Judy Clain at Summit (with Nicole Winstanley at S&S Canada, Ravi Mirchandani at Summit UK, and Jane Palfreyman at Summit Australia) preempted world rights to Jaded by Anne Meredith (pictured l.) from Sarah Burnes at the Gernert Company. Billed as “Donna Tartt meets E.L. James on a 1980s college campus,” the debut, the publisher said, follows two married professors who seduce a student together yearly—before a mysterious young woman, Jade, “explodes everything they have so carefully built.” Publication is set for early 2027.

Dan Gerstle at Norton acquired world English, audio, and serial rights, in a six-figure deal, to visual artist Harmonia Rosales’s debut Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic, from Christy Fletcher and Duvall Osteen of United Talent Agency. The book, the publisher said, “pairs the author’s retelling of West African mythology from her Afro-Cuban heritage with her own Renaissance-inspired fine art paintings.” Publication is planned for October 2025.

Jen Monroe at Berkley acquired North American rights, in a two-book deal, to middle grade author Kelly Yang’s adult debut, The Take, from Faye Bender at the Book Group. Hannah Wann at Constable & Robinson secured U.K. rights from Jenny Meyer at her eponymous agency. The book, the publisher said, follows “two ambitious women—an Asian American writer in her 20s struggling to make it and a white movie producer in her 50s clinging to relevancy—and the secret age reversal treatment that upends their lives.” The Take is slated to hit shelves in spring 2026.

Graywolf and Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, partnered on an anthology, We Come from Everything: Poetry for the 21st Century, coedited by poets Diannely Antigua and Laura Villareal, unagented, with Carmen Giménez and Brittany Torres Rivera at Graywolf advising. The book, the publisher said, will “gather 25 poets who have not yet published more than one full-length book of poetry, with the goal of highlighting a representative swath of Latinx poets of this moment.” Publication is set for winter 2027.

Robert Davis at Tor bought North American rights to Richard Swan’s The Infinite State from Harry Illingworth at DHH Literary Agency, for six figures, in an exclusive three-book deal. Billed as “The Expanse meets Red Rising,” the “galaxy-spanning work of science fiction finds the lives of a widowed party member, a disgraced investigator, and a hypersled pilot unexpectedly entangled in a plot to break free of the fascist Decurion Empire,” according to the publisher. Release is scheduled for August 2026.

In Brief

  • Ivan Held at Putnam took world rights to the 15th novel in Jan Karon’s Mitford series, My Beloved, from Robert Barnett at Williams & Connolly, for a fall 2025 release. Ashley Di Dio will edit.
  • Kara Watson at Scribner acquired North American rights to former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin’s Hope in Action: A Memoir About the Courage to Lead, from Margaret Riley King and Laura Bonner at William Morris Endeavor.
  • Amber Oliver at Bloomsbury bought North American rights to John Manuel Arias’s Crocodopolis, pitched as One Hundred Years of Solitude meets Succession, from Erin Harris at Folio, in an exclusive submission, for a 2026 release.
  • Chip Fleischer at Steerforth secured U.S. rights to Jowita Bydlowska’s Un-shaming, examining shame through “the lens of addiction, motherhood, and identity,” from Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic. Doug Pepper at Signal took Canadian rights.
  • Cara Bedick at Little, Brown Spark preempted world rights to endocrinologist and longevity expert Florence Comite’s Invincible, an exploration of the author’s clinical research, from Valerie Frankel at Aevitas, for a spring 2026 release.