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Deal of the Week CreativeSoul Book Goes to St. Martin’s Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the founders of CreativeSoul Photography studio and authors of Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty, sold a new book to Monique Patterson, v-p, editorial director, acquisitions outreach at St. Martin’s Publishing Group. Creative Soul Fairy Tale Book, Patterson explained, is a “book of popular fairy tales showcasing children from the African diaspora, CreativeSoul style,” aimed at kids ages eight and up. It’s a book, she said, that she “would have adored having as a child.” Tanya McKinnon of McKinnon Literary sold world rights to Creative Soul Fairy Tale Book. Publication is planned for winter 2023. Dray, Kamoie Re-up with Morrow Lucia Macro, v-p and executive editor at HarperCollins’s William Morrow division, has re-signed the bestselling writing team of Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie to a new two-book deal. Macro acquired world rights from Kevan Lyon at the Marsall Lyon Literary Agency to Founding Mother: The Story of Abigail Adams and a second untitled novel. The publisher described the Adams novel as the “heart-wrenching and uplifting story” of the first lady’s relationship with her daughter—“the relationship that buoyed her, broke her, then built her up again.” Founding Mother is planned for summer 2024. Previous historical fiction by Dray and Kamoie include My Dear Hamilton. Schmitz’s ‘Fire’ Burns for New World Library New World Library’s Georgia Hughes acquired world rights to Latina entrepreneur Elisa Schmitz’s Become the Fire from agent Jacqueline Flynn at Joelle Delbourgo Associates. Schmitz is the founder of iParenting Media, which she sold to Disney, and is currently CEO of 30Seconds, which she launched in 2011. Flynn said that in Become the Fire, Schmitz “sets to inspire outsider women who want to start something, grow something, build something, or become something they have always dreamed of being.” Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran (pictured), a YA coming-of-age ghost story that sets a girl's navigation of her Vietnamese American bisexual identity against both the dark legacy of colonialism and a blossoming summer romance; The Queen's Cup by Don't Breathe a Word author Jordyn Taylor, pitched as John Tucker Must Die meets Promising Young Woman in a darkly comic YA feminist mystery; and You Bet Your Heart by debut author Danielle Parker, a contemporary YA rom-com in which a star student finds herself tied for high school valedictorian with her childhood best friend-turned-rival, and agrees to settle the score through a series of bets. Akashic Buys Duchovny Novella Akashic Books publisher and editor-in-chief Johnny Temple acquired world rights to The Reservoir by author and actor David Duchovny. Originally published as an audiobook by Audible Original, the novella is set to be released in print and digital in June 2022. Akashic described the work as “a twisted rom-com for our distanced time, when the merest touch could kill and conspiracy theories propagate like viruses.” Andrew Blauner of Blauner Books Literary Agency represented Duchovny. Beacon Acquires Golding Memoir Maya Fernandez at Beacon Press bought North American rights to Shenequa Golding’s debut from Kathy Schneider of the Jane Rotrosen Agency. The agent described A Black Girl in the Middle as a “memoir-in-essays collection.” Golding is an essayist and entertainment writer who focuses on Black culture. Her work has appeared in Complex, Essence, Vanity Fair, and Vibe. Her essay “Maintaining Professionalism in the Age of Black Death Is... a Lot” went viral when it was published on Medium in May 2020. Spiegel & Grau Takes Smith Memoir Alison Smith (Name All the Animals) sold her new memoir to Cindy Spiegel of Spiegel & Grau. Gail Ross at the Ross Yoon Agency handled the sale of North American and first serial rights to The Echo: Hearing Voices, Talking Back, and Confronting the Mysteries of Consciousness. In the book, the publisher said, Smith discusses her experiences, from her childhood to the present, as a voice hearer, and explores what it means to hear voices. 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, 49 West 23rd Street Ninth Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2021, PWxyz LLC

Deal of the Week Yang Goes ‘Forward’ with Crown Entrepreneur, presidential candidate, and New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang sold his next book to Crown executive editor Paul Whitlach. Set for release in October, Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy will examine what it is really like to run for president, while also issuing a “scathing indictment of America’s era of institutional failure,” the publisher said. In the book, it added, Yang argues that a series of reforms, including data rights and fact-based governance, are the keys to “jump-starting political and economic systems that are breaking down.” Crown took world rights from David Larabell at CAA. Green’s ‘Stardust’ Settles at Hanover In a three-book deal, Hanover Square Press senior editor John Glynn acquired North American and audio rights to bestselling author Jane Green’s novel Sister Stardust, as well as her next two books. Sister Stardust, the publisher said, will be a work of historical fiction set in the 1960s in London and Marrakesh that “reimagines the glamorous and tragic life of fashion icon and socialite Talitha Getty and the opulent counter-culture scene she presided over.” The deal was brokered by Wendy Sherman at Wendy Sherman Associates and Alex Glass at Glass Literary Management on behalf of Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown UK. An April 2022 publication is planned. Davis Finds a Home at HarperOne Judith Curr, president and publisher of HarperOne, acquired North American rights, including audio, from CAA to Finding Me, a memoir from actor and producer Viola Davis. The publisher described the book as “a true hero’s journey” that will “capture the hearts and minds of Ms. Davis’s legions of fans around the world.” Davis has a host of credits to her name, including an Oscar-winning performance in Fences. She also picked up an Emmy for her work in How to Get Away with Murder. The memoir, set for release next April, is being published in partnership with Ebony. Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson (pictured), a YA fantasy set in a world in which magic is patented by corporations and potions are produced in factories and sweatshops; debut novel The Vines in the Wall by Lauren Yero, a star-crossed YA love story set in a near-future Chile where walled-in cities protect the world's wealthy few from the outside world's environmental devastation; and The 51 Files, a debut middle grade series by YA author Julie Buxbaum, illustrated by Lavanya Naidu, a humorous, illustrated series pitched as The Last Kids on Earth meets Men in Black. Bantam Dell Tackles ‘Jackal’ In a six-figure preempt, Jenny Chen at Bantam Dell took world English rights to two novels by Erin E. Adams, a first-generation Haitian American writer and theater artist. Kerry D’Agostino at Curtis Brown Ltd. brokered the deal. She said Jackal, Adams’s debut novel, follows a young Black woman who, after returning to small-town Appalachia, “discovers something in the nearby woods that’s been taking Black girls for years, and now it’s taken her best friend’s daughter.” The second novel is a mystery involving Haitian mysticism and spiritual deaths. Jackal is scheduled for a fall 2022 release. Avery Votes for Reed Steven Reed, who was elected the first Black mayor of Montgomery, Ala., in November 2019, sold his first book, a memoir, to Joanna Ng at Penguin Random House’s Avery imprint. In Raising Kings: Lessons in Manhood from Civil Rights’ Greatest Generation, written with Fagan Harris, Reed “shares lessons in leadership and fatherhood that he learned from his father and hopes to pass on to the next generation,” according to the publisher. Ng took North American rights from Peter McGuigan at Ultra Literary on behalf of Traci Wilkes Smith at CSE. Raising Kings is slated for fall 2022. Agora Buys Journalist’s Debut Journalist Sena Desai Gopal’s debut novel, The 86th Village, was acquired by Chantelle Aimée Osman at Polis Books imprint Agora Books. The novel, the publisher said, revolves around plans for a government dam that could submerge 86 villages in southern India, but when an orphan girl appears, events take a series of unexpected turns. Priya Doraswamy at Lotus Lane Literary sold world rights to Agora. 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, 49 West 23rd Street Ninth Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2021, PWxyz LLC

Deal of the Week Knopf Enjoys the ‘Tranquility’ with Mandel Knopf’s Jenny Jackson bought U.S. rights to Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility from Katherine Fausset at Curtis Brown Ltd. The novel is, according to the publisher, “a story of time travel that probes many aspects of reality.” Written during the pandemic, Sea of Tranquility “moves from British Columbia in 1912 to an outpost on the moon in 2401” as it explores “themes that will be familiar to Mandel’s many readers—time, art, love, wilderness, what makes the world real—and introduces readers to a remarkable cast of characters.” The book is slated for 2022. RH Rolls Out Red Carpet for Harry Prince Harry sold a currently untitled memoir to Random House. Offering scant details about the acquisition, the publisher said the book will be released by Transworld in the U.K., Random House in the U.S., and Random House Canada in Canada, adding that “additional publishing territories will be announced at a later date.” PRH CEO Markus Dohle made the announcement, but the publisher declined to name the editor or agent involved with the acquisition. Tentatively slated for late 2022, the book will, PRH said, be “an intimate and heartfelt memoir from one of the most fascinating and influential global figures of our time” and “the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him.” Prince Harry will donate his proceeds from the book to charity. Tamblyn Sells Anthology to Park Row Laura Brown at Park Row Books bought Amber Tamblyn’s essay anthology Listening in the Dark, the actor’s seventh book. She’ll be contributing to and editing the collection, which will feature essays from a variety of boldface names—including America Ferrera, Amy Poehler, Jia Tolentino, and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley—and will explore “women’s intuition,” according to the publisher. “In a world where women are revolutionizing politics, entertainment, and our health-care system, and creating movements infiltrating patriarchal systems to change the world,” Park Row said, “much has been left unsaid about what underpins and guides this progress—women’s intuition.” Tamblyn was represented in the North American rights agreement by Anthony Mattero at Creative Artists Agency. Listening in the Dark is set for 2022. Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include Mina Fears's (pictured) The Scorpion Queen, inspired by a Malian fairy tale and steeped in West African traditions, pitched as Uprooted meets Children of Blood and Bone; The Sister Split, a middle grade debut by Auriane Desombre (I Think I Love You), pitched as a reverse Parent Trap, in which a girl teams up with her future stepsister to stop their parents from getting married; and YA debut novel Briarcliff Prep by Brianna Peppins, set at a historically Black boarding school inspired by the author's alma mater, Spelman College, in which freshman Avi navigates a budding romance and dreams of writing for the prestigious school newspaper, while grappling with her sister's abusive relationship with another student. Dey Street Dances on Rippa’s ‘Wire’ Talk show host and actor Kelly Rippa sold her first book, an essay collection titled Live Wire, to Dey Street. Carrie Thornton took North American rights at auction from Cait Hoyt at Creative Artists Agency. Live Wire features essays on a range of topics including motherhood, childhood, and marriage, Dey Street said. The book puts Rippa’s “thoughtfulness, assertiveness, and deep understanding of the dynamics of gender and power on full display.” Live Wire is slated for 2022. Booker Winner Re-ups at Grove Peter Blackstock at Grove Press bought Douglas Stuart’s sophomore novel Young Mungo, which follows his much-lauded debut, 2020 Booker-winner (and National Book Award–finalist) Shuggie Bain. Set on a Glaswegian estate, the new novel follows two young men, Mungo and James, who should be enemies—one is Catholic and the other is Protestant—but, instead, fall in love. Young Mungo, Grove said, is “a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men.” It’s “a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the push and pull of family, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.” Stuart, who is Scottish American, was represented in the North American rights agreement by Anna Stein at ICM Partners. (Grove has sold Canadian rights to the novel to Knopf Canada.) Young Mungo is set for April 2022. 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, 49 West 23rd Street Ninth Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2021, PWxyz LLC

