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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has named N.K. Jemisin the 42nd recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.

SFWA President Kate Ristau said,

Jemisin is a celebrated speculative fiction author with multiple Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. A MacArthur fellow, she impacted an entire generation of new writers with her groundbreaking work. Her career has had an unbelievable impact on the direction of speculative fiction and on how we imagine what SFF can do. I am happy to acknowledge her work, even as she continues to write us into the future. I cannot imagine a better Grand Master to solidify our next 60 years at SFWA.

Jemisin said,

I’m honored and excited to be joining your ranks. If you’ve read my work, you know how I feel about the power of stories to make change. So many of the previous Grandmasters wrote stories that changed my life. I am truly flattered to be among them now. I feel like “standing on the shoulders of giants” can be overused, but to be a SFWA Grandmaster, becoming part of a tradition that includes Ursula K. LeGuin, Connie Willis, Samuel R Delaney, Peter S. Beagle, Nalo Hopkinson, and both of you…there’s just no other way to say it.

And as much as I appreciate this honor in itself, I appreciate becoming part of SFWA’s wider mission. In recent years, it’s becoming very clear that no one’s looking out for us but us – labor violations, predatory contracts, private equity, and the Cthulu-ass horror of AI…if you’re a writer, you know it’s bad out there. The fight is worth it, and we will win, but goddamn, you know? And in an age where fewer and fewer people are standing up for artists, SFWA – an organization which works hard for its members and even extends information and aid to writers who aren’t members yet – feels more necessary than ever.

I am delighted to be next year’s Grandmaster. Keep fighting. See you soon.

Previously honored SFWA Grand Masters include Nicola Griffith, Samuel R. Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, and others, going back to 1974. The award was presented at Quasar, “a special continuation of the 2025 Nebula Awards Conference,” held November 15-16, 2025.

For more information, see the SFWA website.

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VAISHNAVI PATEL is now repre­sented by Jordan Hill of New Leaf Literary & Media. Patel sold con­temporary fantasy We Dance Upon Demons, following a burnt-out reproductive health care worker, to Sareena Kamath at Saga Press via Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency.

OGHENECHOVWE DONALD EKPEKI is now represented by Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media.

ROBERT J. SAWYER will be a Writer in Residence at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany, from February to May 2026.

LESLEY WHEELER is now rep­resented by Arley Sorg of kt literary.

MIA DALIA is now represented by John Jarrold Literary Agency.

TOMMY ORANGE has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, which aims “to identify extraordi­narily creative individuals with a track record of excellence in a field of scholarship or area of practice” who are residents or citizens of the US. Fellows receive $800,000 in quarterly installments paid over five years.

BRANDON SANDERSON and PETER ORULLIAN sold contem­porary fantasy Songs of the Dead, first in the Strata Wars trilogy, and two more books to Joe Monti at Saga Press via Joshua Bilmes of JABberwocky Literary Agency.

KELLY LINK sold The Lover of Books, in which guests tell un­canny stories at a haunted dinner party; an anthology of ghost stories; plus another title to Caitlin McK­enna at Random House via Renée Zuckerbrotof Massie McQuilkin & Altman.

PAUL TREMBLAY sold Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep, another novel, and a short story collection to Vicky Leech Mateos at Bloomsbury Archer UK via Caspian Dennis of Abner Stein on behalf of Stephen Barbara and Alexis Hurley at Inkwell Management.

JAMES ISLINGTON’s Scion, about a contract killer assigned to protect a genetic enhancement scientist, went to Joe Monti at Saga Press via Paul Lucas of Regal Hoffmann & Associates. UK rights went to Bethan Morgan at Gollancz at auction, and Australia and New Zealand rights went to Michael Heyward at Text.

CEBO CAMPBELL sold South­ern Gothic and cosmic horror novel Wells Without Water to Olivia Taylor Smith at Simon & Schuster via Byrd Leavell and Harry Sherer of UTA.

