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‘s Flicker City Phantoms series, pitched as a queer and cozy combination of the plucky mystery-solving of Pushing Daisies, the death-defying romance of Hadestown, and the technological world-building of THE MINISTRY OF TIME, in which an underemployed ghost at a boarding house for the holographically resurrected dead must team up with her eccentric spectral housemates to stop a mysterious headless kidnapper, to Chelsea Villareal at Podium Publishing, in a two-book deal, by Lucienne Diver at The Knight Agency (world English).
Author of MY SHARE OF THE BODY ‘s RUGGERS, following a women’s college rugby team in New England through the eyes of a single player who is facing a crossroads as a battered shoulder threatens to keep her out for the season and pushes her to begin searching for a life off the field; a portrait of a brutal sport that explores queer friendship, desire, social identity, community, and athleticism, to Pilar Garcia-Brown at Dutton, at auction, by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at Frances Goldin Literary Agency (world).
Hurston/Wright fellow and Syracuse MFA graduate ‘s FIGHT IN THE NIGHT, a queer coming-of-age novel set during one endless, storm-filled summer that follows a teenage girl—the only daughter of Haitian immigrants—and her five older brothers as they barrel through the Florida suburbs, where she must learn to grow bigger in a world that insists on her smallness, to Emily Polson at Scribner, at auction, by Iwalani Kim at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (NA).
writing as Autumn K. England’s FIELD GUIDE FOR THE FORMERLY VILLAINOUS, a cozy fantasy in which a non-binary former minion to the realm’s recently defeated Big Bad searches for a fresh start in a Stardew Valley-esque farming community, to Mary Altman at Poisoned Pen Press, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Eric Smith while at P.S. Literary Agency (world).
Lambda Literary Award and Goodreads Choice finalist and author of OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA and PRIVATE RITES ‘s UP TO THE LIGHT, set in the beautiful but deadly world of alpine mountaineering, following two climbers in the aftermath of an expedition in the Italian Alps that went horribly wrong, who believe something more sinister than bad conditions and bad weather may have been involved, pitched as INTO THIN AIR meets THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by way of Brokeback Mountain, to Caroline Bleeke at Flatiron Books, in a significant deal, by Olivia Maidment at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency.
University of Minnesota MFA graduate ‘s THE NEW PEOPLE, pitched for readers of Mary Beth Keane and Claire Lombardo, in which a newly married lesbian couple moves into a flipped foreclosure in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, unaware that the former homeowners are still living in the attic; exploring themes of motherhood, economic survival, and what it means to belong, to Gabriella Mongelli at Little, Brown, in a pre-empt, by Natalie Edwards at Trellis Literary Management (world).
Author of DON’T WANT YOU LIKE A BEST FRIEND ‘s LIKE IN LOVE WITH YOU, pitched as Mean Girls meets NORTHANGER ABBEY, a sapphic, rivals-to-lovers Regency romance which begs the question: what if Cady and Regina just…kissed?, to Alessandra Roche at Avon, in a good deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in winter 2026, by Stacy Testa at Writers House (world).
‘s THE DISASTER GAY DETECTIVE AGENCY, a contemporary humorous mystery, in which a group of queer friends, each a loveable disaster in their own way, accidentally get mixed up in a bewildering murder and must solve it before one of them becomes the next victim, to Jenna Jankowski at Poisoned Pen Press, at auction, in a two-book deal, by Joy Tutela at David Black Literary Agency.
Bram Stoker Award-longlisted author of MY DARLING DREADFUL THING ‘s SAINT, SINNER, SKULL, a sapphic folk horror novel with a fantastical twist following a nun and an orphaned peasant on their harrowing journey across a war-torn countryside to reunite the gilded skull of a saint to her body – but soon it becomes clear darker are forces at play, pitched as Robert Eggers’s VVitch meets THE SALT GROWS HEAVY, to Jenna Jankowski at Sourcebooks, in a good deal, in a three-book deal, by Kristina Perez at Perez Literary & Entertainment (world English).
