Please help us celebrate with Tonya Duncan Ellis on the sale of her very first picture book! From Publishers Weekly: Jordan Brown at HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray/ has acquired world rights to They Built Me for Freedom by Tonya Duncan Ellis (l.), illus. by Jenin Mohammed, a picture book about the […]
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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, […]
Congratulations to Chris Panatier on today’s book deal announcement! From Publishers Marketplace: Fiction: Horror Author of STRINGERS Chris Panatier’s THE REDEMPTION OF MORGAN BRIGHT, in which a young woman checks herself into an insane asylum to find out why her sister had died inside and, once there, finds she can’t […]
In advance of her new Stevie Bell mystery releasing in December, NINE LIARS, I’m so thrilled to share the news of Maureen Johnson‘s next book, a standalone contemporary mystery entitled DEATH AT MORNING HOUSE. From Publishers Weekly: Katherine Tegen at HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books has acquired, in an exclusive submission, DEATH […]
Congratulations to Jamie Pacton, whose new YA romantic fantasy novel was just announced this morning! THE ABSINTHE UNDERGROUND is a sapphic friends-to-lovers romantasy pitched as Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell meets Holly Black, with a dash of Moulin Rouge. Intrigued? Read on for more information: The Belle Époque city of […]
Join us in celebrating Brianna Peppins on the sale of her next YA novel! From Publishers Weekly: Mallory Kass at Scholastic has bought, in an exclusive submission, YA novel As Long as We’re Together by Brianna Peppins. In the fallout of her parents’ tragic death, middle child Novah holds her family together—parenting her […]
Please help us celebrate with author Maya MacGregor on the sale of their next young adult novel! From Publishers Weekly: Suzy Krogulski at Astra Books for Young Readers has acquired The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will, a YA novel by Maya MacGregor (The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester). After […]
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 Jane Kindred on today’s sale of her next Demons of Elysium book! From Publishers Marketplace: Digital: Fiction: Women’s/Romance Jane Kindred’s KING OF THIEVES, the second in her queer Demons Of Elysium series set in a Russian-inspired Heaven, to Rachel Haimowitz at Riptide Publishing, in an […]