Publishing is the new black

All from Publisher's Marketplace:

25 November, 2006
Non-fiction:
Memoir
Piper Kerman's ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: My Year at "Club Fed," about life on the inside at a women's prison in Danbury, CT, to Julie Grau at Spiegel & Grau, at auction, for publication in fall 2008, by Stuart Krichevsky at Stuart Krichevsky Agency.

6 October, 2006
Children's:
Young Adult
Marlene Perez's DEAD IS THE NEW BLACK, the first in the Psy-Chicks trilogy, in which three sisters with psychic powers solve paranormal mysteries in their California high school, where a "dead" look is becoming suspiciously in vogue among the popular girls, to Julie Tibbott at Harcourt Children's, at auction, in a three-book deal, by Stephen Barbara at the Donald Maass Literary Agency (NA)
sbarbara@maassagency.com


12 April, 2006
Non-fiction:
General/Other
Bitter is the New Black author Jen Lancaster's BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG ASS, a humorous collection of essays in which the author explores the often less-than-fabulous realities of Chicago-style urban existence, again to Kara Cesare at NAL, by Kate Garrick at DeFiore and Company. kate@defioreandco.com .

27 February, 2006
Fiction:
Debut
Valerie Stivers's BLOOD IS THE NEW BLACK, about a young woman at a glossy fashion magazine who discovers that the reigning tastemakers have a thirst for blood, pitched as The Devil Wears Prada & Mean Girls meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to Allison McCabe for Three Rivers Press, at auction, for publication in summer 2007, by Joe Veltre at Artists Literary Group, developed with Farrin Jacobs (NA). Sarah Self at The Gersh Agency is handling film rights.
jv@algmedia.com

26 January, 2005
Non-fiction:
Memoir
Blogger Jen Lancaster's (jennsylvania.com) memoir, BITTER IS THE NEW BLACK: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office, in which the author, a former sorority girl and self-described pain-in-the-ass who defined herself by the trappings of success in the heady days of the dot-com era, explores what it's like to go from having a household income of almost a quarter million dollars to being evicted from a slum apartment in less than two years and ultimately discovering that money has nothing to do with happiness, to Kara Cesare at NAL, at auction, by Kate Garrick at DeFiore and Company. (NA)