Deal Announcements
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Deal Announcements ✶
Author of DEAD GIRLS WALKING Sami Ellis's FUNERALS ARE FOR THE LIVING, a horror about a girl whose investigation of strange happenings at her sister's gravesite gets her kidnapped by a racist cult with ancestral ties to a sorcerous slave master, to Claire Stetzer at Amulet, in a nice deal, in an exclusive submission, for publication in spring 2026, by Maeve MacLysaght at Aevitas Creative Management (world English).
Cynthia Prith's AND ALL HER GHOSTS, the author's YA debut, about a girl in a ghost-riddled world who discovers she has no heartbeat, the new boy who seems to know about her past, and their race to fix death before the government—or her mother—stops them, to Stefanie Chin at Union Square Kids, in a nice deal, in an exclusive submission, for publication in summer 2026, by Maeve MacLysaght at Aevitas Creative Management (world).
Jordan Alsaqa and illustrator Kaylee Rowena's AFFAIRS OF THE HAUNT, a reverse haunted house story about a ghost and demon who grow closer as they try to tear a young couple apart, to Cindy Harris at Andrews McMeel, in a nice deal, for publication in spring 2027, by Maeve MacLysaght at Aevitas Creative Management (world).
