Publishers Weekly: [A] tech-driven debut about love, fate, and change.
Jan 102023
Dec 302022
Arabic rights to Nnedi Okorafor’s BINTI TRILOGY, to YATKHYLON by Katie Shea Boutillier for Donald Maass.
Czech rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ FUGITIVE TELEMETRY, the sixth installment in the Murderbot Diaries series, to Dobrovský, by Nada Popovic at Prava i prevodi in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
Dutch rights to Annika Martin and Skye Warren’s PRISONER and HOSTAGE, to Petra Kruijt at April, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Hungarian rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ WITCH KING, to Fumax, by Milena Kaplarević at Prava i prevodi in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
Israeli rights to Pam Godwin’s LESSONS IN SIN, to U Sifrut Shenogaat, by Beverley Levit at The Israeli Association of Book Publishers Ltd., on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier.
Portuguese renewal rights to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s WRITTEN IN RED and MURDER OF CROWS, the first two books in the Others series, to Saída de Emergência, by Inés López at International Editors’ Co. in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
Dec 142022
Entertainment Weekly: Making their adult fiction debut, Wibberley and Siegemund-Broka, a couple turned writing duo turned husband and wife, have crafted a book about two writing partners, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen, who are themselves in denial about their romantic feelings for each other all while they write about other complicated couples. It’s a meta mind-trip that sets the stage (or the page, rather) for a meditation on writing, the power of prose, and the terrible cost of fear. Few books this year understood so deeply the thrall of books, and the freedom of only revealing one’s truest self in the pages of fiction. The Roughest Draft is an angsty tale of two emotionally blocked writers figuring out how to be honest with each other, but it’s also an ode to the ways in which stories can expose our vulnerabilities if we let them.
Dec 132022
Finley Turner’s debut THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY, when a woman becomes the primary suspect of a murder at her very own engagement party, she must come to terms with her secrets in order to prove her innocence, to Holly Ingraham at Crooked Lane, for publication in November 2023, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Dec 062022
Publishers Weekly: Romance readers will have a blast.
Nov 302022
Audio rights to LJ Andrews’s DEN OF BLADES AND BRIARS, book seven of The Broken Kingdom series, to Kate Runde at Podium Audio, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Audio rights to Adele Buck’s CENTER STAGE series, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, in a four-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Audio rights to Sara Codair’s JUNK JUNCTION, a young non-binary person who can talk with ghosts must save their mother after she’s turned into a mannequin by a poltergeist, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Audio rights to Robin C.M. Duncan’s THE MANDROID MURDERS, a new future sci-fi with a quirky detective, his foulmouthed teenage sidekick, and a murder who can jump android bodies, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Audio rights to Daniel Eavenson, Heather and William C. Tracy, ed.’s THE WORLD OF JUNO, a science fantasy anthology of the timeline and history of a new world with three completely different species, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Audio rights to Chris Gerrib’s ONE OF OUR SPACESHIPS IS MISSING, a sci-fi space hesit; when a lesbian pirate queen hijacks a spaceship, a gay detective tracks her, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Chaitanya Murali’s novella AJAKAVA, the son of indigenous tribespeople must work with a colonizing scientist to learn about the ancient scorpion god who used to guard his homeland, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Audio rights to William C. Tracy’s OF MYCELIUM AND MEN, a fleet of generational ships land on a new world entirely covered by a sentient fungus, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, in a three-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Nov 302022
Estonian rights to New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher’s DEAD BEAT, book 7 in the Dresden Files series, to Kirjastus Fantaasia, by Nada Popovic at Prava i prevodi in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
Hungarian rights to New York Times bestselling author Tamsyn Muir’s NONA THE NINTH, the third book in the Locked Tomb series, to Fumax, by Milena Kaplarević at Prava i prevodi in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
Polish rights to Shaun David Hutchinson’s WE ARE THE ANTS, to Znak by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier.
Portuguese rights to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s CROWBONES, the latest book set in the World of the Others, to Saída de Emergência, by Amaiur Fernández at International Editors’ Co. in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
Spanish rights to Jo Walton’s THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS, to Duermevela by Amaiur Fernandez at International Editors’, on behalf of Katie Shea Boutillier for Cameron McClure.
Nov 152022
Publishers Weekly: Readers won’t be able to turn the pages fast enough.
Nov 092022
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Adele Buck’s HEARTS ON FIRE, in which an English professor tries to torch her ex-boyfriend’s piano after a problematic attempt at winning her back and falls for the firefighter who answers the 911 call, to John Jacobson at a new unnamed imprint at Harlequin, in a three-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Nov 082022
A cherished heirloom opens up a century of secrets in a bittersweet novel about family, hard truths, and self-discovery by the author of Millicent Glenn’s Last Wish.
Melanie Barnett thinks she has it all together. With an ex-fiancé and a pending promotion at a Kentucky bourbon distillery, Melanie has figured out that love and career don’t mix. Until she makes a discovery while cleaning her Jordan MX car, a scarlet-red symbol of the Jazz Age’s independent women that she inherited from her great-great-great-aunt Violet. Its secret compartment holds Violet’s weathered journal―within it an intriguing message: Take from this story what you will, Melanie, and you can bury the rest. Melanie wonders what more there is to learn from Violet’s past.
In 1921 Violet Bond defers to no one. Hers is a life of adventure in Detroit, the hub of the motorcar boom and the fastest growing city in America. But in an era of speakeasies, financial windfalls, free-spirited friends, and unexpected romance, it’s easy to spin out of control.
Now, as Melanie’s own world takes unexpected turns, her life and Violet’s life intersect. Generations apart, they’re coming into their own and questioning what modern womanhood―and happiness―really means.