JEREMY BATES’s Backworlds, in which a teacher discovers a nightmarish netherworld in New York City’s subway tunnels, and another book sold to James Abbate at Kensington via John Talbot of Talbot Fortune Agency.

ELIZABETH LIM sold Fishbone Cinderella, inspired by Chinese folklore and Western fairy tales, and another book to Tricia Narwani at Del Rey via Gina Maccoby of Gina Maccoby Literary Agency. UK rights went to Molly Powell at Hodderscape via Ginger Clark of Ginger Clark Literary on behalf of Gina Maccoby Literary Agency.

DARIANNE SCHRAMM sold tragic speculative romance Kiss Me Like the Last Time to Rachel Stark at Disney-Hyperion, and specula­tive romance The Eternal Deaths of Hattie Gold to Eileen Rothschild at Saturday Books at auction, both via Jennifer Azantian of Azantian Literary Agency.

WAYNE BRADY and MAURICE BROADDUS sold time-bending SF thriller Hard Times to Diana Pho at Erewhon Books via Anthony Mattero of CAA, Thomas Hober­man for Brady, and Bridget Smith of JABberwocky Literary Agency for Broaddus.

LOUISA CARMODY resold an­gels versus demons dystopia The Shadows that Listen and sold three more books to Angelica Chong at Orbit for six figures in a pre-empt via Susan Armstrong at C+W. UK rights went to Nadia Saward at Orbit UK and Australia and New Zealand rights went to Rebecca Saunders at Hachette Australia.

CHERYL S. NTUMY’s fantasy novels A Guide to Silk & Sedition, A Guide to Magic and Mayhem, and A Guide to Love and Lib­eration, set in a Ghana-inspired matriarchal dystopia, went to Bibi Bakare-Yusuf at Ankara via Bieke van Aggelen of African Literary Agency. Tito Sanusi will edit.

JAMES CLEARY sold postapoca­lyptic thriller Sanctuary to Tom Colgan at Berkley via Sara O’Keeffe of Andrew Nurnberg Associates.

R.F. KUANG sold coming-of-age novel Taipei Story to May Chen at William Morrow, with UK rights go­ing to Ann Bissell at The Borough Press; and two speculative novels to David Pomerico at Voyager US, with UK rights going to Natasha Bardon at Voyager UK; all via Hannah Bowman of Liza Dawson Associates.

MELINDA SALISBURY’s folk horror Local Gods and another book sold to Sarah Barley at Sarah Barley Books at auction for six figures via Pete Knapp and Stuti Telidevara of Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management on behalf of Claire Wilson of Rogers, Coleridge and White. UK rights sold to Antho­ny Hinton at David Fickling Books via Wilson.

MICAIAH JOHNSON sold The Unhaunting, pitched for fans of Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and Victor LaValle, to Ruoxi Chen at Putnam at auction via Cameron McClure of Donald Maass Literary Agency.

MORGAN SHAMY sold Danse Macabre, a dark academia fan­tasy horror, to Lydia Sharp at May­hem Books at auction via Marisa Corvisiero of Corvisiero Literary Agency.

GRETCHEN POWELL’s Shat­tered Crown trilogy, an enemies-to-lovers romantasy, went to Feather Flores at Scarlett Press in a pre-empt for six figures via Katie Shea Boutillier of Donald J. Maass Liter­ary Agency. The first two books were originally self-published.

MEGAN FRAMPTON’s Victorian romantasy Demons and Diplo­macy, first in the Ministry of Super­natural Affairs series, and another book went to Sarah Blumenstock at Berkley at auction via Louise Fury of The Fury Agency.

ALEXANDER BOLDIZAR sold Ride or Die Girl, about a woman going through Dante Alighieri’s nine circles with a notorious gangster, to Chantelle Aimee Osman at Simon Maverick via Mark Tavani of David Black Agency.

