Audible will be publishing a new JOHN SCALZI original novella CONSTITUENT SERVICE in September.

John’s next full length novel WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE is coming March 2025 from Tor.

DENNIS E. TAYLOR’s 5th novel in the Bobiverse Series, NOT TILL WE ARE LOST, will be published as an Audible Original.

We’ve made a number of new sales for CANDACE FLEMING, IS IT REAL? THE LOCH NESS MONSTER to Scholastic, part of a new Series. NARWHAL: UNICORN OF THE ARCTIC comes in October from Anne Schwartz Books (PRH).

We have two sales to announce for MATTHEW KRESSEL, a novella to Tor.com, HOW FAR WE’VE COME and a novel SPACE TRUCKER JESS to Fairwood Press.

We’ve sold another novel by Jim Cambias in his Billion Worlds Series to Baen, THE MIRANDA CONSPIRACY.

SHELLY LAURENSTON/G A AIKEN continues her bestselling Romantasy novels with 4 new books sold to Kensington.

Ian Douglas launches a new Series in February with Harpercollins, GALAXY RAIDER

Carissa Broadbent’s ASHES AND THE STAR CURSED KING spent two weeks on the NYT Hardcover list as well as three weeks on the USA Today list. The book came out from Tor/Bramble in June.

In April, HERE WE GO AGAIN, Alison Cochrun’s third book launched from Atria/Simon and Schuster

Natalie Leif’s debut TAKE ALL OF US, a YA unbury-your-gays horror novel launched from Holiday House on June 4 th . The book got a star from Publishers Weekly and readers are falling for the witty and gory zombie adventure.

We’re thrilled to see the outstanding success of breakout Romantasy author CARISSA BROADBENT. Rights have been sold in 18 foreign territories, and we’ve secured a print deal with Bramble/Tor Publishing. The CROWNS OF NYAXIA series will relaunch in print with SERPENT AND THE WINGS OF NIGHT out December 5th! 

 

In June, we were thrilled to see that ALISON COCHRUN won the Lambda Award for LGBTQ Romance and Erotica for KISS HER ONCE FOR ME. This queer holiday romance was a BOTM pick, got a fantastic review in the NYT and was wonderfully received by her growing readership. 

 

SELENE CASTROVILLA has a new, soon to be announced deal with Calkins Creek/Astra publishing. Bringing her lyrical writing along with her top notch research, this in depth picture book will follow the life of Henrietta Wood who was enslaved two times but eventually won her freedom and the largest reparations in US History. 

 

We’re very excited to have signed new Indie Authors for Subrights representation, a rapidly growing section of our agency. We’ve secured foreign deals for Thriller author NOELLE IHLI (Germany) and audio deals for HELEN SCHEUERER and LAURETTA HIGNETT. We’ve just signed business writer DEREK BORTHWICK. 

 

JOHN SCALZI’s STARTER VILLAIN was piublished on September 19th and it’s proving his most successful book yet.  We’ve already sold France, Korea, Hungary and Italy.  John will be the guest of honor at Budapest’s International Book Fair in October.  

 

DENNIS E. TAYLOR  has delivered the 5th book in the Bobiverse Series, NOT TILL WE ARE LOST and publication plans are in the works.  

 

We’ve sold an additional title in Germany for STEFAN MANI, whose Grissom series continues.  

 

LILY GOLD’s reverse harem romances have found a ready market in translation and we’ve sold Germany, Israel, Portugal, Poland, Spain and Italy.

 

On behalf of JAMES CAMBIAS we’ve sold another title in his Billion Worlds Series.  

 

For Caldecott winner ERIC ROHMANN we’ve sold BONE DOG in Japan.  

 

Dennis E. Taylor’s EARTHSIDE is set to release from Audible at the end of the month. The sequel to OUTLAND, this book is sure to delight.

James Cambias will be continuing his BILLION WORLDS series with a 3^rd book just sold to Baen.

John Scalzi has delivered his Summer 2023 release STARTER VILLAIN and we are very excited about its forthcoming publication.

