Jenni L. Walsh’s middle grade novel OVER AND OUT, set in Cold War Germany, in which a science-loving girl is forced to become a Stasi spy and risks everything for a better future on the other side of the Berlin Wall, to Olivia Valcarce at Scholastic, for publication in spring 2022.

Author of I AM DEFIANCE, Jenni L. Walsh’s middle grade novel BY THE LIGHT OF FIREFLIES, based on the true story of a hidden Revolutionary War hero, Sybil Ludington, dubbed the “female Paul Revere,” and following a teen girl who braves a perilous midnight ride to warn the troops, with the believed magic of fireflies to light her way.

Author of THE FIRE THIEF Debra Bokur’s THE LAVA WITCH, the third book in the Dark Paradise Mystery series, in which a detective must discover if an ancient legend of sorcery is behind a new case of mayhem and murder in paradise, to James Abbate at Kensington, for publication in 2022.

Caroline Woods‘s THE LUNAR HOUSEWIFE, a novel set in 1953 New York’s glamorous literary scene and following a journalist who faces a shadowy mix of censorship, surveillance, and gaslighting when she pens a subversively feminist novel and forms an unlikely friendship with Ernest Hemingway, inspired by the CIA’s manipulation of arts and letters during the Cold War, to Carolyn Williams at Doubleday, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2022.

Author of BECOMING BONNIE and SIDE BY SIDE Jenni L. Walsh’s A BETTING WOMAN, a historical novel based on the colorful life and loves of “Madame Moustache,” America’s first blackjack dealer, who forged her way in a man’s world during the California gold rush, to Nancy Cleary at Wyatt-MacKenzie, for publication in summer 2021.

Author and musician Rob Rufus’s PARADISE, WV, a crime thriller in which teenage siblings risk everything to prove the innocence of their father, a convicted serial killer, when a true-crime podcast stirs up new interest in the case and another woman goes missing in their poor, opioid-blighted town, to Stephanie Beard at Keylight, for publication in summer 2021.

Author of THOSE WHO PREY Jennifer Moffett’s untitled YA thriller, in which a reluctant teen psychic and an aspiring journalist search for the connection between a missing girl and the supernatural events upending their small Ozark town, pitched as I KILLED ZOE SPANOS meets BONE GAP, to Alex Borbolla at Atheneum, for publication in summer 2022.

Author of the POTION MASTERS series Frank L. Cole’s HOB AND BOGIE’S CHAMPIONS QUEST, pitched as Jumanji meets Dungeons and Dragons, in which a foster child finds new friends and more adventure than he bargained for at a mysterious gaming store, where a role-playing game, and its many challenges, comes to life.

Dusti Bowling’s AVEN GREEN, SLEUTHING MACHINE, the first in a series of humorous chapter books inspired by INSIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF A CACTUS, featuring the shenanigans of a spirited 8-year-old girl who was born without arms, to Suzy Capozzi at Sterling Children’s Books, in a four-book deal.

Dusti Bowling’s THE CANYON’S EDGE, a middle grade novel in verse about a girl’s struggle to survive alone in a treacherous canyon after disaster strikes on a hiking trip with her father, as she faces the trauma of the mass shooting that changed her family forever, to Lisa Yoskowitz at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2020.