Deal of the Week
 S&S Signs Up Seinfeld Jerry Seinfeld sold a new book to Simon & Schuster in a world rights agreement. The currently untitled work, which is the funny man’s first adult title since the 1993 bestseller Seinlanguage, is slated for October 2020. In the book, Seinfeld (who was represented by CAA) will, S&S said, share selections of “his favorite material” organized “decade by decade.” S&S’s Jonathan Karp, who acquired the book, said, “Not only is the book brilliantly crafted and laugh-out-loud funny on every single page, but readers will be able to see Jerry and his comedy evolve through the years.” According to S&S, Seinlanguage has sold more than 2.5 million copies.  Morrow Invests in “Talking” Pooch In a rumored seven-figure deal following a nine-publisher auction, William Morrow nabbed a memoir by a woman who taught her dog to “talk.” How Stella Learned to Talk by Christina Hunger was sold in a North American rights agreement to Mauro DiPreta. Ryan Harbage and Christopher Hermelin at Fischer-Harbage represented Hunger in the agreement, which will see the book released in fall 2020. Subtitled A Speech Therapist’s Groundbreaking Method for Communicating with Dogs, the book chronicles how Hunger taught Stella to communicate with her by pushing buttons on a homemade soundboard, and the impact those lessons had on her and her family. Morrow said Hunger, whose work with Stella has been covered by outlets including CNN and People, taught her dog to “combine up to six words to share stories, feelings, and ask questions.” Morrow added that the book will include “tips for dog owners to try themselves.” 
HC Kids Fires Marantzes’s ‘Laser’
After an auction, HarperCollins’s Clarissa Wong won world rights to the middle grade graphic novel Blake Laser by husband-and-wife author-illustrator team Keith and Larissa Marantz. The book, HC said, is set in the 24th century and follows a 12-year-old inventor who, along with her family, “must stop aliens from stealing the sun’s energy, which would lead to the total destruction of Earth within 48 hours.” Rachel Orr at the Prospect Agency represented both Marantzes in the deal. The book will be released in fall 2022.  Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include a middle grade novel, The Insiders, from Schneider Family Award winner Mark Oshiro (pictured), about a queer boy who discovers a magical closet when fleeing from bullies; the Prison Healer trilogy, a YA fantasy series by bestselling Australian author Lynette Noni, about a girl who has survived against all odds in a harsh prison but must risk her life for a bigger cause; and Harvey and the Collection of Impossible Things, a middle grade novel from Printz Honor author Garret Weyr, in which a cat named Harvey hunts for food in a city where hunger and danger lurk on every corner.   Harper Buys Cummings’s Posthumous Memoir A memoir by Elijah Cummings, the late Baltimore congressman and chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, was bought by Harper. Lisa Sharkey took world rights to We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy from David Black at the David Black Agency. Harper said that in the book, Cummings “details the formative moments in his life that prepared him to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his actions while in office.” Cummings, Harper continued, “weaves together the urgent drama of modern-day politics and the defining stories from his past.” Fight, set for June 2020, was not fully completed by the author before his death in October 2019; his collaborator James Dale and his widow, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, finished the book.  Lovering’s Truth Lands at SMP In a six-figure, two-book deal, Carola Lovering (Tell Me Lies) sold Too Good to Be True. Sarah Cantin at St. Martin’s Press acquired the novel, which her publisher called “a seductive story of love, revenge, and obsession, exploring three different sides of a relationship—and three different versions of the truth.” The author was represented by Allison Hunter at Janklow & Nesbit in the world rights agreement.  Lin’s ‘Crimes’ Unfold at Little, Brown A debut novel by 23-year-old Tom Lin, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, was preempted by Ben George at Little, Brown. Lisa Queen at Queen Literary sold world rights to the novel, which LB said is set 150 years ago in the American West and “follows a Chinese-American assassin hell-bent on revenge as he travels the deserts of Utah, Nevada, and California to be reunited with his wife, who was abducted years earlier.”   
