Atria Lands Memoir from ‘Ted Lasso’ Star
Yaniv Soha at Atria has acquired world rights to a memoir by Brendan Hunt, best known for cocreating, writing, and costarring in the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso. Hunt was represented by Joe Veltre at Gersh and his manager Brian Ferrantino at Quest Entertainment and Management. Atria said the book is a “funny and poignant coming-of-age tale” centered on Hunt’s “lifelong—and in some circles forbidden—love of both Chicago baseball teams, and how baseball became a way to deal with his loving but complicated family.” The book is scheduled for publication in 2026.
Sosa Sells Three to Putnam
After an auction, Kate Dresser at Putnam has taken world rights to bestselling author Mia Sosa’s When Javi Dumped Mari. Sarah Younger of the Nancy Yost Literary Agency brokered the deal, which also includes rights to Sosa’s The Starter Ex, which was first published as an Audible Original, and another untitled novel. Putnam called When Javi Dumped Mari, which is slated for a summer 2025 publication, a “friends-to-lovers romance in which a pact between friends to serve as each other’s relationship gatekeeper goes awry when one of them suddenly announces they’re getting married.”
Nimura Finds Her ‘Place’ at Random House
Janice Nimura, author of The Doctors Blackwell, a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in biography, has sold North American rights to Knowing Her Place to Molly Turpin at Random House. Rob McQuilkin at Massie & McQuilkin handled the deal. Random House said the book is “a braided biography of Rachel Carson and her 19th-century foremothers in science,” and that it explores what gave Carson “the power to ring the alarm on environmental devastation.” No pub date has been announced.
Viking Fetches ‘Fair Price’ from Owens
After an auction, Ibrahim Ahmad at Viking has acquired world rights (excluding the U.K.) to Gouged: The End of a Fair Price, by Lindsay Owens, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Groundwork Collaborative. The deal was negotiated by Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. Viking said the book is “an incisive exploration of how corporations exploit pricing strategies to maximize profits and overcharge consumers, drawing on the author’s deep knowledge as a former economic adviser to Senator Elizabeth Warren and her robust experience in advocacy.” No publication date has been set.
Pegasus Nabs St. Martin’s Editor’s Debut
Victoria Wenzel at Pegasus has acquired North American rights to The Good Daughters, the debut novel by Brigitte Dale, associate editor at St. Martin’s Press. Shannon Hassan at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency handled the deal. Pegasus said the novel, set in 1912 London, follows “four young women who risk everything for the right to vote.” The Good Daughters will pub in summer 2025.
A ‘Paris Match’ for Clayborn and Berkley
Esi Sogah at Berkley has acquired North American rights to bestselling contemporary romance author Kate Clayborn’s The Paris Match. Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary brokered the two-book deal. Berkley said the novel follows a recently divorced woman who “attends her former sister-in-law’s destination wedding and accidentally makes the bride skittish about marriage. To save the festivities, she teams up with the mysterious best man—and is unexpectedly smitten.” The Paris Match is scheduled for fall 2025.
Davidson and Hanshaw Go Top Shelf
In a preempt, Top Shelf Productions editor-in-chief Chris Staros has acquired world rights to the graphic novel H2O by writer Paul Davidson and artist Julian Hanshaw. The creators represented themselves in the deal. Top Shelf said the book is “a sci-fi fable” about “a young man born into a sterile, conformist dystopia” who, after a series of mysterious events, is “dragged kicking and screaming into the crosshairs of the powers that be, pulling back the curtain on their world’s long-hidden secrets.” Publication is planned for fall 2026.
