Publishing Deals - Melissa de la Cruz & Michael Johnston, Lissa Price

From today's Publishers Lunch:

NYT and USA Today bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston's THE OTHER LAND CHRONICLES, set in 111 C.D., one hundred and eleven years after a Catastrophic Disaster has wiped out 99% of humanity and left the earth covered in ice, this new series introduces readers to a ragtag group of friends and the dawning of a new time; the world of reason, of mathematics and science, is ending, and a new civilization is being born from the ice: a world of magic and mayhem, sorcerers and spellcraft, starting with FROZEN, to Putnam Children's, for publication in 2013.

Screenwriter Lissa Price's STARTERS, the first in a futuristic thriller series featuring a society where youth is coveted at an impossible price, and one girl's ability to bring it all crumbling down, to Delacorte, in a two-book deal.

Publishing Deal - Melissa de la Cruz

From this week's Publishers Lunch Weekly:

NYT and USA Today bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz's WITCHES OF EAST END, following the lives of the Beauchamp girls, as they struggle to stop an arch nemesis and restore the delicate balance between good and evil, for publication in spring 2011, and a second adult fantasy novel;

plus two books in the new WOLF PACT series for publication beginning in winter 2010;

and three more Blue Bloods books, BLUE BLOODS: KEYS TO THE REPOSITORY, BLUE BLOODS: BLOODY VALENTINE, a romantic novella;

and BLUE BLOODS: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL.

Blue Blood series to be published in the UK

More good news today. From The Bookseller:

In a six-book deal Atom has acquired the rights for Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Blood series.

The series is set in an exclusive prep school in New York City. It focusses on Manhattan's most elite families and a secret society of Americans whose ancestors sailed on the Mayflower. They are an ancient group of powerful and wealthy vampires known as 'Blue Bloods'.

Blue Bloods and Masquerade, the first two books in the series, will be published in March 2010, followed by books three and four, Revelations and The Van Alen Legacy in April. A fifth book, which is yet untitled, will be published in the autumn.

Read the whole article, here.