New Deal - Second Soul

Author of MY NAME IS MAGIC Xan Van Rooyen's SECOND SOUL, pitched as a cyberpunk retelling of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY set in a futuristic city, in which an orphaned nonbinary teen must graduate as valedictorian from an elite academy to receive an inheritance from estranged family, but their plan to tear down the upper echelons of society from the inside will only work if they aren't seduced by the very world they swore to destroy, to Joshua Dean Perry at The Tiny Ghost Press, in a nice deal, for publication in winter 2026, by Lindsay Leggett at The Rights Factory (world English).

New Deal - Tiny Hiker

Natasha Zimmer's debut TINY HIKER, about a young girl on her first backpacking trip to camp on the beach, where the trail is longer, steeper, and much more difficult than she expected, so she has to find a way to keep going, even when she wants to give up, illustrated by Jaimie MacGibbon, to Kondla at The Rights Factory for the author, and by Molly O'Neill at Root Literary for the illustrator (world).

New Deal - The Worried Book, The Sad Book, The Angry Book

Author of The Shy Book, Howard Pearlstein's The Worried, The Sad Book, and The Angry Book, the second, third, and fourth books in the Emotion Book series, about books that learn to cope with their emotions and overcome challenges, to Matthew Howard at Graffeg, in a three-book deal, for publication starting in summer 2025, by Jes Trudel at The Rights Factory.