DANGER SLATER sold In a Quiet Village by the Sea, in which an oceanic geologist and his family encounter ecological anomalies at a coastal town, to Steve Wands at Death’s Head Press.

KATE ROBBINS sold Abigayle, Fiona, Wynda, Euphemia, and Shona, in the Scottish historical fantasy series Pentacle Witches, to Kathryn Le Veque at Dragonblade Moonrise.

GWENDOLYN KISTE’s Every­thing Looks Better in Red went to Mika Kasuga at Union Square & Co in a pre-empt via Elizabeth Copps of Copps Literary Services.

KAYLA EDWARDS’s first four books in the House of Devils series, City of Gods and Monsters, City of Souls and Sinners, City of Lies and Legends, and City of Smoke and Brimstone went to Kate Pross­wimmer at Scarlett Press in a six-figure deal via Kimberly Whalen of The Whalen Agency. UK rights went to Ruth Atkins at Michael Joseph.

HANNAH NICOLE MAEHRER sold the fourth book in the Assistant and the Villain series, Adversary to the Villain, to Liz Pelletier at Red Tower via Brent Taylor of TriadaUS Literary Agency. Stacy Cantor Abrams will edit.

ALICE BELL sold ghostly murder mysteries The Grapples of Wrath, For Whom the Spell Tolls, and an­other title in the Grave Expectations series to Sarah Hodgson at Corvus via Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency. Rachel Imrie will edit.

KRISTEN SIMMONS writing as TATUM DALLAS sold paranormal romance Dirty Magic, pitched as Practical Magic meets Magic Mike, and another book to Amanda Maurer at Berkley at auction via Joanna MacKenzie of Nelson Liter­ary Agency.

JJA HARWOOD’s The House­mate, in which a young woman shares a flat with attractive room­mates that is haunted by an un­wanted tenant, to Ezra Kupor at Harper Perennial at auction via Chloe Seager of Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency.

LISSA LAYLAND’s Thunder­struck, featuring a love triangle with the Norse gods Thor and Loki and an American exchange student, plus two more books went to Shan­non Plackis at Avon at auction via Aram Fox of Massie McQuilkin & Altman on behalf of Judith Murray of Greene & Heaton.

MAREN CHASE sold time travel romance We Have Hours Left Til Morning to Rebecca Brewer at Bloomsbury Archer in a pre-empt via Melanie Figueroa of Root Lit­erary.

EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL sold Exit Party to Jennifer Jackson at Knopf via Katherine Fausset of Curtis Brown.

ALICIA JASINSKA sold This Lethal Love and another book to Jonah Heller at Peachtree Teen via Michaela Whatnall of Dystel, God­erich & Bourret.

POLLY SCHATTEL sold Come As You’re Not to Scarlett Algee at JournalStone.

AMY AVERY sold dark sapphic fantasy The Thorns We Wear Inside to Aranya Jain at DAW via Jennifer Azantian of Azantian Liter­ary Agency.

NICKI PAU PRETO’s Daughter of Wolves and another book went to Sara Goodman at Saturday Books at auction via Penny Moore of Aevitas Creative Management. UK rights sold to Charlie Castelletti at Hodderscape in a pre-empt.

MORGAN RHODES’s fantasy novels Gathering Darkness, Fro­zen Tides, Crystal Storm, and Im­mortal Reign sold to Awo Ibrahim at Puffin UK on behalf of Kym Ryan at Penguin Young Readers.

CALE PLETT sold queer horror novel Stranglehold to Alison Romig at Delacorte via Amy Tompkins of Transatlantic Literary Agency.

QURRATULAYN’s Soot & Sacri­fice, the conclusion to the historical fantasy horror duology, went to Tamara Grasty at Page Street via Kelly Van Sant of kt literary.

ALEX WOODROE sold Tatratea, in which a researcher of a wide­spread virus investigates a Roma­nian manor and becomes locked in, to Christoph Paul at Clash.

