Book deals a-plenty

For those of you who track such things, Publishers Weekly has a new set of deals listed here.

I find book deals fascinating, especially in the literary fiction and young adult categories.  These genres are driven by cultural trends, to wit:  zombies.  If you write tight zombie fiction for teens these days, get yourself an agent, pronto.  Vampires were recently hot thing, and still continue to generate sweet deals for new twists on a very old (and overplayed) theme.

What’s the next hot genre?  If I knew I wouldn’t tell you. Heh.