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Deal of the Week The Mueller Report Gets Graphic Treatment Scribner and the Washington Post teamed up to release a book edition of the Mueller report in April; now they’ve joined forces again to create a graphic version of the work about the special counsel’s obstruction of justice inquiry. The Mueller Report Illustrated: The Obstruction Investigation will be released on December 3 (with the Post also releasing a digital edition, including audio, on its website). The book, Scribner said, “provides a unique, graphic depiction of the report’s most scrutinized passages and pivotal moments, all contextualized with the Post’s original reporting.” The graphic work, Scribner added, “offers a fly-on-the-wall account of life in the White House, told through the accounts of the men and women who at one time served the president—James Comey, Michael Flynn, Donald McGahn, K.T. McFarland, Sean Spicer, Rod Rosenstein, Hope Hicks, Michael Cohen, and many others.” Parker-Chan’s Debut Goes to Tor In a six-figure, two-book deal at auction, Tor’s Diana Gill bought Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun. The debut novel was sold by Laura Rennert at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, who called it a “queer alternate history” in which “an iron-willed peasant girl steals her brother’s identity and great fate.” Rennert said she pitched the novel as “Mulan meets The Song of Achilles,” and that it’s “a bold reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty” in which the heroine “defies the bounds of gender with cunning and ingenuity, as her ambition takes her from monk to leader of the rebellion against China’s Mongol rulers.” Tor won world English rights to the book, which is slated for 2021. Blake’s ‘Bodies’ Lands at Harper Teen In a three-book deal, Harper Teen’s Alexandra Cooper bought Kendare Blake’s standalone All These Bodies, as well as a new fantasy series. Blake (the Three Dark Crowns series) was represented by Adriann Ranta Zurhellen at Foundry Literary + Media, who said All These Bodies follows a 15-year-old girl “who is the surviving victim turned suspect of a mysterious Midwestern murder spree.” The agent added that the novel “unspools like a speculative YA version of In Cold Blood.” The currently untitled series is about, Zurhellen said, “a mystical order of female warriors.” Bodies is set for fall 2021, and the first book in the series is scheduled for fall 2022. Thomas Nelson Goes ‘Post-college’ with Bradbury-Haehl Nora Bradbury-Haehl sold her follow-up to 2011’s The Freshman Survival Guide (Center Street, cowritten with Bill McGarvey) in a six-figure deal, after a five-bidder auction. The Post-college Survival Guide went to Webster Younce at Thomas Nelson in a world rights acquisition, brokered by Joelle Delbourgo, who has an eponymous shingle. Delbourgo said The Freshman Survival Guide—a college manual subtitled Soulful Advice for Studying, Socializing, and Everything in Between—has sold more than 150,000 copies to date. The new guide, the agent explained, is “the ultimate companion for navigating and winning at life’s most bewildering period: your 20s.” Baker and Glasser Tackle Trump Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, and Susan Glasser, a New Yorker “Letter from Washington” columnist, sold a book on Donald Trump’s effect on political culture in Washington, D.C., to Doubleday. The currently untitled work was bought, in a world rights deal, by Kristine Puopolo. Rafe Sagalyn at ICM represented the authors, who are married and whom Doubleday called “two of the preeminent observers of American politics today.” Arndt Gets ‘Minimal’ at Clarkson Potter After a five-house auction, Sara Neville at Clarkson Potter won world rights to Michael Arndt’s Minimal New York City. The publisher described the book as a “graphic, gritty, and witty” gift book that “juxtaposes iconic New York phenomena in clever ways to amuse native New Yorkers and visitors alike.” Arndt, who was represented by Joanna Volpe at New Leaf Literary & Media, is a graphic designer living in New York. The title is set for June 2020. Norton Buys MG Bio For Norton Young Readers, Simon Boughton took world English rights to Ken Mochizuki’s Michi Changes History. The middle grade title is a biography of Michi Nishiura Weglyn. The author’s agent, Rosemary Stimola at Stimola Literary Studio, said the subject of the book is “a California farm girl who endured the Japanese internment camps during WWII, became a renowned costume/wardrobe designer, then walked away from the glamorous life to research and write a book on the real reasons for the camps, leading to a national movement that changed American history.” The book is slated for spring 2021. U.K.-based Legend Press acquired Jemma Wayne’s third novel, To Dare. According to the Bookseller, the title from the Women’s Prize–longlisted author is about three women whose “lives collide in a modern story of power, inequality, love, and revenge.” The title is set to release in the U.K. in June 2020. The British Instagram star known as “the five-minute mum” sold a book to Penguin UK. The Bookseller reported that Daisy Upton’s Give Me Five is a “collection of activities for guilt-free parenting” that “includes over 150 games to help make life easier for those who spend time with little people.” The book, acquired by Holly Harris, is slated for February 2020. Page to Screen After a bidding war, Amazon Studios won the option to Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House (Flatiron), an adult fantasy debut that PW starred and called “excellent.” Amazon said the book is “set at an alternative Yale, where the secret societies guard dangerous, magical secrets and ghosts haunt the campus.” The Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington (Candlewick) has been optioned by Will Smith’s production company, Overbrook Entertainment. A release about the option said the book was “inspired by the women who sewed to save their lives within the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.” Send editorial inquiries about this e-newsletter to: internationaldeals@publishersweekly.com Send advertising questions about this e-newsletter to: cbryerman@publishersweekly.com Follow PW on Facebook and Twitter. For additional assistance, contact us by email or at the address below. Publishers Weekly, 71 West 23 St. #1608 New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2019, PWxyz LLC

