{"id":91413,"date":"2025-10-21T04:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/91413\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T04:30:18","slug":"viking-pre-empts-molly-pepper-steemsons-wanting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/91413\/","title":{"rendered":"Viking pre-empts Molly Pepper Steemson\u2019s Wanting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/rights\/viking-wins-eight-way-auction-for-robin-stevens-adult-debut\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viking<\/a> has pre-empted Molly Pepper Steemson\u2019s debut novel, Wanting.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Kirke, commissioning editor at Viking, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Zo\u00eb Waldie at Rogers, Coleridge &amp; White. American rights were also pre-empted by Jill Bialosky, executive editor and vice president at WW Norton &amp; Company, from Susan Golomb at Writers House.<\/p>\n<p>The book will publish in physical, audio and e-book formats in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wanting tells the story of a grand house on a remote English beach, visited each September by a select few artists, writers, and musicians,&#8221; the synopsis says. &#8220;Built into the cliffs with views of the vast Atlantic, it offers inspiration, but also escape: over candlelight and wine, the outside world disappears, and desire begins to blur the edges of art and life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continues&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viking has pre-empted Molly Pepper Steemson\u2019s debut novel, Wanting. Edward Kirke, commissioning editor at Viking, acquired UK and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-91413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}