Since the deal has been
announced in Publisher's Marketplace and shown up on Romantic Times, I guess
it's okay to make it all official-like and tell you the good news. Remember the
Sekrit Project I've been tweeting about since last year?
It finally sold.
The PM blurb:
Kelly Meding writing as Kelly Meade's new paranormal romance series, CORNERSTONE RUN, beginning with BLACK ROOK, featuring a magus whose lackluster precognitive powers have made her an outcast among her people and three werewolf brothers fighting to keep their pack alive against attacks by supernatural hybrids, to Leis Pederson at Intermix, in a three-book deal, by Jonathan Lyons at Curtis Brown.
Cornerstone Run is a
paranormal romance trilogy, set in a world of hidden loup garou, their mystical
Magi enemies, and the occasional vampire. The small, reclusive town of
Cornerstone, Pennsylvania, houses an almost entirely loup garou population—one
of only thirteen towns around the country that serve as a sanctuary for their
nonhuman inhabitants, where the loup garou are free to be themselves. When a neighboring sanctuary town is attacked
by a vicious, unknown enemy, the three sons of Cornerstone's Alpha must stand
together to protect their people—and the women who steal their hearts.
Trilogy titles are
BLACK ROOK, GRAY BISHOP, and WHITE KNIGHT.
You may have noticed
the whole "Kelly Meade" thing and are scratching your head. I chose
to publish under a pseudonym to distinguish this paranormal romance trilogy
from my urban fantasy series work, but the name will remain linked in terms of
my blog and website. The first book , BLACK ROOK, has a tentative release of
Fall 2014.
For folks who aren't
aware, Intermix is a digital-first imprint of Berkeley. Yep. Digital first
again. But Intermix has produced some pretty awesome books since their formation,
and I'm very excited to work with Leis on these novels.
To give you a better
idea of what the first book is about, I've included the original query I worked
up for submissions. I hope you're looking forward to the future shenanigans of
three badass brothers named Bishop, Knight and Rook McQueen.
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One mistake cost Brynn
Atwood everything: her sense of worth, the respect of her Magus father, and her
beloved job as a private tutor for the Congress of Magi, the most powerful
organization of magic users in the world.
When Brynn has a vision of her father being murdered by a loup garou,
she hopes to redeem herself in the eyes of her people by taking matters into
her own hands. She leaves the safety of
her family home to confront her father's would-be killer and stop the vision
from coming true. Rook McQueen is the
youngest of the local loup garou Alpha's three sons and, through a twist of
fate, the first in line to inherit the position—if Rook can get his life
together and act like Alpha material. A
failed musician and an acknowledged screw-up, Rook isn't sure he can ever live
up to the expectations set by his father and two older brothers.
As if his life wasn't
complicated enough, the last thing Rook expects is to be accused by a beautiful
young Magus of the future murder of a man he's never met—on the same night
another town of loup garou is slaughtered.
A new, lethal enemy is targeting loup garou and no one is quite sure
what they are: loup, vampire, or something new altogether. With his family in danger, Brynn not allowed
to leave town, and hundreds of lives at stake, Rook can't afford to be the
family screw-up anymore—or to allow the distraction of falling for the daughter
of the Magus he's accused of killing.
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So yeah. YAY!
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