We’re very excited to work with Indie author Carissa Broadbent for foreign rights for her CROWNS OF NYAXIA series. We’ve sold rights in Turkey. This breakout Fantasy Romance series is perfect for fans of Sarah J Maas and Jennifer Armentrout.

Agent Evan Gregory has licensed a new book by Yahtzee Croshaw to Audible.

This fall, Alison Cochrun released KISS HER ONCE FOR ME to acclaim from the NYT. It was a December Book of the Month Club pick. We’ve sold two upcoming books to Atria/Simon & Schuster with the next release HERE WE GO AGAIN out Spring 2024.

Candy Fleming has added yet another award to her stellar career. Her most recent YA release MURDER AMONG FRIENDS was included in the School Library Journal Best Books of 2022!  POLAR BEAR, Fleming’s collaboration with Caldecott winner Eric Rohmann is just out with a great review in the NYT.

 

The Ellenberg Agency is very excited to repulbish Marthe Jocelyn’s INVISIBLE series with great new covers and interior art.

We’ve also just published 3 GRIMSSON novels by Icelandic Mystery phenom STEFAN MANI to coincide with the release of all 3 books forthcoming from Tantor Audio.

Tony Peak has licensed three LitRPG novels to Aethon books, to debut on the Yonder App.

We’ve licensed 3 backlist titles on behalf of Kay Kenyon for Spanish Audio.

For Catherine Asaro we’ve negotiated new 3 book deals for her MAJOR BHAJAAN series with both Baen and Recorded Books.  We’ve sold 19 back list titles of hers to Open Road

Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle’s BLACK BADGE was published in May and quickly rose up the list of top selling new SF.

James Cambias’ next book THE SCARAB MISSION is coming from Baen January 2023.

Ian Douglas completes his SOLAR WARDEN series with Harpercollins when they publish ALIEN AGENDAS in January 2023.  A new 3 book Series will follow.

We’ve sold a two book deal for Kate Robb, a debut rom-com author, to The Dial Press. The first book, THE LOVE CLEANSE will launch Fall 2023. 

Tony Peak’s new series RED SHIRT RUNNERS will be published by Aethon this Fall.

We’ve licensed Sharon Shinn’s next novel QUATREFOIL to Fairwood Press for publication this Fall.

 

John Scalzi’s THE KAIJU PRESERVATION SOCIETY was a NYT Bestseller when it was published in March.  Look for his 3rd Audible Original this Fall with THE DISPATCHER: TRAVEL BY BULLET.  John continues his animation career with an entry in the third season of LOVE, DEATH AND ROBOTS, the new episode is THREE ROBOTS: EXIT STRATEGIES.

Dennis E. Taylor’s next book standalone is ROAD KILL coming from Audible in August and from us in print in December.  EARTH SIDE the sequel to OUTLAND has been accepted and that will be coming soon as well.

Alison Cochrun’s sophomore novel KISS HER ONCE FOR ME, a queer holiday romance will publish in November from Atria. Her debut THE CHARM OFFENSIVE just sold it’s 9th foreign deal. 

Edward Willett’s THE TANGLED STARS is coming from Daw this October.

THE SCARRED EARTH SERIES continues with publication of the third book by Kensington, THE HERETIC ROYAL in December, Author, G A Aiken.

 

 

Big news for fans of MaryJanice Davidson, a new UNDEAD book is coming as an original from Recorded Books with us doing the print version.  She recently contracted with Amazon publishing for a new work of Contemporary romance.

For new subrights client  MARK HAYDEN,  we’ve negotiated a 3 book deal for German Translation rights for his series THE KING’S WATCH.

The Andre Norton Estate has licensed new titles in France.

Tony Peak’s new series RED SHIRT RUNNERS will be published by Aethon this Fall.

We’ve sold an additional title for Amanda Ashley in Italy.

Ward Carroll is seeing great success with the Audio editions of his classic trilogy PUNK’S WAR from Blackstone.  His youtube channel is a breakout hit.

Tantor will be publishing 3 of Stefan Mani’s GRIMSSON series.  

We’ve licensed a half dozen of Jason Manning’s Westerns for Large Print to Thorndike.

