My agent Jane Dystel at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management obtained two new book contracts for more.
Here's how it was reported in Publisher's Weekly:
Double Duty for Fanning
Charlie Spicer at St. Martin's bought North American rights to two true crime books by Diane Fanning via Jane Dystel. The first is on Wendi Mae Davidson, a veterinarian who last year pled guilty to murdering her husband, poisoning him with drugs normally used to euthanize animals before stabbing him 41 times. The topic for the second book is yet to be determined.
Dystel also sold world English rights to two crime novels By Fanning to Anna Telfer at Severn House. The first, The Trophy Exchange, features a homicide investigator recently disfigured in a domestic violence call, whose next case is that of a doctor violently murdered while her two small children were in the house. Tentative pub date is spring 2008. |
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| Media gather around the McNairy County Courthouse for the trial of Mary Winkler |
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This fall, St. Martin's Press will release my recently completed true crime book about Mary Winkler, the preacher's wife who shot her husband in the back and took her girls to the beach.
It is a fascinating story with conflicting viewpoints and a lot of questions about what the case says about our justice system. |
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| Lisa launches into space. |
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LOST IN SPACE
I've signed a movie option for my November book, OUT THERE: The In-Depth Story of the Astronaut Love Triangle Case that Shocked America. A lot of movie options never translate into actual movies but I have my fingers crossed.
From Publisher's Weekly: "Granada...the U.K. powerhouse that brought The Queen to these shores optioned Out There with an eye toward turning the space-age love story into a feature in the satirical vein of To Die For." |
I am currently working on manuscript for the second Lucinda Pierce novel which Severn House plans to publish in December 2008.
I've already given thought to a sequel to BITE THE MOON. I have a story plotted out in my mind that takes place in Boerne, Texas, with a tentative title of LIGHT MY FIRE. I plan to complete that manuscript this year and I'll let you know when it finds a home. |
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