Documentary wildfire photographer Stuart Palley’s INTO THE INFERNO: A PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNEY THROUGH CALIFORNIA’S WILDFIRES AND FALLOUT, about braving harrowing conditions on the frontlines of California’s major wildfires, embedding with “hotshot” fire crews on the fireline, spending time with smokejumpers, municipal engines, and battalion chiefs in pickup trucks, and forging friendships with wildland firefighters, climate scientists, civilians, and evacuees alike, ultimately addressing how climate change is permanently altering the world, to Vikki Warner at Blackstone Publishing, in a nice deal, for publication in fall 2021, by Jennifer Chen Tran at Bradford Literary Agency (world).

Author of THE LAST 8 Laura Pohl’s DOOMED, the story of four reimagined fairytale heroines investigating their best friend’s murder, who must uncover their own dark fates before they’re all doomed, to Annie Berger at Sourcebooks Fire, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2021, by Sarah LaPolla at Bradford Literary Agency (world English).

Rebekah Manley’s ALEXANDRA AND THE AWFUL, AWKWARD, NO FUN, TRULY BAD DATES, a picture book parody that delivers a comedic dating horror story, pitched as a mash up of ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY with GO THE F**K TO SLEEP’s unapologetic reality, illustrated by Catarina Oliveira, to Claire Sielaff at Ulysses Press, by Natalie Lakosil at Bradford Literary Agency (world).

Rachel Lynn Solomon’s THE EX TALK, her adult debut, a romantic comedy in which rival coworkers pose as exes to host a public radio show about dating in order to save their station, only to fall for each other as the show gains popularity, to Kristine Swartz at Berkley, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2021, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency (world English).

Joss Wood, Karen Booth, and Reese Ryan’s The Holloway Heirs trilogy, in which three foster brothers are reunited to aid their ailing father figure in restoring his luxury hotel empire, and must deal with the aftermath of a long-ago accident as they each find a place in the family and fall in love, to Stacy Boyd at Harlequin Desire, in a three-book deal, for publication in 2021, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency, Melissa Jeglinski at The Knight Agency, and Pamela Harty at The Knight Agency, respectively.

Joss Wood’s untitled books, including a new four-book series, in which a family struggles under the iron fist of a problem patriarch determined to hone his children to perfection while undermining their success, who will do anything to make sure his heirs marry well, to Stacy Boyd at Harlequin Desire, in a multi-book deal, by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.