Last week's genre acquisitions.

Well, at least the ones that were reported. I'm always surprised that so many editors and agents actually don't report sales and acquisitions. I mean, it's customary to wait until a contract has been signed, but even then, you rarely see a lot of genre acquisitions reported.

So if any of you who read The Swivet regularly are writers, agents or editors, feel free to send me your sales and acquisitions news; I'll post it here. You should also be sending your sales and acquisitions news to Ian Randall Strock at SF Scope, a great SF/F news site.

Okay, here goes:

2006 Bram Stoker Award Finalist Nate Kenyon's BLOODSTONE, a story of small-town claustrophobia and a man commanded to commit unspeakably violent acts by internal voices, and THE REACH, the first of a science fiction trilogy about utilizing the dormant portion of human genetics, to Don D'Auria at Dorchester, by Frank Weimann at the Literary Group International.

Actress Amber Benson's ("Tara" from Buffy) DEATH'S DAUGHTER, the story of a young woman trying to make it as a young urban professional in NYC who slowly comes to realize that her father is actually the Grim Reaper and that she must rescue him after he's kidnapped by unknown forces in order to save her entire family (not to mention the world), to Ginjer Buchanan at Penguin, in a very nice deal, in a three-book deal, by Brendan Deneen at Objective Entertainment.

Mario Acevedo's JAILBAIT VAMPIRE and WEREWOLF SUPER SEX CLUB, the next two books in the Felix Gomez vampire private detective series, to Diana Gill at Eos, in a good deal, by Scott Hoffman at Folio Literary Mangement. Film and TV rights are with Howie Sanders at UTA.

Wendy Corsi Staub's two more paranormal suspense novels in her LILY DALE series, to Emily Easton at Walker, by Laura Blake Peterson at Curtis Brown (World English)

M.M. Buckner sold WATERMIND, a "high-concept environmental thriller about a vivacious young scientist who discovers that the accumulation of electronic devices discarded in the nation's waters has begun to pulsate in synchronicity and combine with marine flora, and the menace is about to reach critical mass" to David Hartwell at Tor Books, in a deal by Richard Curtis. (NA)