VICTORIA DALPE sold Loving the Dead, in the Selene Shade urban fantasy series, and another book to Christoph Paul at Clash.

A.T. QURESHI sold romantasy duology Rider of Dragons and The Dragon Thief to Amy Baxter at Avon UK via Victoria Marini and Sheyla Knigge of High Line Literary Collective.

NOBODY103 writing as DOMA­GOJ KURMAIĆ sold five books in the Zenith of Sorcery series to Rhett Bruno at Aethon & Vault via Drew Gilmour of Achilles Literary Agency.

DORIAN RAVENSCROFT sold The White North Has Thy Bones, a historical horror inspired by the lost Franklin expedition to the Arctic, and another book to Therese Keat­ing at Raven Books in a pre-empt via Julie Gourinchas of Bell Lomax Moreton Agency.

VASILISA DRAKE’s A Bargain So Bloody and A Magic So Deadly, the first two books in the King­dom of Dark Magic series, sold to Sarah McCabe at Scarlett Press via Kimberly Whalen of The Whalen Agency.

AMY TRUE sold Clearly Charmed, first in the Sisters of Harvest Moon series, and two more books to Jennie Ayres at Hera via Jessica Faust of BookEnds.

TIFFANY HUNT resold originally self-published The Dark Lord’s Guide to Dating (And Other War Crimes) and sold two more books to Sarah McCabe at Scarlett Press in a pre-empt via Lauren Spieller of Folio Literary Management.

CONSTANT DAVENPORT’s Murderess and When I’m Gone sold to Staci Troilo at Rogue River. George Mitchell will edit.

ZACHARY MASON sold Ouro­boros, told from the perspective of powerful AIs in the future, to Peter Blackstock at Grove/Atlantic via Bill Clegg of The Clegg Agency.

AMANDA REYNOLDS writing as AMANDA WEST sold The Memory Foundation, ‘‘a thriller with a spec­ulative edge,’’ to Marcia Markland at Crooked Lane via Joanna Swainson of Hardman & Swainson.

KATYA DE BECERRA sold Little Kin to Brendan Deneen at Black­stone Publishing via Rena Rossner of Deborah Harris Agency.

GUILTYTHREE sold three books in the Shadow Slave series to Rhett Bruno at Aethon & Vault. Damian Wassel will edit.

JESSICA NATALIE REINO sold book two in the Attuned series, Down to Earth, to Nancy Schum­acher at Fire & Ice via Amy Brewer of Metamorphosis Literary Agecy.

BREANNE RANDALL and MACKENZIE GOLD’s The Chron­icles of Chaos and two more books went to Daniel Ehrenhaft at Black­stone Publishing via Natalie Lakosil of Looking Glass Literary & Media. UK rights sold to Aubrie Artiano at Head of Zeus via Heather Baror-Shapiro of Baror International.

STACEY MARIE BROWN sold dystopian urban fantasy novels Savage Lands, Wild Lands, Dead Lands, Bad Lands, Blood Lands, and Shadow Lands to Marilyn Kretzer at Blackstone Publishing via Stephanie Phillips of SBR Media.

ARTEMIS WHELAN’s cozy queer romantic fantasy The Education of Imryn Dyre, Wizard’s Apprentice went to Julie Constantine at Podium Publishing via Cheyenne Faircloth of Handspun Literary.

IVELISSE HOUSMAN’s Legend of Zelda-inspired cozy romantic fantasy ‘Til Quest Do Us Part sold to Gabrielle Pachon at Berkley at auction via Victoria Marini of High Line Literary Collective.

MEG SMITHERMAN sold gothic romantic fantasy Deathsworn and another book to Vanessa Aguirre at Saturday Books at auction via Carolyn Forde of Transatlantic Liter­ary Agency. UK rights went to Jorgie Bain of Michael Joseph.

SOPHIA ST. GERMAIN sold dark romantasy series The Cinderlands to Alexandra Sunshine at Kens­ington via Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group.