Deal of the Week S&S Nabs Dan & Jason MG Series For a significant six-figure sum, Kendra Levin at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers bought world English rights to three titles in a new middle grade comic series titled Barb, by the author-illustrator team of Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson. (The duo, credited simply as Dan & Jason, are known for such series as Blue, Barry & Pancakes.) Erica Rand Silverman at Stimola Literary Studio represented the authors, and the first book under contract, Barb the Last Berzerker, is slated for fall 2021. The second is set for spring 2022, and the third for fall 2022. SSBYR described the series as “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power meets Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man.” It follows Barb, “a young Berzerker who has to rescue her fellow warriors from the evil villain Witch Head before he takes over the world.” RH Drinks Up ‘Lemonade’ Poet Random House’s Caitlin McKenna acquired Somali British poet Warsan Shire’s debut full-length collection, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head. McKenna bought U.S. rights from Samar Hammam at Rocking Chair Books, and RH said that translation rights have sold in eight territories to date. The publisher added that in the book, Shire “finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls.” Shire was born in Nairobi and grew up in London, won the inaugural Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and she served as the first young poet laureate of London. Her poetry also featured prominently in Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade. Bless the Daughter is set for March 2022. CIA Veteran Sells Story to St. Martin’s Enrique “Ric” Prado sold Black Ops to St. Martin’s Press. The memoir, subtitled The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior, is slated for March 2022 and details the author’s more than two decades working for the CIA, during both the Cold War and the “war on terror.” Marc Resnick took world rights from the late Jim Hornfischer at Hornfischer Literary Management. St. Martin’s said Prado is “the first CIA covert operator of significant rank and standing to write a full operational memoir.” In the book, he “shares a harrowing true story of life in the deadly world of assassins, terrorists, spies, and revolutionaries.” Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include Reggie & Delilah's Year of Falling by Elise Bryant (pictured), a YA rom-com that follows two Black teens, the lead singer of a punk band and a D&D Dungeon Master, as they fall in love through a series of missed connections and chance meetings over the course of one year; The Ice Cream Machine, a middle grade debut by Dragons Love Tacos author Adam Rubin, a humorous collection of six stories in a range of genres—including sci-fi, fantasy, and adventure—each illustrated by a different artist; and an untitled middle grade fantasy by Girl and the Ghost author Hanna Alkaf, inspired by a Malaysian folklore twist on "Little Red Riding Hood," which follows a 13-year-old girl who defies her family's rules and walks through the jungle, only to meet a talking tiger trapped by a curse whose fate can only be changed by the quest that lies ahead. Scribner Is ‘Hooked’ on Gibson British angler Marina Gibson sold Hooked to Scribner’s Kara Watson. The Simon & Schuster imprint described the book as a memoir “of fishing, love, and loss about Gibson’s pursuit of a passion passed on by her mother, the quiet magic of angling, and the epic, continent-traversing journeys of 10 migratory fish.” Watson took North American rights from Rebecca Wearmouth, head of foreign rights at the British agency Peters Fraser + Dunlop, on behalf of PFD literary agent Adam Gauntlett. Gibson is the founder of the Northern Fishing School in North Yorkshire. Ages Tells Her ‘Secrets’ to Avery For Avery, Megan Newman and Nina Shield bought world rights to Alyssa Ages’s Secrets of Giants. Ages is a journalist (who writes for, among other outlets, Publishers Weekly) and former personal trainer who has run multiple marathons and competed in strongman competitions. The book, Avery said, follows her on “an immersive journey into the world of strength” that will reveal “the physiological, psychological, and cultural explanations of how the pursuit and possession of strength can permeate every aspect of our lives, from building resilience and confidence, to finding joy in pain, to handling adversity.” James Levine at Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary represented Ages in the agreement. 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, 49 West 23rd Street Ninth Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2021, PWxyz LLC

Deal of the Week Dorman Hunts Irwin’s ‘Fortune’ In a two-book deal at auction, Pamela Dorman bought Sophie Irwin’s A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting for her eponymous imprint at Penguin. The North American rights agreement was brokered by Madeleine Milburn at London’s Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency. There has been a flurry of foreign rights sales for the novel as well, in Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the U.K., and elsewhere. A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting is, Dorman Books said, “a clever, escapist historical romance” that follows bride-to-be Kitty Talbot, who, after being jilted by her fiancé in 1818 London, sets out to find a wealthy replacement to keep her family from financial ruin. Irwin lives in London and worked in publishing for a number of years before becoming a full-time freelancer. A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting is slated for a summer 2022 release. St. Martin’s Nabs Bishop’s ‘Girls’ For six figures, Sarah Cantin at St. Martin’s Press bought Katie Bishop’s debut novel, The Girls of Summer. Sarah Scarlett at Penguin Random House UK handled the two-book, North American rights agreement on behalf of Ariella Feiner at United Agents. The Girls of Summer, Cantin said, is a dual-timeline novel about a married woman in her mid-30s who “has never been able to let go of the all-consuming love affair she had with an older man while traveling around the Greek islands as a teenager.” In pitches, she added, the novel was compared to My Dark Vanessa and Three Women. HarperVia Heads Down Under for Birch’s ‘Girl’ At HarperVia, Judith Curr and Rosie Black acquired world English rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) to Tony Birch’s The White Girl from University of Queensland Press rights manager Kate McCormack. The novel is set in a small Australian town during the 1960s and, HarperVia said, “sheds light on the devastating government policy of taking Indigenous children from their families while celebrating the heartwarming love between grandmother and granddaughter.” Released in Australia in 2019, The White Girl won the 2020 New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Indigenous Writing; it has also been optioned for feature adaptation by Typecast Entertainment, with Tracey Rigney attached to direct. The book is slated for release in March 2022. Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, (pictured), the bestselling YA novelist’s new story that follows young journalist Safiya Mirza, and her investigation into the disappearance of teen inventor Jawad Ali, as she confronts the insidious nature of racism, the costs of unearthing hidden truths, and the power of hope; middle grade series The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves by debut author Tom Phillips, pitched as A Series of Unfortunate Events meets Enola Holmes, in which a down-on-his-luck 12-year-old teams up with the greatest detective you've never heard of to track down the world's slipperiest criminal; and Big Bear and Little Bear Go Fishing by Amy Hest, a picture book about an unlucky fishing trip and the gift of companionship, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Erin E. Stead. Educator’s Memoir Goes to RH Ruth J. Simmons, president of Prairie View A&M University, sold her memoir, Up Home: One Girl’s Journey, to Random House’s David Ebershoff at auction. The author has broken ceilings and boundaries in academia. In 2001, she was named president of Brown University, becoming the first African American to lead an Ivy League school. (Prior to that, she was the first Black president of Smith College.) Up Home, Random House said, details Simmons’s youth as “the 12th child of sharecroppers in rural, segregated Texas and Houston’s Fifth Ward,” exploring subjects ranging from “family, place, racial and economic injustice, and the power of books and education in a young person’s life.” Wendy Strothman at the Strothman Agency brokered the world English rights agreement. Putnam Invests in Clarke’s U.K. Hit G.P. Putnam’s Son’s Danielle Dieterich bought One of the Girls by bestselling British author Lucy Clarke (The Castaways) in a two-book deal at auction. (Previously, Putnam’s Sally Kim edited Clarke.) The publisher described the novel as “a delicious, atmospheric thriller” set on a Greek island, “where six women celebrate a bachelorette party that takes a terrible turn when one of the group winds up dead.” Grainne Fox at Fletcher & Company handled the U.S. rights agreement on behalf of Judith Murray at Greene and Heaton. One of the Girls is scheduled to be published in summer 2022. Nat Geo Signs Bucket List Clan For National Geographic Books, Allyson Johnson acquired National Geographic’s Guide to Family Travel Around the World by the Bucket List Family. The book is credited to Jessica Gee, who has traveled around the world with her husband and three children and documented their experiences on YouTube and Instagram. The publisher said the title will detail the family’s “best tips and tricks for traveling with children” and list “50 destinations and recommendations for family-friendly travel around the world.” Kristy Sowin, the Gees’ business manager, represented the family. S&S Buys Bilyeu Book Lisa Bilyeu, host of the Women of Impact podcast, sold a currently untitled book to Simon & Schuster about empowerment. Leah Miller took North American rights from Celeste Fine at Park & Fine. The book, set for May 2022, is built around the author’s concept of “radical confidence” and, S&S said, will give readers “a no-nonsense approach to becoming the ‘hero of your own life.’ ” Bilyeu is a housewife turned entrepreneur who cofounded the protein bar company Quest Nutrition. She is also the cofounder, along with her husband, of Impact Theory Studios, which bills itself as “a mission-based studio focusing on the development of empowering fiction and nonfiction content.” Bloomsbury Investigates North’s ‘Bog’ Anna North, the bestselling author of Outlawed, sold Bog Queen to her standing publisher, Bloomsbury. Julie Barer at the Book Group took North American rights from Callie Garnett. In the novel, the publisher said, “the discovery of an Iron Age bog body draws an anthropologist into mystery, controversy, and a reckoning with her own past against the backdrop of humanity’s deep history.” 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, 49 West 23rd Street Ninth Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2021, PWxyz LLC

Deal of the Week Khanna Makes ‘Tech Work’ for S&S Ro Khanna, a congressman whose district includes Silicon Valley, sold Dignity in a Digital Age to Simon & Schuster. The book, subtitled Making Tech Work for All of Us, was acquired by executive editor Stephanie Frerich in a world rights agreement from Jim Levine at the Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency. S&S said Khanna tackles “equal access to technology,” one of the pressing issues of our day, and makes the case for “democratizing digital innovation in order to build economically vibrant and inclusive communities.” Before being elected to Congress, Khanna served as deputy assistant secretary of commerce in the Obama administration. Orbit Sprinkles Abdullah’s ‘Stardust’ After an auction, Orbit’s Brit Hvide won world English rights, for six figures, to a debut epic fantasy trilogy by Chelsea Abdullah, which the author described as “Arab inspired.” She was represented by Jennifer Azantian of Azantian Literary Agency. The first novel, The Stardust Thief, slated for May 2022, is influenced by One Thousand and One Nights and, Azantian explained, is set in a world with “dangerous jinn, magical artifacts, shifting dunes, a legendary smuggler, and a cowardly prince.” It follows the smuggler and the prince as they set off on a quest through the desert to retrieve a lamp that “could revive a barren land.” Calandrelli Gets ‘Curious’ for Prism Cara Bedrick at Chronicle Prism bought Emily Calandrelli’s Stay Curious and Keep Exploring from Jennifer Keene and Kyell Thomas at Octagon in a world rights agreement. The publisher said the science guide for families features “50 experiments that use easy-to-find items, apply STEM research to real life, and spark curiosity and critical thinking.” Calandrelli is an MIT-educated engineer who hosts (and coexecutive produces) the Netflix show Emily’s Wonder Lab. Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include The Davenports, a debut YA novel by Krystal Marquis (pictured), which follows the daughters of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man and now wealthy entrepreneur, as they find their way—and find love—in a rapidly changing country in 1910; Chaos & Flame, a YA fantasy duology co-written by Justina Ireland and Tessa Gratton, about rival houses and the two scions—one raised in darkness, the other in war—swept up into the game their dangerous prince regent is playing; and Amy Christine Parker's Flight 171, pitched as Final Destination meets Stephen King's Storm of the Century; about a girl who boards a plane bound for a ski trip with her classmates, and ends up fighting for survival against a creepy old woman who shows the kids what will happen if they don't choose one of their own to sacrifice: she'll crash the plane. Ballantine ‘Heals’ with Bradford Psychologist Joy Harden Bradford sold Sisterhood Heals to Chelcee Johns at Ballantine Books. Johns preempted North American rights from Rebecca Gradinger at Fletcher & Company. Bradford hosts the podcast Therapy for Black Girls, and her book, according to Ballantine, is “a celebration and guide to the transformative nature of Black women’s relationships with one another.” It addresses such topics as “the evolution of sisterhood” and “the process of finding your people.” Sisterhood Heals is set for summer 2023. Avery Buys Barrat’s Book on Suicide Avery’s Caroline Sutton bought North American rights to James Barrat’s Solving Suicide from William Clark at William Clark Associates. Barrat is a documentary filmmaker, and the book is a companion to a September 2022–slated PBS special on the topic that he directed. Clark said Solving Suicide melds personal stories with “optimistic findings and actionable advice” about suicide from scientists, policymakers, psychiatrists, and others. Algonquin Eats Nguyễn’s ‘Dust’ World rights to Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quê Mai were acquired by Algonquin’s Betsy Gleick from Julie Stevenson at Massie & McQuilkin. Nguyễn is the author of the lauded 2020 bestseller The Mountains Sing (also published by Algonquin), and her sophomore novel follows three American and Vietnamese families from the 1960s to the present as they grapple with trauma, according to the publisher. Dust Child focuses, Algonquin added, on “the ostracizing of abandoned Amerasian people in Vietnam.” 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, 49 West 23rd Street Ninth Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2021, PWxyz LLC

Deal of the Week George’s Debut Goes to St. Martin’s In a seven-figure, two-book preempt, Sarah Cantin at St. Martin’s Press bought Bloomsbury UK assistant editor Jessica George’s debut novel, Maame. George was represented by Michelle Brower at Aevitas Creative Management, working on behalf of Jemima Forrester at U.K.-based David Higham Associates. The book, St. Martin’s said, follows a 20-something British Ghanaian woman in London who is navigating “family conflict, dating, unfulfilling work, roommates who aren’t quite friends, grief, and cultural differences in the wake of a personal tragedy.” The novel was compared, in pitches, to The Other Black Girl and Queenie. In the U.K., Hodder & Stoughton won Maame in an eight-house auction. Podcasters Talk Race at Park Row Yseult Polfliet Mukantabana and Hannah Summerhill, who cohost the Kinswomen podcast, sold Real Friends Talk About Race: Bridging the Gaps Through Uncomfortable Conversations to Park Row Books. Laura Brown preempted world rights from Tess Callero at Europa Content. The publisher said the book, like the podcast, will examine a range of race-related topics, offering “two perspectives on the covert and overt ways racism shows up in our daily lives and interactions, and what the responsibilities of both white people and people of color are to bridge the gaps.” Real Friends Talk About Race is set for fall 2022. Tordotcom Gets ‘Desperate’ with Tesh For six figures, Ruoxi Chen at Tordotcom bought North American rights to two novels by Emily Tesh. The publisher said the first, Some Desperate Glory, set for 2022, follows a young soldier who “trains to avenge the murder of Earth at the hands of an all-powerful, reality-shaping alien weapon before discovering she might have to take everything into her own hands.” The second book in the deal is a currently untitled fantasy standalone. Tesh (the Greenhollow Duology) was represented by Kurestin Armada at Root Literary. Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include Fraternity, the first YA novel from actor and writer Andy Mientus (pictured), about a secret society of queer kids at an all-boys’ boarding school who uncover a book of dark magic and use its power to find their own—at a huge cost; A Song Called Home, the debut middle grade novel from National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr, in which Lou finds a guitar left by her front door and assumes it’s a gift from her absent, alcoholic father; and Alex Wise vs. the End of the World by Terry J. Benton-Walker, a middle grade contemporary fantasy series opener in which a 12-year-old boy is reeling from his best friend abandoning him after he revealed that he's gay. Monáe’s ‘Librarian’ Checks Out Voyager Multihyphenate Janelle Monáe sold a cyberpunk story collection, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories from Dirty Computer, to Harper Voyager. David Pomerico took North American rights from William Morris Endeavor’s Eve Atterman and Suzanne Gluck. Voyager said the book, which Monáe collaborated on with other writers, expands on the Afrofuturistic world she created in her 2018 album Dirty Computer. (The album follows a character named Jane 57821, who breaks free of a worldwide system of thought control ruled by a nebulous group that believes it has the power to decide all creatures’ fates.) The publisher added that the collection, set for April 2022, “explores how different threads of liberation—queerness, race, gender plurality, and love—become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape... and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms.” Jenner’s ‘Girls’ Join St. Martin’s Natalie Jenner, author of the 2020 international bestseller The Jane Austen Society, has re-upped with St. Martin’s Press. She sold Bloomsbury Girls to Keith Kahla at the Macmillan imprint. The novel, set in 1950 London, is planned for spring 2022. St. Martin’s said it “relates the struggles and triumphs of three female employees of a century-old tradition-bound London bookshop, each of whom is striving to establish independent creative, professional, and personal lives.” Mitchell Waters at Brandt and Hochman handled the North American rights agreement for Jenner. 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, 49 West 23rd Street Ninth Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2021, PWxyz LLC

 

