Week of September 12, 2022

DEAL OF THE WEEK

Flournoy Will get Seven Figures at Mariner

For seven figures, Angela Flournoy offered The Wounded Wilderness to Mariner’s Rakia Clark in a two-book, North American rights deal. Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group represented Flournoy (The Turner Home), a Nationwide E book Award finalist and contributing author on the New York Occasions Journal. Mariner stated Wounded Wilderness, a novel, follows 4 Black girls over the course of 20 years of friendship, analyzing “how gender expectations, race, class and the shifting dynamics of metropolis life” have an effect on them. The second e-book within the deal, the memoir When Will I See You Once more?, is in regards to the writer’s first being pregnant, which coincided together with her mom being identified with a terminal sickness.

St. Martin’s Lands Merkel Memoir

St. Martin’s Press acquired a at present untitled memoir by former German chancellor Angela Merkel. The e-book will likely be written with Merkel’s political adviser Beate Baumann and is ready to be launched concurrently in Germany (by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, which has world rights to the e-book), the U.S., and the U.Okay. in fall 2024. SMP stated the e-book will supply “unique, private perception into the political life and work of the previous German chancellor.” There was no agent concerned within the deal.

Hamrick Will get into ‘Place’ for Berkley

Former American Ballet Theatre ballerina Melanie Hamrick offered her debut novel, First Place, to Cindy Hwang at Berkley. Set for summer season 2023, the e-book is, Berkley stated, an examination of the “insular, seductive, and cutthroat world of dance” a couple of younger ballerina who “begins to unravel as her star rises.” Annelise Robey on the Jane Rotrosen Company represented Hamrick within the two-book, U.S., Canadian, and open market rights settlement.

Seashore Takes ‘Drama’ to Hanover

Hanover Sq. Press’s John Glynn purchased North American rights to Grownup Drama: And Different Essays by Natalie Seashore, writer of a 2019 piece for the Reduce about her friendship with influencer Caroline Calloway that went viral. The e-book, offered by Mollie Glick and Cait Hoyt at CAA, was pitched as within the vein of Jia Tolentino and Melissa Broder, and can, Hanover stated, “supply a recent, relatable, and piercingly trustworthy tackle up to date life.” Seashore, who lives in Los Angeles, will study “heartbreak, the gig economic system, and the commodification of the self, amongst different wide-ranging topics.” Grownup Drama will function new essays and an expanded model of the piece on Calloway.

Ballantine Goes ‘Golden’ for Benjamin

Melanie Benjamin (The Aviator’s Spouse) offered world rights to California Golden to Susanna Porter at Ballantine Books, her standing editor. The novel is slated for 2023 and was offered by Alexandra Machinist at CAA. The writer stated it follows a pair of mother-daughter surfers “on the state’s dazzling seashores in the course of the vibrant counterculture of the early Sixties, when society was shifting as tempestuously because the breaking waves.”

Kelly Releases Her ‘Doves’ at Ballantine

For Ballantine Books, Kara Cesare purchased North American rights to 2 titles by Martha Corridor Kelly. Kelly, writer of the 2016 bestseller Lilac Ladies, was represented by Alexandra Machinist at CAA. Ballantine stated the primary e-book beneath contract is The Golden Doves, about two feminine British spies who meet throughout WWII and “reunite to seek out an notorious Nazi physician who escaped after unspeakable crimes on the Ravensbruck focus camp.” The second e-book is “a couple of widow who falls in love with an elite British officer despatched to Martha’s Winery to assist practice American troopers for the invasion at Normandy.”