ELLA FIELDS sold romantasy Amid Clouds and Bones to Kate Prosswimmer at Scarlett Press via Jessica Alvarez of BookEnds.

E.L. CHEN sold One of Us Is Already Dead, described as tak­ing inspiration from The Blair Witch Project, and another book to Bradley Englebert at Run For It via Dorian Maffei of Kimberley Cameron & Associates.

ELLIE PALMER sold paranormal-horror rom-com ‘Til Undeath Do Us Part and another book to Cat Clyne at Mira via Laura Bradford of Bradford Literary Agency.

TRISHA BLANCHET’s paranor­mal mystery Mill City Murder went to Melissa Rechter at Crooked Lane via Jessica Berg of Rosecliff Literary. Rebecca Nelson will edit.

JACLYN MORIARTY sold Time Travel for Beginners to Kate Seav­er at Berkley in a pre-empt via Jill Grinberg of Jill Grinberg Literary Management on behalf of Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown Australia. Australia and New Zealand rights went to Robert Watkins at Ultimo at auction via Wynne.

SASHA E. SLOAN sold The Ruins Beneath Us and the second book in the romantasy duology to Holly Rice at Disney-Hyperion via Abigail Frank at Sanford J. Green­burger Associates. Candice Snow will edit.

CHLOE BENJAMIN’s Under Story went to Lindsay Sagnette at Putnam via Margaret Riley King of WME.

ALEXANDRA PAIGE’s witch romance A Witch in Notting Hill went to Shannon Plackis at Avon via Hannah Todd while part of Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency.

I.V. OPHELIA sold Obscuria, sequel to Florescentia in the Lu­minary duology, to Megan Sakoi at Montlake via Angie Ojeda Hazen of Lunar Literary Agency.

FIONA MOZLEY sold humorous surreal novel Awake, Awake to Madeline Jones at Algonquin via Rebecca Folland of John Murray Press.

JARED YOUNG’s This Will Be the End of Me, ‘‘Knives Out meets Everything Everywhere All At Once,’’ sold to Peter Joseph at Crown in a pre-empt via Marilyn Biderman of Transatlantic Literary Agency. Canadian rights went to Deborah Sun de la Cruz at Penguin Canada in a pre-empt.

TEE HARLOWE sold the second novel in the Moonflower Witches series and resold previously self-published Potions and Prejudice, a cozy fantasy romance take on Pride and Prejudice, to Sareer Khader at Ace in a pre-empt via Ashley Reis­ inger of TriadaUS Literary Agency.

ALEXIS VEENENDAAL sold Hero Adjacent, in which an elderly wizard with a ballpoint pen must guide a band of misfits to save the world, to Aranya Jain at DAW via Madison Potter of Olswanger Literary.

MARLEY ROSE-TETER’s The Bone Brides, ‘‘Howl’s Moving Castle by way of Guillermo del Toro,’’ sold to Lauren Knowles at Page Street via Hannah Andrade of Bradford Literary Agency.

SAADIA FARUQI sold Ms. Mar­vel: Remnants of the Past to Brit­tany Rubiano at Random House Children’s via Kari Sutherland at kt literary.

LAURA GUBATA sold A Divine Inheritance and an untitled sequel to Noa Wheeler at Bloomsbury Archer via Sarah Landis of Sterling Lord Literistic.

JESSICA HAMILTON’s The Woods, said to sit between ‘‘psy­chological unraveling and super­natural horror,’’ and another book went to Adrienne Kerr at Simon & Schuster Canada via Carolyn Forde of Transatlantic Literary Agency.

NANCY KRESS’s The Queen’s Witch, in which a Queen of England and a witch are bound by fate, went to Elizabeth Agyemang at Amazon Crossing via Peter Rubie of Fine­Print Literary Management.

