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Leah Koch Writer/Producer Valerie C. Woods ('Queen Sugar') and her MCV Productions have landed the rights to the author’s romance series and have begun development on the first book. Rebekah Weatherspoon’s contemporary romance series is getting the television treatment. Valerie C. Woods, a co-executive producer on season four of OWN's  Queen Sugar and the upcoming second season of Netflix's Sweet Magnolias,  and her MCV Productions have landed the rights to Weatherspoon’s romance trilogy and have begun development on the series' first book, A Cowboy to Remember. Woods will write t...

Mar 09, 2021 Never Forget Who You Are by Achut Deng (l.) and Keely Hutton. The narrative follows Deng's harrowing escape from her home village in South Sudan to a refugee camp in Kenya and finally to the U.S., where she arrived as part of a group of “Lost Boys." Told through the testimony of Deng's losses—including her name, her family, and her home—the YA memoir is the story of how Deng struggled to overcome exploitation and abuse and reclaim the things she lost by holding on to who she is. Publication is set for winter 2022; Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts at HG Literary did the dea...

New deals for Lois Lowry, Chloe Gong, Mason Deaver, and others.

The Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck and Guidebook, and a currently untitled daily journal. The latter two titles are slated for spring and fall 2022, respectively. Bevins Mounts ‘Uprising’ for Priddle For PublicAffairs, Vincent Bevins’s Uprisings. Rob McQuilkin at Massie & McQuilkin sold the nonfiction title, which, the publisher said, is “a global survey of the modern era of populist uprisings from Brazil to the Arab Spring to the unrest in Hong Kong.” Bevins’s The Jakarta Method, about CIA interventions in several international conflicts, was also published by PublicAffairs; it w...