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Deal of the Week
 ‘Kittycorn’ Pic Book Fetches Seven Figures For a rumored seven-figure sum, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham sold a picture book titled Itty Bitty Kittycorn to Abrams. Emma Ledbetter won world English rights to the title, after an auction involving eight houses. Hale and Pham are author-illustrator team behind the bestselling middle grade graphic memoirs Best Friends and Real Friends. Itty Bitty Kittycorn, Abrams said, “is about the importance of being seen and understood, by ourselves and others,” and involves “an adorable fluffy kitten who makes herself a unicorn horn.” Jodi Reamer at Writers House represented Pham in the agreement, while Holly McGhee at Pippin Properties represented Hale. Kittycorn is set for March 2021.  Kennedy Clan Book to HMH For six figures, Bruce Nichols at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt bought Neal Thompson’s nonfiction work The First Kennedys. The book, subtitled An Immigrant Maid, Her Bartender Son, and the Humble Roots of a Dynasty, chronicles the beginnings of the Kennedy family in America. Rob Weisbach at Rob Weisbach Creative Management represented Thompson, explaining that the book begins with the family matriarch—an Irish immigrant named Bridget who arrived in Boston in 1849—and details how “this resilient widow and single mother of four rose from maid to hairdresser to business owner and entrepreneur, providing the Kennedy family its first steps toward legitimacy in America.” The book also offers, Weisbach said, “a resonant rebuttal to current anti-immigrant sentiments.” Thompson is a journalist and author whose previous books include the 2018 memoir Kickflip Boys (Ecco).  Putnam Takes Bailey’s Birdie After an auction, Putnam’s Tara Singh Carlson won world rights to Robert Bailey’s novel The Golfer’s Son. Putnam said the book was pitched as It’s a Wonderful Life meets Field of Dreams and follows “one down-and-out husband, father, and golfer whose life is changed by a series of inspirational visits from his best friend and golfing idols.” Bailey, who was represented by Liza Fleissig at the Liza Royce Agency, is a trial lawyer and an avid golfer; he’s also the author of the bestselling McMurtrie and Drake legal thrillers. The book was inspired, Putnam added, by a dream trip the author had planned, with his father and brother, to play four famed golf courses. That trip was cut short after the death of Bailey’s father. The novel is slated for a fall 2020 release.  Marcero’s ‘Comet’ to Roaring Brook The graphic novel debut Haylee and Comet was nabbed in a six-figure, world rights deal at auction. Jen Besser at Roaring Brook acquired the work, by Deborah Marcero, in a three-book agreement, from Laura Rennert at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Rennert said she pitched the early reader title as E.T. meets Narwhal and Jelly, and that, in it, “a girl wishes on a star for a friend, and one falls into her lap, literally.” Marcero, an author-illustrator, is on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and is the author of the just-released picture book In a Jar (Putnam).  Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include Anatomy: A Love Story by journalist and author Dana Schwartz (pictured), a gothic love story set against the backdrop of 1830s Edinburgh; The Ravens, which launches a series by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige about two girls in a southern sorority where the sisters are all witches; and Alice's Farm: A Rabbit's Tale, a middle-grade novel by Maryrose Wood, author of the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series.  Harper Kids Goes ‘Away’ with Brown Waka T. Brown sold her middle grade memoir, While I Was Away, to Harper Children’s for six figures. Alyssa Miele bought world rights to the title at auction, in a two-book deal, from Penny Moore and Erin Files at Aevitas Creative Management. Moore said the book was pitched as The Farewell meets Brown Girl Dreaming and follows “the author’s journey as a Japanese American who was sent to live in Japan with a grandmother she never knew and attend public school because her parents feared she was losing her culture.” The book is set for winter 2021.  Donna Bray Picks Up Dass’s ‘Rhythm’ At auction, Donna Bray bought world English rights to debut author Sarah Dass’s YA novel Where the Rhythm Takes You. Dass, a #PitchWars alumnus who was represented by Wendi Gu at Sanford J. Greenburger, based the book on Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Set in Dass’s native Trinidad and Tobago, the novel follows a young woman named Reyna who, after her mother dies, feels like she’s also lost her best friend, Aiden, when he suddenly moves to the U.S. Gu said that in the book, Aiden returns to Trinidad and Tobago as an international pop star, “but the last thing Reyna wants to do is risk her heart all over again.” Rhythm is set for summer 2021, and a second untitled novel, also part of the deal, is set to follow.  Norton Makes ‘Music’ with Eyre John Glusman at Norton bought Makana Eyre’s Unsilenced: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Holocaust at auction. Norton said the book is about a Polish Catholic named Aleksander Kulisiewicz who, as a prisoner at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1940, “befriends an underground Jewish choir director, and saves over 600 songs composed in the camp, many of them by Jews who later perish.” Grace A. Ross at Regal Hoffmann & Associates sold world English rights on the behalf of Eyre, a journalist who covers European politics and has written for such publications as the Guardian, the Nation, and Politico Europe. 