Deal of the Week The Ice Man Cometh... to S&S Actor Val Kilmer sold his memoir, I’m Your Huckleberry, to Simon & Schuster. Sean Manning took world rights to the title from agent David Vigliano at Vigliano Associates. S&S said the actor, whose credits include starring roles in The Doors and Tombstone, will recount “his acclaimed career, his high-profile romances, his spiritual journey,” and “details of his recent throat cancer diagnosis and recovery.” Manning added that Kilmer is “a gifted storyteller” who is “astoundingly well-read,” and the book, in addition to detailing his life in Hollywood, replete with “tantalizing celebrity anecdotes,” also showcases his “exquisite writing.” I’m Your Huckleblerry (a reference to a line in Tombstone) is set for April 2020, to coincide with the release of Top Gun: Maverick (the sequel to 1986’s Top Gun), in which Kilmer reprises his role as Tom “Ice Man” Kazansky. Prejean’s ‘Dead Man’ to Go Graphic Andrea Walker at Random House took world rights to a graphic adaptation of Dead Man Walking. The nonfiction book, by Helen Prejean, was originally released by Random House in 1993. In the work, which went on to become a national bestseller and the basis for a same-titled film, Prejean, a Roman Catholic sister, chronicles her experience as the spiritual advisor to two men on death row. The graphic work, which is being credited to Prejean and Rose Vines, will feature art by Catherine Anyango Grünewald, who illustrated a 2010 graphic adaptation of Heart of Darkness. Citing the timeliness of returning to Prejean’s work, RH said the title “changed the national discourse about the death penalty.” Julia Masnik at Watkins Loomis brokered the agreement with Walker. Morrow Gets ‘Lit’ with Karp After a six-bidder auction, Cassie Jones at William Morrow won U.S., Canadian, and open market rights to Jeffrey Karp’s Lit. The book, subtitled A Medical Biohacker Reveals 7 Shortcuts to Greatness, is being touted by Morrow as a science-backed guide to “bring our thinking, creativity, concentration, and stamina to the next level.” Karp is a professor of medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Morrow said the book is based on “extensive research and interviews with famous high-performing individuals.” Heather Jackson, who has an eponymous shingle, represented Karp. Atta’s ‘Flamingo’ Lands at Balzer + Bray After an auction, Alessandra Balzer at Balzer + Bray won North American rights to Dean Atta’s The Black Flamingo. Atta is a celebrated British poet (who made the Independent’s list of the 100 most influential LGBTQ people in the U.K. in 2012). The book, according to B+B, is “a fierce coming-of-age verse novel about identity and the power of drag.” Susannah Palfrey at Hachette Children’s Book Group handled the North American rights agreement on behalf of the author’s primary agent, Becky Thomas at Johnson & Alcock. Flamingo is slated for spring 2020. Children's Deals Roundup New projects this week include Eisner nominee and Raised on Ritalin author Tyler Page's (pictured) memoir-inflected middle grade graphic novel, Button Pusher, about a boy diagnosed with ADHD; Coretta Scott King award-winning author Sundee T. Frazier's first historical middle grade novel, Melvin the Mighty Takes the Stage, inspired by her African-American family flouting restrictive covenants and integrating a white neighborhood in Spokane, Wash.; and Lies Like Poison from This Lie Will Kill You author Chelsea Pitcher, a high-stakes whodunit for fans of Riverdale and Kara Thomas's The Cheerleaders. HC Gets Novel by ‘The Jerk’ Screenwriter In a North American rights deal, HarperCollins’s Sara Nelson bought You Can Go Home Now by Michael Elias. The author is an actor and director who wrote the screenplay for the Steve Martin–starring film The Jerk. Home, a thriller that HC compared to work by Tana French and Karin Slaughter, follows a New York City police officer who, while searching for a killer, goes undercover at a homeless shelter. The move, HC said, forces her to recognize “that she has her own history of violence that needs to be addressed.” Caroline Michel at Peters Fraser + Dunlop represented Elias. Home is set for June 2020. Penguin Nabs Bedtime Book for Adults A collection of stories designed to lull their readers to sleep sold to Meg Leder at Penguin Books (in a copublication agreement with Penguin Canada) for six figures. The deal for Nothing Much Happens by Kathryn Nicolai was handled by Jackie Kaiser at Canada’s Westwood Creative Artists. Westwood described the book, subtitled Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups, as “a deceptively simple, brilliantly conceived collection of brief fictional stories written with the precise intention of carrying readers off to a peaceful and restorative slumber.” The book is based on Nicolai’s podcast of the same name, which the agency said has garnered more than 10 million downloads to date. The agency also reported that, in the run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair last month, international deals for the book had closed in more than 10 other territories, with a number of the sales being auctions. Smallwood’s ‘Mind’ Goes to Hogarth Christine Smallwood’s debut novel, The Life of the Mind, was preempted by Alexis Washam at Hogarth. Chris Parris-Lamb at the Gernert Company brokered the North American rights agreement for Smallwood, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. Hogarth said the book follows an adjunct professor “whose days are disrupted by a miscarriage, forcing her to reckon with shame, relationships, the passage of time, the meaning of endings, and the illusion that our minds may free us from our bodies.” Send editorial inquiries about this e-newsletter to: internationaldeals@publishersweekly.com Send advertising questions about this e-newsletter to: cbryerman@publishersweekly.com Follow PW on Facebook and Twitter. For additional assistance, contact us by email or at the address below. Publishers Weekly, 71 West 23 St. #1608 New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2019, PWxyz LLC

