Hyperion has bought a new novel by Cassandra King, the wife of novelist Pat Conroy, and also taken over paperback publication of one she published six years ago with a small press. The new one is “THE SUNDAY WIFE”, about a preacher’s wife in a small Florida Panhandle town who is faced with a problem because of her friendship with a rich and troubled local woman.
The previous book, published in 1995 by Alabama’s Black Belt Press, was called “Making Waves in Zion”, also with a small-town setting.
Hyperion publisher Ellen Archer negotiated the world English and audio rights deal with agent Marly Rusoff, and executive editor Leslie Wells will be the in-house editor for the new book, which will be published next October. The paperback of “Waves” will appear the following summer.
King has been a college writing teacher, has conducted corporate writing seminars, and worked for an Alabama weekly paper. She met best-selling novelist Conroy when she asked him to write a blurb for her first novel, and they now live together in South Carolina.