JEN L. GREY sold The Shadow King’s Curse, first in a duology featuring a fae who sets out to kill a king who is her fated mate, and another book to Emma Cole at Mira in a pre-empt via Kevan Lyon of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

CINDY PHAM sold The Secret World of Briar Rose, a queer ‘‘Sleeping Beauty’’ retelling, to Za­reen Jaffery at Kokila via Thao Le of Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.

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FREDRIK P. WINTER sold su­pernatural psychological thriller The Badger to Bloodhound Books via Edith Enberg Salibi of Enberg Agency.

MAIA KANE’s Season of Steel and Gauntlet of Gold, set in an alternate Regency England in which mecha tournaments determine marriages and titles, sold to Char­lotte Peters at Dutton at auction via Pete Knapp and Stuti Telidevara of Park, Fine & Brower Literary Man­agement. UK rights went to Emma Matthewson at Hot Key Books at auction via Safae El-Ouahabi of Rogers, Coleridge & White.

SARA FIELDS sold supernatural mafia romance Arranged Mate and another book to Alexandra Sehul­ster at St. Martin’s via Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media Group.

MAIA CHANCE’s The Ravine, pitched as ‘‘folk horror meets do­mestic thriller,’’ sold to Laura Van der Veer at Thomas & Mercer via Stephany Evans of Ayesha Pande Literary.

LARA MESSERSMITH-GLAVIN sold How the Chandler Hung the Moon to Laura Stanfill at Forest Avenue Press.

NICK CATO’s horror novel Lov­ers went to Steve Wands at Death’s Head Press.

VALERIE HEWITT sold Jarel­lan’s War to Jean Lowd at Creative James.

JEFF STRAND’s Fun Times at the Bloodbath, in which a video game turns players into violent addicts, and another book sold to Steve Wands at Death’s Head Press.

ELOISE RODGER sold Death’s a Bitch, in which death offers a young woman a job to help save her sick sister, to Jordan Pavlin at Knopf in a pre-empt via Eleanor Birne at Rogers Coleridge & White. UK rights went to Louisa Joyner at Faber & Faber.

DAMI SALAKO sold Nigerian-in­spired YA The Sun Has a Shadow and another book to Mara Delga­do-Sanchez at Tor via Dorian Maffei of Kimberly Cameron & Associates.

LINDSEY ANDERSON RIOS sold YA dystopia Bright Light on the Horizon to Kelsey Murphy at Viking Children’s in a pre-empt via Catherine Cho of Paper Literary. UK rights sold to Rachel Leyshon at Chicken House.

VANESSA MONTALBAN sold YA novels The Beautiful Heir and The Wild Heir in the new Heirs of Westemere series to Anna Parsons at Simon Pulse via Danielle Burby of Mad Woman Literary Agency. Rebecca Kuss will edit.

F.T. LUKENS sold YA novel Cha­os Ensues, in which two strangers must fulfill a prophecy by order of the goddess of chaos, and two more books to Kate Prosswimmer at Margaret K. McElderry Books via Eva Scalzo of Speilburg Liter­ary Agency.

JACQUELINE WEST’s YA horror Black Point, set in a ‘‘small town steeped in Norse traditions,’’ went to Kristie Choi at Atheneum via Danielle Chiotti of Upstart Crow Literary.

JESSE Q. SUTANTO’s debut dark fantasy An Edge Sharp Enough and the second in the duology sold to David Pomerico at Voyager US at auction via Katelyn Detweiler of Jill Grinberg Literary Management.

JASON KALEKO’s The Jop­lin Horror, a debut novel about graverobbers chased by a malevo­lent entity in a mausoleum, went to Aranya Jain at DAW in a pre-empt via Kirby Kim of Janklow & Nesbit.