Deal of the Week Holt Wins Wolff’s ‘Landslide’ Michael Wolff sold another book about the Trump presidency to Henry Holt. Sarah Crichton acquired North American rights to Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency from Andrew Wylie at the Wylie Agency. It’s the author’s third title about the former president, following his 2018 runaway bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House and the 2019 follow-up, Siege: Trump Under Fire. Holt said Landslide “closes the story of Trump’s four years in office and his tumultuous last months at the helm of the country” and offers “a wealth of new information and insights about what really happened inside the highest office in the land, and the world.” The book, which is embargoed, will publish July 27 and has a first serial set to appear in the July 5 issue of New York magazine. McMillan Cottom Goes to Random House National Book Award–finalist and MacArthur fellow Tressie McMillan Cottom closed a two-book deal with Random House’s Kate Medina and Jamia Wilson. The duo acquired North American rights to Basic, a work about the cultural underpinnings of white identity, and a memoir titled The Vivian from William Morris Endeavor’s Dorian Karchmar. Basic, RH said, is “a paradigm-shifting exploration of how white identity is created, commodified, and disseminated as a dominant cultural, economic, and political force.” The Vivian will examine “contemporary Black motherhood through the lens of McMillan Cottom’s own experiences with her mother and draws upon the history of the Jim Crow South, the post–civil rights movement, and America’s foundational brutality towards Black mothers.” McMillan Cottom is a sociologist and associate professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science. Kushner Lands at Broadside HarperCollins’s Broadside Books took world rights to a currently untitled work by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of, and former senior advisor to, President Trump. Eric Nelson bought the book, slated for early 2022, from David Vigliano at Vigliano Associates. Broadside said it “will be the definitive, thorough recounting of the administration—and the truth about what happened behind closed doors” and called Kushner “the most consequential advisor throughout President Trump’s presidency.” Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include bestselling author Jen Calonita's (pictured) middle grade novel 12 to 22, a modern-day 13 Going On 30  about a tween girl who transports in time via TikTok, and discovers that at 22 she has everything she thought she always wanted—but growing up too fast can have unexpected consequences; a debut middle-grade series by YA author Misa Sugiura called Momo Arashima and the Sword of the Wind, pitched as Aru Shah meets Amari and the Night Brothers; and Margot Harrison's high-concept YA thriller We Made It All Up, in which 16-year-old Celeste moves to small-town Montana to escape her past, only to become embroiled in her new home's dark, twisted secrets. Nardone Is Welcome at Random House For six figures, Marie Pantojan at Random House bought North American rights to two books, at auction, by Mai Nardone. The author, who’s contributed to outlets including Guernica and McSweeney’s, was represented by Massie & McQuilkin agents Rob McQuilkin and Max Moorhead. The first title is a debut linked story collection, Welcome Me to the Kingdom, set in Bangkok. McQuilkin said it stretches over the course of three decades, “before, during, and after the 1997 financial collapse,” and illuminates “greater truths about class, race, and religious belief at the center of a Thai culture buffeted by the economic and cultural headwinds of global capitalism.” Welcome Me to the Kingdom is set for 2022, with the second book, an untitled novel, not yet scheduled. Clark Lies for Sourcebooks The Lies I Tell was acquired in a North American rights agreement by Shana Drehs at Sourcebooks’ Landmark imprint. The novel is the second thriller by Julie Clark, following her 2020 bestseller The Last Flight (also published by Landmark). The Lies I Tell follows, Landmark said, what happens when the lives of two women collide: a con artist who holds men accountable for their misdeeds by fleecing them, and a reporter who’s spent years trailing her. As the two characters become more intertwined, “it becomes unclear who is conning whom.” The Lies I Tell is slated for a June 2022 release. Mollie Glick at Creative Artists Agency represented Clark. 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, 49 West 23rd Street Ninth Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2021, PWxyz LLC

 

