Penguin Press Lands Emily Ratajkowski MemoirHelen Rouner acquired North American rights, at auction, to
Motherfucker from
David Kuhn and
Rachel Anne Cantor at Aevitas Creative Management. The memoir draws on Ratajkowski’s viral
Cut essay about single motherhood.
Knopf Takes John Carreyrou’s Bitcoin ExposéHilary Redmon at Knopf acquired North American rights to
Satoshi’s Secret by the
Bad Blood author from
Eric Lupfer at Calligraph. The book, releasing fall 2028, follows Carreyrou’s pursuit of the true identity of the inventor of Bitcoin.
More New Book Deals of NoteAmong this week’s offerings are
Chantal Martineau’s
None but Ourselves, a multigenerational saga tracing the rise and fall of the historical settlement of Africville;
Rachel Griffin’s adult debut,
When the Woods Called Us Home, about a “chilling family curse”; and
Jon Grinspan’s
Boss, a narrative history of the American political boss.
The Latest in Children’s and YA DealsNew projects this week include
J.I. Locatelli’s debut YA horror novel
Big Sisters, Little Lies, about a desperate-to-fit-in freshman sorority pledge investigating a fellow pledge’s disappearance, alongside the hottest girl she’s ever met, as she begins to literally lose parts of herself in seductive sorority bonding rituals;
Knowledge’s Crown by
Tonya Duncan Ellis, a novel-in-verse in which an overwhelmingly white private school’s discriminatory dress code could force a sixth-grade competitive chess player to choose between the locs hairstyle that makes him feel connected to his late father and the sport he loves; and
Swaplife by Stonewall Award winner
Abdi Nazemian and Brazilian YA author
Pedro Rhuas, about two teen boys—one from L.A. and one from Rio de Janeiro—who switch lives through a new app, swapping countries, homes, and perspectives, and fall for each other in the process.
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