Norton Takes Tim Walz’s ‘Good Neighbors’Matt Weiland at W.W. Norton acquired world rights, including audio and first serial, to the Minnesota governor and former vice presidential candidate’s exploration of “what neighborliness really means,” from
David Larabell and
Mollie Glick at CAA. Publication is planned for 2027.
More New Book Deals of NoteAmong this week’s offerings are
Steve Albini’s
Still Don’t Care, an “exclusive curation” of the late musician and recording engineer’s “writings, art, and ephemera,” per the publisher; debut author
Alessandra Spaulding’s
Divine Carnage, the first in a dark fantasy duology set in a world where gods kill humans for sport; and
The Things You’ll Never Know by
Madeleine Millburn, centering on a mother in the afterlife who must watch her loved ones grapple with the mysterious circumstances of her death.
The Latest in Children’s and YA DealsNew projects this week include
Hilary Filkins’s debut,
The Living Half, a YA novel pitched as
The Last of Us meets
The Last Bookstore on Earth, which follows Chick and her mother on their search for safety and community in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse;
The Laws of Love and Gravity, a YA romance by
Samantha Markum pitched as
Legally Blonde meets Ali Hazelwood, about a girl who attends a summer space program to win back her ex-boyfriend, but finds herself falling for her estranged childhood best friend; and
Family First by
Tiffany Wang, a YA thriller pitched as
Only Murders in the Building meets
Gossip Girl, in which the three Chan sisters are New York socialites whose stars are fading fast, but when their classmate is found dead in the apartment downstairs, what better way to reseize the spotlight than to investigate?
Riverhead Lands Yasmin Zaher’s Sophomore Novel
