Our Authors in the Press
Deal announcements, interviews, and features from across the publishing world.
Electric Monkey wins four-publisher auction for Kate Emilie’s 'delicious' speculative YA romance
Editorial director Sarah Levison secured UK and Commonwealth rights in a deal negotiated with Hellie Ogden at WME. The book will be published in the UK in July 2027, with a second book to follow in summer 2028.
Publisher's Marketplace Deal Report
Kate Emilie's SEVEN DISHES TO FALL IN LOVE, pitched as for fans of YOU'VE REACHED SAM and IF I STAY, following a teenager suspended between life and death, who must untangle her life-altering regret before her death becomes permanent, to Elizabeth Stranahan at Random House Children's, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2027 and summer 2028, by Alyssa Reuben at WME (NA).
Steps to a Successful Book Deal with Katie Gergel
"I have been trying to tell myself every step of the way to not self-reject."
PW Book Deals: Week of November 17, 2025
Aranya Jain at DAW took world rights to Hero Adjacent by Alexis Veenendaal, a cozy fantasy about “an elderly wizard who must reluctantly guide a gaggle of misfits to save the world,” from Madison Potter at Olswanger Literary Agency for a spring 2027 publication.
Frankfurt Book Fair 2025: Agents' Hotlists
Seven Dishes to Fall in Love: High-concept YA romance debut won in a 14-way agent beauty contest. Zoe Hart is suspended between life and death until she works out her greatest regret.
Acquisition Announcement: Alexis Veenendaal’s HERO ADJACENT
We’re thrilled to welcome Alexis Veenendaal’s to the DAW team and her upcoming novel, HERO ADJACENT, a cozy fantasy about an elderly wizard who must reluctantly guide a gaggle of misfits to save the world armed only with a ballpoint pen, an armadillo(ish) sidekick, and unwarranted optimism, perfect for fans of John Wiswell and Travis Baldree.
Rights Report: Week of August 18, 2025
Hannah Pierdolla at Wednesday Books has bought Cavern F(r)iend by Lene D. Buttner, a debut YA horroromance pitched as Andrew Joseph White meets Someone You Can Build a Nest In, in which a search-and-recovery guide with a monstrous secret is enlisted to retrieve the body of his bosses' son from the cursed sinkhole/amusement park where he works—only to find him alive and on a quest of his own. Publication is tentatively set for winter 2027; Eric Showers at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency negotiated the deal for world English rights.
PW Rights Report: Week of February 10, 2025
Hannah Pierdolla at Wednesday Books has acquired Not Your Typical Love Story by Caitlyn Averett writing as C.R. Averett, a debut YA romance pitched as You've Got Mail meets Loveless, about a pair of aroace-spec (asexual and aromantic) academic rivals whose future dreams—due to a meddling older sister—become contingent on the two of them fake dating, all while dealing with grief, the weight of family expectations, and a secret online identity that could ruin everything.
Publisher's Marketplace Deal Report
Paleoanthropologist and professor of anthropology Dr. Tesla Monson, PhD's BEGINNINGS: HOW THE EVOLUTION OF PREGNANCY MADE US HUMAN, introducing the author's research alongside her lived experience as a mother to argue that reproduction and pregnancy are responsible for the evolution of human intelligence, to Bryn Clark at Flatiron Books, by Bridget Wagner Matzie at Aevitas Creative Management (NA). Rights: efiles@aevitascreative.com