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Deal of the Week
Berkley Snags Karen M. McManus’s Adult Debuts in Big Two-Book Deal
Jen Monroe at Berkley, in a two-book deal and exclusive submission, preempted North American rights to Dying to Be Us by Karen M. McManus from Allison Remcheck and Rosemary Stimola at Stimola Literary Studio. The YA author’s adult debut follows a group of former college friends, who once starred in a YouTube reality show that ended in tragedy, as they’re reunited upon learning that “someone secretly has information that could implicate them in a cold-case murder that has bound them for life,” per the publisher. Release is set for summer 2027.
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More New Book Deals of Note
Among this week’s offerings are a duo of lupine romance novels by Sara Field, which both tell stories centered on the dark power dynamics between a human woman and a wolf-man; UMass Amherst economics professor Isabella Weber’s Anti-Fascist Economics and Essential, which consider how unaffordability exacerbates far-right movements and the inadequacies of neoliberalism, respectively; and BoxBoxBoxBox, a debut novella by Japanese author Wan Sakamoto about the “latent madness of our addiction to efficiency,” told from the perspective of four manual laborers.
The Latest in Children’s and YA Deals
New projects this week include I’ll Meet You Last Year, a rivals-to-lovers YA contemporary romance by Eva Des Lauriers, set at an elite boarding school that follows new girl Chloe and the school’s infamous heartbreaker, Lincoln, as they uncover a time-bending secret that could rewrite tragedy; Up from the Ashes by Sharon Cameron, a YA novel, based on a true story, about Selma and Chaim Engel, who meet and fall in love in the Sobibor death camp, where they fight to survive and ultimately take part in the prisoner revolt; and A Different Kind of Murder, a contemporary YA horror novel by Racquel Marie, in which a shy, bird-loving girl’s local murder of crows starts acting upon her violent, intrusive thoughts.

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