Deal of the Week

Norton Takes Journalist Tonya Mosley’s Memoir
Zeba Arora at W.W. Norton acquired, at auction, U.S., Canada, and open market rights to In Case of My Death by Fresh Air cohost and Emmy Award–winning journalist Tonya Mosley from Tanya McKinnon at McKinnon Literary. The debut memoir sees Mosley “deconstruct the ways that Black women have been taught to silence themselves, and will interweave personal stories with this examination,” per the publisher. Publication date is TBA.

Aethon to Publish Shadow Slave Series
The publisher acquired English-language rights to Guiltythree’s dark fantasy adventure series from digital platform WebNovel.

Ken Follett to Publish Second Novel with Hachette
The British author is reteaming with Hachette Book Group’s Grand Central Publishing for his next novel, The Deep and Secret Things, slated for September 2027.

Bantam Takes Thriller Series from Idris Elba, Adam Hamdy
Julian Pavia acquired, in a three-book deal, U.S. rights to Exiles, a series starter centered on MI6 field operative Joe Kane, from Nicola Barr at Rye Literary. Release is planned for May 2027.

Doubleday Sets New John Grisham Novel
Suzanne Herz at Doubleday announced the acquisition of U.S. rights to Grisham’s latest thriller, The French Illusion, from David Gernert at the Gernert Company. Publication is set for September 29.

More New Book Deals of Note
Among this week’s offerings are Esther, the Butcher, a debut novel by Finnish author Mariia Niskavaara, about “a woman who grows up working at a butcher’s shop and longs to have a baby”; Maria Hummel’s Dorothea, a historical novel based on the life of the 18th-century German storyteller who was the source of many of the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm; and Divine Standard Time, a memoir-slash-toolkit by former global head of literary at WME Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.

The Latest in Children’s and YA Deals
New projects this week include Queen of Hearts by Jenna Voris, pitched as a sapphic To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, in which a high school senior, after a devastating breakup, decides to interview every boy who’s ever broken her heart in an attempt to win back her ex, only to realize she might have feelings for the girl he dumped her for; To Our Untamed Core by NBA finalist Sonido Reyes, a YA dystopian novel about a boy who survives by hiding his truth until his boyfriend is sentenced to El Torneo—a brutal, fight-to-the-death game—where he must risk everything to save him; and Once Upon a Dreamboat by Chantel Acevedo and Natalia Sylvester, a middle grade romantic comedy about two cousins who meet a romance novelist aboard a cruise ship and use her expertise to try to land dates to the ship’s teen dance.

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