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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 58m

Cover Reveal for Cale Plett’s The Saw Mouth!

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Cover Reveal for Cale Plett’s The Saw Mouth!

For fans of The Last Bookstore on Earth and Compound Fracture, a heart-pounding rural horror novel following a nonbinary teen who survives a near-apocalypse, only to be hunted by a mysterious monster ...

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 1h

The Ontario Library Association has announced the Forest of Reading shortlists — and we’re over the moon to see so many of our authors among the nominees! 🌲💚

Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 1h

The Ontario Library Association has announced the Forest of Reading shortlists — and we’re over the moon to see so many of our authors among the nominees! 🌲💚

Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 1h

The Ontario Library Association has announced the Forest of Reading shortlists — and we’re over the moon to see so many of our authors among the nominees! 🌲💚

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 2h

Pre-order the UK paperbacks of these two new novels from Waterstones this week and get 25% off! 🎉

Use code #OCTOBER25 at checkout before midnight this Friday!

Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 2h

Join Lana Reeves at the Southern Festival of Books this week!

🌟 Saturday, October 18 — 1PM
— In Conversation with former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith about her forthcoming book Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (Norton).

✍️ Sunday, October 19 — 11:30AM
— Poetry Reading

Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 4h

The PITCH CRAFT book tour is hitting the road this October!

Laura is represented by Amanda Orozco and Brenna English-Loeb.

Congratulations, Laura!

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 1d

Big Film/TV News! A+E Studios has officially optioned Tom Ryan’s gripping new novel WE HAD A HUNCH for series development!

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Big Film/TV News! A+E Studios has officially optioned Tom Ryan’s gripping new novel WE HAD A HUNCH for series development

Los Angeles, CA – Tuesday, October14 - A+E Studios has optioned We Had a Hunch, the latest novel from Edgar Award-nominated and USA Today bestselling author Tom Ryan, to develop as a television series...

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 2d

We’re excited to share about the ongoing event From Page to Press: The Fall Monday Memoir Series — a powerful lineup of 5 fearless memoirists and one top agent on writing boldly and getting published.

Register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/from-page-...

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 5d

We’re thrilled to see two familiar faces featured on The Globe and Mail’s list of 61 Books to Lose Yourself in This Fall!🍂📚

✨ Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo
✨ The Trouble with Fairy Tales by Plum Johnson

Both Shani and Plum are represented by Samantha Haywood.

Congratulations!

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 5d

We’re thrilled to see two familiar faces featured on The Globe and Mail’s list of 61 Books to Lose Yourself in This Fall!🍂📚

✨ Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo
✨ The Trouble with Fairy Tales by Plum Johnson

Both Shani and Plum are represented by Samantha Haywood.

Congratulations!

Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to Donna Jones Alward on this wonderful review for Ship of Dreams! 🌊✨

Donna is represented by Carolyn Forde.

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 5d

Deal News - Meg Smitherman's DEATHSWORN!

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Deal News - Meg Smitherman's DEATHSWORN!

THRUM and ENTITY author Meg Smitherman's DEATHSWORN, a gothic romantic fantasy about enemy Life and Death mages who become trapped in the underworld and must work together to escape--but truces are fr...

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 6d

Transatlantic is delighted to welcome Mica Lemiski!

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Transatlantic is delighted to welcome Mica Lemiski!

Mica Lemiski is a graduate of UBC's MFA program and currently working as a marketing copywriter for a globally recognized fashion brand. Her work has been published in The Walrus, Chatelaine, Maisonne...

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 6d

Deal News - Theresa Therrien’s SAINT JOAN BLACKHEART!

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Deal News - Theresa Therrien’s SAINT JOAN BLACKHEART!

Debut author, Theresa Therrien’s SAINT JOAN BLACKHEART, a painfully funny YA novel pitched as The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School meets Give Me a Sign featuring the rebellious and witty Joan of A...

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 6d

Cover reveal for The Winter Witch by Jennifer Chevalier!

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Cover reveal for The Winter Witch by Jennifer Chevalier!

Two sisters set sail on a bride ship from Normandy hoping to leave a curse behind them and find better lives in the wilds of 17th-century Quebec, only to meet a mysterious witch who forces

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 6d

Deal News - Stranglehold, by Cale Plett!

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Deal News - Stranglehold, by Cale Plett!

Alison Romig at Delacorte has acquired Stranglehold, by Cale Plett, in an exclusive submission, for publication in fall 2027. Stranglehold is a queer YA horror novel that brings together the smalltown...

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 6d

Nick Medina’s THE WHISTLER is featured in The Montecito Journal’s October’s Books Past and Present!

Nick is represented by Amanda Orozco.

Congratulations, Nick!

Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations on the e-book release of all Meg Smitherman’s titles, now available from Michael Joseph, PRHUK!

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Congratulations on the e-book release of all Meg Smitherman’s titles!

Congratulations on the e-book release of all Meg Smitherman’s title's, now available from Michael Joseph, PRHUK! Thrown together by fate... At the center of a forbidden ruin, an artifact of black ston...

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 7d

On the Air with Dr. Doodlebug By Susan E. Goodman has received a starred review from Booklist!

Susan is represented by Elizabeth Bennett.

Congratulations, Susan!

Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 7d

Deal News - Karen van Kampen's THE BRAIN NEVER SLEEPS: WHY WE DREAM AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR OUR HEALTH!

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Deal News - Karen van Kampen's THE BRAIN NEVER SLEEPS: WHY WE DREAM AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR OUR HEALTH!

Spanish language rights to Karen van Kampen's THE BRAIN NEVER SLEEPS: WHY WE DREAM AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR OUR HEALTH have been sold to two different publishers! Editorial Pinola will publish the book i...

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 7d

Deal News - Astrid Sheckels's HECTOR FOX AND THE GIANT QUEST!

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Deal News - Astrid Sheckels's HECTOR FOX AND THE GIANT QUEST!

Bulgarian rights to Astrid Sheckels's HECTOR FOX AND THE GIANT QUEST, have been sold to Stefan Nedkov at InfoDar, by Kalina Stefanova at ELST Literary Agency, on behalf of Amy Tompkins at Transatlanti...

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 7d

Catch Nick Medina at New York Comic-Con this Friday as he joins the Voices in the Dark panel to talk all things horror audiobooks! You’ll never listen to fear the same way again…

📍NYCC | River Pavilion Stage 2
🕛 12:30–1:15 PM

Nick is represented by Amanda Orozco.

Congratulations, Nick!

Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 7d

DEAL NEWS - Marty Chan's MIRROR MIRROR!

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DEAL NEWS - Marty Chan's MIRROR MIRROR!

Aurora and High Plains award-winning author Marty Chan's MIRROR MIRROR, a spooky adaptation of the Bloody Mary legend, in which Nathan become trapped in a mirror world while a shadowy boy is trying to...

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Transatlantic Agency @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social · 7d

We’re thrilled to announce that I Am Wind by Rachel Poliquin & Rachel Wada has won the Youth Category at the SWCC Book Awards!

Rachel Poliquin (Author), Rachel Wada (Illustrator) are both represented by Amy Tompkins.

Congratulations to all!