Deal of the Week
 McTiernan Lands Bumper Deal at HC Irish author Dervla McTiernan, who lives in Australia and is a bestseller there, inked a seven-figure agreement with HarperCollins for a trio of standalone novels set in the U.S. Shane Salerno at the Story Factory brokered the world rights agreement with HC’s Judy DeGrottole, Liate Stehlik, and Emily Krump (who will be editing). McTiernan, Salerno said, has sold more than 400,000 copies of her Cormac Reilly series. (In the U.S., Penguin published her Reilly novels The Ruin and The Scholar. And The Ruin is currently in development as a limited TV series.) McTiernan’s longtime editor at Harper Australia, Anna Valdinger, will be working with Krump on the new books. The first title under contract is scheduled for summer 2021.  Holt Wins Kravitz’s ‘Love’ Henry Holt recently announced that Serena Jones bought Lenny Kravitz’s autobiography, Let Love Rule. The U.S. rights agreement for the book, which Kravitz is writing with biographer David Ritz (When I Left Home), was handled by David Vigliano at Vigliano Associates. Vigliano said Let Love Rule “paints a portrait of an artist as a young man, covering a vast canvas stretching from Manhattan’s Upper East Side to Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, L.A.’s Baldwin Hills, Beverly Hills, and finally France, England, and Germany.” Let Love Rule is set for fall 2020.   Buttigieg Puts ‘Trust’ in Norton For Norton’s Liveright imprint, Robert Weil took U.S., Canadian, and open market rights to Pete Buttigieg’s Trust: America’s Best Chance. The book, sold by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners, is set for October 6 and follows up the politician’s 2019 bestseller, Shortest Way Home (also published by Liveright). The publisher said the new book “explores in urgent and soul-searching ways why trust is a foundational value for democracy.”  Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include J.C. Cervantes's (pictured) Throne of Sand, first in a middle grade duology in which a shadow bruja discovers that some rogue godborns have joined forces to make themselves into gods, sold to Disney’s Rick Riordan Presents imprint in a two-book deal; the Morning Tribe series by Julian Lennon and Bart Davis, a middle grade graphic novel series that follows 12-year-old twins Dusk and Dawn, who live in the Amazon River Basin and fight to protect their homeland; and Blackheart by Morgan Rhodes (the Falling Kingdoms series), a YA sci-fi/fantasy novel about snarky, pampered 17-year-old Josslyn Drake who is accidentally infected by a piece of forbidden magic.   Blow Chases ‘Devil’ for Harper Jonathan Burnham at Harper bought world rights to New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow’s The Devil You Know. The book, subtitled A Black Power Manifesto, was sold by David Kuhn at Aevitas Creative Management and is set for February 2021. Jennifer Barth, who acquired with Burnham, will edit it. Harper said The Devil You Know draws on “history, political observations, and Blow’s personal experience as a Black son of the South” to propose “the most audacious power play by Black people in the history of this country.”  Little, Brown Bets on Carraway 2.0 Nick, a novel about The Great Gatsby narrator Nick Carraway, was acquired by Joshua Kendall at Little, Brown. Trident Media Group’s Ellen Levine handled the North American rights agreement for author Michael Farris Smith (Blackwood). LB is calling Nick a prequel to Gatsby, whose U.S. copyright expires at the end of 2020. The novel, set for January 2021, follows Carraway before he meets Jay Gatsby and, the publisher said, “breathes new life into a character that many know but few have pondered deeply.” Kendall added that Nick is, in many ways, “the story of all of us, waylaid and in search of love and meaning.”  Dixon Takes ‘The Other Side’ to HMH Record producer Drew Dixon sold The Other Side to Rakia Clark at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Regina Brooks at Serendipity Literary Agency, who handled the North American rights agreement, said the book is an inside look at the effects of “silence breaking against predatory behavior within the Black community” and chronicles Dixon’s “dilemma as a victim of abuse by powerful, influential men she admired.” The title is set for fall 2021.   