Deal of the Week Hachette Nabs Anonymous ‘Times’ Op-Ed Author The mystery author known to New York Times readers as “a senior official in the Trump administration” has a book deal. The anonymous scribe behind the much-discussed op-ed in the newspaper, titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” sold a book to Hachette’s Twelve imprint. A Warning, which Sean Desmond bought from Matt Latimer and Keith Urbahn at Washington, D.C.’s Javelin literary agency, is set for November 19. The author, who will remain nameless, is not accepting an advance for the title and, per his publisher, is dedicating the majority of any potential earnings through royalties to nonprofits that support government accountability and the defense of a free press. In a letter PW obtained announcing the book to insiders, from Javelin, the agency called the work “explosive and unprecedented,” adding that it was “written under extreme secrecy by someone in the room with the President and other senior administration officials on multiple occasions.” The agency also confidently, and with some justification, declared that the book will be “the publishing event of the year.” Twelve bought world English rights, as well as rights in France and Spain. HMH Crashes ‘Impeach’ There is no shortage of big books about President Trump this week, as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced its own title on the commander-in-chief, who is under increasing threat from the unfolding impeachment investigation. Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump is also being crashed: it’s slated for November 26. Alex Littlefield took North American rights to the book by former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal (written with Sam Koppelman). HMH said the work makes the case that “President Trump has left Congress with no choice but to remove him from office.” Howard Yoon at the Washington, D.C.–based Ross Yoon Agency represented Katyal and Koppelman. Wallace’s ‘Childhood’ Goes to Portfolio Portfolio’s Niki Papadopoulos won North American rights, at auction, to Jennifer Wallace’s Childhood Inc. in a rumored six-figure deal. Gráinne Fox and Christy Fletcher at Fletcher & Co. represented the author, and Fox said that the title “uncovers the hidden societal forces driving today’s toxic achievement culture and offers solutions from experts, parents, and communities trying to forge a better path forward.” Wallace is a journalist who contributes to the Washington Post. Hyde Re-ups at Lake Union Bestseller Catherine Ryan Hyde (Pay It Forward) closed a high-six-figure, four-book deal with Lake Union Publishing. Jodi Warshaw bought world rights to the books, with Hyde’s newest, Seven Perfect Things, anchoring the agreement. Laura Rennert at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, who brokered the deal, said Seven follows “a teenage girl who rescues and raises seven abandoned puppies with the help of a recently widowed man, with unexpected, life-affirming results.” Children's Deals Roundup New projects this week include The Retake, a middle grade twist on time travel by Fairy Tale Reform School series author Jen Calonita (pictured); activist and Forbes Under 30 member Frederick Joseph's YA debut, The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person, a nonfiction collection; and Across the Pond, a middle grade novel by Joy McCullough (author of the NBA-longlisted Blood Water Paint), which was inspired by the author's childhood years spent living in a Scottish castle. HC Preps to Drop Kelly’s ‘Coin’ After a six-way auction, HarperCollins won world rights, for six figures, to The Other Side of the Coin by Angela Kelly. The author has worked for Queen Elizabeth II for 25 years as an advisor and designer, and the book, which offers a peek inside the corridors of Buckingham Palace, marks the first time a member of the queen’s staff has been granted permission to tell his or her story, per the publisher. Described by some sources close to the deal as “My Fair Lady meets The Crown,” the book, which will publish globally on October 29, is also a tale of an unlikely friendship. HarperNonFiction editorial director Katya Shipster acquired the title from Elizabeth Sheinkman at the Peters Fraser and Dunlop agency. Sheinkman, who has worked on the project with Kelly for two years, said the book is “about a remarkable and enduring female friendship that has evolved over 25 years—transcending class divides.” ‘Beast’ Lands at Aladdin Following a six-figure preempt in the U.K., Aladdin bought North American rights to Jack Meggitt-Phillips’s The Beast and Bethany. The debut middle grade novel, which has been described as “Lemony Snicket meets Dorian Gray,” is slated for spring 2021. The publisher said the book is about a shallow man named Ebenezer Tweezer “and his friendship with an incredibly naughty girl named Bethany, and the prospect of at least one of them getting eaten by the beast in the attic.” Rachel Mann at Jo Unwin Literary Agency brokered the two-book agreement with Aladdin’s Tricia Lin. Behind the Deal Kapoor's 'Vice' Wins New Admirers at Frankfurt A novel that sold in the U.K. years ago (and since evolved into a trilogy) generated much buzz at the recent Frankfurt Book Fair and has just been submitted to U.S. editors. Deepti Kapoor’s Age of Vice, about a wealthy and corrupt Indian family, did not begin life with this kind of heat, though. When Kapoor’s first agent submitted a proposal, there were no takers. The author then signed with a new agent, Anna Stein at the London outpost of ICM Partners, and on Stein’s advice, set out to finish the novel. As luck would have it, Stein soon got a call about the proposal. Ursula Doyle at Fleet (a Little, Brown UK imprint) wanted it. According to Stein, the proposal “had been sitting on [Doyle’s] desk and she’d finally gotten to it and wanted to buy it.” Kapoor (whose debut, A Bad Character, pubbed in the U.K. in 2015) kept working on the project, expanding it into a series. Stein bided her time on the film and foreign rights and then struck just before Frankfurt, taking the manuscript out, as she put it, “everywhere simultaneously.” The Age of Vice has now been preempted in 15 territories. And as for a screen adaptation, Stein confirmed there are offers from more than 10 production companies, and that Kapoor “will be deeply involved... writing and producing, no matter who we go with.” Kapoor (whose debut, A Bad Character, published in the U.K. in 2015) kept working on the project, expanding it into a trilogy. Stein bided her time on the film and foreign rights and then struck just before Frankfurt, taking the manuscript out, as she put it, “everywhere simultaneously.” The Age of Vice has now been preempted in 15 territories. And as for a screen adaptation, Stein confirmed there are offers from more than 10 production companies, and that Kapoor “will be deeply involved... writing and producing, no matter who we go with.” U.S. indie house Two Dollar Radio acquired a novel titled A History of My Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt. Belcourt is the youngest winner of Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize. His agent, Stephanie Sinclair at the Transatlantic Agency, said the novel is “a meditation on grief, joy, love, and sex at the intersection of indigeneity and queerness.” According to The Bookseller, Doubleday (in the U.K.) acquired Hallie Rubenhold’s true crime title Bad Women for six figures. The trade publication said the book follows “the 1910 murder of Belle Elmore by her husband... and the extraordinary women caught up in these events.” Rubenhold’s The Five is on the short list for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize. Page to Screen Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the creators of the Showtime series Billions, are developing a series based on New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac’s book, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (Norton). Showtime is set to produce the new series as well. Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King (Norton) has been optioned by Atlas Entertainment. Deadline reported the deal. PW gave the 1935-set novel a starred review, describing it as bringing “heart and authenticity to a slice of Ethiopian history” and standing as an “evocative, mesmerizing account of the role of women during wartime.” Send editorial inquiries about this e-newsletter to: internationaldeals@publishersweekly.com Send advertising questions about this e-newsletter to: cbryerman@publishersweekly.com Follow PW on Facebook and Twitter. For additional assistance, contact us by email or at the address below. Publishers Weekly, 71 West 23 St. #1608 New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2019, PWxyz LLC

Deal of the Week Holt Kids Pays Seven Figures for Debut Ballantine has acquired Lisa Wingate’s new novel The Book of Lost Friends. The North American rights deal was handled by Elisabeth Weed at the Book Group and Ballantine v-p and executive editor Susanna Porter. The deal comes on the heels of the success of Wingate’s Before We Were Yours, which Ballantine published in 2017 and which it said has more than 2.2 million copies in print. Like Before We Were Yours, The Book of Lost Friends is inspired by historical events and, the publisher explained, follows “three young women on a journey in search of family members amidst the destruction and chaos of the post–Civil War South.” The tale, Ballantine added, is filtered through “a modern-day teacher who uncovers these women’s connection to her own students’ lives.” Friends is slated for April 2020. Wingate’s nonfiction Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, about the children who were the inspiration for Before We Were Yours, will be released by Ballantine at the end of October. HarperOne Has Woods’s ‘Back’ For HarperOne, Shannon Welch and Judith Curr nabbed world rights to Tiger Woods’s memoir, Back. The book, sold by Mark Steinberg at Excel Sports Management, will, the publisher said, be “a candid and intimate narrative of an outsize American life,” touching on the professional golfer’s triumphs and struggles, “from rising to unprecedented fame and global icon status to battling devastating injuries and personal issues.” HarperOne added that the title marks “the first and only account directly from Woods.” And Curr noted boldly that she believes the book will be “the publishing event of the decade,” with Woods “reclaiming his own story and legacy.” Back will be released by all HC divisions across the world, though no pub date has been set. Onyebuchi’s ‘Goliath’ Attacks Tor In a world English rights agreement, Tor.com Publishing’s Ruoxi Chen paid six figures for Tochi Onyebuchi’s novel Goliath. The two-book deal was brokered by Noah Ballard at Curtis Brown Ltd. The publisher (a print division of Tor Books) compared Goliath to Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel Station Eleven, describing it as “a post-apocalyptic epic... focused on a diverse cast of characters living in and around the once-thriving metropolis of New Haven, Conn.” Tor said the second book, which is currently untitled, was “pitched as a fantasy Get Out meets The Secret History.” Flatiron Wins Climo’s ‘Mom’ Sarah Murphy at Flatiron Books won North American rights, after an eight-bidder auction, to Liz Climo’s You’re Mom: A Little Book for Mothers (and the People Who Love Them). The two-book deal, which includes a follow-up about fatherhood titled You’re Dad, covers, the publisher said, the “first noncollection illustrated book for adults” from the bestselling author-illustrator. Climo, author of the picture book series Rory the Dinosaur, was represented by Kathleen Ortiz at New Leaf Literary & Media. Flatiron described You’re Mom as “a funny, sometimes cynical, but ultimately sweet homage to motherhood.” The publisher also noted that Climo’s books have sold more than 2.25 million copies. Children's Deals Roundup New projects this week include The Cousins, a new YA novel by Karen M. McManus (pictured), author of the bestselling One of Us Is Lying; a middle grade novel, Fighting Words, about a funny, tough-talking foster kid from Newbery Honor author Kimberly Brubaker Bradley; and Wreck This Picture Book, the first children's book from Keri Smith, creator of the bestselling Wreck This Journal. Candlewick Preempts Joseph’s ‘Friend’ With a six-figure preempt, Candlewick’s Kaylan Adair bought world English rights to Frederick Joseph’s YA nonfiction debut, The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person. The author, founder of the nonprofit marketing agency We Have Stories, was represented by Trident Media Group’s Alexander Slater, who described the book as a “collection of essays, interviews, and personal history.” The book stems in part from a tweet the author posted in June that drew more than 27,000 likes, in which he mused that he should write a book called How to Be a Decent White Person. Elaborating on the book he wound up selling, Slater said it “aims to serve as an entry point for young readers to discuss race, privilege, and problematic behaviors.” Friend is set for spring 2021. Milburn Closes Double at Frankfurt U.K.-based literary agent Madeleine Milburn closed two major deals at last week’s Frankfurt Book Fair. She sold U.S. rights, for six figures, to Emma Stonex’s The Lamplighters. The novel was acquired in a two-book deal by Viking’s Andrea Schulz after what Milburn, who has an eponymous shingle, called a “heated auction.” Lamplighters, which has also sold in a number of other territories, is inspired by actual events. Milburn said it follows “three lighthouse keepers who mysteriously disappear from a remote rock miles from the Cornish coast.” Twenty years after the keepers’ disappearance, which remains unsolved, “the women they left behind are given the chance to tell their side of the story.” The novel is slated, in the U.S., for spring 2021. In the second deal, Milburn sold Michelle Adams’s Little Wishes to HarperCollins for six figures after an overnight preempt. Lucia Macro nabbed North American rights to the novel, along with a second book. (The title sold earlier this year to Orion’s Trapeze imprint in the U.K.) Milburn described the book as a “sweeping love story” about a couple who, after 49 years, “get a second chance at love.” Wishes marks Adams’s women’s fiction debut; she previously published two works of psychological suspense. International Chinese house Guomai won