Alex Star at FSG took U.S. rights to End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein (l.) and Astra Taylor (r.). The authors were represented by Kimberly Witherspoon at InkWell Management and Melissa Flashman at Janklow & Nesbit Associates, respectively. Per FSG, the book explores a “new iteration of the far right” comprising an alliance of “religious fundamentalists, Silicon Valley technologists, and ethno-nationalists” who are “united in their belief that some kind of cleansing cataclysm is coming” and “convinced they will be among the saved.” Release is set for September 2026.

(photo: Kamil Bialous and Rachel McIntosh)

Deb Futter at Celadon landed North American rights to an as-yet-untitled nonfiction book from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and star Lauren Graham, from Cait Hoyt, Mollie Glick, and Esther Newberg at CAA. The book will offer a behind-the-scenes look at Sherman-Palladino and Graham’s creative partnership, as well as personal reflections and stories from the set of the aughts-era dramedy, per the publisher. Publication is scheduled for fall 2027.

Karen Kosztolnyik at Grand Central picked up North American rights to The King of Scandal by Regina Black from Sharon Pelletier at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. The romance novel is “about a struggling single mother who unexpectedly inherits a stake in her ex-fiancé’s billion-dollar company, causing tension to reignite between them as she also uncovers a century-old injustice that forces her to choose between reclaiming her family’s stolen legacy and a second chance with the man she never stopped loving,” per the publisher. Publication is planned for summer 2027.

υMaddie Caldwell at Random House preempted world rights to Heather Radke’s Juvenalia from Alice Whitwham at the Cheney Agency. The publisher called the book “a blend of memoir, archaeology, folklore, developmental psychology, and reportage that explores the often forgotten wildness of preadolescent girlhood and how this early period of rebellion and unruliness has been expressed and constrained from antiquity to the present—and asks what it might mean to reclaim it.” A spring 2028 publication is planned.

Nidhi Pugalia at Viking preempted North American and open market rights to Vic James’s The Rose Rivals and The Rose King from Ginger Clark, who has an eponymous agency, on behalf of Robert Kirby at United Agents. The two novels comprise “an alternate-history romance duology set in the Wars of the Roses, following the real-life, passionate, and obsessive rivalry of King Edward IV and Henry Beaufort,” the publisher said. A 2027 release is planned for The Rose Rivals; no pub date has been announced for The Rose King.

In Brief

  • Duncan Baizley at Titan Manga secured world English rights to the manga adaptation of Japanese mystery-horror novel Strange Pictures by Uketsu, with art by Aiba Noriyuki, translated by Andria McKnight, from Mami Nakanishi at Tuttle-Mori. The first volume is set for June 2026.

  • Rasheeda Saka at Seven Stories preempted world rights, excluding South Africa, the Netherlands, and the U.K., to Keletso Mopai’s debut novel We Belong to the Trees, in which an act of racial violence shocks a small town in post-apartheid
    South Africa, from Laura Gross, who has an eponymous agency, for a November 2026 release.

  • David Pomerico at Harper Voyager preempted world rights to the first three books of Ryan Rimmel’s self-published litRPG series Noobtown, about a young man who dies and finds himself in a video-game-like world where he must level up to survive, from Lenny Herbert at Maximum Orbit. The first volume is set for June 2026.

  • Molly Stern at Zando acquired North American rights to Alex von Tunzelmann’s The Louvre Heist, “a narrative nonfiction account of this audaciously simple crime and the drama of the impending trial,” from Natasha Fairweather at Rogers, Coleridge & White. Sarah Ried will edit. Pub date TBA.

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