Cornelia Read makes the grade

The lovely thing about this blog is that it puts me in touch not only with established writers, but those on the verge of launching their careers. Cornelia Read is one such person, and this is news I’ve been waiting to hear since the beginning of the year:

Cornelia Read’s SORE EXCUSE, featuring a tough-talking, shotgun-toting, ex-debutante about to get in over her head in a twenty year-old murder investigation, to Kristen Weber at Mysterious Press, in a very nice deal, by Rolph Blythe at Dunow & Carlson (world)

All I can say is: congratulations, Cornelia! Very exciting news, indeed.