Recent and Notable Sales
Fiction
Kitty Johnson’s PRICKLY COMPANY
(Lake Union Publishing, 2024)
Renée Carlino’s THIS USED TO BE US
(Dial Press, 2024)
Mai Nguyen’s SUNSHINE NAILS
(Atria, 2023)
Jane Healey’s THE AMERICAN ACTRESS
(Lake Union Publishing, 2023)
Andrea Dunlop’s WOMEN ARE THE FIERCEST CREATURES
(Zibby Books, 2023)
Glendy Vanderah’s THE OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE MOON
(Lake Union Publishing, 2022)
Lindsay Wong’s TELL ME PLEASANT THINGS ABOUT IMMORTALITY
(Penguin Canada, 2023)
Kitty Johnson’s FIVE WINTERS
(Lake Union Publishing, 2022)
Glendy Vanderah’s THE LIGHT THROUGH THE LEAVES
(Lake Union Publishing, 2021)
Christina McDonald’s DO NO HARM
(Gallery/Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman’s GIRLS WITH BRIGHT FUTURES
(Sourcebooks, 2021)
Jael Richardson’s GUTTER CHILD
(HarperCollins, 2021)
Glendy Vanderah’s WHERE THE FOREST MEETS THE STARS
(Lake Union Publishing, 2019)
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO (Washington Square Press, 2017)
Children’s
Jael Richardson and Chelsea Charles’s THE HOCKEY JERSEY
(Scotiabank, 2023)
Yolanda T. Marshall’s BROWN GIRL IN THE SHOW
(Greystone Books, 2023)
Jael Richardson’s BECAUSE YOU ARE
(Harper Canada, 2022)
Non-Fiction
Christina Mychas’s THE MINIMALIST-ISH JOURNAL
(Tarcher Perigee, 2025)
Teresa Wong’s ALL OUR ORDINARY STORIES
(Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025)
Erica Djossa’s RELEASING THE MOTHER LOAD
(Sounds True & Appetite, 2024)
Harrison and Rachel Browne’s LET THEM PLAY
(Beacon Press, 2025)
Andrea Dunlop and Mike Weber’s NOBODY SHOULD BELIEVE ME
(St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan, 2024)
Alex Manley’s THE NEW MASCULINITY: HOW TO BE A MAN (IN A WORLD THAT HATES MEN)
(ECW Press, 2023)
Anne T. Donahue’s SMALL TORNADOES
(ECW, 2023)
Tamara Cherry’s UNSPEAKABLE: VICTIMS, SURVIVORS, & THE MEDIA
(ECW Press, 2023)
Joanna Chiu’s CHINA UNBOUND
(House of Anansi, 2021)
Lindsay Wong’s THE WOO-WOO
(Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018)
Health & Wellness
Jason Skrobar’s THE BOOK ON SANDWICHES
(Appetite by Random House Canada, 2024)
Meredith Youngson’s SUPER TONICS
(Ten Speed Press/Penguin Random House US and Appetite by Random House Canada, 2023)
Desiree Nielsen’s GOOD FOR YOUR GUT
(Penguin Canada, May 2022)
Anne-Marie Bonneau’s THE ZERO-WASTE CHEF
(Avery/Penguin US and Penguin Canada, 2021)
Abby Langer’s GOOD FOOD, BAD DIET
(Simon and Schuster Canada, 2021)
Philip Lago and Mystique Mattai’s EAT WITH US
(Appetite by Random House, 2021)
Desiree Nielsen’s EAT MORE PLANTS
(Penguin Books Canada, 2019)
Alison Day’s MODERN LUNCH
(Appetite by Random House, 2019)
Alison Day’s WHOLE BOWLS
(Skyhorse, 2016)
Audio
ANNA BRIGHT IS HIDING SOMETHING by Susie Orman Schnall to Dreamscape
In 2023, 18 works by Kiersten Modglin, including YOU CAN TRUST ME and HEMLOCK, to Tara Carberry at Dreamscape Media
In 2022, 26 works by Kiersten Modglin, including TELL ME THE TRUTH and A QUIET RETREAT, to Tara Carberry at Dreamscape Media
HUSBAND'S SECRET and PERFECT GETAWAY by Kiersten Modglin to Podium, in a two-book deal
THE FALLS and THE REUNION by Kiersten Modglin
Audio rights to Tara Carberry at Dreamscape Media, in a two-book deal
THE ROOMMATE and THE MISSING by Kiersten Modglin
Audio rights to Lindsey Wood at Tantor Media, in a two-book deal
THE ARRANGEMENT by Kiersten Modglin
Audio rights to Tara Carberry at Dreamscape Media, at auction, for publication in spring 2021
GOOD FOOD, BAD DIET by Abby Langer
Audio rights sold to Tara Carberry at Dreamscape Media, at auction, for publication in spring 2021
OUR LITTLE SECRET and THE LUCKY ONES by Kiersten Modglin
Audio rights sold to Henna Silvennoinen at OrangeSky
TV & Film
THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO by Taylor Jenkins Reid sold to Netflix. Reid will executive produce the screen adaptation with Margaret Chernin, while Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Everywhere and Casual) will write the screenplay. Liza Chasin and 3dot Productions will serve as producers along with Brad Mendelsohn for Circle of Confusion.
ONE TRUE LOVES by Taylor Jenkins Reid film rights sold with Volition Media producing; starring Phillipa Soo, Simu Liu, and Luke Bracey; executive produced by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Alex J. Reid, Highland Film Group’s Delphine Perrier and Arianne Fraser and SquareOne Productions’ Al Munteanu; and Andy Fickman is on board to direct; Highland Film Group has pre-sold distribution rights to key international territories.
GIRLS WITH BRIGHT FUTURES by Tracy Dobmeier and Wendy Katzman
Television rights sold to Discovery+ and Lionsgate, with Manhunt: Unabomber producer John Goldwyn and Twilight producer Karen Rosenfelt adapting, and Jenny Bicks (Never Been Kissed, Sex and the City, Divorce) as showrunner
WE CAME HERE TO SHINE by Susie Orman Schnall
Film rights to Philmco, with Jonathan Prince and Ellen Lowey producing and Orman Schnall adapting
For Carly’s 2023 Rights Hot Sheet, click here.