Join us in celebrating Amar Shah’s debut book deal with Scholastic for his contemporary MG basketball trilogy, Play the Game! The first in the series, titled THE HOOP CON, is upcoming October 17th, 2023 and is available for preorder. From Publishers Weekly: Abigail McAden at Scholastic has bought Play the Game, […]
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Please help us celebrate with Jane Kindred on today’s announcement of another book deal in the Demons of Elysium series! From Publishers Marketplace: September 7, 2022 Digital: Fiction: Romance Jane Kindred’s MASTER OF THE GAME, the third in her queer Demons of Elysium series set in a Russian-inspired heaven, to […]
Congratulations to Sarah Burgess on the sale of their debut MG graphic novel to Andrews McMeel! From Publishers Weekly: Erinn Pascal at Andrews McMeel has bought Skip!, a middle grade graphic novel by U.K. debut author-illustrator Sarah Burgess, pitched as Raina Telgemeier meets slice-of-life manga. Anxious poet Jay joins a Double Dutch […]
Please help us celebrate with debut author DoanPhuong Nguyen on today’s deal announcement! From Publishers Weekly… Elise McMullen-Ciotti and Stacy Whitman at Lee & Low Books have bought Mèo and Bé and a second, untitled middle grade novel by debut author DoanPhuong Nguyen. Mèo and Bé is a historical novel […]
Many congratulations to JCJB on the sale of her debut YA graphic novel to First Second Books! From Publishers Weekly: Kiara Valdez at First Second has acquired, in a preempt, Anamnesis by JCJB, pitched as Studio Ghibli meets Yoruban folklore. The manga-style YA graphic novel debut follows Isra, a narcoleptic, […]
Please help us congratulate Tonya Duncan Ellis on the sale of her first three middle grade novels to audiobook! From Publishers Marketplace: Audio rights Tonya Duncan Ellis’s SOPHIE WASHINGTON: QUEEN OF THE BEE, SOPHIE WASHINGTON: THE SNITCH, and SOPHIE WASHINGTON: THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT SOPHIE, the first three books […]
Huge congratulations to K Arsenault Rivera on the sale of multiple stories to Wizards of the Coast! From Publishers Marketplace: Author of THE TIGER’S DAUGHTER K Arsenault Rivera’s THE WITCH OF THE WOODS, THE MOTIVES OF THE WOLF, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF BETZOLD, HARVESTTIDE, and NIGHT CLOSES ROUND, […]
Join us in celebrating Brianna Peppins’ debut book deal with Disney Hyperion for her contemporary YA series. From Publishers Weekly: While at Disney Hyperion, Emily Meehan bought, with Britt Rubiano and Christine Collins to edit, Brianna Peppins’s YA debut Briarcliff Prep. At a Historically Black Boarding School inspired by the author’s […]
HUZZAH! Please help us congratulate international bestselling author Stefan Bachmann on the sale of RELEASE THE WOLVES! From Publishers Weekly: Virginia Duncan at Greenwillow, in a six-figure deal, has bought middle grade fantasy Release the Wolves by PW Flying Starts author Stefan Bachmann (The Peculiar). The book is set in […]