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Seven Percent Of Ro Devereux by Ellen O’Clover

Jan 172023
 

Ro Devereux can predict your future. Or, at least, the app she built for her senior project can.

Working with her neighbor, a retired behavioral scientist, Ro created an app called MASH, designed around the classic game Mansion Apartment Shack House, that can predict a person’s future with 93% accuracy. The app will even match users with their soulmates. Though it was only supposed to be a class project, MASH quickly takes off and gains the attention of tech investors.

Ro’s dream is to work in Silicon Valley, and she’ll do anything to prove to her new backing company—and the world—that the app works. So it’s a huge shock when the app says her soulmate is Miller, her childhood best friend with whom she had a friendship-destroying fight three years ago.

Now thrust into a fake dating scenario, Ro and Miller must address the years of pain between them if either of them will have any chance of achieving their dreams. And as the app takes on a life of its own, Ro sees that it’s affecting people in ways she never expected—and if she can’t regain control, it might take her and everything she believes in down with it.

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Review: Seven Percent of Ro Devereux by Ellen O’Clover

Jan 172023
 

School Library Journal: Excellent insight on life and relationships in this debut that teens can take away from this beautiful, slow-burn contemporary romance…. Fans of Rachel Lynn Solomon and John Green will not be able to put this one down. It will fit right in with the YA collection of any public library.

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December Translation Rights Deals

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.

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Review: The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

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.

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Deal: Finley Turner

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.

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November Subsidiary Rights Deals

Nov 302022
 

a pair of black ear budsAudio 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.

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November Translation Rights Deals

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.

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