Doolittle makes a deal

I like hearing when writers are rewarded for their efforts, especially when it’s been a long time coming. In one of the blog’s earliest posts, I pretty much waxed rhapsodic about Sean Doolittle’s then-brand-new novel, BURN, which had been very much buzzed about at last year’s Bouchercon. Fast forward about nine months and not only did he complete the manuscript to novel number three, but it, and a follow-up, has sold in a hard/soft deal to Bantam Dell by the fine folks at DHS Literary. This is the kind of news that reminds us that sometimes the good guys finish first–or at least well ahead of the pack.

UPDATE, 4:00 PM August 3: Publisher’s Marketplace provides a bit more info about Sean’s new deal:

Sean Doolittle’s RAIN DOGS, a character-driven crime story in which an ex-reporter trying to recover from the death of his daughter moves to a small town in Nebraska only to get entangled in a complicated web of local crime, to Shannon Jamieson at Bantam Dell, in a nice deal, for two books, by David Hale Smith at DHS Literary (world).