Scott Rubin's NAMING YOUR SUPERHERO: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO GEEK BABY NAMES, an up-to-date baby name guide including over 1,000 names sourced from popular science fiction and fantasy culture, to Christopher Robbins at Familius in a nice deal for publication in fall 2019, by Elaine Spencer

Karen Chance's DRAGON'S CLAW and SIREN'S SONG, urban fantasy novellas, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media in a nice two-book deal, by Lucienne Diver

Debbie Mason's three books in the Highland Falls series, to Alex Logan at Forever, in a good deal, in a three-book deal, by Pamela Harty

N.K. Jemisin's HOW LONG 'TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH? to J'ai Lu (France), in a nice deal, by Pierre Lenclud at Lenclud Literary Agency, on behalf of Lucienne Diver

Lisa King's VANISHING HOUR, in which an old man with a debilitating case of "not normal" and a little girl with cancer brave the apocalypse, to Lou Aronica at The Story Plant, in a nice deal, by Travis Pennington

Sean Daily at Hotchkiss and Associates sold dramatic rights to Sara Lunsford’s memoir SWEET HELL ON FIRE to CBS Television Studios. The subtitle of the book (which Sourcebooks published in paperback in November) is “A Memoir of the Prison I Worked In and the Prison I Lived In”; it chronicles

90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN by Don Piper and Cecil Murphey, which recounts Don’s death experience, is being made into a film by Family Christian Entertainment, the new sister company of the nation’s largest Christian retailer, Family Christian Stores. Kate Bosworth (SUPERMAN RETURNS) and Hayden Christensen (STAR WARS) will star. Michael