Jenn Bennett’s CHASING LUCKY, to IUVI (Poland), by Justyna Pelaska at Graal; and THE ANATOMICAL SHAPE OF A HEART, to Helios (Estonia), by Anastasya Markova at Synopsis Agency, on behalf of Taryn Fagerness Agency and Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.
J. Elle’s A TASTE OF MAGIC, the first of two books set at the Park Row Magic Academy, starring a 12-year-old black girl who enrolls in the inner-city magical academy hidden in the back of a beauty shop, and who must fight to keep it open after redistricting and gentrification threaten to close it down, to Claire Stetzer at Bloomsbury Children’s, in a very nice deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2022, by Natalie Lakosil at Bradford Literary Agency (world English).
Barbara Dunlop’s book eight in a new iteration of the Texas Cattleman’s Club series, again to Kathryn Lye at Harlequin Desire, for publication in late 2021, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency (world).
Joss Wood’s untitled story of two billionaire brothers, set in Cape Town and on a safari destination, to Flo Nicoll at Harlequin Presents, in a two-book deal, for publication in early 2021, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency (world).
Author of PRINCE OF BROADWAY Joanna Shupe’s FIFTH AVENUE REBELS, in the new Gilded-Age New York City series, in which a group of wealthy and rebellious friends who, shunned by their families, form a brotherhood at college, and the strong, intelligent women who upend their lives, again to Tessa Woodward at Avon, in a four-book deal, for publication beginning in spring 2021, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency (world English).
Author of STARRY EYES and ALEX, APPROXIMATELY Jenn Bennett’s ALWAYS JUNE, in which during a lake vacation, a teenage girl falls for a boy who mistakenly believes she’s the wealthy daughter of a reclusive California record producer — not the daughter of his chauffeur, again to Nicole Ellul at Simon Pulse, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2021, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency (NA).
Former Fulbright fellow Missy Dunaway’s debut THE TRAVELING ARTIST: A VISUAL JOURNAL, exploring her solo voyages over five years, which spanned four continents, from urban Istanbul to Morocco’s Sahara Desert to bucolic Iceland, through her paintings in handheld journals, capturing the beauty of fleeting moments, to Marta Hallett at Glitterati, by Jennifer Chen Tran at Bradford Literary Agency (world).
Joanna Shupe’s THE ROGUE OF FIFTH AVENUE, THE PRINCE OF BROADWAY, and THE DEVIL OF DOWNOWN, to Urano (Spain), in a three-book deal, by Jordi Ribolleda at Sandra Bruna Literary Agency, on behalf of Taryn Fagerness Agency and Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.
Barbara Dunlop’s MATCH MADE IN PARADISE, the first book in a new contemporary romance series in which Alaskan bachelors use a match-making app to find love, to Angela Kim at Berkley, in a three-book deal, for publication in spring 2021, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency (world).
Author-illustrator Jonathan Roth’s ROVER AND SPECK, the first in a humorous, science-based graphic novel series for younger readers about two “lost” planetary rovers who team up on their quest to discover the universe and their places within it, to Yasemin Ucar at Kids Can Press, in a three-book deal, for publication in fall 2022, by Natalie Lakosil at Bradford Literary Agency (world).
Layla Reyne’s IMPERIAL STOUT, CRAFT BREW, and NOBLE HOPS, to Juno (France), in a three-book deal, by Marie Jaccard at La Nouvelle Agence, on behalf of Taryn Fagerness Agency and Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.