FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AUGUST 25, 2005
PMA PLACES GHOST OF CAMBRIA
BY RICHARD TAYLOR WITH TOR BOOKS
BY RICHARD TAYLOR WITH TOR BOOKS
Peter Miller, President of PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc., is proud to announce the sale of the North American Rights to Ghost of Cambria written by Richard Taylor to Natalie Aponte, Senior Editor, at Tor Books. PMA manages Foreign and other Subsidiary Rights for this title.
Ghost of Cambria is at once scary, poignant, and irreverently funny—a most unusual ghost story, told with uncommon wit and intelligence. Beginning with a tragedy, it explores internal secrets and external horrors. Theo Parker got married, bought a haunted house, and lost his wife all on the same day.
It was Lily's dream to renovate and reopen Monroe House, the run-down bed and breakfast in the resort town of Cambria, and they had used her inheritance to buy it. But on their wedding day, Theo takes his eyes off the road to gaze at his beautiful wife, and an oncoming car kills Lily and her dream instantly, leaving Theo in a coma.
Six months later, a bitter and guilt-ridden Theo limps up to the door of Monroe House—the only thing he has left in the world. There he meets Eleanor, the mousy, awkward young property manager who has been living in the house. He soon learns that they aren't the only ones calling it home: Eleanor has been experiencing inhuman noises, horrifying dreams, and inexplicable power failures, and is convinced that something evil lurks there. She and Theo set out to understand and conquer what haunts Monroe House, and in the process bring their own souls back to life.
Richard Taylor lives with his family in Cambria, California. This will be his debut novel and hopefully the beginning of a series.
For more information, contact Peter Miller, PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc. at 212.929.1222 or