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Deal of the Week
 Scribner Invests In Anam's 'Startup' After Tahmima Anam’s The Startup Wife sold to Canongate for six figures, Scribner nabbed North American rights to the novel. Nan Graham and Kara Watson acquired from Canongate, after Sarah Chalfant at the Wylie Agency sold world rights (excluding India) to the U.K. house. Scribner described the title as “a sharp, satirical look at marriage, work, and female friendship in the age of peak technology.” In it, two high school sweethearts “build an algorithm to replace religion” and wind up running one of the world’s most influential social media platforms. When the platform grows, “their marriage is tested, and the wife finds herself increasingly in her husband’s shadow.” The publisher added that, with the book, Anam, who has written three novels and won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, is taking her work in “an ambitious new direction.” The Startup Wife is slated for summer 2021.  Quart Gets ‘Bootstrapped’ at Ecco At Ecco, Denise Oswald acquired Alissa Quart’s Bootstrapped for six figures. The North American rights agreement was brokered by Jill Grinberg at Jill Grinberg Literary Management. She said the book follows up on Squeezed, Quart’s 2018 book from Ecco. Grinberg added that while interviewing people for that book, Quart “realized there was an underlying ideology of bootstrapping independence at the root of the middle class suffering.” The new book, the agent continued, “will look at how this deeply ingrained ideal of American self-reliance and do-it-yourself grit has helped to both mask and perpetuate the wealth gap in this country, and what we can do to address it.” Quart, who contributes regularly to the New York Times and other outlets, cofounded the Hardship Reporting Project with Nickel and Dimed author Barbara Ehrenreich.  Hanover Scoops Banville’s ‘Snow’ John Banville sold a new crime novel, Snow, along with a second untitled novel, to Hanover Square Press. John Glynn took North American rights from Andrew Wylie at the Wylie Agency, with the book slated for October 2020 (publishing simultaneously with the U.K. edition from Faber). Set in 1957, Snow will be the first crime novel that the Booker winner has published under his own name, after he wrote a series of crime books under the nom de plume Benjamin Black. Introducing a new sleuth—Det. Insp. St. John Strafford—the novel, Hanover Square said, follows “an aristocratic family whose secrets resurface when a priest is found murdered in their home.”  Lambda Fellow’s Debut Lands at Knopf For Knopf, Caitlyn Landuyt bought Lambda Literary fellow Eric Nguyen’s debut novel, A History of Lost Things. Set in a New Orleans housing project, the book, Knopf said, “follows a Vietnamese refugee mother and her two sons, one tempted by gangs and the other embracing his gay identity, as they reckon with their past losses and grapple with creating a new home.” Nguyen, represented by Julie Stevenson at Massie & McQuilkin, is a contributing writer for the blog DiaCritics.org, which focuses on work by artists and writers from the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian diaspora. Lost Things is tentatively set for spring 2021.  Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include Sam Subity's (pictured) middle-grade contemporary fantasy debut, Vale of Secrets, pitched as a modern retelling of the Beowulf epic; Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis's YA duology, The Initial Insult and The Last Laugh, which blends retellings of Edgar Allan Poe stories in a contemporary Appalachian Ohio setting; and RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Frank Morrison, a picture book honoring the singer’s roots, spirituality, influences, leadership, and cultural impact.   Gratton Takes a ‘Shine’ to McElderry From an exclusive submission, Karen Wojtyla at Simon & Schuster’s Margaret K. McElderry Books imprint nabbed world English rights to Tessa Gratton’s YA novel Night Shine. Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown Literary represented the author, saying she pitched the book as “a dark, queer Howl’s Moving Castle.” In it, she explained, after a crown prince is kidnapped, an orphan named Nothing “sets out to rescue him, and discovers all magic is a bargain.” Gratton, who’s written adult science fiction and fantasy novels as well as YA ones, worked as the lead writer for Serial Box Publishing’s project Tremontaine.  Screenwriter’s Memoir Goes to Crown Screenwriter Guinevere Turner’s debut memoir, a coming-of-age story, sold at auction to Crown’s Gillian Blake. Bill Clegg at the Clegg Agency represented the author (whose credits include the screenplay for American Psycho and various episodes of The L Word), selling North American rights. The book, Crown said, expands on a New Yorker essay by Turner, published in May, titled “My Childhood in a Cult.” In it, she describes growing up during the 1970s within an isolationist group known as the Lyman Family. The publisher elaborated that the group “kept her separated from her mother and younger sister,” and in the book, she details “her exile at age 11 into a seismically abusive home, from which she narrowly escaped at age 16.”  Chokshi Inks Audio-Only Deal at Audible Bestselling author Roshani Chokshi (A Crown of Wishes) sold a YA novella to Audible Originals. Jessica Almon Galland took audio-only rights to the title from Thao Le at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. Audible said the book is “a humorous twist on fairy tales” and follows “a married couple who was once madly in love, but had sacrificed their feelings to an angered sorceress in order to save each other’s life.”
Behind the Deal
 Just
before Labor Day weekend in 2018, Scholastic editorial director David
Levithan placed a newly published YA book he had been given during a trip to
Brazil in the hands of fellow Scholastic editor Orlando Dos Reis. That
weekend, Dos Reis started reading Where We Go from Here, the debut
novel by Brazilian writer Lucas Rocha. From the beginning, Dos Reis
was hooked. “I read the first line and thought, ‘Dammit, this is going to be
good,’ ” said Dos Reis, who was born in Brazil and speaks Portuguese. By the time
Scholastic’s offices opened on Tuesday morning, Dos Reis—who had never
translated anything before—was waiting with a handful of chapters in English
for Levithan to read. Shortly thereafter, Scholastic committed to publishing
the novel, which tells the story of two teenage boys’ friendship following
the discovery that one has HIV. The book is slated for a June 2020 release
(Larissa Helena is translating) and represents a milestone for its author—and
a significant foray into YA books in translation for one of the largest
children’s publishers in the world.—Alex Green This article has been adapted from a story that originally appeared in the Dec. 10 edition of Children's Bookshelf.
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Deal of the Week
Park Row Opens Penner’s ‘Apothecary’ For Park Row Books, Natalie Hallak preempted the debut novel by Sarah Penner for six figures. The Lost Apothecary, slated for March 2021, will be a lead title for the HarperCollins imprint. The historical novel opens with a focus on the female owner of an 18th-century London apothecary shop that, Park Row explained, “dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them.” Calling the book “Kate Morton meets The Miniaturist,” the publisher explained that it then jumps ahead 200 years and follows another woman, who is “running from her own demons” and “stumbles on a clue to the centuries-old unsolved apothecary murders.” The realization makes the lives of the two women from different centuries “converge in shocking ways.” Stefanie Lieberman at Janklow & Nesbit Associates brokered the world rights deal.