simplified Chinese rights, after a four-house auction, to seven books by author-illustrator Liz Climo in a high-six-figure deal. Clare Chi and Yuming Kao at the Grayhawk Agency, and Veronica Grijalva at New Leaf Literary & Media, brokered the deal, with New Leaf noting that Climo (the Rory the Dinosaur series) has sold more than 1.5 million copies in China. Debut Swedish crime novel The Bucket List by Peter Mohlin and Peter Nyström has been preempted by five foreign publishers, six months before it is set to be released by Sweden’s Norstedts. Judith Toth at the Nordin Agency brokered the deals in, among other territories, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. Page to Screen A24 optioned Anna North’s forthcoming novel Outlawed (Bloomsbury, 2021) for television. North was represented by Julie Barer at the Book Group and Brooke Ehrlich at Anonymous Content. Barer said the dramatic rights to the novel, which she described as “a feminist western,” were bought in a "competitive situation with multiple bidders.” Dan Gemeinhart’s forthcoming middle grade novel The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Holt, Jan. 2020) was optioned by Walden Media. Alan Nevins brokered the deal, and Brendan Deneen at Assemble Media is among those attached to produce. Send editorial inquiries about this e-newsletter to: internationaldeals@publishersweekly.com Send advertising questions about this e-newsletter to: cbryerman@publishersweekly.com Follow PW on Facebook and Twitter. For additional assistance, contact us by email or at the address below. 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Deal of the Week Holt Kids Pays Seven Figures for Debut YA debut The Firekeeper’s Daughter sold for a sum rumored to be in the seven figure range, after a 12-bidder auction. Author Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, was represented by Faye Bender at the Book Group, who sold North American rights in a two-book deal, to Tiffany Liao at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers. Liao described the novel as an “indigenous Veronica Mars”; in it, the teenage heroine, who is of mixed heritage and lives near her local reservation, witnesses a murder, changing the course of her life. The crime, as Bender explained in her pitch letter, forces her to “choose between saving those she loves, helping the FBI, and protecting the tribal community.” Ruhl’s ‘Smile’ Goes to S&S for Seven Figures At Simon & Schuster, Marysue Rucci paid a rumored seven figures for a memoir by Pulitzer-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) titled Smile. William Morris Endeavor’s Dorian Karchmar sold North American rights to the book, which chronicles the author’s contraction of Bell’s palsy and the aftermath of living with the condition (which causes paralysis on one side of the face). Comparing the title to memoirs such as Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, S&S said the book is “an illness narrative” that also explores “the nature of femininity and smiling.” Jean’s ‘Tokyo’ Draws Seven Figures Flatiron Books’ Sarah Barley preempted Emiko Jean’s YA novel Tokyo Ever After for seven figures, avoiding a potential 10-house auction with the bid. The North American rights agreement, for the novel and a planned sequel, was brokered by Joelle Hobeika, Sara Shandler and Josh Bank at Alloy Entertainment on behalf of Erin Harris at Folio Literary Management. Tokyo, Flatiron said, is about American teen Izumi Tanaka who, while going through a ho-hum senior year in her Northern California town, discovers that she is Japanese royalty. Dubbing the novel “The Princess Diaries meets Crazy Rich Asians,” Flatiron said it follows a young woman who “finds herself caught between worlds, and between versions of herself—back home, she was never ‘American’ enough, and in Japan, she must prove she’s ‘Japanese’ enough.” At press time, rights to the novel had sold in “significant” deals, per Flatiron, in Brazil, Finland, Germany, Israel, and Italy. Dorman Accepts Rose’s ‘Kindness’ After a preempt for a sum rumored to be in the high-six-figure range, Pamela Dorman bought North American rights to the debut novel A Kindness. Dorman, acquiring for her eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House, brokered the agreement with Helen Heller at the Helen Heller Agency. The novel, which wound up in Heller’s hands after the agent responded to an unsolicited pitch, is about an accusation of date rape that unmoors a New England family. Heller said the book explores “elements of mystery, tragedy, doubt, and justice.” The author is a lawyer based in Maine who is writing under the pseudonym Regan Rose. Morrow Buys a Tale of Apple’s Ive Tripp Mickle, a technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal, sold a book about the legacy of Apple’s chief design officer, Jonathan Paul “Jony” Ive. Mauro DiPreta at William Morrow acquired world rights to the currently untitled book, for mid-six figures, from Daniel Greenberg at Levine Greenberg Rostan. Morrow explained that Ive, an industrial designer known as Steve Jobs’s “spiritual partner,” is credited with developing the aesthetics behind some of Apple’s most iconic products. He is also tethered to the various challenges Apple faced in the wake of Jobs’s death, when new CEO Tim Cook “sought to transform the company from a hardware colossus into a services and entertainment contender.” Ive announced his impending departure from Apple earlier this year. Woon Says ‘Hello’ to HC After a six-figure preempt, Katherine Tegen won North American rights to Yvonne Woon’s Hello, World. The YA novel was acquired in a two-book deal for Tegen’s eponymous imprint at HarperCollins Children’s Books. The coming-of-age novel, explained Woon’s agent Ted Malawer at Upstart Crow Literary, follows a 16-year-old named Xia Chan who, after winning a spot in a tech incubator for “teen tech prodigies,” finds herself competing against classmates for funding. Malawer elaborated that it’s a story “set against the dazzling tech world about a young girl discovering her voice.” Woon (the Dead Beautiful series) has an MFA from Columbia and spent three years living in Silicon Valley as a dog walker. The novel is slated for summer 2021. Children's Deals Roundup New projects this week include a YA novel by K-Pop star, actress, and fashion mogul Jessica Jung (pictured), pitched as Crazy Rich Asians meets Gossip Girl; a debut picture book, The Bookmobile, by bestselling author Shannon Hale; and a picture book from Dave Eggers, illustrated by Kelly Murphy, called Faraway Things. Schaffert’s ‘Perfume’ Tempts Doubleday In a six-figure deal for a sixth novel, Timothy Schaffert’s The Perfume Thief was nabbed by Doubleday’s Margo Shickmanter. The world English rights deal was