German rights to Jim Butcher’s FURIES OF CALDERON, Book 1 of the Codex Alera series, renewed by Blanvalet, via Bastian Schlueck at the Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Jennifer Jackson.
Dutch rights to NYT bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp’s THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS, to Harper Holland, at auction, by Philip Sane and Katarina Bohlin at The Lennart Sane Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Jennifer Udden.
German rights to NYT bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp’s THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS, to Fischer, in a pre-empt, by Julia Aumuller at Thomas Schlueck Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Jennifer Udden.
French rights to Anna Zabo’s JUST BUSINESS and DUE DILIGENCE, to Bragelonne, by Katharina Loix van Hooff at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Katie Shea Boutillier at on behalf of Jennifer Udden.
Congratulations to Kathryn Craft on The Far End of Happy receiving the bronze for Contemporary Fiction for the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards!
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.
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. 
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.