Apr 212016
Congratulations to Kathryn Craft on The Far End of Happy receiving the bronze for Contemporary Fiction for the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards!Mar 312016
Diane Duane’s GAMES WIZARDS PLAY, the 10th book in the long-standing Young Wizards series, to Melanie Donovan at Recorded Books, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
On behalf of Prime Books, audio rights to Richard Parks’ Yamada Monogatori: The Emperor in Shadow, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry.
Mar 142016
Publishers Weekly: As with Anatomy of a Misfit (2014), Portes’s second YA novel has a seductive zaniness and almost unstoppable exuberance. Sixteen-year-old Willa Parker, a small-town girl and native Iowan, reluctantly heads east to a fancy New England boarding school, where she meets Remy Taft, an infamous student from a famous family, who adopts Willa like she’s a wide-eyed puppy. Though it takes some wading through Willa’s mile-a-minute internal monologue in the opening chapters, once her adventures with Remy begin, the story turns into a heartfelt, hilarious thrill. Willa’s dry observations can be laugh-out-loud funny (“I’m not sure what the cutoff point is for gyrating in sparkly clothes, but I can tell you some of these people are really pushing it,” she says of the crowd at a Brooklyn club). But Willa’s early announcement of a plan to kill herself and other foreshadowing hint that Portes’s characters are careening toward tragedy, with Remy at the center of a brewing storm. Willa’s memorable voice and humor, as well as her longing to cultivate relationships that will anchor her more firmly to the world, will linger with readers.
Mar 102016
Kirkus: See the girl on the train, the white one “with the frizzy red hair and funny mouth”? That’s 16-year-old Willa Parker. Willa has a simple two-point plan: move to the East Coast…and kill herself.
Willa leaves her hometown of What Cheer, Iowa (you heard that right), to attend The Pembroke School and (presumably) go on to Princeton, because her wealthy economist mother (who divorced Willa’s father and left them with nothing) says she “should.” Willa’s plan is derailed when she meets the ultraprivileged, uber-hip Remy Taft (yes, related to the president), the oddly friendless queen of Pembroke. The girls develop a close friendship, complete with witty-cute banter, a late-night joy ride on a stolen golf cart, and frequent Ecstasy trips. As Remy pushes Willa out of her comfort zone, Willa forgets her suicide plan, but it soon becomes apparent self-absorbed Remy has several secrets of her own. As Willa tries to save her best friend from destroying herself, she’s also figuring out whether or not she’s neighboring Witherspoon Prep hottie Milo Hesse’s girlfriend. Surrounded by wealth, Willa often questions the unfairness of privilege; her scholarship status and Midwest origins often make her feel inferior and out of place. Her first-person narration is self-deprecating, deeply thoughtful, and thoroughly funny, with a sometimes-chiding direct address that pulls readers into her confidence.
Snarky and painfully astute. But in a good way.
Mar 092016
Ronnie’s husband is supposed to move out today. But when Jeff pulls into the driveway drunk, with a shotgun in the front seat, she realizes that nothing about the day will go as planned. Unlike the slow, private disintegration of their marriage, the next few hours spiral down in a flash as special response troops swarm the property. How will Ronnie find a way to protect her family and move forward if Jeff is determined to stand off? Based on an event from the author’s life.
Feb 292016
German rights to Robert McCammon’s SPEAKS THE NIGHTBIRD, Book 1 of the Matthew Corbett series, to Luzifer, by Franka Zastrow at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Japanese rights for Elizabeth Bear’s KAREN MEMORY to Tokyo Sogensha by Kohei Hattori at The English Agency (Japan) in association with Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry.
Italian rights to Marieke Nijkamp’s THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS, to Newton Compton, by Stefania Fietta atSilvia Donzelli Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Jennifer Udden.
French rights to Emma Newman’s PLANETFALL, to J’ai Lu, by David Camus at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Jennifer Udden.
Spanish rights to Marieke Nijkamp’s THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS, to Libros de seda, by Jennifer Hoge at International Editors’ in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Jennifer Udden.
German rights to Adam Christopher’s MADE TO KILL, to Papierverzierer, by Julia Aumuller at Thomas Schlueck Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Stacia Decker.
Feb 292016
Holly Messinger’s CURIOUS WEATHER, Book 2 in the Jacob Tracy series, to Steve Feldberg at Audible, by Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Amy Boggs.
Jane Haddam’s ACT OF DARKNESS and QUOTH THE RAVEN, to Michael Olah at Dreamscape, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Ronald Malfi’s THE NIGHT PARADE, to Haila Williams at Blackstone, by Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Feb 102016
Lori Herter’s NO TIME FOR LOVE, TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, ALL OUR TOMORROWS and PRIVATE SCREENINGS, to Kurt Mueller at Speaking Volumes, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Jan 312016
Czech rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF BLADES, Book 2 of The Divine Cities series, to Host, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure.
French rights to Jo Walton’s MY REAL CHILDREN and TOOTH AND CLAW, to Denoël, by David Camus at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Hungarian rights for Anne Bishop’s first four books in the Others series: WRITTEN IN RED, MURDER OF CROWS, VISION IN SILVER, and MARKED IN FLESH to Twister Media by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry.
Hungarian rights for Seth Dickinson’s THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT to Gabo Kiado by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry.
Romanian rights for Seth Dickinson’s THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT to Grupul Editorial Art SRL by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Jennifer Jackson and Michael Curry.
Estonian rights to Robert Sheckley’s eight titles in the Arnold and Gregor series, to Fantaasia, by Alexander Korzhenevski Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Japanese rights to Mur Lafferty’s THE SHAMBLING GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY, to Tokyo Sogensha, by Kohei Hattori at The English Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Jennifer Udden.
Oct 312015
Hungarian rights to Robert Jackson Bennett’s CITY OF STAIRS, to Agave, by Milena Kaplarevic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Turkish rights to Brent Weeks’s The Lightbringer series, to Ithaki, in a four-book deal, by Idil Pisgin at Onk Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
German rights to Seth Dickinson’s acclaimed debut THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT to Fischer Verlag/Tor Germany, in a pre-empt offer, by Bastian Schlueck and Julia Aumüller of the Schlueck Agency, in association with Jennifer Jackson.
German rights to Michael Fletcher’s BEYOND REDEMPTION, to Luebbe, by Franka Zastrow at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
French rights to Clayton Lindemuth’s MY BROTHER’S DESTROYER, to Marie-Caroline Aubert at Le Seuil, by David Camus at Anna Jarota Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
German rights to Anne Bishop’s WRITTEN IN RED, MURDER OF CROWS, and VISION IN SILVER, the first three books in the New York Times bestelling Others series, to Drachenmond Verlag by Franka Zastrow at the Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.