Author of FINDING TESSA and IT COULD BE ANYONE Jaime Lynn Hendricks’s I DIDN’T DO IT, when a famous writer is murdered at a national thriller conference, four other authors receive death threats via text and a sinister Twitter account and band together to find out who’s behind it, soon finding they’re living a thriller novel themselves, turning on each other, and wondering if one of them is next—or if one of them is a killer, to Luisa Smith at […]
Review: Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
NPR: Nothing But Blackened Teeth is visually stunning. Of course, a novella is just words but Khaw’s command of language in service of an image — their brilliance when it comes to wedding image with emotion — is sheer perfection here, with gorgeous turns of phrase that deepen our understanding of the characters and their responses to one another. Atmosphere seeps from every page, and you really feel like you too are exploring this house, like this house is closing […]
Deal: A.J. Hackwith
Acclaimed Hell’s Library series author A.J. Hackwith’s new novel HOLLOW ROAD HOME and its sequel, pitched as a queer, millennial American Gods, about a fae working at a truck stop in Wyoming to hide from her past until she’s blackmailed by a self-taught magician to guide him and his sister—a girl born with a changing map on her skin—across the strange backroads and forgotten spaces of the gothic American Midwest in search of a powerful treasure, to Miranda Hill at Ace for publication in […]
Deal: Mandy McHugh
Author of CHLOE CATES IS MISSING, Mandy McHugh’s next domestic thriller, PLAY THE FOOL, about a woman who loses everything to her bumbling husband and plots his murder, only to get set up when someone else beats her to it, to Luisa Smith at Scarlet, in a nice deal, by Anne Tibbets.
Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2021
Congratulations to Darcie Little Badger for having A SNAKE FALLS TO EARTH chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2021!
Deal: Jim Butcher
New York Times Bestselling author Jim Butcher sold THE DRESDEN FILES: BIGFOOT, the sixth graphic novel in the ongoing series. Creator Jim Butcher returns alongside co-writer Mark Powers and artist Joe Cooper to re-imagine some hard to find Dresden short stories. Combined with new material, it sees the noted professional wizard taking on a new assignment from the famous cryptid. Dresden Files: Bigfoot features a cover from Chris McGrath. Slated for release in February, it will be available in hardcover and […]
Review: The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling
New York Times: Caitlin Starling’s THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE is a jewel box of a Gothic novel, one filled with ghosts and sorcery, great stores of romance, medical curiosities and so much galloping about in carriages that there is hardly a moment to catch your breath.
Congratulations to Cassandra Khaw!
Congratulations to Cassandra Khaw! NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH debuted on USA Today’s Best Selling Book List at #137!
October Subsidiary Rights Deals
Audio rights to Becker Gray’s HELLFIRE CLUB SERIES, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, in a five-book deal, at auction, to Katie Shea Boutillier. Audio rights to New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy’s THE RELUCTANT BRIDE, THE RUTHLESS GROOM and THE ARRANGED MARRIAGE, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, in a three-book deal, at auction, to Katie Shea Boutillier. Audio rights to USA Today bestselling author K Webster’s CINDERELLA TRILOGY, TRIPLE THREAT and DEATH WISH, to Kate Runde at Podium Audio, […]
October Translation Rights Deals
German rights to Chelsea Polk’s THE MIDNIGHT BARGAIN, to Piper, at auction, by Sarah Knofius at the Thomas Schlueck Agency on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Caitlin McDonald. Spanish rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s THE FOUNDERS TRILOGY, to Trini Vergara, in a three book deal, by Amaiur Fernanadez at International Editors’, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure. Spanish rights to New York Times bestselling author Tamsyn Muir’s NONA THE NINTH, the third book in the Locked Tomb […]








