SOLD! Lifestyle and entertaining blogger at The Chic Site, Rachel Hollis’s FANCY TRASH, an irreverent collection of recipes for affordable meals presented so polished you’d never know their “lowbrow” origins, complete with tips and tricks that prove fabulous hosting doesn’t have to break the bank, to Kat Brzozowski at Thomas Dunne Books, by Kevan Lyon and Kathleen Rushall at the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

Congratulations to Jennifer L. Armentrout – STAY WITH ME is an RT Editors’ Pick for Best Books of 2014!

http://www.rtbookreviews.com/blog/80924/rt-editors-best-books-2014-djs-picks

Sold! – Kristen Held’s HOLDING COURT, when a sixteen-year-old girl with an embarrassing psychic gift she can’t control takes a job at a castle-turned-dinner theater, all she wants is the chance to wear a fancy gown and ogle her crush from afar, but when she stumbles over a dead body that promptly disappears, she must prove she didn’t hallucinate a dead girl before the killer strikes again, to Alycia Tornetta at Entangled Teen

Sold! – Nikki Archer’s THE SPACE BETWEEN US, in which a teenage girl escapes to Mexico after a deadly confrontation with her abusive father, only to cross paths with a girl in even more trouble than she is, and saving this new friend from the dangerous captors holding her hostage will mean risking her own freedom, but it may be her only shot at redemption, to Marie Romero at Spencer Hill Press.

A huge congratulations to our MLLA authors nominated for the 2014 RT Reviewer’s Choice Best Book Awards:

• Sarah M. Anderson, TEMPTED BY A COWBOY (Best Harlequin Desire)
• Jennifer L. Armentrout, STAY WITH ME (Best New Adult)
• Jennifer L. Armentrout, STONE COLD TOUCH (Best Young Adult Protagonist)
• Valerie Bowman, THE UNEXPECTED DUCHESS (Best Historical Love & Laughter)
• Cara Connelly, THE WEDDING FAVOR (Best Contemporary Romance)
• Laura Kaye, HARD AS YOU CAN (Best Romantic Suspense)
• Kristen Proby, LOVING CARA (Best Contemporary Love & Laughter)
• Juliana Ross, IMPROPER PROPOSALS (Best Erotic Romance Novella)

Congratulations to Katie McGarry and Jennifer L. Armentrout for their nominations in the 2014 Goodreads Choice Awards!

• Katie McGarry – TAKE ME ON (Best Young Adult Fiction)
• Jennifer L. Armentrout – WHITE HOT KISS (Best Young Adult Fantasy)
• Jennifer L. Armentrout – DON’T LOOK BACK (Best Young Adult Fiction)

Congratulations to Hillary Davis on a great review of FRENCH COMFORT FOOD!

“The brilliance of this recipe — using a meaty vegetarian ratatouille sauce as the base instead of beef — is all Hillary’s.”

http://katieatthekitchendoor.com/2014/11/03/book-club-french-comfort-food-ratatouille-shepherds-pie/

Congratulations to MLLA clients Rose Lerner and Martin Limon on their inclusion in the Publisher’s Weekly’s list of Best Books of 2014! Rose Lerner’s SWEET DISORDER was listed in the Romance category, and Martin Limon’s THE IRON SICKLE made the Mystery/Thriller list.

Laurie Elizabeth Flynn’s debut FIRSTS, in which a seventeen year old girl gives classmates the chance to get their awkward fumblings over with, and all she asks in return is that they give their girlfriends the perfect first time she never had, but when what was meant to be temporary gets out of control, she begins to question where her heart really belongs, to Kat Brzozowski at Thomas Dunne Books (World English).

Sarah Chrisman’s THIS VICTORIAN LIFE: MODERN ADVENTURES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIVING, documenting  her and her husband’s explorations of the philosophies and technologies of the nineteenth century–and how they brought them into the modern world, to Nicole Frail at Skyhorse, in a nice deal, for publication in Fall 2015, by Deborah Ritchken at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (World).