Sold! Aileen Bordman and Derek Fell’s MONET’S PALATE COOKBOOK: The Artist and His Kitchen Garden, a unique culinary journey into the fascinating world of Claude Monet, his extraordinary kitchen garden and his taste for fine food; 60 recipes, Fell’s template for growing Monet’s vegetable garden, including valuable planting instructions to recreate the potager at one of the most visited gardens in the world; with a foreword by Meryl Streep and food photography by Steven Rothfeld, to Gibbs Smith.

Trisha Leaver and Lindsay Currie’s SWEET MADNESS, a reimagining of the Lizzie Borden murders, told through the perspective of Bridget Sullivan, Lizzie’s maid and confidant, who finds herself in a perilous situation, to Jacquelyn Mitchard at Merit Press.

SWEET UNREST,  a YA debut from Lisa Maxwell releases today. Don’t miss out on this mesmerizing Southern gothic tale:

“Readers will be enthralled by the heady descriptions of New Orleans and mysticism. Intertwining a bit of voodoo lore with an enjoyable mystery, Maxwell produces a well-written, spellbinding, and informative story that teen readers (and adults) are sure to snap up.” —SLJ

Congrats to Lisa Amowitz–her YA novel VISION won gold in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards!

Sold! Josh Funk Books‘ picture book, PIRASAURS!, in which a young recruit joins a crew of dinosaur pirates on a treasure-hunting, swashbuckling adventure, to be illustrated by Michael Slack, to Celia Lee at Scholastic, for publication in 2016.

NYT bestselling author Laura Kaye’s RIDE HARD, the first book in the Raven Riders series, in which a shy and distrustful woman running from a controlling ex-fiance seeks shelter with an outlaw motorcycle club with a tradition of protecting those who can’t defend themselves, and falls under the watchful eye of the club’s mysterious and intense leader who’s intent on discovering all her secrets, to Avon, in a significant deal, in a three-book deal, for publication in Spring 2016.

Sold! Trisha Leigh ‘s science fiction YA, THE HISTORIANS, as well as her Christmas new adult novella (under the name Lyla Payne ), MISTLETOE AND MR. RIGHT, to Bloomsbury Spark!

http://www.rtbookreviews.com/rt-daily-blog/editor-talk-meredith-rich-bloomsbury-spark-—-and-giveaway

Patience Griffin’s THE ACCIDENTAL SCOT, the next novel in her Kilts and Quilts series, in which a young woman returns to her small Scottish hometown to care for her injured father and save his failing factory, finding herself falling for an American engineer who offers a solution, despite her fears that this man of her dreams may have plans to steal the family business, again to NAL, for publication in Fall 2015, in a three-book deal.

A huge congratulations to our very own Jill Marsal, who is being recognized today at RWA-NY’s Golden Apple Awards as their honoree for 2014 Agent of the Year!

http://www.rwanyc.com/golden-apple-awards.html

Stephanie Dray, Jeannie Lin, Shawntelle Madison, and Amanda Berry’s THIS WEDDING IS DOOMED, a collection of interconnected stories in which a disastrous wedding at a luxurious mountain resort ends in love and passion for everyone but the bride and groom, to Intermix, for publication in Feb 2015.