Judy Smith’s DIFFICULT is already in its third printing with feature news articles in both the New York Times and the Wall St. Journal.

We have great expectations for Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann when their new book POLAR BEAR is published this November.  It’s a gorgeous follow up to HONEYBEE which has already sold 50,000 copies.

We’ve made new sales for M D Whalen in Spain and Portugal, in Germany for Helen Harper, and many more…

Dennis E. Taylor has signed a new four book Agreement with Audible.  Two of the new books will be set in the ‘Bobiverse’ universe and two will be originals.  ROAD KILL his new original will be coming from Audible in August 2022 and we are very excited about this contemporary first contact book.  EELA (us) will be publishing the book in ebook and POD.

We have licensed audio rights to Ward Carroll’s ‘Punk Trilogy’ to Blackstone.  Naval Institute Press has re-published all 3 of the books in Trade Paperback.  Ward’s YouTube channel has more than 160,000 subscribers from a standing start early this year.

Tony Peak will continue his SF career by publishing his next trilogy with Aethon.

EELA (us) will publish a great near future SF novel by Peter Ward, THE ELECTRIC DETECTIVE

The world loves G. A. Aiken’s magical fantasy romance and so does Amazon, BREAKING BADGER was named a best romance novel for August.

We are  licensing Large Print rights to Thorndike and have now licensed 6 Classic Westerns by Jason Manning.

John Domagalski’s next work of Naval History is coming from Pen and Sword June 2022, so look for ESCAPE FROM JAVA if you are a fan of WW II naval history.

We’re very proud to announce the early praise gathered by Judith R. Smith’s DIFFICULT: Mothering Adult Children Through Conflict and Change (Rowman and Littlefield February 2, 2022).  Here’s what Mary Pipher has to say:

“This fine book will be profoundly helpful to all the women who needed it yesterday. At last, we have a book on the subject of difficult children that is profoundly sympathetic with and empathic toward mothers. It is excellent cultural therapy.”  — Mary Pipher, Author Reviving Ophelia and Women Rowing North

Alison Cochrun’s THE CHARM OFFENSIVE published in September with rave reviews from Kirkus, Library Journal and a fantastic shout out in the New York Times quarterly Romance column. It’s gotten multiple foreign sales (rights with Atria) and continues to find readers. Her second novel KISS HER ONCE FOR ME will publish in Fall 2022 from Atria.

Selene Castrovilla continues her streak of NF picture books with Calkins Creek/Astra with a new book coming in Spring 2023 about George Washington. Don’t miss SEEKING FREEDOM in January 2022!

 

We’ve secured US Distribution deal for the JD KIRK mystery series with Ingram

 

Perhaps our busiest area has been translation sales and here is just a sample:

G.A. Aiken-new sales in Germany

Madeline Baker–new sales in Italy

MaryJanice Davidson–the entire UNDEAD series has been renewed in Germany

Kerry Harper has new sales in Germany and Israel

Barry Hutchison writing as J D Kirk rounds out the year with sales in Russia, Lithuania and Estonia

Bill Keith writing as Ian Douglas has new sales in Poland and Hungary

Marko Kloos has new sales in Poland and Hungary as well

New client Stefan Mani has sold ABYSS in Germany

Andre Norton continues to find new buyers with sales in Poland, Spain and Russia

Riptide Publishing has new sales in France, Germany and Thailand

Eric Rohmann had two strong renewals this year, BONE DOG in China and MY FRIEND RABBIT in Spanish.

It’s hard to keep up with John Scalzi.  We have new sales in 14 territories, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine.

The Bertrice Small Estate also had a strong year with sales in Norway, Russia and Ukraine.

Dennis E. Taylor is also proving an international success with new sales in Japan, Germany, Poland, Russia and Turkey.  Sales of the Bobiverse books in Germany are particularly strong.

Sasha Black has secured offers for 4 of her superb writing books in Korea from Will Books.  The titles are:

 

THE ANATOMY OF PROSE

13 STEPS TO EVIL

10 STEPS TO HERO

8 STEPS TO SIDE CHARACTERS