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Paul Nathan -- 11/24/97
Misfortune has been turned to good account for a novelist whose publisher folded after bringing out her fifth title in trade paperback -- not hardcover, as planned -- to cut costs, and leaving its subsidiary rights in limbo. The author is Kitty Burns Florey, her book Vigil for a Stranger. From home base in Manhattan, Florey had negotiated her own contract with Broken Moon Press in Seattle. When the small but prestigious imprint went under, she turned to Elizabeth Wales, the agent who had represented the press, for help in selling sub rights. Wales called on another Pacific Northwest agency, Cine/Lit Representation, in Edmonds, Wash., to handle the motion picture and TV angle.
Florey's four previous works had been published, respectively, by Morrow, Putnam and Seaview (two novels). As the first order of business Cine/Lit's Mary Alice Kier and Anna Cottle suggested that Florey start a new novel. Then, on one of their trips to New York they pitched reprint rights in Vigil to Kate Miciak, associate publisher of Bantam Doubleday Dell. She read it, let Kier and Cottle know she wanted it, and asked if the author had anything else to show. They sent her the completed novel and an outline for still another.Now, on top of the reprint purchase, there's a two-book, six-figure deal with Bantam. Five Questions will be published in spring 1999. Domestic Bliss will follow in 2000.
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