Another major HF deal

From today's Publishers Marketplace. Royalty novels are in vogue, but this should come as no surprise. BTW, "significant deal" = somewhere between a quarter/half million $.

Carolly Erickson's BIRD OF PARADISE: A NOVEL OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE, about the Caribbean seductress whose sexually adventurous life and bold personality led her to the heights as Napoleon's wife and ultimately to the depths of imprisonment, to Charles Spicer at St. Martin's, in a significant deal, in a two-book deal, by Russell Galen at Scovil Chichak Galen Literary Agency (world English).