Jeff Shotts at Graywolf secured world rights, excluding British Commonwealth, to Triage by poet Claudia Rankine (pictured l.) from Frances Coady at Aragi. The publisher said the “distinctly genre-defying project” by the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Citizen examines “the long-standing relationship between two women and their love and antagonism.” Rankine calls it “a book on friendship and family couched loosely in the frame of Sophocles’s Antigone.” Publication is tentatively set for late 2026, in hardcover and with full-color artwork.

Sierra Hahn at Oni Books picked up world rights to three graphic novels by Australian artist Elyse Castro in a new series, The Summoning, from Judy Hansen at her eponymous agency. The series, based on Castro’s 2017 animated short film of the same name produced by FredFilms and Sony Animation, kicks off this October with The Art of the Craft, “a cozy, coming-of-age tale” that follows young witch Claire and her kitty familiar Edgar as they seek to hone her magical abilities.

Amara Hoshijo at Saga—with Jason Pinter at Simon Maverick, Charlotte Trumble at S&S UK, and Brittany Lavery at S&S Canada—won world rights in an 11-way auction to a romantasy trilogy by Jaysea Lynn, in a seven-figure deal, from Amy Collins at Talcott Notch Literary Services. The launch title, For Whom the Belle Tolls, is available in e-book, with print and audio versions slated for spring. Based on Lynn’s Hell’s Belles skits on TikTok, the series follows a young woman who “enters the rosy part of the afterlife but is compelled to help the poor demons at the gates of hell by starting a customer service ‘Hellp Desk.’ ”

Jordan Pavlin at Knopf took U.S. rights to Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan’s next novel, What We Can Know, which the author called “science fiction without the science,” from Georges Borchardt at his eponymous agency, for a September publication. John Freeman is set to edit. The book, per Pavlin, is “a literary love story, a murder mystery with a thrilling twist, and a gorgeously written novel about time and memory” that “pivots on a legendary dinner party and the recitation of a poem that is heard once and then lost for all time.”

Celia Johnson at David R. Godine netted North American rights to The Hair of the Pigeon, the stateside debut of Egyptian Danish journalist Mohammed Massoud Morsi, from Anjali Singh, who has an eponymous shingle. Based on a true story and set in Yarmouk, Syria’s infamous Palestinian refugee camp, the novel, per the agent, “tells the compulsive, poetic love story of two young Palestinians, Ghassan and Sama, who have their lives upended by the Arab Spring and the civil war—but eventually find each other again as refugees in Denmark.”

In Brief

  • Reagan Arthur, for her unnamed imprint at Grand Central, acquired North American rights to journalist Alex Mar’s debut novel, Fortune, “in the tradition of Dreiser and Wharton” and based on the life of Mar’s father, from Jin Auh at the Wylie Agency. Publication is tentatively set for 2027.
  • Nancy Holmes at Lake Union bought world rights to Falling for You Again by Kerry Lonsdale from Gordon Warnock at Fuse Literary. Publication is set for July.
  • Alexandra Sehulster at St. Martin’s took world English rights, in a two-book deal, to Cora Reilly’s The Shrike, in which “a profiler obsessed with catching a serial killer discovers her husband is the very monster she’s hunting,” from Mark Gottlieb at Trident Media Group. No pub date was announced.
  • David Allender and Celia Johnson at Godine secured North American rights to Nicholas Fox Weber’s The Art of Tennis from William Clark at the eponymous shingle, for a November release.
  • Emma Cole at Mira picked up world rights to Clay McLeod Chapman’s next novel, Devil Inside, billed as The Exorcist meets When Harry Met Sally, from Nick McCabe at the Gotham Group, for publication in August 2026.