Nita Prose Returns to Ballantine for Next NovelHilary Teeman acquired North American rights to
Emerald Lake, about an octogenarian forced to reckon with a mystery from her past, from
Madeleine Milburn, who has an eponymous agency. It marks Prose’s first book outside her bestselling Maid series.
Bramble Lands New Devney Perry SeriesIn a four-book, eight-figure deal,
Susan Barnes at Bramble and
Gillian Green at Tor Bramble UK won world English rights to the City of Saint series, a set of interconnected standalone dystopian romances from the
Shield of Sparrows author.
Georgana Grinstead at the Seymour Agency handled the deal.
More New Book Deals of NoteAmong this week’s offerings are
Annalee Newitz’s
Noodle Union, a sequel to their 2025 cozy science fiction novella
Automatic Noodle, about a robot-run noodle restaurant;
From Before Memory, the first novel in eight years from
David Vann, about a nonagenarian who leads a rebellion in a near-future dystopian America; and
Jenny McCarthy’s comedic take on menopause,
I’m Too Hot for This $#!+.
The Latest in Children’s and YA DealsNew projects this week include
This Blood Will Betray Us by
Emma Clancey, an enemies-to-lovers contemporary fantasy in which an 18-year-old conwoman is hired by the son of a billionaire tycoon to infiltrate a ring of magic thieves to root out a saboteur;
Titanos by
Scott Reintgen, a sci-fi retelling of the
Titanic about two star-crossed lovers set aboard an intergalactic ship on a 50-year journey where the passengers age according to their economic status; and
Once Upon a Snowfall by
Lydia Gregovic, a YA romantasy story inspired by the film
Anastasia, in which the long-lost princess returns to Paris to break the Romanov curse once and for all.
Berkley Takes Nava’s Meta Romance
