Deal of the Week

Holt Lands Francis-Sharma’s Latest
Retha Powers at Holt won, at auction, world rights to Ask Me to Remember by Carol Shields Prize finalist Lauren Francis-Sharma from Victoria Sanders, who has an eponymous agency. The intergenerational novel, “set between late-1990s New York and the post-9/11 era, follows a high-achieving Black woman navigating midlife, loss, and societal expectations, who discovers a surprising path back to radical self-love and community care,” per the publisher. A fall 2027 publication is scheduled.

HarperCollins Takes Four More from Gilmore
The four-book deal with Laurie Gilmore, the author of the hit cozy romance The Pumpkin Spice Café, includes two more books in her Dream Harbor series, both slated for a global release in 2027. World all language rights were acquired by Charlotte Ledger and Jennie Rothwell, and Amy Tannenbaum at the Jane Rotrosen Agency handled the deal.

More New Book Deals of Note
Among this week’s offerings are an as-yet-untitled book by Dean W. Ball, an architect of the White House’s 2025 AI Action Plan, that investigates the social impacts of AI; Reuben Miller’s Another World, in which the MacArthur “genius” grant recipient traces the “legacy of Black ‘freedom-making’ back in time”; and debut author Charlotte Peters’s The Silver Bounty, the first in a Wild West romantasy duology following a “sheltered young woman who sets out on a journey alone across the frontier,” only to “strike a deal with a notorious and devilishly handsome outlaw.”

The Latest in Children’s and YA Deals
New projects this week include Carolina Ixta’s When We Lived There, about a teen who tries to get expelled from her wealthy private school in hopes of returning to her home in East Oakland following her family’s eviction; Where Time Ends, a YA debut by Megan Fletcher pitched as The Last of Us meets The Last Bookstore on Earth, a post-apocalyptic sapphic romance for fans of Neal Shusterman; and Down Came a Blackbird by Dana Schwartz, a gothic historical-fantasy novel about the teenage Elizabeth Tudor—future Queen Elizabeth I—fighting for her place in the succession with the help of the ghosts of the dead wives of Henry VIII.

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