Karina Cooper’s BLOOD OF THE WICKED, about a hardened witch hunter and the woman he needs to execute, not love, set in a post-devastation world where magic and murder have become synonymous, to Esi Sogah at Avon, in a pre-empt, in a very nice deal, in a three-book deal, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.

DRESS YOU UP IN MY LOVE… Diane Stingley’s debut novel was called “a bright, fun and fluffy modern fairy tale” by Publisher’s Weekly and has since been published in French, Polish, Russian and German.