Owner of Sugar Blossom Bake Shop in Southern California and author of BEACH HOUSE BAKING Lei Shishak’s BEACH HOUSE BRUNCH, which includes more than 100 recipes for brunch dishes that she creates and serves to her beach house guests – everything from beverages, sweet pastries, savory breads, egg dishes, hashes, foods you flip, grains, casseroles, salads and even grab-n-go breakfast options for avid surfers, to Nicole Frail at Skyhorse, in a nice deal, for publication in Spring 2016.

Melinda Leigh’s COLD BETRAYAL, in which a museum curator’s search for her missing father takes a deadly turn when her inquiries spark a vicious home invasion, in a 3-book deal.

Psychologists Patrick Markey and Christopher Ferguson’s BLEEDING PIXELS: Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong, which examines the latest scientific research to teach us why violent video games might be making our world a safer place.

Lauren Christopher’s LAWS OF ATTRACTION, in which a young woman having a quarter-century crisis goes on an island “mancation,” only to meet up with a Clark-Kent-nerd-type marine microbiologist who is nowhere near her type, and together they stumble upon a strange epidemic of beached island sea lions and learn all too much about true “chemistry” and animal attraction, in a two-book deal.

Jody Jensen Shaffer’s PRUDENCE THE PART-TIME COW, about a clever cow who loves inventions and puzzles, and being an outsider seems to be the one problem she can’t solve, until she develops her most genius idea yet, to Laura Godwin at Holt Children’s.

Lindsay Currie’s JAMMED, in which a girl takes her karate training seriously, both as a way to move on from a brutal home invasion and to pursue her goals, but when she gets mixed up with the wrong boy, she realizes she must look back to move forward, to Patricia Riley at Spencer Hill Contemporary, in a two book deal.

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.

Kirsten Weiss’ THE PERFECTLY PROPER PARANORMAL MUSEUM, in which Maddie Kosloski finds a corpse in the local paranormal museum but is certain there’s a rational explanation that has nothing to do with haunts, the museum’s ghost-detecting cat, or her best friend, who is accused of the crime, in a 3-book deal.

Ellie Macdonald’s Matchbreaker series, in which Regency women go to hilarious lengths to avoid marriage, in a 3-book deal.

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.