twitter (@realnutritioncg), Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest. 

Deal Announcement: Ingrid Seymour's IGNITE THE SHADOWS to Harper Voyager!

This awesome book was discovered during Harper Voyager's open call for submissions. Ingrid Seymour is a seasoned indie author with some rad New Adult and YA titles out there (check them out here). And now Harper Voyager has acquired print and digital rights to her urban fantasy, plus the next two books in the series:

Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Ingrid Seymour's IGNITE THE SHADOWS, about a teen hacker who joins a resistance combatting sentient parasites that threaten to take over the population, hiding the fact that she has already been infected and is fighting her own private battle for control of her mind, to Natasha Bardon at Voyager, in a three-book deal, by Beth Phelan at The Bent Agency.

Please join me in congratulating Ingrid on this acquisition! You can find her on Twitter (@Ingrid_Seymour), Goodreads, Facebook and at ingridseymour.com. 

Kat Ellis, Donna Hosie and Heidi Schulz are in this week's PW!

Happy congratulations to three of our beloved authors who appeared in this week's Publishers Weekly!

In their BEA preview, PW has named BLACKFIN SKY by Kat Ellis (Running Press), THE DEVIL'S INTERN by Donna Hosie (Holiday House) and HOOK'S REVENGE by Heidi Schulz (Disney-Hyperion) as must-grab children's galleys! If you're attending BEA this year, be sure to swing by those booths.

Please join us in sending Kat (@el_kat), Donna (@donnahosie) and Heidi (@HeidiSchulz) many congrats -- and also a big thanks for giving us all so much to be excited about!

Deal Announcement: Berkley acquires 3-book series from debut author Jennifer Duell

I'm so overjoyed about this acquisition. Jenn is mega-talented and this series is so rich, and so sexy, and so delicious. Talk about the kind of love (and sex) that makes you totally lose your mind.

Fiction: Women's/Romance

Jennifer Duell's debut BRANDED, the first in the Riley O'Brien & Co. series, in which a small-town fashion designer falls for the CEO of the family-owned denim company she was secretly hired to overthrow, who gets caught between love and deception, to Leis Pederson at Berkley, in a nice deal, in a three-book deal, by Beth Phelan at The Bent Agency (World English).

Please join us in congratulating Jenn under her pen name on Twitter (@jsuttonauthor) and make sure you stay tuned for more news about our fabulous authors!