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More thrills at Mira
Mira Books, the Mills & Boon imprint, has signed up two new thriller authors for its list, as part of plans to increase its publishing output by almost 50% next year.
Editor Catherine Burke agreed a two-book deal with Steven Hague, whose début Justice for All, an LA-set noir thriller featuring former detective Zac Hunter, will be published in January 2008. Burke also bought three books in a new British thriller series from M R Seymour, about an ex-police marksman turned unofficial government agent. The first, The Last Exile, will be published in August 2008. Both deals were for five-figure sums and were done with agent Broo Doherty at Wade & Doherty.
"It's been a busy 18 months," Burke said. "Next year will be quite an increase—we're going from 26 titles in 2007 to 38 in 2008. It's a bit of a leap, but all the books deserve to be there." She added that she is now looking for women's fiction titles "after finding so much great crime and thriller writing".
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