{"id":732,"date":"2025-06-21T00:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T00:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/732\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T00:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T00:15:40","slug":"week-of-june-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/732\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of June 23, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/9746-1.JPG\"\/>                <\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Brehl<\/strong> at Morrow acquired North American rights, in a three-book deal, to<strong> <\/strong>Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep by <strong>Paul Tremblay<\/strong> (pictured l.) from <strong>Stephen Barbara<\/strong> at InkWell. The novel, the agency said, follows \u201ca semi-professional gamer hired by a tech company to accompany a man on a long-distance trip. The man is \u2018mostly\u2019 dead, kept \u2018alive\u2019 by AI tech implanted in his brain, and along the way wakes into a disorienting consciousness filled with monstrous grotesqueries and no memory of who he is.\u201d Release is set for summer 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\"><strong>Millicent Bennett <\/strong>at HarperCollins purchased North American rights, at auction, to <strong>Sarai Walker<\/strong>\u2019s Furious Violet from <strong>Alice Tasman<\/strong> at Jean V. Naggar. The \u201csubversive feminist thriller,\u201d per the agency, follows \u201c\u2009\u2018Gen-X Miss Marple\u2019 Violet \u2018West\u2019 Shelley, a crime writer and the daughter of a famous dead poet, who, on the verge of turning 50, retreats to her Colorado hometown to finish writing a book about a serial killer, only to become the target of her own true crime story.\u201d Release is set for July 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\"><strong>Elisabeth Dyssegaard <\/strong>at St. Martin\u2019s Essentials bought, at auction, North American rights to Life Is a Sacred Text by rabbi <strong>Danya Ruttenberg<\/strong> from <strong>Jill Grinberg<\/strong>, who has an eponymous shingle. Drawn from Ruttenberg\u2019s e-newsletter of the same name, the book, the agent said, offers \u201can expansive, liberatory road map for personal and cultural transformation by way of one of the world\u2019s most ancient and charged tomes, the Five Books of Moses,\u201d in an effort to \u201creclaim the Bible for everyone\u201d and provide \u201cmeaning regarding the big questions in life as well as tools to meet our destabilizing moment.\u201d Publication<br \/>is planned for 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\"><strong>Diana Pho<\/strong> at Erewhon took world rights to New York Times reporter <strong>Sarah Maslin<\/strong> <strong>Nir<\/strong>\u2019s debut fantasy novel, The Unicorn Hunter, from <strong>Jessica Friedman<\/strong> at Sterling Lord Literistic, for a fall 2026 release. The publisher called it \u201ca fresh take on high fantasy and epic adventure, and a thrilling love story following a foundling named Thea, growing up in a world that is crumbling ever faster beneath a mysteriously blighted sun, who is set on a quest by magical creatures to restore the land and right the terrible wrong that poisoned the sun: the slaughter of the unicorns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\"><strong>Sara Rodgers<\/strong> at Mira netted North American rights, in an exclusive submission, to <strong>Tessa Bickers<\/strong>\u2019s The Night Bus from <strong>Jemima Forrester<\/strong> at David Higham. The \u201cheart-warming romance,\u201d per the publisher, finds \u201ctwo strangers, after a chance encounter on public transit involving a copy of Virginia Woolf\u2019s Orlando, setting out on a journey to solve a literary mystery and win back a lost love that leads them somewhere entirely new together.\u201d Publication is scheduled for summer 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">In Brief<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"article\"><strong>Jennifer Bergstrom<\/strong> at Gallery secured world rights to actor <strong>Charlie Sheen<\/strong>\u2019s The Book of Sheen from <strong>Betsy Berg <\/strong>at Berg Entertainment Enterprises and <strong>Ian Kleinert<\/strong> at Paradigm, with <strong>Aimee Bell<\/strong> set to edit, for a September 9 release.    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"article\"><strong>Judith Curr<\/strong> at HarperOne picked up world rights to surgeon <strong>Elisa Port<\/strong>\u2019s The Breast Advice: A New Paradigm in Breast Cancer Information from <strong>Erica Spellman Silverman<\/strong> at Trident. <strong>Gabriella Page-Fort<\/strong> will edit, for a fall 2026 release. HarperCollinsEspa\u00f1ol will publish in Spanish.    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"article\"><strong>Sydney Collins<\/strong> at Ballantine preempted world English rights to Reason magazine editor <strong>Emma Camp<\/strong>\u2019s Good Boundaries: Essays on the Age of Risk-Aversion from <strong>Mackenzie Williams <\/strong>at Janklow &amp; Nesbit. Pub date TBD.    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"article\"><strong>Andrea Palpant Dilley<\/strong> at Zondervan won world rights, at auction, to <strong>Nancy Reynolds<\/strong>\u2019s debut, Things Your Teenager Wishes You Knew: What\u2019s Really Going On in Their Head and Heart and How to Stay Connected Through It All, from <strong>Rebekah Von Lintel<\/strong> at Embolden, for a spring 2027 release.    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"article\"><strong>Amy Lyons<\/strong> at Red Wheel\/Weiser landed world rights to The Cultural Roots of Tarot by <strong>Sanyu Estelle Nagenda <\/strong>from <strong>Rita Rosenkranz<\/strong> at the eponymous agency, for a fall 2026 release.    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t A version of this article appeared in the 06\/23\/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Deals\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Brehl at Morrow acquired North American rights, in a three-book deal, to Dead but Dreaming of Electric&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1026,1022,1028,1027,171,1025,1023,1024,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-book-deals","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-charlie-sheen","11":"tag-danya-ruttenberg","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-new-books","14":"tag-paul-tremblay","15":"tag-sarah-maslin-nir","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114718475840668990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}