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 […]
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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 […]
Please help us celebrate with Jaleigh Johnson on today’s deal announcement! Superheroes FTW! From Publishers Marketplace: Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy NYT bestselling author Jaleigh Johnson’s TRIPTYCH: A XAVIER’S INSTITUTE NOVEL, in which X-Men’s super soldier Fantomex faces off with clone versions of himself in a Super Hero heist adventure, to Marc Gascoigne […]
Huge congratulations to Angelina M. Lopez on the sale of three more books to Carina Press! From Publishers Marketplace: Fiction: Women’s/Romance Author of the Filthy Rich series Angelina M. Lopez’s JOYFULLY MEXICAN, about three Mexican-American sisters who return to their small Midwestern hometown to revive the family bar and, to […]