Week of January 16, 2023

DEAL OF THE WEEK

Chomsky, Robinson Promote ‘Delusion’

In her first acquisition at Penguin Press, Sara Bershtel purchased world rights to Nathan J. Robinson and Noam Chomsky’s The Delusion of American Idealism for six figures. Robinson (Responding to the Proper) is the editor-in-chief of Present Affairs journal. His agent, Mark Gottlieb at Trident Media Group, stated the ebook, subtitled How U.S. International Coverage Endangers the World and slated for fall or winter 2024, presents a “extremely accessible and readable critique of American energy, exhibiting how current U.S. overseas coverage choices have brought on disastrous hurt throughout the globe.” Chomsky (Hegemony or Survival) was represented by Anthony Arnove on the Roam Company.

Adams’s ‘Guidelines’ Go to Dell

Dell’s Shauna Summers acquired world rights to a few novels by Sarah Adams. The primary, The Rule Guide, is a sequel to the April 2022 bestseller (and BookTok hit) The Cheat Sheet. Dell stated The Rule Guide “options an aspiring sports activities agent assigned to characterize her faculty ex-boyfriend, who’s now an NFL soccer star.” The opposite two titles within the deal, brokered by Kim Lionetti at BookEnds Literary, shall be entries within the creator’s Rome, Kentucky sequence.

McCallum’s ‘Women’ Land at Flatiron

North American rights to the debut YA novel Free Women by Kristen McCallum had been purchased by Sarah Barley and Sydney Jeon at Flatiron Books. The writer stated the ebook is about an adolescent named Jas who’s “adjusting to her new residence, new household, and new life whereas protecting the key that she’s spent the final 12 months in a juvenile detention heart.” Free Women was bought by Sara Shandler and Joelle Hobeika at Alloy Leisure and is tentatively slated for fall 2024.

Penguin Buys Molly in Paris

Molly Ringwald bought North American rights to a memoir, The Paris Years, to Ann Godoff at Penguin Press. Penguin stated the actor shares intimate particulars about “the transformational years she spent residing and dealing in Paris in her 20s,” including that the ebook, which had no pub date at press time, is “a love letter to the nation and tradition that impressed her to dare, to take possibilities, and to chart her path as an artist and as a girl.” Jin Auh on the Wylie Company represented Ringwald within the settlement.

Gendron ‘Coaches’ for Princeton

For Chronicle Prism, Cara Bedick nabbed North American rights to Alice Gendron’s The Mini ADHD Coach. Gendron has a well-liked Instagram account of the identical title, and the writer referred to as the ebook, set for August, “the primary actually accessible self-help ebook for ADHD readers.” It contains “suggestions and ADHD hacks that may assist readers to work with their situation.” PRH UK’s Catherine Wooden brokered the sale.

Clancy Will get ‘Interrupted’ at Princeton

Princeton College Press’s Alison Kalett acquired world English rights to Being pregnant Interrupted by Kate Clancy. The creator is a professor of anthropology on the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the writer stated that the ebook, subtitled The New Science of Miscarriage and scheduled for 2025, provides readers “a clear-eyed and compassionate information for conceptualizing the science” behind being pregnant loss. Clancy pulls from private {and professional} expertise to indicate how “of all of the doable outcomes of an encounter between a sperm and an egg, a child is the least possible, but most anticipated; the least biologically supported, however essentially the most culturally demanded.” Clancy can also be the creator of the April-slated Interval: The Actual Story of Menstruation (additionally from Princeton). She was represented by Michelle Tessler at Tessler Literary Company.