FSG Lands New Horror-Mystery Series by Jeff VanderMeerJenna Johnson acquired world rights to the four-book Strange Architect series, which will launch in winter 2029 with
How to Be Free.
Joe Veltre at the Gersh Agency and
Alex Kohner at Yorn Levine handled the seven-figure deal.
More New Book Deals of NoteAmong this week’s offerings are
Christine Platt’s
Keepers of Random Things, a dystopian novel which darkly reimagines the promise of “40 acres and a mule”;
Peter Mann’s
The Ennui and the Ecstasy, a graphic history of 19th-century literature; and
Patricia McCormick’s memoir
If It’s True, I’d Want You to Know, detailing her investigation into her husband’s “secret life.”
The Latest in Children’s and YA DealsNew projects this week include
I Love You, Goodbye by
Adam Sass, a one-night-only YA romance about Freddie and Lyle, two teens at their high school lock-in who fall in love despite a ticking clock—one of them is moving across the world in the morning;
Milo & the Made-Up Moon by
Sophie Cameron, a middle grade novel about a space-loving boy whose mother falls under the sway of conspiracy theories that the moon is a hoax; and
The Dead Darlings, a YA mystery-thriller by
Lauren Muñoz, in which the lead singer of a teen punk band dies mysteriously during a video shoot at an allegedly haunted house, and the band’s guitarist sets out to prove it was murder.
Summit Takes Vijay’s Sophomore Novel
