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From Publishers Lunch Weekly:

FICTION:

Author and screenwriter Anthony Flacco's fiction debut, a story set against the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the start of a series featuring Sergeant Randall Blackburn and the early evolution of criminal profiling, to Paul Taunton at Random House for its new Mortalis imprint, in a two-book deal, by Sharlene Martin of Martin Literary Agency (world).ctisne@randomhouse.comDramatic: Sharlene@MartinLiteraryManagement.com

THRILLER:
Brent Michael Ghelfi's VOLK, a debut thriller featuring a hero with ties to both the Cold-War Russian military and the mafia, and the plot to steal a long-lost painting by a very famous artist, to Sarah Knight at Holt, in a two-book deal, by Scott Hoffman of Folio Literary Management (World). Claire.McKinney@hholt.com

Paul Carson's AMBUSH and BETRAYAL, to Daniela Rapp at St. Martin's, in a nice deal, by Emma White at the Darley Anderson. BETRAYAL will be published in Spring 2007.emma@darleyanderson.com

GENERAL/OTHER:

Rachel Pastan's LADY OF THE SNAKES, in which a young professor, while struggling to preserve her own marriage, discovers concurrences in the texts of one of Russia's great 19th Century novelists and the neglected diaries of his wife, opening a whole series of questions about the provenance of the famous writer's work and about his wife's final days, to Becky Saletan at Harcourt, by Henry Dunow at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner (NA). Henry@dclagency.com

Whiting recipient and author of HERE THEY COME and THE SEA OF TREES, Yannick Murphy's SIGNED, MATA HARI, shedding new light on the infamous life of exotic dancer (and accused spy) Mata Hari, to Helen Atsma at Little, Brown, with Richard Beswick at Little, Brown UK publishing there, by Judy Heiblum at Brick House (world).

CHILDREN'S: MIDDLE GRADE:

Journalist and deputy editor of The New Republic Katherine Marsh's THE NIGHT TOURIST, inspired by the myth of Orpheus in which a fourteen-year-old boy discovers a ghost world underneath the streets and embarks on a journey through the secret history of New York City, to Jennifer Besser at Hyperion, at auction, for two books, by Alex Glass at Trident Media Group (NA).
Film: sself@gershny.com.

MEMOIR:

Tim Stark's A FARM GROWS IN BROOKLYN, in the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher and Ruth Reichl, about how he ditched a career as a writer/consultant and returned to the rural Pennsylvania farm of his youth to grow heirloom tomatoes and other produce that he now supplies to such high-end chefs as Daniel Boulud and David Bouley, to Gerald Howard at Broadway, in a nice deal. (World).gghoward@randomhouse.com

NARRATIVE:

POPULATION: 485 and forthcoming TRUCK: A Love Story author Michael Perry's untitled account of having been raised an active member of an obscure Christian Fundamentalist sect in rural Wisconsin and how and why he left both faith and farm behind, to Alison Callahan at Harper, by Lisa Bankoff at ICM (NA).

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