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Vintage Snags Horror Screenwriter’s Shining-Inspired Anthology
Anna Kaufman at Vintage bought North American rights, at auction, to Views from the Overlook, by screenwriter Jamie Flanagan (pictured), from Lane Heymont at the Tobias Literary Agency. The horror anthology features new stories set at the infamous hotel from Stephen King’s The Shining, prior to the events of the novel, featuring such writers as Chelsea Cain, Johnny Compton, Justina Ireland, Ai Jiang, Alma Katsu, Brian Keene, Daniel Kraus, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Chuck Palahniuk, and others. Ellie Pritchett will edit. Publication is planned for fall 2027.

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The Latest in Children’s and YA Deals
New projects this week include The Peacock Throne by Zeba Shahnaz, a YA fantasy duology pitched as Anastasia meets This Woven Kingdom, set in a world inspired by 19th-century India, about a young woman who believes she's a descendant of a long-overthrown imperial dynasty and gets entangled in a conspiracy that could spell her country’s doom; Plenty of Fish by Kit Rosewater, a queer YA romance about an heiress to a beloved fish and chips shop whose niche video channel goes viral after she interviews—and falls for—a rising TV star; and debut author Deborah Yelle’s A Most Decadent Curse, a gothic romantic YA fantasy inspired by the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, in which two opposite sisters must work together to break a century-long family curse.

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