FutureTense

23-year old Oxford graduate Sophia McDougall’s THE
ROMANITAS TRILOGY, set far in the future, in a world in which the
Roman Empire has lasted for over 2000 years, as magnetic railways span
Roman territory from Persia to Terranova and mechanized crucifixes are
ranked along the banks of the Thames, positioned as having “the scope and
detail of Robert Harris’s Fatherland and the familiar but alien feel of Philip
Pullman’s His Dark Materials,” trilogy, to Jon Wood at Orion (UK) by
Simon Trewin at Sarah Ballard at PFD in a significant deal, and to Juliet
Uman at Bantam (US) in a nice deal by Emma Parry at Carlisle and
Company for PFD.

Publisher’s Lunch

23?

By the way, a “significant deal” is: $251,000 - $500,000.

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