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Deal of the Week
Atria Takes Daniel Kraus’s Latest
Loan Le at Atria acquired world rights to We Who Bend the Tall Grass by Daniel Kraus from Richard Abate at 3 Arts Entertainment. The new novel from Kraus, who last month won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his speculative WWI novel Angel Down, follows “three battle-worn POWs on a quest across the post–Civil War American West while being pursued by a self-embalming adversary and poisoned by the monstrous violence at the heart of the country itself,” per the publisher. A 2028 release is planned.

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More New Book Deals of Note
Among this week’s offerings are Transference by New York Times Magazine contributing writer Jesse Barron, investigating a lawsuit brought by a Wall Street executive against his former therapist; Jessica Cage’s I Inherited a Gargoyle, which kicks off a new series about a succubus and “a gargoyle determined to claim her”; and Use Your Illusion by Sky Daddy author Kate Folk, in which an insurance salesman becomes “dangerously entwined with his mysterious and charismatic new coworker.”
The Latest in Children’s and YA Deals
New projects this week include The Bloodwolf Trials by R.M. Gray, a gothic YA romantasy about a teenage girl who is whisked away from the bogs of Texas and into another realm where she is thrust into a school for monstrous creature, and must compete in a deadly series of magical trials—but falls for the half-warlock, half-vampire who is determined to stop her from uncovering the secrets of his world; Lessons in Dissonance by H.D. Carver, in which a disgraced ballet prodigy running from her past clashes with a rising actress chasing her future, but when the fallout from an assault forces a revelation neither girl can ignore, both must decide what they’re willing to risk; and Redemption Ark and Renegade Stars by Eilis O’Neal, a YA sci-fi dystopian duology about a reality TV show in outer space where juvenile delinquents compete for a chance at freedom, but the show has secrets of its own.

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