Alexandra H. Solomon’s Brave, Deep, Intimate: 20 lessons to Get You Ready for the Love of a Lifetime, offering 20 profound lessons to help you on your search for love, enabling you to be open and vulnerable with potential partners while also setting and maintaining strong, healthy boundaries.

Kathleen Bittner Roth’s PORTRAIT OF A FORBIDDEN LADY, in which a young widow returns to her childhood home after a forced absence and faces her first and only love, but despite their powerful attraction, danger compels her to remain his forbidden lady, in a 2 book deal.

Literary scholar Andrew Feldman’s ERNESTO: Hemingway’s Years in Cuba, unprecedented research into Hemingway’s years in Cuba as a two-year researcher at the Finca Vigia Museum in Havana revealing new information about Hemingway’s life including a previously undiscovered Cuban lover; never before seen archival photographs.

Non-fiction: Cooking
Hillary Davis’s LES DESSERTS, the fourth in a series of French cookbooks that celebrates her favorite homemade French desserts, including regional specialties, with over 100 recipes for cakes, cookies, frozen confections, pastries; also including easy recipes for making after-dinner special coffees and dessert liqueurs, as well as a chapter that provides basic foundation recipes for pastry cream, Chantilly, crepe batter, tart dough, almond paste, dessert sauces, French butter cream, amongst others; 50 photographed recipes by Steven Rothfeld, to Michelle Branson at Gibbs Smith, for publication in Fall 2016, by Deborah Ritchken at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (World).

Tamra Baumann’s IT HAD TO BE FATE, the third book in the It Had To Be series, in which a woman who runs the hotel in the sleepy celebrity hide-out town falls for a bad-boy rock star guest and soon finds he’s not the man he appears to be, but questions if she can risk the things she loves most to be with him, in a two book deal.

Elizabeth Langston writing as Julia Day’s THE POSSIBILITY OF SOMEWHERE, set in a small North Carolina town, in which a girl who is seen as “trailer park trash” and a boy from a wealthy immigrant family compete for a coveted academic scholarship and in the process find themselves falling for each other and in the face of family and friends’ disapproval, they must decide how hard to fight for their love, to Eileen Rothschild at St. Martin’s, in a two-book deal, for publication in Fall 2016.

Congratulations to Aileen Bordman and Jeanne Kelley who made the USAToday top ten annual summer cookbook list!

USA Today bestselling author Rose Pressey’s book 4 of the Haunted Vintage Mystery series, in which Cookie Chanel, owner of a vintage clothing store, helps an author’s ghost track down her killer, in a 2-book deal.

Author of the forthcoming THE AFTERLIFE ACADEMY, Frank Cole’s THE WORLD’S GREATEST ADVENTURE MACHINE, about four kids with unique abilities who are called upon to test the world’s biggest and best roller coaster ride, only to find out that their mission is not what they thought it was, to Rebecca Weston at Delacorte, for publication in Spring 2017.

Cheryl Ann Smith’s THE SWEETHEART RACKET, the first in a romance suspense trilogy pitched as a take-off on Charlie’s Angels, in which a former NFL cheerleader is recruited as a PI at an all-female detective agency, and sparks fly when she signs on to help a handsome DEA Special Agent hunt down a sweetheart con man on the run, to Tara Gavin at Lyrical Press, in a three-book deal.