Deal of the Week

Tor Braves Veronica Roth’s Next Dystopia
Lindsey Hall at Tor took world English rights to Seek the Traitor’s Son and an untitled sequel by Veronica Roth from Jo Volpe and Jordan Hill at New Leaf Literary & Media, for release next May. The “epic romantic dystopian fantasy,” per the publisher, finds “Elegy Ahn happy with her life as a soldier fighting the Talusar when she and the most ruthless of Talusar generals are summoned to hear a prophecy: one of them will lead their people to victory over the other, and at the center of both their fates is a man Elegy is destined to fall in love with.”

More New Book Deals of Note
Among this week’s offerings are Danielle L. Jensen’s fantasy romance Defy the Dusk, about survivors of an apocalypse who have banded together in high-speed convoys that must outrun the dusk or face what rises in the dark; One Boat by Jonathan Buckley, the 2025 Booker Prize–longlisted novel following the journey of Teresa, who returns to a small town on the Greek coast after the death of her father, where it becomes the backdrop for her reckoning with herself; and the memoir Mapping My Way Home by Diane Wilson, alongside an untitled sequel to her bestselling novel The Seed Keeper.

Submissions Open for Sheikh Zayed Book Award
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, one of the Arab world’s most prestigious literary awards, is open for submissions. The winner of each award category receives prize money of 750,000 UAE dirhams (over $204,000). Publishers or authors may submit their nominations for the 20th anniversary edition of the award here before September 1st. (Sponsored)

The Latest in Children’s and YA Deals
New projects this week include Our Strange Duet by Erin A. Craig, a Christine-forward retelling of Andrew Lloyd Webber's iconic musical The Phantom of the Opera that gives new insight into Christine's experience navigating the Opéra House; Bite Me by Jennifer Dugan, illustrated by Kit Seaton, a sapphic supernatural YA graphic novel about a newly turned teen vampire whose longtime crush turns out to be a slayer; and Lydia Cooper Is a Lie by Meaghan McIsaac, a middle grade thriller about a young teen who discovers she has grown up in witness protection, breaks the rules, and reveals her identity on social media.

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