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Deal: E.B. Asher

Apr 282026
 
Author photo of Austin Siegemund-Broka and Emily Wibberley.

Photo credit: Sue Grubman

Bridget Morrissey, Emily Wibberley, and Austin Siegemund-Broka writing as E.B. Asher’s LAST NIGHT IN LYRIS, pitched as The Hangover meets THE ATLAS SIX, in which three magical university dropouts might be the only ones who can save the school and the city from a curse that’s been cast the night before graduation—if they can remember what they did last night, to Priyanka Krishnan at Avon, for publication in fall 2027, by Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary for Morrissey and Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency for Wibberley and Siegemund-Broka (world).

Film/TV: Olivia Fanaro and Maialie Fitzpatrick at UTA