An interesting Publishers Lunch item.

From yesterday's deals round-up:

NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's debut YA historical fantasy series ESPIONAGE AND ETIQUETTE, set in her Soulless Alexia Tarabotti world but 25 years prior, an incorrigible aristocrat is sent off to finishing school to learn how to be lady only to discover that the school trains young ladies alright but for the wrong kind of "finishing," pitched as Ally Carter meets Steampunk, to Kate Sullivan at Little, Brown Children's, in a pre-empt, in a four-book deal, by Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency (NA).

As I was, like, the only person on the planet* who wasn't completely gaga over Soulless, and as it had fantastic crossover success, I think that'll make a whole lot of people extremely happy.

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*Slight exaggeration -- I just revisited the comments on my review, and re-discovered the fact that I wasn't alone in my not gaganess!