April 26, 2010
NEW BOOKS! NEW GENRE! NEW WORLD!

In Publisher's Marketplace today:
Fiction: Debut
MacDowell Colony Fellow and author of the memoir The Year of Yes, Maria
Dahvana Headley's debut novel QUEEN OF KINGS, exploring the
transcendent powers of love even beyond death, entwining the true story
of Antony and Cleopatra and Rome's invasion of Alexandria with a
narrative in which the Queen of Egypt sacrifices her soul to save her
fallen husband and in return is transformed into an immortal goddess
bent on the destruction of the Roman Empire, to Erika Imranyi at Dutton, at auction, in a two-book deal (with a sequel), by David Gernert and Stephanie Cabot at The Gernert Company (NA).