Audio rights to LJ Andrews’s GAME OF HATE AND LIES and DANCE OF KINGS AND THIEVES, Book 5 and 6 of Broken Kingdom series, to Kate Runde at Podium Audio, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier (world English).
Audio rights to S.B. Divya’s novella RUNTIME, to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books, at auction, by Katie Shea Boutillie on behalf of Cameron McClure.
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Authors of THE ROUGHEST DRAFT Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka’s THE BREAK-UP TOUR, pitched as a Taylor Swift-inspired romance about a singer whose breakout album is about all of her ex-boyfriends, including the one from college she never got over, and who is now joining her on tour, to Kristine Swartz at Berkley, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2024, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Audio rights to N.S. Perkins’s THE INFINITY BETWEEN US, to Cassie Hanjian at Podium Audio, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
One warm summer night twenty-five years ago, Liza Gold and her friends celebrated their high school graduation with a party on the beach. It should have been the best night of their lives, only one of them never came back out of the ocean.
The tragedy haunted Liza Gold for years. Now, she’s a recently divorced working mom struggling to connect with her standoffish teenager daughter Zoe when history repeats itself. Another young woman has drowned at Beach Week, and this time the victim is Zoe’s secret best friend.
Liza begins to suspect that the two deaths are somehow related, which causes her to face hard truths and take an unflinching look at the people she’s called her closest friends for the past two decades. She must discover what really happened to both women before it’s too late.
Audio rights to Emily Childs’s THE VEGAS KINGS series, to Kate Runde at Podium Audio, in a three-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Audio rights to Iori Kusano’s debut novella HYBRID HEART, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, by Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
From critically acclaimed Shaun David Hutchinson comes a gritty and raw portrayal of the oftentimes traumatic experience of growing up.
Virgil Knox was attacked by a monster.
Of course, no one in Merritt believes him. Not even after he stumbled into the busy town center, bleeding, battered, and bruised, for everyone to see. He’d been drinking, they said. He was hanging out where he wasn’t supposed to, they said. It must’ve been a bear, or a badger, or a gator—definitely no monster.
Virgil doesn’t think it was any of those things. He’s positive it was a monster. But being the new kid in a town where everybody knows everybody is hard enough as it is without being the kid who’s afraid of monsters, so he tries to keep a low profile.
Except he knows the monster is still out there. And if he isn’t careful, Virgil’s afraid it’ll come back to finish him off, or worse—that he’ll become one himself.
If high school seniors Siena and Patrick were a superlative, they’d be Couple Most Likely to Marry. Three solid years of dating, and everyone agrees they’re perfect for each other. But with college on the horizon, Siena begins to wonder whether staying together is the best idea. Does she really want to be tied down during the most transformative years of her life? So she makes a decision to break up with Patrick, convincing herself it’s for the best. Though, before she can get the words out, he beats her to the punch: his family is moving. He’ll be spending senior year in Austin. A thousand miles away. Caught off guard by the news, Siena agrees to stay with Patrick, believing their relationship will naturally fizzle out with time and distance. But over a series of visits throughout the school year, Siena begins to see a different side of Patrick–one that has her falling in love with him all over again.
Audio rights to Emily Childs’s LOVE AND ROCK series, to Kate Runde at Podium Audio, at auction, in a four-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier (world English).
Tara Weikum at HarperTeen has preempted Ellen O’Clover’s debut novel Seven Percent of Ro Devereux. When her senior project—a future-predicting app based on the game MASH—goes viral, 18-year-old Ro and her app-selected match/ex-best friend Miller become the public faces of a phenomenon that spirals out of control. Publication is set for winter 2023; Katie Shea Boutillier did the six-figure, two-book deal for world English rights.
Victoria Fulton (left) and Faith McClaren (right)
Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren’s ELLIE IS COOL NOW, in which a TV writer who didn’t peak in high school is given the ultimatum by her boss to go to her 10-year reunion or lose her big break, and takes the bait to (hopefully) prove once and for all, she is cool now, originally published via Wattpad, to Madeleine Colavita at Forever, in a very nice deal for publication in winter 2023, by Katie Shea Boutillier.