Keeping Up with Deals

First we have, shall we say, a rather unusual premise:

Pseudonymous Swedish author Tim Davys’ first novel AMBERVILLE, both a

plot-twisting noir and a meditation on good and evil, featuring a

highly unusual cast of stuffed animals (and no human characters) —

some of whom come to realize that their seemingly benign world is far

from fluffy, to Alison Callahan at Harper, in a significant deal, in a

pre-empt, by Susanna Einstein at LJK Literary Management (world;

excluding Swedish).

Then again, if Barbara Gowdy could pull off a book from the pov of an elephant and Leonie Swann could cast a flock of sheep as detectives, this should – I hope – work just as well…

Then we have something that has clear SIX FEET UNDER overtones:

Amy MacKinnon’s TETHERED, about a young mortician — with her own damaged past —

who finds herself at the center of a murder investigation and a sordid

underworld when she unwittingly identifies a dead body which leads to

consequences almost impossible to imagine, to Sally Kim at Shaye

Areheart Books, in a signficant deal, at auction, by Emma Sweeney

(world).

Finally, well, the tagline says it all:

Lyndsay Faye’s debut KNIFE POINT, in which Sherlock Holmes tracks down

Jack the Ripper in 1888 London, to Kerri Kolen at Simon & Schuster,

in a good deal, in a pre-empt, by Daniel Lazar at Writers House (world

English).

I would also like to state the following: Mr. Lazar, you proved me wrong. Good work.