Jackie Dinas and Alexandra Sunshine at Kensington acquired, in a four-book deal, North American rights to the Fallen series by Melissa K. Roehrich (pictured l.) from Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency. The series, per the publisher, “is a sweeping enemies-to-lovers romantasy epic that follows a royal heiress and a vengeful warrior forced into uneasy proximity as they embark on a dangerous quest to recover a lost dragon egg—one prophesied to save their dying realm.” The first book is scheduled to publish in fall 2027.

(photo: Staci Just)

Allie Merola at Hogarth won U.S. rights to two books by Souvankham Thammavongsa from Sarah Chalfant at the Wylie Agency. Crush is a story collection about “often overlooked characters in the grip of desire who see through the lies, jokes, and postures that disguise and distract us,” and It Was an Ordinary Name is a work of nonfiction “dedicated to her nephew and the memory of her late brother that unfurls insights on memory and creation,” per the publisher. Crush is set to publish in spring 2027.

John Glynn at Hanover Square took world English rights to Daniel Black’s The Arrival from Jim McCarthy at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. The “kaleidoscopic novel,” per the publisher, is “set during antebellum America, shining a light on the everyday heroics of enslaved people who shaped our nation.” Publication is slated for 2027.

Cindy Spiegel at Spiegel & Grau preempted, in a two-book deal, Hannah Morrish’s Such Stuff from Rebecca Carter, who has an eponymous agency. The debut novella “explores an actor’s psyche on the anniversary of her father’s death, just before taking the stage to play the role of Miranda in The Tempest,” per the publisher. The second book is a novel about the director of a production of Antigone. Such Stuff is scheduled for spring 2027.

Emma Cole at Mira preempted world rights to Brooke Shaden’s debut duology from Kristen Terrette at Martin Literary Management. The first novel, Once Through the Heart, is a dark romantasy about “two rival vampire hunters who discover forbidden orphaned vampire children, and who must uncover the mystery surrounding the origins of the children while learning to care for them and each other,” per the publisher. A summer 2027 release is set.

David Ebershoff at Hogarth bought, at auction, North American rights to Christopher Bollen’s Paris Match from Bill Clegg of the Clegg Agency. The “twisty, binge-y novel,” per the publisher, centers on “a delicious game of cat and mouse between two Americans across the arrondissements of Paris, where every form of beauty is for sale.” A spring 2027 publication is planned.

In Brief

  • Sara Weiss at Ballantine acquired, at auction, world rights to naturopathic doctor Afrouz Demeri’s Trimester Zero, a guide for readers to “prepare their bodies, environment, and relationship for conception,” from Sarah Phair at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. Pub date TBA.
  • Marnie Cochran at Harmony took North American rights to Anna Byrne’s The Messengers, “a scientific, cultural, and personal investigation of the human endocrine system,” from Rebecca Gradinger at UTA on behalf of Emma Finn at Curtis Brown, for release in December 2027.
  • George Witte at St. Martin’s Essentials bought, at auction, U.S. and Canadian rights to Robert Lanza What Survives: What New Science Reveals About Death and Consciousness, drawing on quantum mechanics, neuroscience, and more, from Mel Berger at WME, for publication in spring 2027.
  • Rhett Bruno at Aethon netted world rights, in a three-book deal, to J.L. Mullins’s Choose Your Apocalypse, about “an IT worker thrust into an apocalypse of his own choosing where he must level up with game-like skills and uncover the hidden forces shaping his fate,” for release in fall 2027. Lenny Herbert at Maximum Orbit handled the deal.

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