![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9871-1.JPG\"\/)
<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n
Kathy Pories at Algonquin bought North American rights, at auction, to A Happy Death by National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize finalist\u00a0Dina Nayeri (pictured l.) from Michael Taeckens, in his first deal as an agent at Massie McQuilkin & Altman. The novel, per the agency, \u201cfollows a messy, horny, middle-aged woman who flees New York City for Edinburgh, and depicts the tender and often hilarious humiliations of desire, aging, and the need for purpose and community.\u201d Publication is planned for early 2027.<\/p>\n
Vicki Lame at Saturday won North American rights, at auction, to bookstagrammer Tina Mars\u2019s debut novel, This Wretched Alchemy, the first in a duology, from Thao Le at Sandra Dijkstra Literary, for a fall 2026 release. Elizabeth Vaziri at Magpie preempted U.K. and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Anna Carmichael at Abner Stein. The adult dark romantasy, per the publisher, \u201cfollows a young woman thrust into a deadly competition in order to save her family, who ultimately falls for the villain she was sent to kill.\u201d<\/p>\n
Caitlin McKenna at Random House took North American rights to The Flower Bearer, by poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths, from Jin Auh at the Wylie Agency, for publication in January. The memoir, per the publisher, \u201ctraces two transformational relationships in Griffiths\u2019s life\u2014with her best friend, Kamilah Aisha Moon, and her husband, Salman Rushdie\u2014and recounts Moon\u2019s sudden, tragic death on the day of her wedding to Rushdie, and how eleven months later, just as she was beginning to pick up the pieces, a brutal attack nearly claimed Rushdie\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harriet LeFavour at Bloomsbury netted North American rights to Trust Me, by Guggenheim fellow and 2025 Emmy Award\u2013winning
documentarian Matt Wolf, from Bill Clegg at the Clegg Agency. The book, the publisher said, is \u201can exploration of the \u2018second story\u2019 behind every documentary: the unique, strange, often fraught relationship between a filmmaker and their subject, drawing from both documentary history and the author\u2019s own experiences to capture the profound questions of trust, access, and power posed throughout the filmmaking process.\u201d Publication is planned for winter 2029.<\/p>\n
George Witte at St. Martin\u2019s secured North American English rights to a novel by National Jewish Book Award winner Ronald H. Balson, tentatively titled Book XI, from Mark Gottlieb at Trident Media Group. The agency called it \u201ca sweeping, heart-stopping novel about moral conviction, found family, and love and leadership that follows two people who gamble everything to shepherd 3,000 souls aboard a train to freedom.\u201d Publication is set for next fall.<\/p>\n
In Brief<\/p>\n
Anh Schluep at Montlake acquired world English rights to Colleen Hoover\u2019s \u201ctwisty thriller\u201d Woman Down from Jane Dystel at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret, for publication in January. <\/p>\n
Suzanne Herz at Doubleday took U.S. rights to John Grisham\u2019s Shaken: The Rush to Execute an Innocent Man, about the Robert Roberson murder trial, from David Gernert at the Gernert Company. <\/p>\n
Peter Joseph at Crown preempted world rights to Sara St. Antoine\u2019s adult debut, Elizabeth Loring Slept Here, on the life of the author\u2019s ancestor, \u201ceither the American Revolution\u2019s most infamous loyalist harlot or its cleverest spy and patriot,\u201d from Lucy Cleland at Frances Goldin, for a spring 2027 release. <\/p>\n
Diana Baroni at Harper Wave netted U.S., Canadian, non-exclusive rights to Vivian Tu\u2019s Well Endowed, a guide to strategic spending, from Alyssa Ruben at WME, for a February release. <\/p>\n
Tara Singh Carlson and Molly Donovan at Putnam secured world rights to Rebecca McKee\u2019s debut novel, Mr. Mendlebee\u2019s Pandimensional Literary Repository (and Yarn), \u201cset in a seaside town at a magical store that reveals itself only to customers who need it most,\u201c from Elizabeth Pratt at Trellis, for release next fall. <\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t A version of this article appeared in the 09\/15\/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Deals\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kathy Pories at Algonquin bought North American rights, at auction, to A Happy Death by National Book Critics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[95213,223,45215,95210,88,48958,50087,95212,17750,95211],"class_list":{"0":"post-155742","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-colleen-hoover","11":"tag-dina-nayeri","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-john-grisham","14":"tag-matt-wolf","15":"tag-michael-taeckens","16":"tag-new-books","17":"tag-vivian-tu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}