Hanover Square Takes ‘Time Traveler’s Wife’ SequelGrace Towery at Hanover Square won, at auction, U.S. rights to
Audrey Niffenegger’s
Life Out of Order from
Joe Regal at Regal Hoffmann, for an October release, as well as print and e-book rights to
The Time Traveler’s Wife.
More New Book Deals of NoteAmong this week’s offerings are
Jermaine Fowler’s
The American Myth Machine: Power, Memory, and the Fight for the Past, which explores how U.S. history is distorted and revised in the national consciousness;
Leslie Wolfe’s
The Body Keeper, about an FBI agent who infiltrates an organ trafficking ring to find her missing husband; and a graphic novel adaptation of John Kennedy Toole’s Pulitzer-winning satire
A Confederacy of Dunces, written and illustrated by
Albert Monteys.
The Latest in Children’s and YA DealsNew projects this week include
Black Girl, Jump, a horror YA novel by
Charlene Thomas, pitched as
Bunny meets
Get Out, where a popular cosmetic makes all girls sparkle except Black girls, until Bryn—the only Black girl invited to attend an exclusive summer retreat—makes a discovery that reveals the lengths girls will go to keep their shine;
If We Could Be Everywhere by
Sarah Suk, a speculative YA novel, set in a world with teleportation technology, that follows two exes who find themselves only able to teleport to each other rather than where they are trying to go; and
She Comes Out at Night, a YA horromance by
Michelle Jing Chan, in which a teenage girl takes a summer job as a fire lookout in a national park to escape her conservative hometown and a secret she’s never dared to voice, only to find her solitude shattered by eerie phenomena.
Mira Snags Pair of Romantasies from Jasmine Mas
