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Deal of the Week
Sanders Returns with Interstellar Romance
Ashley Fortier at Simon Maverick won, at auction, in a two-book deal, North American rights to The Stars Between Us by Shae Sanders from Quressa Robinson at Folio Literary Management. Per the publisher, the novel follows an “astroinfluencer” poised to become the first Black woman to walk on the moon. When her ship suffers a malfunction, she’s brought into the orbit of the first Black man to walk on the moon, a disgraced former “golden child” of NASA tasked with leading her rescue mission. A September 2027 release is set.
Kristin Hannah Sets Next Novel
Jennifer Enderlin at St. Martin’s Press acquired U.S. and Canada rights to The Fire from Andrea Cirillo and Rebecca Scherer at the Jane Rotrosen Agency. The book is Hannah’s first in three years, after the mega-besteller The Women.
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More New Book Deals of Note
Among this week’s offerings are Vincenzo Barney’s Augusta: An American Muse, an expansion of his 2024 Vanity Fair profile of Cormac McCarthy’s lover; the debut novel from Emma Hine, Flotilla, about a young woman living amid a fleet of aging spaceships in the distant future; and For You I Would Forget by Zeyneb Holdridge, about a woman in Istanbul who must make a deal with a jinn to save her family’s bathhouse.
The Latest in Children’s and YA Deals
New projects this week include The Bidding Season by debut author Ali Brown, a dystopian YA novel pitched as The Bachelor meets The Handmaid's Tale, in which a rebellious girl must pretend to be a high-value bride when she’s thrust into a ritual marriage auction; A Gloss, a Glass, a Flower by Joy McCullough, about three young women in 1945, 1991, and 2028, linked through time by a miniature couture exhibit created in Paris in the wake of WWII; and a second untitled novel about a laundress in a traveling medicine show; and From the Clear Blue Sky by Jackie Akiko Cloud, a YA novel set 10 years after September 11, about a teen girl who lost her father in the towers but finds evidence he is still alive.

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