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September 2026 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction

Dana Hawkins‘s SHE TASTES LIKE VIOLENCE, a dark sapphic rom-com pitched in the vein of BUTCHER & BLACKBIRD and LIGHTS OUT, in which an assassin-for-hire who enjoys eliminating some of the worst in society is offered a job to finish an notorious predator with a massive payday, but finds herself face-to-face with the woman who once destroyed her and must choose whether to quit, fight, or join her, to Emily Gowers at Storm Publishing, in an exclusive submission, in a two-book deal, for publication in June 2027 and January 2028, by Jenna Satterthwaite at Storm Literary Agency (world English).

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July 2026 Deal Announcements

Adult

Queer, Cuban American writer, teacher, and University of Washington PhD Patrick Milian‘s NIGHT TOWN, which braids three decades-spanning storylines, following a young American actress on an Italian giallo film set in 1970s Trieste, a closeted gay Cuban immigrant in 1980s Miami, and a suburban housewife in the early aughts whose murder exposes long-buried secrets, to Dan Lopez at Counterpoint, for publication in June 2027, by Laurie-Maude Chenard at UTA (NA).

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