brokered by Alice Tasman at Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, who said she pitched the novel as “The Danish Girl meets Moulin Rouge.” The WWII–set tale follows, Tasman explained, “a queer American expat” who heads to Paris to become a perfumer. There, while crafting scents for members of the city’s “underground nightlife,” she hits a crossroads when the Nazis seize the city “and seek her expertise for a sinister purpose.” Schaffert (The Coffins of Little Hope) is the director of creative writing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and is the founder of the Omaha Lit Fest. Celadon Welcomes Rock and Garten Celadon Books signed titles by two bold-faced names, nabbing a memoir by culinary star Ina Garten and an essay collection by actor/comedian Chris Rock (pictured). Deb Futter at the Macmillan imprint bought both books from ICM’s Esther Newberg, taking North American rights to Garten’s currently untitled memoir and world English rights to Rock’s essay collection, My First Black Boyfriend. Garten, star of the Food Network’s The Barefoot Contessa, has penned 11 cookbooks; she said her memoir will “inspire readers to find their own unique story.” Rock’s book, slated for fall 2020, will, Celadon said, feature “funny essays about relationships and race.” Viking Welcomes Shapiro's 'Amilia' After a five-house auction, Emily Wunderlich at Viking won a narrative nonfiction book titled Amelia and George for a rumored mid-six-figure sum. The author, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, was represented in the North American rights deal by Peter Steinberg at Foundry Literary + Media. The title documents the decades-long relationship between Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam (a publishing magnate) and focuses not on the whereabouts of her plane but on why she died. As Steinberg explained, the book shows that her death was caused, in part, by “her clandestine lover turned husband’s disregard of danger in the face of maintaining financial success during the Great Depression.” Steinberg added that he feels the book will “change history’s view on Amelia Earhart’s life and death.” Shapiro is a documentary filmmaker. Forget ‘Hygge,’ HMH Has ‘Niksen’ With a six-figure preempt, Deb Brody at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt bought Olga Mecking’s nonfiction book, Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing. Brody took North American rights to the title from Julia Foldenyi at the Netherlands-based Shared Stories Rights Agency. The book, slated for early 2020, grew out of a story the author wrote for the New York Times in April that went viral, titled, “The Case for Doing Nothing.” In the Times piece, Mecking explained the Dutch’s affinity for, well, doing nothing, locally known as niksen. Foldenyi said the book will “explore the benefits of those sweet moments of letting your thoughts wander” while also detailing the documented health benefits of the titular practice. International Because of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the newsletter has been abbreviated. We will be back next week with new International and Page-to-Screen deals. Page to Screen Send editorial inquiries about this e-newsletter to: internationaldeals@publishersweekly.com Send advertising questions about this e-newsletter to: cbryerman@publishersweekly.com Follow PW on Facebook and Twitter. For additional assistance, contact us by email or at the address below. Publishers Weekly, 71 West 23 St. #1608 New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2019, PWxyz LLC Deal of the Week Krantz’s ‘Monogamy’ Flirts with Harmony In a mid-six-figure sale, Bustle writer Rachel Krantz sold her debut nonfiction work, Anything but Monogamy, to Harmony Books. Peter McGuigan at Foundry Literary + Media, who represented Krantz, brokered the North American rights agreement with Harmony’s Donna Loffredo. Claiming he pitched the book as “Lisa Taddeo does polygamy and actually has sex with her subjects,” McGuigan said the title is on submission in foreign markets now, where it’s gaining traction. Slated for 2021, the book is an investigation of nonmonogamous sexual practices among women, pegged to statistics showing that these practices are on the rise among them. The book’s pitch letter claims it is a “deeply personal account of one journalist’s not-so-conventional sexual journey [that] breaks down the barriers surrounding nonmonogamy—and brings this ‘hush hush’ topic out from behind closed doors.” Carrey’s Fiction to Knopf For Knopf, Sonny Mehta nabbed world rights to a novel by Jim Carrey titled Memoirs and Misinformation. Knopf said the novel, written with Dana Vachon (Mergers and Acquisitions), is a “semiautobiographical deconstruction of persona” about “acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, loneliness, romance, and a cataclysmic ending of the world.” David Kuhn at Aevitas Creative Management sold the book, which is set for May 2020. SMP Summits Davidson’s ‘Everest’ Mountaineer and bestselling author Jim Davidson (The Ledge) sold a new book about his travails on Mt. Everest to St. Martin’s Press. George Witte took world rights to The Next Everest, for six figures, from Sharlene Martin at Martin Literary & Media Management. Davidson survived a 2015 earthquake on Everest that claimed the lives of 18 climbers, and then, two years later, returned to the peak and finally reached its summit. The book is set for May 2021. Hirano Arrives at Amazon Crossing In a world English rights acquisition, Gabriella Page-Fort at Amazon Crossing bought two novels by award-winning Japanese author Keiichiro Hirano, titled A Man and At the End of the Matinee. Hirano’s work is currently available in a number of languages, but these editions will mark the first time he has been translated into English. Both novels, the publisher said, “focus on characters in the midst of a midlife reckoning.” Daihei Shiohama at Media Do International handled the sale for the author. Thompson’s ‘Soames’ Settles at HC American journalist Justine Cowan Thompson sold, for a rumored six-figure sum, a memoir titled The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames to Sara Nelson at HarperCollins. Nelson took North American rights to Soames, comparing it to memoirs such as The Glass Castle and the forthcoming Wild Game. In Soames, Thompson examines the discovery that her seemingly well-bred English mother was, in fact, a product of London’s Foundling Hospital (a home for abandoned children that cemented its place in popular imagination thanks, in part, to Charles Dickens, who lived near the hospital and looked to some of its residents as inspiration for a number of his characters). The book, sold by Mollie Glick at Creative Artists Agency, is