French rights to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s MARKED IN FLESH, Book 4 of the Others series, to Bragelonne, by David Camus at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
German rights to Jim Butcher’s ACADEM’S FURY, Book 2 of the Codex Alera series, renewed by Blanvalet, via Bastian Schlueck at the Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
Japanese rights to NYT bestselling author Emily Brightwell’s MRS. JEFFRIES TAKES STOCK, to Tokyo Sogensha, by Kohei Hattori at The English Agency, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Thai rights to Shaun David Hutchinson’s WE ARE THE ANTS, to The Reading Room, by Itzel Hsu at The Grayhawk Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Amy Boggs.
Czech rights to Brent Weeks’s THE BLOOD MIRROR, Book 4 in the Lightbrigher series, to Fantom Print, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Russian rights to Jo Walton’s AMONG OTHERS, to AST, by Alexander Korzhenevski Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
German rights to the Nebula and Hugo Award winner for Best Novella, Nnedi Okorafor’s BINTI novella series, to Michael Schuster at Cross Cult, in a three-book deal, for ebook and omnibus publication, by Julia Aumuller at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier.
Leena Likitalo’s THE FIVE DAUGHTERS OF THE MOON plus sequel, to Haila Williams at Blackstone, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier, on behalf of Cameron McClure.
Alyssa Raymond and William Kiester at Page Street have bought Lynn Slaughter’s It Should Have Been You, in which a cyberstalked high-school advice columnist takes matters into her own hands to figure out the secrets behind her twin sister’s murder, putting herself in grave danger. Publication is slated for winter 2018; Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency brokered the deal for world rights.
USA TODAY bestselling author Kaira Rouda’s BEST DAY EVER, narrated by a husband who’s promised his wife that the first day of their romantic vacation will be her “best day ever,” but who might actually have more sinister intentions, to Margo Lipschultz for the new Graydon House imprint, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier.
Joy Peskin at Farrar, Straus Children’s has acquired award-winning playwright Mariah MacCarthy’s Squad, about a cheerleader who suddenly becomes alienated by her best friend and cheer squad and is set out to discover who she is without the things that always defined her. It’s planned to publish in Fall 2018; Katie Shea Boutillier of Donald Maass Literary Agency brokered the deal for world rights.
Eliza Maxwell’s self-published first novel, THE GRAVE TENDER, a hauntingly beautiful story set in a claustrophobic small town in Texas about a broken family where no one is who they seem, and one woman willing to go to any lengths to set things right, and her next novel, THE UNREMEMBERED GIRL, a twisted love story set in the brutal woods of east Texas about a gentle soul who falls for a mysterious abandoned feral girl, until the strength of their love turns against them in dangerous ways, to Miriam Juskowicz at Lake Union Publishing, in a two-book deal, by Katie Shea Boutillier.