In a preempt, HarperVia’s Alexa Frank took world English rights to two novels by 2023 PEN Translation Prize winner Tiffany Tsao from Daniel Lazar at Writers House for Jayapriya Vasudevan at Jacaranda Literary Agency. The first title, But I Won’t Miss Me, set for spring 2026, is a genre-blending
meditation on trauma and motherhood “set in a world of new mothers who face Rebirth—birthing an identical, fitter self who eats the original mother and takes her place—and what unfolds as one mother emerges from the process sickly rather than strong.”

In an exclusive submission, Meredith Kaffel Simonoff at the Gernert Company sold North American rights to The Greats, the latest by Mercury and Cinderland author Amy Jo Burns, to Deb Futter at Celadon, which plans an April 2026 release. The novel, per its publisher, “follows a young folk singer who, at the height of her career in 1973, gives the performance of her life and then vanishes without a trace,” and “celebrates the meteoric ways a female folk star can disappear, reinvent herself, and inspire a fresh generation to sing.”

Before Balzer + Bray moved to Macmillan from HarperCollins, Alessandra Balzer acquired North American rights, in an exclusive submission from Alexandra Levick at Writers House, to The Golden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar by National Book Award finalist Sonora Reyes. The novel “follows Cesar Flores as he comes to terms with his sexuality, his new bipolar diagnosis, and more mistakes than he can count,” but “when a manic episode makes his inner turmoil impossible to hide, he is faced with a stark choice: burn every bridge he has left, or worse—ask for help.” Carolina Mancheno Ortiz will edit for publication this fall.

Susanna Porter at Ballantine picked up North American rights, at auction, to early childhood specialist, policy consultant, and social media influencer Dan Wuori’s Wonderment: Our First Three Years from Hafizah Geter at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. The book, the publisher said, “takes readers on a fascinating narrative journey through humankind’s most formative window of development” by “combining the latest research with actionable advice.”

Merry Sun at Norton bought North American rights to Money Boss by Tyler Gardner, at a four-publisher auction, from Lynn Johnston at her eponymous shingle. The book, by a former financial adviser and portfolio manager, offers, the agency said, “an approach to money based on self-awareness and self-compassion by providing clarity on how to align financial goals with personal values and addressing fears and misconceptions that keep people from getting rich.” No publication date was announced.


in brief

Reagan Arthur preempted world rights, excepting Canada, to Patricia Finn’s debut novel, Seven Days in March, about a Hollywood executive in forced retirement who is named guardian of four children he didn’t know existed, for her imprint at Grand Central from Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists. Jennifer Lambert landed rights for Harper Canada.


Olympic gymnast and gold medalist Jordan Chiles’s I’m That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams, a memoir cowritten with Felice Laverne and with a foreword by Simone Biles, is due in March from Harper Influence, where Lisa Sharkey acquired world rights from Alan Nevins and Jacklyn Saferstein-Hansen of Renaissance Literary & Talent.


Paris Review “Eat Your Words” columnist Valerie Stivers, unagented, sold world rights to The Writer’s Table: Famous Authors and Their Favorite Foods, illustrated by Katie Tomlinson, to Anna Watson at Frances Lincoln, an imprint of the Quarto Group.


Anjali Bisaria at Scholastic acquired North American English rights to Sylvia Liu’s Stealing the Score, a World Cup–themed middle grade novel, set for spring 2026, from Jennifer March Soloway at Andrea Brown Literary.