slated for winter 2021. Bowen Re-ups at Lake Union For six figures, Danielle Marshall at Lake Union Publishing took world rights to two historical novels by Rhys Bowen. Meg Ruley and Christina Hogrebe at the Jane Rotrosen Agency brokered the agreement. Ruley said the first novel, set for 2021, is about “an English art student who becomes an enemy in hiding when the outbreak of WWII traps her in Venice.” Bowen, per Ruley, has sold more than half a million copies of her 2018 novel, The Tuscan Child (also published by Lake Union). Children's Deals Roundup New projects this week include Maybe We're Electric, a YA novel by Val Emmich, author of Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel; A Thief Among the Trees, an Ember in the Ashes graphic novel, first in a three-book deal based on the novels by Sabaa Tahir; and a YA poetry collection from Instagram poet Trista Mateer, called When the Stars Wrote Back. Whistle-Blower to RH Christoper Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistle-blower, sold a book titled Mindf*ck to Random House. Subtitled Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, the book is set for October 8 and will tell, RH said, “the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers.” Mark Warren bought North American rights to the book from Jay Mandel at William Morris Endeavor, who represented Wylie. Gates Sells Green Plan Anthony Chirico, president of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, nabbed world rights to a book on climate change by Bill Gates. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, set to be released by Doubleday in 2020, will, per the publisher, offer “a vision for how the world can work to build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions.” Michael I. Rudell at Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo brokered the sale. Arnett to Riverhead After an 11-bidder auction, Riverhead’s Cal Morgan won North American rights, for six figures, to two books by Kristen Arnett. Arnett’s agent, Serene Hakim at Ayesha Pande Literary, said the first novel, Samson, examines “motherhood, expectations, and toxic masculinity within a queer household.” Hakim described the second book, a story collection titled With Foxes, as “diverse, blackly funny, and provocative.” Arnett’s debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, was published this year by Tin House; her stories have appeared in publications such as Guernica and the Portland Review. Boeing Book to D’day Bloomberg reporter Peter Robison’s Flying Blind, about the behind-the-scenes machinations at Boeing that led to crashes involving the company’s 737 Max jets, sold to Doubleday after a seven-bidder auction. Yaniv Soha took world rights to the book from Andrew Stuart at the Stuart Agency. Stuart described the book, set for 2021, as “a fast-paced, character-driven look at the corporate dysfunction that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation.” Robison has been reporting on Boeing since the late 1990s. International Sphere (of the U.K.’s Little, Brown Book Group) bought world rights, in a two-book deal, to The Coven by screenwriter Lizzie Fry. The novel, the publisher said, is set in a world where “witchcraft is real—and in which a right-wing, populist demagogue decides that witches are the enemy” and that “to be female is to be one step away from criminal.” Rights to The Coven have been preempted in Spain and Germany. Wildfire (of the Headline Publisher Group) bought world rights to Goldilocks by Laura Lam, a speculative thriller set in a near future in which the planet has been ravaged by environmental disasters. The Bookseller said that the novel’s been touted as “The Power set in space.” Page to Screen According to Deadline, the YA vampire series House of Night, by mother-daughter writing duo P.C. and Kristin Cast, has been optioned by Shadowhunters producers Don Carmody and David Cormican. The books are being set up for series adaptation. A 1991 book about the family behind one of the country’s most recognizable beer brands, Under the Influence: The Unauthorized Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty (Simon & Schuster), has been optioned for television. The bestseller, by Peter Hernon and Terry Ganey, is being developed by former Weinstein Company executive David Glasser’s 101 Studios. Send editorial inquiries about this e-newsletter to: internationaldeals@publishersweekly.com Send advertising questions about this e-newsletter to: cbryerman@publishersweekly.com Follow PW on Facebook and Twitter. For additional assistance, contact us by email or at the address below. Publishers Weekly, 71 West 23 St. #1608 New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2019, PWxyz LLC Deal of the Week Teen Activist Signs with Penguin Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg inked a two-book deal with Penguin Press, selling U.S. rights to a memoir and a collection of speeches. Thunberg, who took center stage in a worldwide climate demonstration last week, was represented by Sigrid Stavnem at Politiken Literary Agency. The book of speeches is called No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, and the memoir, which she is cowriting with her family, is titled Our House Is on Fire. The books were acquired by Penguin’s Christopher Richards. McEwan’s Brexit Novella to Anchor Booker-winner Ian McEwan sold U.S. rights to a new novella, The Cockroach, to Anchor Books. The publisher described the political satire, in which a once-loathed man wakes up to discover he’s the prime minister of Britain, as “Franz Kafka meets the world of Brexit and Trump.” The publisher elaborated that the trade paperback original, slated for October 8, “engages with a political world turned on its head.” Sonny Mehta acquired the book from Georges Borchardt at Georges Borchardt Inc. literary agency. Lonsdale Re-ups at Lake Union In a seven-figure acquisition, bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale inked a four-book deal with Amazon’s Lake Union Publishing unit. The world rights agreement was brokered by Gordon Warnock at Fuse Literary and Chris Werner at Lake Union. The first book in the agreement, Warnock said, is a standalone titled Side Trip, which is about “love, loss, and the unexpected routes that life takes” and is slated for July 2020. The other three titles will form a trilogy titled No More, which, Warnock said, is a “domestic suspense and family drama about three artistically talented siblings, the secrets they keep from each other, and the lies they tell themselves.” According to Warnock, Lonsdale’s books have “reached nearly 2 million readers.” Lustbader Closes Double at Forge Bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader (who writes his own novels in addition