Deal of the Week Scribner Buys Abedin’s Memoir Scribner’s Nan Graham acquired world English rights to Huma Abedin’s memoir, Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds. It details, according to the publisher, the “inspiring story” of the author’s “coming of age as an American Muslim, the daughter of Indian and Pakistani scholars who split their time between Saudi Arabia, the U.S., and the U.K.” Abedin has been a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton and is in the process of divorcing former congressman Anthony Weiner. Graham said Both/And is a “superb and significant memoir about the shaping of a character and the extraordinary worlds in which Abedin has traveled.” Abedin was represented in the deal by Creative Artists Agency. Jonas Bros. Spill ‘Blood’ for Dey Street The Jonas Brothers sold Blood to Carrie Thornton at Dey Street Books, which is calling the book their “first and fully immersive memoir.” The band—composed of Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas—was represented in the world rights agreement by Byrd Leavell and Albert Lee at United Talent Agency. Dey Street said Blood will share the brothers’ “complete story, from their Disney days through their contentious breakup and explosive reunion.” It’s being written with music journalist Neil Strauss, and Matthew Daddona at Dey Street is editing. According to the publisher, the Jonas Brothers have sold more than 22 million albums. New Press Nabs Police Abolition Title Diane Wachtell and zakia henderson-brown at the New Press bought world rights to No More Police: A Case for Abolition by authors and longtime organizers Mariame Kaba (We Do This ’Til We Free Us) and Andrea J. Ritchie (Invisible No More) in an unagented deal. The book, the publisher said, “makes a compelling case that police can’t be reformed to produce safety” and offers “a road map to a world in which the tools to prevent and address violence are multiplied.” No More Police is slated for May 2022. Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include All My Rage by An Ember in the Ashes author Sabaa Tahir (pictured), a contemporary YA novel set in the Mojave Desert that addresses themes of cultural identity, family, forgiveness, love, and loss through the eyes of two best friends; The New Friends by Kara Thomas (The Cheerleaders and That Weekend), a YA thriller pitched as The Stepford Wives meets Dare Me; and Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao (the Blood Heir series), first in a YA xiānxiá Chinese fantasy series that follows a song girl in a conquered land whose last remnant of her mother—and the fallen Hin dynasty of her ancestors—is the symbol seared onto her hand. Policy Comic Goes to First Second Mark Siegel at First Second bought world rights to The Greater Good, written by Whit Taylor, with art by Joyce Rice. The publisher described the adult graphic novel as being about “public health and the policy and infrastructure that facilitates it.” Taylor was represented by Judy Hansen at Hansen Literary, and Rice was represented by Kate McKean at Howard Morhaim Literary. The Greater Good is set for 2023. Castillo Does Double at Viking In a North American rights agreement, Elaine Castillo (America Is Not the Heart) sold an essay collection and a novel to Laura Tisdel at Viking. The publisher said the collection, How to Read Now, is about “the politics and ethics of reading.” The novel, Sexual History, is about a Filipinx American artist who, with her white husband, “road-trips from the Bay Area to Las Vegas to attend the funeral of the artist’s older half brother, who abused her when she was a child.” The collection is slated for a summer 2022 release, and the novel for winter 2024. Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander represented Castillo. Loftis’s ‘Watchmaker’ Repairs to Morrow Bestselling author Larry Loftis (The Princess Spy) sold The Watchmaker’s Daughter at auction to Mauro DiPreta at William Morrow in a U.S., Canadian, and open market rights deal. Loftis was represented by Keith Urbahn and Matt Carlini at Javelin. Urbahn said the nonfiction book tells the story of Corrie ten Boom, who was “a groundbreaking female Dutch watchmaker who sheltered Jews and refugees from the Nazis, and persevered despite the loss of most of her family and being sent to a 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, 49 West 23rd Street Ninth Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2021, PWxyz LLC

 

Deal of the Week Nwabineli’s Debut Goes to Graydon With a six-figure preempt, Graydon House’s Cat Clyne won Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli, who was born in Nigeria, raised in Scotland and England, and now lives in London and works in tech. The publisher said the debut novel follows a British Nigerian woman mourning her husband’s suicide as she tries to balance “toxic in-laws, her boisterous immigrant family, and society’s pressure to ‘move on.’ ” It was “strongly influenced by the author’s own immigrant experience” and “reads like Jojo Moyes’s After You meets Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom with a sprinkling of Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You.” Amy St. Johnston at Aitken Alexander Associates brokered the world English rights agreement. Someday, Maybe is set for winter 2023. Payne Does Jane for Berkley After a four-way auction, Cindy Hwang at Berkley won world rights to two novels by Nikki Payne. Both are Black contemporary reimaginings of Jane Austen novels, and the first, Pride and Protest, was pitched, the publisher said, as “Pride and Prejudice meets Black-ish.” Pride and Protest follows DJ Liza B, who, in her attempt to reclaim her Washington, D.C. neighborhood from a property developer, has her plans dashed when “she mistakes the smoldering hot CEO for the waitstaff.” The second book under contract is an update of Sense and Sensibility. Payne was represented in the deal by Kim Lionetti at BookEnds Literary Agency. She works at Facebook as a qualitative researcher and has a PhD in cultural anthropology. Pride and Protest is set to be released in 2023. Urrea Re-ups at LB Luis Alberto Urrea sold world rights to two new books to Ben George at Little, Brown. Good Night, Irene, George said, is set for 2022 and was 20 years in the making. It was inspired by the author’s mother, who worked for the Red Cross during World War II as a “Donut Dollie,” going to the front lines to deliver food and moral support to soldiers. Zebras in Tijuana, George explained, follows “a young man in Tijuana who befriends a zebra, not knowing that the animal has escaped from the personal zoo of a drug lord.” Urrea, a bestseller and finalist for both a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, was represented by Julie Barer of the Book Group. Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include Kismat Connection by debut author Ananya Devarajan (pictured), an #OwnVoices YA romance about a girl whose family legacy dictates that she will marry her first boyfriend, so she ropes her best friend into a fake dating experiment to prove the existence of her free will, pitched as When Dimple Met Rishi meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days; Imposter Syndrome and Confessions of Alejandra Kim, the YA debut of Patricia Park, an American University professor and the author of Re Jane, in which a Korean American Latina in her senior year navigates growing pains, grief, best friendship, and identity politics; and the first work of nonfiction by Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, about Josefina "Joey" Guerrero, a Filipina woman with leprosy who worked as a spy for the guerilla underground on behalf of the Allies during World War II. Viking Nabs Kerouac Bio Paul Slovak at Penguin bought North American rights to Jack Kerouac: A Writer’s Life, an estate-sanctioned biography by Holly George-Warren (Janis: Her Life and Music). The publisher said the book will illuminate the writer’s “complicated and in many ways tragic life.” It will also “examine the evolution of Kerouac’s writing process and style, and face head-on the difficult aspects of his story, including how his ideas about race, sexual identity, and gender changed throughout his life.” George-Warren was represented by Laura Nolan at Aevitas Creative Management, while the Kerouac estate was represented by Jeffrey Posternak at the Wylie Agency. Disney Backs Kagawa to Launch Duology Kieran Viola at Disney Hyperion acquired world rights to two books composing a middle grade duology by bestseller Julie Kagawa. The books are based on the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, a fictional secret society created by Walt Disney Imagineering (Disney’s research and development arm). Fan groups have sprung up around the society, which has nods to its backstory inserted into attractions at various Disney theme parks around the world. The first book under contract, Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl, follows, the publisher said, 12-year-old Shinji, who “sees his life take a turn for the anything-but-ordinary when a magical guardian decides to use him as a conduit to awaken its power.” Shinji Takahashi is slated for April 2022 and was acquired from Laurie McLean at Fuse Literary. 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 Elliott’s ‘Child’ Joins Random House Invisible Child, by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Andrea Elliott, was acquired in a North American rights deal by Kate Medina at Random House. The debut nonfiction book, which is subtitled Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City and is set for October, chronicles eight years in the life of Dasani Coates, a girl experiencing homelessness in Brooklyn. The publisher said Elliott spent nearly 10 years reporting the project. The “sweeping narrative” weaves stories of Dasani’s life and childhood with her family history, “tracing the passage of her ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration.” Random House added that the book is “by turns heartbreaking and inspiring” as it “illuminates some of the most critical issues in America through the life of one remarkable girl.” Elliott, who was previously a staff writer at the Miami Herald, is now an investigative reporter at the New York Times; in addition to a Pulitzer, she has won a number of reporting awards, including a George Polk Award and a Scripps Howard Award. She was represented in the deal by Tina Bennett at Bennett Literary. Atria Re-ups Correa in Triple In a rumored seven-figure agreement, Armando Lucas Correa sold The Silence in Her Eyes and two other novels to Daniella Wexler at Atria. Correa, author of the international bestseller The German Girl (which was recently optioned for TV adaptation), was represented by Johanna Castillo at Writers House in the world rights deal. Atria described Silence as “a Hitchcockian thriller about a motion-blind young woman who, after just losing her mother, becomes entangled in an act of violence connected to a new tenant in her New York apartment building.” The other two books are currently untitled—both are works of historical fiction. The first is a family saga that follows a Cuban clan over the course of generations. The second is, Atria said, “a love story that interweaves the last-minute separation of two young soulmates on the Kindertransport in 1939 Berlin with the Operation Pedro Pan child-rescue mission that took place in Cuba 23 years later.” Noblin Does Double at Morrow For six figures, Lucia Macro at William Morrow re-signed Annie England Noblin (Sit! Stay! Speak!) in a two-book deal. Priya Doraswamy at Lotus Lane Literary negotiated the world rights agreement. The first book under contract, Christmas at Corgi Cove, follows a woman who, while trying to save her family’s lakefront inn from going under, stumbles into an unexpected romance. The heroine, the publisher explained, must contend with “an attractive and infuriating hotelier who makes an offer that is difficult for her to refuse.” Corgi Cove is set for summer 2023, and the second book will be released in summer 2024. Children's/YA Deals Roundup New projects this week include Songs of Irie by actor Asha Bromfield (pictured), who currently stars on the TV show Riverdale, a YA novel set in ’70s Jamaica in the midst of devastating political turmoil; The 9:09 Project by Mark Huntley Parsons, pitched as I’ll Give You the Sun meets Tell Me Three Things, which follows 17-year-old Jamison Deever as he returns to the same street corner at 9:09 each night to take a photo in the vein of Dorothea Lange; and a YA novel about Okoye from the Black Panther franchise by NBA finalist Ibi Zoboi, in which Okoye leaves Wakanda for the first time when she accompanies King T'Chaka on a humanitarian mission to America. Celadon Ties Down Michaelides Bestselling author Alex Michaelides (The Silent Patient) signed a new two-book deal with his current publisher, Celadon Books. Ryan Doherty took North American rights to the currently untitled novels from Sam Copeland at Rogers, Coleridge & White. Michaelides’s next book, The Maidens, is being released by Celadon in June. Stanford Gets ‘Happy’ at Viking Happy for You by Claire Stanford was bought at auction by Lindsey Schwoeri at Viking. The Wylie Agency’s Jackie Ko brokered the North American rights deal. The novel, Viking said, is “the story of a young woman who leaves academia for a job at a tech company where she is tasked with helping to quantify happiness.” It explores “Asian American identity, gender roles, and the impact of increasingly invasive, norm-reinforcing apps and algorithms on our relationships with others and with ourselves, through one woman’s journey to find an authentic happiness all her own.” Stanford is a PhD candidate in English at UCLA. Happy for You is set for spring 2022. 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, 49 West 23rd Street Ninth Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone 212-377-5500 Copyright 2021, PWxyz LLC