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Deal of the Week
 Cherry Tackles ‘Forgiveness’ for PUP After a 10-way auction, Princeton University Press won North American rights to Myisha Cherry’s The Failures of Forgiveness. Rob Tempio at PUP brokered the six-figure agreement with Margo Beth Fleming at Brockman. Cherry is the author of Unmuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice and an assistant professor of philosophy at University of California, Riverside. PUP said Failures of Forgiveness, scheduled for spring 2023, recasts standardized notions that forgiveness is “letting go of negative feelings and behavior.” Instead, Cherry shows how we can “change our personal and social relationships with forgiveness” by relying on an approach that’s “philosophically grounded and psychologically supported.”  Parton Gets Lyrical at Chronicle Singer, songwriter, and country music icon Dolly Parton sold Dolly Parton, Songteller to Chronicle Books. The deluxe volume, priced at $50, is subtitled My Life in Lyrics. Chronicle said the book is “a visual memoir and annotated songbook” that explores Parton’s life “through 175 of her best-loved songs.” In the deal, Jeff Kleinman and Steve Troha at Folio Literary Management sold world rights to Chronicle’s Christine Carswell and Rebecca Hunt.  Putnam Welcomes Katsu’s ‘Widow’ For Putnam, Sally Kim nabbed world rights to Alma Katsu’s Red Widow. The thriller, acquired from Inkwell Management’s Richard Pine and Eliza Rothstein, follows two female CIA agents who, Kim explained, “become intertwined around a threat to the Russia Division—one that’s coming from inside the agency.” Katsu (The Deep) is a former senior intelligence analyst who worked for the CIA and NSA. Kim added that book is “in the spirit of Homeland and The Americans.”  Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include an #OwnVoices untitled YA novel by Natalia Sylvester (pictured), winner of the International Latino Book Award for fiction, about a Latinx immigrant teen in central Florida, who has lived with hip dysplasia and countless surgeries, as she navigates the waters of first love and feeling out of alignment—both within and outside of her body; the picture book Tomatoes for Neela, written by Padma Lakshmi, host of Top Chef and Taste the Nation, and illustrated by Caldecott Honor illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal, an intergenerational story about a girl who cooks with her mother in homage to her grandmother; and a sequel to Thanhha Lai's National Book Award and Newbery Honor-winning Inside Out and Back Again, which revisits Hà, two years after she and her family fled Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War and settled in Alabama.   S&S’s Millner Takes ‘Blood’ to St. Martin’s Denene Millner, a bestselling author of adult and children’s titles and the editor of an eponymous imprint at Simon & Schuster, sold One Blood to St. Martin’s Press. Monique Patterson preempted North American rights to the book from Victoria Sanders at Victoria Sanders & Associates. The novel is, SMP said, a “multigenerational epic” with three settings: the South during the Great Migration, New York City during the civil rights movement, and present-day Atlanta. It explores, SMP went on, “the connection between three Black women: a birth mother who had her child taken away, the adoptive mother who raised that child, and the child who is the literal product of the two.”  Hur’s ‘Palace’ Built at Feiwel and Friends June Hur, whose April novel The Silence of the Bones was a Junior Library Guild selection, sold The Red Palace to Feiwel and Friends. Amy Elizabeth Bishop at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret brokered the North American deal with Emily Settle at Feiwel. Bishop said the YA novel, set in 1750s Korea, follows a 17-year-old nurse and 18-year-old police inspector trying to “clear the crown prince’s name” after a massacre at court. Bishop added that the book is based on “a well-known story in Korea and among historical K-drama fans” about Prince Sado.  Cooper Moves to FSG Brittney Cooper, author of the 2018 bestseller Eloquent Rage, struck a two-book deal with Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Jenna Johnson preempted world rights to How to Love a Feminist and On the Clock from Tanya McKinnon at McKinnon Literary. McKinnon said How to Love a Feminist is an essay collection about “love, justice, intersectional feminism, and activism,” while On the Clock examines “the powerful connections between racism and the ways we think about time.” 
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