to penning Robert Ludlum’s ongoing Jason Bourne series) closed a two-book, six-figure deal with Forge Books. Linda Quinton nabbed North American rights to the titles from Mitch Hoffman at the Aaron M. Priest Literary Agency. The first book, The Nemesis Manifesto, launches a new series following U.S. intelligence agent Evan Ryder, who, the publisher said, “has survived unspeakable tragedy and dedicated her life to protecting her country.” Nemesis, set for spring 2020, will be a lead title for Forge. SMP Welcomes Wynne’s ‘Madam’ For St. Martin’s Press, Sarah Cantin preempted North American rights, for six figures, to Phoebe Wynne’s debut novel, Madam. Cantin described the book a “modern gothic” work of fiction “with shades of The Secret History and The Stepford Wives.” Set at an all-girls boarding school in Scotland, Madam, Cantin went on, “is told from the point of view of the 26-year-old new head of the classics department, the first new hire in a decade, who quickly discovers that things are not what they seem at this deeply traditional and secretive institution.” Janelle Andrew at PFD represented Wynne in the two-book deal. HC Children’s Tastes Paulsen’s ‘Garlic’ After a three-house auction, Rosemary Brosnan at HarperCollins Children’s Books won a debut graphic novel for six figures. Bree Paulsen’s Garlic & the Vampire sold, along with a second book, for world rights. Britt Siess at Martin Literary & Media Management represented the author. The agency said the book is about “a village of anthropomorphic vegetables, whose world is turned upside down when a vampire moves into the nearby abandoned castle, and the shy Garlic they elect to drive him out.” The title is slated for fall 2021. Children's Deals Roundup New projects this week include a K-Pop YA novel from Bustle senior editor and former Entertainment Weekly editor Stephan Lee (pictured); Burn Our Bodies Down, the second novel from Rory Power, author of the bestselling Wilder Girls; and a debut middle grade novel from Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site series author Sherri Duskey Rinker. Johnson’s ‘Wife’ Weds 37 Ink Sadequa Johnson’s historical fiction debut, Yellow Wife, was acquired in a North American rights deal, for six figures, by Dawn Davis at 37 Ink. Cherise Fisher and Wendy Sherman at Wendy Sherman Associates represented Johnson, with Sherman describing the novel as one in which “a footnote of history is brought to life.” In it, a young female slave is sold to a married man who, Sherman, explained, is “full of paradoxes.” She added that the man “intends to start a family with her even as he manages a particularly cruel estate, the Devil’s Half Acre, where thousands of black people are beaten, broken, and sold.” (The actual Devil’s Half Acre was a facility in Richmond, Va., close to the city’s capitol building, where slaves were jailed.) SMP Courts Wyllie’s ‘Nazi Wives’ Historian, author, and screenwriter James Wyllie (Code Breakers) sold Nazi Wives to Charles Spicer at St. Martin’s Press. Spicer took North American rights to the nonfiction title from Sonia Land at Sheil Land Associates. The book follows the wives of high-profile Nazi officers to highlight for the first time, SMP said, their lives and devotion to Hitler in the buildup to, and aftermath of, WWII. The publisher added that Wyllie details how “Hitler became personally interested in the lives of these wives and their relationships with their husbands” as the women endured “endless jealousies” and engaged in “continual one-upmanship to share in his utopia.” RH Strolls Mitchell’s ‘Avenue’ In what marks his first novel since 2014, David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas) sold Utopia Avenue to Andy Ward at Random House. The North American rights agreement was brokered by Doug Stewart at Sterling Lord Literistic on behalf of Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown. The book, scheduled for June 2020, tells the story of a fictional rock trio who, RH said, “are the strangest British band you’ve never heard of.” Chronicling their brief rise, the novel, the publisher went on, “tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue; of riots in the streets and revolutions in the head; of drugs, madness, love, sex, death, art; of the families we choose and the ones we don’t; and of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder.” Mitchell, who lives in Ireland, has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Clarke’s Sophomore Novel to B’bury Liese Mayer and Alexandra Pringle at Bloomsbury nabbed world English rights to the sophomore novel by the author of the 2004 bestseller Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is slated for a global laydown in September 2020. A Bloomsbury spokesperson said the novel is set in “a richly imagined, very unusual world.” The title character lives in a place called the House and is needed by his friend, the Other, to work on a scientific project. The publisher went on: “Piranesi records his findings in his journal. Then messages begin to appear; all is not what it seems. A terrible truth unravels as evidence emerges of another person and perhaps even another world outside the House’s walls.” Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell has, per Bloomsbury, sold more than four million copies worldwide. Clarke, who’s won both a Hugo Award and a World Fantasy Award, was represented by Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown. Akhtar’s ‘Homeland’ Settles at LB In a six-figure deal, Judith Clain at Little, Brown nabbed Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies. Akhtar, a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright (Disgraced) and novelist (American Dervish), was represented by Julie Barer at the Book Group. The novel, set for fall 2020, is, LB said, “drawn from Akhtar’s life as the son of Muslim immigrants” and blends fact with fiction in telling a story set in a country where “a TV personality is president and immigrants live in fear, and where the wounds of 9/11 continue to wreak havoc around the world.” International Page to Screen Send editorial inquiries about this e-newsletter to: internationaldeals@publishersweekly.com Send advertising questions about this e-newsletter to: cbryerman@publishersweekly.com Follow PW on Facebook and Twitter. For additional assistance, contact us by email or at the address below. Publishers Weekly, 71 West 23 St. #1608 New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2019, PWxyz LLC Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. You are receiving this email because kl.naylor@btinternet.com subscribed to an e-newsletter through Publishers Weekly, IPR, Combined Book Exhibit, PubMatch or BookLife. 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