Stewart’s ‘Shard’ Sells to Orbit In a six-figure preempt, Brit Hvide at Orbit bought world English rights to Andrea Stewart’s fantasy novel Bone Shard Daughter. The debut, sold by Juliet Mushens at Caskie Mushens, is, the publisher said, “in the vein of R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War and S.A. Chakraborty’s The City of Brass.” In the novel, which is set for fall 2020, rebels in the cities are rallying for independence “from the all-seeing eyes of the emperor’s magical constructs.” Among the royals, “the emperor’s daughter struggles to regain her memories, her power over the bone shard magic that rules the empire, and her rightful place as heir.”
Trigiani Moves to Dutton Bestselling author Adriana Trigiani (the Big Stone Gap series) closed a North American rights, two-book deal, moving from Harper to Dutton. Maya Ziv, who had edited Trigiani at Harper, won the books, the first of which is titled The Garden of Sundays, at auction from William Morris Endeavor’s Suzanne Gluck. The novel is based on the author’s personal experiences and will, Dutton said, “explore the meaning of home, love, and grief.” Noting that the book is similar to Trigiani’s 2012 bestseller The Shoemaker’s Wife, Dutton said The Garden of Sundays is “a past and present narrative spanning multiple generations.” In it, “a woman who has spent her life on the Ligurian coast of Italy must relive the war-torn Italy of her youth, and reveal her mother’s past, to help her granddaughter figure out her future.” Trigiani is the author of 18 books.
Children's/YA Deals Roundup How Maya Got Fierce by Sona Charaipotra (pictured), a YA contemporary novel pitched as The Bold Type meets Younger; Ryan Graudin and Amie Kaufman's middle-grade adventure fantasy series, The World Between Blinks, about two cousins who stumble from our world into a magical place where all lost things end up; and Stonewall Honor author Anna-Marie McLemore's YA novel The Mirror Season, a reimagining of “The Snow Queen,” in which two teens who were sexually assaulted at the same party find their fates unexpectedly.
Ballantine Re-ups Reid Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & the Six) closed a North American rights, two-book deal with Ballantine. The first novel under the agreement, Malibu Burning, is, the publisher said, “set against the backdrop of the Malibu surf culture of the 1980s.” It follows the daughter of a famous singer who, once she finds fame, must grapple with the fact that her father abandoned her and her siblings when they were young. Jennifer Hershey brokered the agreement with Theresa Park at Park & Fine Literary and Media. Reid’s Daisy Jones & the Six—which Ballantine published in March—is currently in series development (with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine banner producing) after being optioned by Amazon Studios.
Pamela Dorman Lands Posey’s ‘Evensong’ For Viking’s Pamela Dorman Books, Jeramie Orton nabbed world rights to Rafe Posey’s debut, Evensong. The novel, sold by Danielle Bukowski at Sterling Lord Literistic, is about the relationship between a Royal Air Force pilot during WWII and the woman he loves, who is secretly recruited to be a code breaker at Bletchley Park. They must each decide, the publisher elaborated, “which dreams can be sacrificed and which secrets are too big to bear alone.” Evensong is slated for spring 2021.
