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Deal of the Week
Simon Six Gets Flying Start with New DeGrasse Tyson
Jonathan Karp at Simon Six took North American rights, at auction, to Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter by astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson from Betsy Lerner at DCL Agency. It’s the inaugural acquisition for Karp’s recently launched imprint at Simon & Schuster, which plans to publish six titles per year. In the book, Tyson “applies the universal laws of physics to make the case for what aliens might look like, act like, and how they might travel through the universe,” per the publisher. Release is set for May 2026.

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More New Book Deals of Note
This week’s offerings include a fiction twofer from Jake Maynard, whose forthcoming story collection Hicksters and novel Jerry each interrogate the realities of rural America; Natasha Lester’s Girl of the Year, which follows a fictional Vogue intern working to uncover the authorship of a 20-year-old tell-all; and The Power of Print: The Case for Paper & Ink in the Age of Technology, a defense of analog media by journalist Stephen Harrison.
The Latest in Children’s and YA Deals
New projects this week include Something Inside Me Knows by National Book Award winner Malinda Lo, a debut memoir connecting the author’s childhood in small-town Colorado in the 1980s to her grandmother's experiences in wartime China; Yamile Saied Méndez’s No Place Like Home, a contemporary YA romance retelling of The Wizard of Oz about a teenage girl from Kansas named Dorothy, whose dream trip to Italy falls apart, and the best friend who refuses to let her give up; and These Twisted Hearts by Ginny Myers Sain, a Midwestern gothic horror novel about a 17-year-old storm chaser and a smooth-talking boy who claims he can control the weather—and the evil they uncover while investigating killer twisters haunting an Oklahoma town with a brutal past.

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