CHARLOTTE B. PLUMB sold Reap & Sow, a debut gothic ro­mantic fantasy, and the second book in the duology to Jennifer Klonsky and Ruta Rimas at Berk­ley XO in a pre-empt via Stuti Telidevara and Pete Knapp at Park, Fine & Brower Literary Manage­ment. UK rights went to Carmen McCullough at Penguin UK in a pre-empt via Safae El-Ouahabi of Rogers, Coleridge & White on behalf of Anna Atoria of Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management.

NATASHA ALI sold speculative gothic debut Reasons I’m Not Human, set on a spaceship on an intergenerational voyage, to Margo Shickmanter at Avid Reader Press in a pre-empt via Tia Ikemoto of CAA on behalf of Daisy Arendell of CAA. UK rights went to Jane Link at Brazen via Arendell.

MARIA MESERVEY sold The Ironfell Inheritance and The Morrow Archives, a debut gothic fantasy duology, to Tricia Narwani at Del Rey at auction via Catherine Cho of Paper Literary. UK rights went to Rebecca Hilsdon at Mi­chael Joseph at auction on behalf of Catherine Cho of Paper Literary.

RUSTIN LOVEWELL’s debut adventure fantasy Strangebrew Apothecary went to Eden Rails­back at Hanover Square Press via Michelle Hauck of Storm Literary Agency.

SHREYA ILA ANASUYA’s debut The Poison Palace, combining the Indian Vishkanya with the his­tory of Alexander the Great, sold to Lindsey Rose at Dutton via Jessica Purdue of Little Brown UK. UK rights went to Tilda Key at Sphere.

ANNA JAMES sold adult de­but Good Fortunes, in which a millennial woman gets a job at a bookstore whose closet leads to the world of Pride & Prejudice, and another book to Kerry Donovan at Berkley at auction via Pete Knapp and Stuti Telidevara of Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management on behalf of Claire Wilson of Rogers, Coleridge and White. UK rights went to Kate Mills at HQ in a pre-empt via Wilson.

CALLUM BROADWAY-BENNETTsold debut Duskborn, first in a fantasy series, and two more books to Rebecca Brewer at Bloomsbury Archer in a pre-empt via Ariana Philips at Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency on behalf of Judith Murray of Greene & Heaton.

NICOLE WHITE sold debut Jupiter Saves!, described as ‘‘a madcap Willy Wonka for our time,’’ and another book to Mo Crist at Bloomsbury via Alexa Stark of Writers House.

CHLOE LAUTER’s debut, sap­phic vampire neonoir The Flayed Man, went to Dan Lopez at Soft Skull via Amanda Orozco and Laura Cameron of Transatlantic Literary Agency.

ALEX TERRELL’s debut Strangeblood went to Kat Brzo­zowski at Feiwel and Friends in a pre-empt via Marin Takikawa of Friedrich Agency.

MEG PENNERSON sold debut Dragons, Heists, and Other Re­tirement Plans and another book to Sophie Judge at Second Sky via Caitlin Blasdell of Liza Dawson Associates.

MOLLY E. SILVER sold debut OMG! Did I Just Time Travel?!, fol­lowing a cheerleader who acciden­tally travels three decades into the past, to Ricky Treon at Blue Handle.

CARRIE LEE SOUTH’s debut In the Woods They Wait, about a park ranger investigating the disappear­ance of a child in the Ozarks, went to Liv Ryan at Mulholland Books in a pre-empt via Via Romano of CAA.

MARK D. FREEMAN sold debut eco-horror climate thriller Raven­ous to John Morgan at Grand Cen­tral in a pre-empt via Jennifer Weltz of Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency.

TOM HUDDLESTON writing as T.H. HUDDLESTON sold debut horror novel The Cracks and an­other book to Daniel Carpenter at Titan Books via Ella Kahn of DKW.

HOYT WALKER sold debut Ca­liginous, in which a serial killer finds his latest victim stolen by a demon, to Harbor Lane Books.

RADIYA HAFIZA sold debut ‘‘South Asian romantasy’’ The Sil­ver Kingdom and another book to Arub Ahmed and Deeba Zargarpur at Simon & Schuster Children’s in a pre-empt via Alice Sutherland-Hawes at ASH Literary.

