Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon’s BLACKOUT, a collection of six interlinked stories of Black love, set on a single day during a summer heatwave and power outage in New York City, to Rosemary Brosnan at Quill Tree, in a major deal for seven-figures, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2021, by Molly Ker Hawn at The Bent Agency on behalf of Natalie Lakosil at Bradford Literary Agency for Jackson; Mollie Glick at CAA for Stone; Brooks Sherman at Janklow & Nesbit for Thomas, Beth Phelan at Gallt and Zacker Literary Agency for Woodfolk, and Jodi Reamer at Writers House for Yoon (NA).

Rights to Companhia das Letras (Brazil), in a good deal, at auction, by Tassy Barham Associates; to cbj (Germany), in a good deal, at auction, by Thomas Schlueck Agency; to Nathan (France), by Marotte et Compagnie; to Carlsen (Denmark), at auction, to Otava (Finland), in a pre-empt, to Van Goor (Netherlands), at auction, and to Gyldendal (Norway), by Sebes & Bisseling; to Montena (Spain), at auction, by International Editors’; to Rizzoli (Italy), at auction, by Daniela Micura Literary Services; to Egmont Bulgaria (Bulgaria), in a pre-empt, and to Art Grup Editorial (Romania), at auction, by Andrew Nurnberg Associates, on behalf of Molly Ker Hawn and Amelia Hodgson at the Bent Agency.