Congrats to Korina Moss who won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel for her mystery CHEDDAR OFF DEAD.

Melissa Wiesner’s UNTITLED, women’s fiction novel about a love story between lifelong best friends whose dark secrets could tear them apart.

Creativity expert and director of the Creativity and Emotions Lab at Yale University Dr. Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, PhD’s THE CREATIVITY DECISION, arguing that creativity is a decision, not just a trait, and offering science-based strategies for moving beyond the ideation stage and achieving concrete results.

USA Today bestselling Christy Carlyle‘s untitled Victorian historical romances, pitched as inspired by 90s/00s romantic adventure movies, in a 2-book deal.

Marina Adair’s YOU’VE GOT MALE, pitched as Sleepless in Seattle with a fresh, multigenerational update, in which a serial-dating grandma, workaholic single mom, and the viral “please date my friend” video prompts her to discover happiness, herself, and maybe a love that was closer than she realized, in a good deal, in a two-book deal.

Author of OVER AND OUT Jenni L. Walsh’s OPERATION: HAPPY, a middle grade novel inspired by the experiences of a young Pearl Harbor survivor, in which a brave girl copes with wartime and family upheaval by completing a bucket list with her dog, to Katherine Easter at Zonderkidz, for publication in 2024.

Author of THE INVINCIBLE MISS CUST and the forthcoming THE WOMAN AT THE WHEEL Penny Haw’s WHEN THE DUST SETTLES, about paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, and THE STARGAZER’S SISTER, about astronomer Caroline Herschel, the next two works of biographical fiction about trailblazing women of history.

USA Today bestselling author Lynn Cahoon’s next two books in the SURVIVOR’S BOOK CLUB MYSTERY series, following a Sedona, AZ, bookstore owner rebuilding her life after cancer in a two-book deal.

Beth Merlin and Danielle Modafferi’s THE LAST PHONE BOOTH, loosely based on A Christmas Carol with light elements of magical realism and nods to pop culture, witty humor, Broadway, and sweet romance, is the story of what happens when the “ghosts of the past” help one woman finally overcome her mistakes in order to reclaim her future.

Eli Greenbaum’s VENOMOUS RIVER, the story of a biodiversity scientist’s successful quest to discover several new amphibian and reptile species in the most remote heart of Africa, a wilderness where he encounters friendly indigenous people, highly venomous snakes and scorpions, deadly tropical diseases, and troubling echoes of Congo’s colonial history, including the expedition’s cook, who is an extremely dangerous fugitive.