FIZA SAEED MCLYNN’s debut The Midnight Carousel, in which a carousel causes those who ride it to disappear, went to Annie Cha­gnot at Park Row Books via Claudia Ballard of WME on behalf of Hellie Ogden.

SHARON CHOE sold YA debut The Queen of the Spirit Woods, a Korean history-inspired political fantasy, and another book to Kristie Choi at Atheneum via Laura Crock­ett of TriadaUS Literary Agency.

FELICIA MARTĺNEZ sold Bright Phaedra, an SF novella retelling of a Greek myth, sold to Betsy Miller and Liza Olmsted at Thinking Ink Press.

AUGUST BLOOM sold The Tiny Magic Bookshop and the second book in a new series to Clare Gor­don at HQ via Saskia Leach of Kate Nash Literary Agency UK.

PETER V. BRETT’s cozy fantasy mystery novella Butter Cookies and Demon Claws sold to Natasha Bardon at Voyager UK via Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency on behalf of Joshua Bilmes of JABberwocky Agency. Charlotte Trumble will edit.

GREGG HURWITZ’s novella The Delivery, about an AI companion, sold to Liz Pearsons at Thomas & Mercer via Lisa Erbach Vance at Aaron Priest Literary Agency.

JESSE HOLLAND will edit an­thology The Lonesome Byways: Original African-American Tales of Alternate History, Fantasy, and Horror for Anne Perry at Ar­cadia Books via Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency on behalf of Eddie Schneider of JABberwocky Liter­ary Agency.

MATTHEW DAVID GOODWIN and RICHIE NARVAEZ will edit anthology The Speculative Detec­tive Agency for Toni Kirkpatrick at Diversion Books.

KRISTEL BUCKLEY and MOLLY LLEWELLYN will edit Cassandra Complex: 16 Myths from the Mar­gins, an anthology of international ‘‘myth and fairytale retellings,’’ for Michelle Dotter at Dzanc Books via Serene Hakim of Ayesha Pande Literary.

ROBERT BRINKERHOFF sold The Inferno: An Illustrated Primer, a guide to Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, to Mika Kasuga at Union Square & Co.

JOANNE HALL resold The Sum­mer Goddess to Wizard’s Tower Press.

The Wandering Unicorn by the late MANUEL MUJICA LÁINEZ resold to Helen Thomaides at Modern Library via Maria Juncosa of Casanovas & Lynch Agency.

MADELINE CASH’s collection Earth Angel, revised and expand­ed, resold to Jackson Howard at Picador USA via Michael Mungiello of Inkwell Management.

CHARLIE REDMAYNE has re­signed as CEO of HarperCollins UK. Kate Elton has been named interim CEO.

NATE LANMAN is joining Del Rey as editor, reporting to Tricia Narwani. Lanman was most re­cently at HarperCollins.

AMARA HOSHIJO has been promoted to executive editor, KARINTHA PARKER to publicist, and CAROLINE TEW to assistant editor at Saga Press.

KIN & CO. LITERARY SCOUT­ING has been appointed the US scouting partner for FairyLoot, covering the Wayward TxF imprint.

Film rights to KATHERINE RUN­DELL’s Impossible Creatures went to Walt Disney Studios at auc­tion for seven figures, with Rundell adapting the first two books, via Charles Collier of Chalcot Square Arts and Media Management. Rundell and Collier’s Impossible Films receives ‘‘a first-look develop­ment relationship with Disney that includes all of Rundell’s current and upcoming literary properties.’’

Film rights to SEN LIN YU’s Alchemised went to Legendary in a pre-empt for seven figures via WME and Matthew Sugarman of Weintraub Tobin.

Film rights to HARLEY LAROUX’s Her Soul to Take went to ReelShort via Bethany Weaver of Weaver Literary Agency