New Deal - THE BREAKWATER

Author of SISTERS OF THE SPRUCE Leslie Shimotakahara's THE BREAKWATER, exploring the rivalry between two brothers of Japanese heritage prior to the Japanese Canadian Internment, which one brother escapes because he was committed to Essondale Asylum, and their confrontation with its lasting effects on them and the following generation, when they're brought together for a final reunion, to Marc Cote at Cormorant Books, by Sam Hiyate at The Rights Factory (world, excl. Japan).

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New Deal - GUIDE TO CARING FOR MEDICALLY TRANSITIONING YOUTH

Former registered nurse and author of BEYOND PRONOUNS Tammy Plunkett's GUIDE TO CARING FOR MEDICALLY TRANSITIONING YOUTH, pitched as a compassionate roadmap for caregivers in the fraught, politically-charged, and ever-evolving landscape of gender-affirming healthcare, drawing on the author's personal experience as a mother of trans children as well as her medical knowledge, to Suzanne Staszak-Silva at Johns Hopkins University Press, by Jennifer Chevais at The Rights Factory (world English).

Foreign: milly@therightsfactory.com

TV/film: karmen@therightsfactory.com

New Deal: COQ, TAKEDOWN By Ali Bryan

Ali Bryan's COQ and TAKEDOWN, to Kim Budnick at Tantor Media, in a two-book deal, by Stacey Kondla at The Rights Factory (world English).

Foreign: milly@therightsfactory.com

TV/Film: karmen@therightsfactory.com