Cornell yoga instructor and blog writer Emma Silverman’s MORE JOY OF YOGA, the sequel to her JOY OF YOGA project, a comprehensive, fully illustrated collection of yoga sequences tailored to emotional and mental wellbeing, to be illustrated by Kerri Frail, to Nicole Frail at Skyhorse.

THE BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN author Jeanne Mackin’s EVENINGS IN PARIS, following the legendary rivalry between fashion designers Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, two women from very different backgrounds who brought competing styles to Parisian chic in the early twentieth century, again to Ellen Edwards at NAL, in a two-book deal, for publication in Winter 2017.

Caroline Abbey at Random House has preempted Breeana Shields’s debut YA fantasy novel, The Serpent’s Promise, set in an alternate world based on the mythology of ancient India, in which a girl has been trained since birth as a “poison maiden” in the Raja’s service. When she is ordered to kill a boy she has feelings for, she begins to question not only her role but the Raja’s end game. Publication is scheduled for 2017.

YOU REALLY GOT ME author Erika Kelly’s next book in her Rock Star Romance series, in which a bad boy keyboard player from a family of rock ‘n roll legacies has lost touch with the joy of music – until he meets a feisty, spirited chef who helps him reconnect to his roots, to Leis Pederson at Berkley.

Sold! FOR THE LONGEST TIME author Kendra Leigh Castle’s next two books in her Harvest Cove contemporary romance series, starting with COME ON CLOSER, in which a free-spirited bakery owner must decide if she can trust the town’s resident bad boy lawyer with her heart when attraction sizzles between them, to Kerry Donovan at NAL, in a two-book deal.

Sold! Laura Trentham’s TILL I KISSED YOU, the first novel in her new Summer Crossroads series, in which old rivalries and new loves heat up when a small Southern town on the Louisiana-Mississippi state line plans two competing summer festivals, causing a blue-collar Louisiana man to cross paths with a well-to-do Mississippi woman from his past, to Eileen Rothschild at St. Martin’s, in a three-book deal, for publication in Summer 2015.

Catherine Bailey ‘s picture book, LUCY LOVES SHERMAN, about a girl whose dream of owning a pet lobster turns into a serious mission when she realizes she must save him from the bib and butter, complete with crustacean back matter.

Donna Russo Morin’s DA VINCI’S DISCIPLES series, beginning with PORTRAIT OF A CONSPIRACY, in which a secret group of female artists in Renaissance Florence unravel a conspiracy against the Medici brothers, with the help of a young Leonardo Da Vinci, in a three-book deal.

Chanel Cleeton’s FLY WITH ME, in which the owner of a thriving boutique meets a sexy Air Force fighter pilot on vacation in Vegas, but when one hot weekend turns her world upside down, she must choose between the future she’s built for herself and sacrificing it all for a man with a job he can’t quit and a life that’s not his own, in the first book in the new Wild Aces series about a squadron of F-16 pilots who fly fast, love hard, live dangerously, and dedicate their lives to the country they serve, to Kate Seaver at Berkley, in a nice deal, for publication in Winter 2016.

CUT ME FREE by J.R. Johansson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

“A superb blend of mystery and romance, it’s never what you expect. A masterpiece.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Lux and Covenant series