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Deal of the Week
 Paolini’s ‘Sleep’ Goes to Tor for Seven Figures Franchise bestseller Christopher Paolini (the Inheritance Cycle series) sold a new novel to Tor in a seven-figure deal. Tor v-p and publisher Devi Pillai acquired To Sleep in a Sea of Stars in a world English rights agreement brokered with Simon Lipskar at Writers House. Calling the novel “a departure” for Paolini, Tor said Sleep is “a story of enormous intergalactic weight and consequence, but also of deeply personal human strength, compassion, and awe.” The novel, which will be edited by Pillai and executive editor William Hinton, follows a xenobiologist who discovers “an alien relic” during “a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet.” The discovery, Tor went on, “thrusts her into the wonders and nightmares of first contact.” Sleep is slated for publication on Sept. 15, 2020.  True Crime Podcasters Land at Dey Street In a six-figure deal, the creators of the true crime podcast Up and Vanished signed a two-book deal with Dey Street Books. The podcast, created by Payne Lindsey and Donald Albright, explores missing-persons cold cases and is part of a suite of podcasts produced under the pair’s Tenderfoot TV banner. Dey Street said the multiple podcasts produced by Tenderfoot have, together, garnered more than 450 million downloads. The deal with Dey Street will see the authors launch a planned series of books that delves into missing persons cases not explored on the show. Carrie Thornton inked the world rights agreement with Pilar Queen at UTA.  Pulitzer Winner Takes on NAACP Leader For Simon & Schuster, Bob Bender bought world English rights to David W. Blight’s biography of NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938). Blight, who won this year’s Pulitzer Prize in history for Frederick Douglass (also published by S&S), was represented in the deal by Wendy Strothman at the Strothman Agency. The agency called Johnson a “Jim Crow–era artist, intellectual, and activist” who Blight reveals as “a Renaissance man in the era of segregation.” Elaborating, the agency said, “As Douglass was our voice for understanding the lived experience of slavery and the nature of the slavery issue in national life, Johnson is the same for the age of Jim Crow.” The Johnson biography is set for fall 2024.  Hendricks and Pekkanen Re-up at SMP At St. Martin’s Press, Jennifer Enderlin inked the authors of 2018’s bestselling The Wife Between Us to a new two-book deal. Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen were represented in the North American rights agreement by William Morris Endeavor’s Margaret Riley King and Jennifer Rudolph Walsh. The Wife Between Us was followed up by this year’s bestselling An Anonymous Girl. The new books, Enderlin said, will “continue in the vein of twisty, female-oriented suspense that deals with relationships and the fallout of betrayal and revenge.” Forthcoming from the duo (and not part of this deal) is the March 2020–slated You Are Not Alone. Tracy Fisher at WME is handling translation rights.  Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include Ashley Elston’s (pictured) 10 Truths and a Dare, the sequel to 10 Blind Dates which has sold in 23 territories and for which Ace Entertainment has optioned film rights; Time Will Tell by Barry Lyga (I Hunt Killers), a YA crime thriller in which a group of teens unearth a time capsule buried by their parents when they were in high school, only to find a murder weapon inside; and Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America by Margarita "Margie" Longoria, an anthology that features stories, poetry, and more from Mexican-American creators and influencers.  Finch Extends Lenox’s Stay at Minotaur For six figures, bestselling author Charles Finch signed a new two-book contract with his long-standing publisher. Charles Spicer at Minotaur took world rights to the currently untitled novels from Elisabeth Weed at the Book Group. Finch, who writes the popular Charles Lenox series (which, to date, includes 12 titles), is also a book critic and won the NBCC 2017 Nona Balakian Citation Award. The 13th novel in the Lenox series, which follows the titular Victorian amateur sleuth, will be released by Minotaur in February 2020, and this deal covers books 14 and 15 in the series.  Indie Press Nabs Graphic Take on Nobel Winner Minneapolis-based indie publisher Uncivilized Books acquired world rights to I Nina, a graphic adaptation of Nobel Prize–winner Olga Tokarczuk’s Polish novel Anna in the Catacombs. Polish cartoonist and children’s book author Daniel Chmielewski wrote I Nina, which was originally published in Poland in 2018. Tomasz Kaczynski, CEO and publisher of Uncivilized, bought the rights to the graphic work directly from the author and translator after, he said, the book’s original publisher, Wydawnictwo Komiksowe, was sold. Calling I Nina “one of the most inventive science fiction graphic novels in recent memory,” Kaczynski explained that the adaptation moves the narrative of Tokarczuk’s novel “into a near-future dystopia where humanity survives in a hermetically sealed multilevel world.”
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