We have resurrected our Transatlantic Agency rights newsletters, aiming to keep you updated at least twice a year for both our Adult Lit and Children’s & YA Lit divisions. In this Adult Lit blast, since it’s been over a year, we are recapping our recent domestic and international deals, and some of our biggest hits and highlights of 2022.

The top of our highlights from the past year is our world-class graphic novel publisher-client Drawn & Quarterly’s own Kate Beaton with DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS, named to Barack Obama’s books of the year list and with 10 international sales so far and counting, arranged by Evan Brown & Samantha Haywood. A year ago at LBF in 2022, Alice Haddon and Ruth Field’s HEARTBREAK HOTEL was acquired in a significant auction by HarperCollins, with translation rights sales to The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Lebanon, Poland, and Hungary (the manuscript is now available via Chandler Crawford).

With exciting recent deals being closed for new frontlist authors Emma Knight, Piper CJ (deal announcements coming soon!) and more, we hope to see you at the upcoming 2023 London Book Fair! Carolyn Forde, Evan Brown and Chandler Crawford will be in attendance at tables G16 and G17. For our latest rights catalogues, be sure to check out the links above.

As always, feel free to reach out with manuscript requests or questions, rights@transatlanticagency.com.

Alexandra, Amanda, Amy, Andrea, Brenna, Carolyn, Chandler, Evan, Fiona, Laura, Léonicka, Lisa, Marilyn, Noelle, Rob, Samantha, Tim

Author of NOT THE PLAN and GETTING HIS GAME BACK Gia de Cadenet’s two untitled romance novels complete the Sarda Brothers series; Following Mo, the recluse eldest Sarda brother in a heartwarming and spicy grumpy-grumpy romance and the final installment about Darius, Khalil’s best friend, who struggles to find love while being the primary caregiver to a parent. Rights sold: World English (Bantam Dell), Film/TV available. Agent: leonicka@transatlanticagency.com

Maia Caron's NEVER SAY WE GO LAST (Spring 2024), a dual timeline historical set in 1944 Ukraine and 1972 Salt Spring Island, linking two remarkable women—a famous artist and burn survivor and a Ukrainian resistance fighter—haunted by buried secrets and linked by a KGB operative seeking revenge on Ukrainian soldiers who fought against Russia in World War II. Rights sold: World English (Doubleday Canada), Film/TV available. Agent: carolyn@transatlanticagency.com

Hannah Mary McKinnon writing as Holly Cassidy's, THE CHRISTMAS WAGER (Fall 2023), an enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about an L.A.-based woman whose promotion depends upon acquiring a quaint Christmas shop in the small mountain town of Maple Falls, Colorado, but to close the deal she must defeat the owner's handsome but stubborn grandson at the town's annual holiday games, discovering that what they really need just might be each other. Her next romcom, THE CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN, is forthcoming Fall 2024. Rights sold: World (Putnam), Canada (Viking), Film/TV available. Agent: carolyn@transatlanticagency.com

Giller Prize and Canada Reads finalist Megan Gail Coles's SISTERS & COUSINS (2024), following a tightly interwoven ensemble cast of characters wrestling with aging, dating, parenting, and marriage, and the forceful collision of love and abuse, in relation to intergenerational systems of oppression and societal inequities in Newfoundland and Labrador, in a two-book deal. Rights sold: Canada English (Doubleday Canada), Film/TV available. Agent: samantha@transatlanticagency.com

Poet and fiction writer, Paola Ferrante’s HER BODY AMONG ANIMALS (Fall 2023), a short story collection in which women confront and challenge the realities of living in a magic-inflected world among animals, where violence is intertwined with ecological disruptions. Rights sold: North America English (Book*hug), Film/TV available. Agents: amanda@transatlanticagency.com; marilyn@transatlanticagency.com

Award-winning screenwriter, and author of Scarborough, Crosshairs, and The Story of Us, Catherine Hernandez’s BEHIND YOU (2024), an examination of the insidiousness of rape culture through the dual narrative of a young Filipina growing into womanhood while a serial killer is at large in her Scarborough neighborhood, and the same woman years later, who watches her teenage son's behavior with increasing fear. Rights sold: Canada English (HarperCollins Canada). Agent: marilyn@transatlanticagency.com

Oonya Kempadoo’s NANIKI (Summer 2024), a mytho-poetic novella that honors the Indigenous roots of the Caribbean in a cross-cultural, fantastical, and futuristic oceanic tale set in the Caribbean Sea Basin. Rights sold: Canada and Caribbean English (Dundurn Press), Film/TV available. Agents: carolyn@transatlanticagency.com; amanda@transatlanticagency.com

Governor General's Award-nominated author and disability rights activist Amanda Leduc's WILD LIFE (2024), following the course of two strange messengers, hyenas who can walk and talk, as they interact with significant humans over generations; asking what happens when the line between human and animal blurs into nothing, and what is possible in a world when the cages we place on ourselves and others are broken. Rights sold: Canada English (Random House Canada), Film/TV available. Agent: samantha@transatlanticagency.com

Celebrated poet, Ben Ladouceur’s I REMEMBER LIGHTS (2025), an interpersonally rich story told from the brightest of interiors, which examines the fascinating contradictions of queer life that flourished and winked at the tail end of the 1960s – when some gay men acquiesced completely to persistent social standards, others found inventive workarounds, and a burgeoning minority began to question the premise of queer life under capitalism and Christianity. Rights sold: North America (Book*hug), Film/TV available. Agent: marilyn@transatlanticagency.com

Indigenous Voices award-winner, and graduate of the MFA Program at the American Institute of Indian Arts, Amanda Peters’s THE BERRY PICKERS (April 2023), the story of a child kidnapped by a rich white couple from the berry fields in Maine where her migrant-worker family spent its summers, and the brother who never gave up hope that she was still alive. Rights sold: Canada English (HarperCollins), US English (Catapult), Film/TV available. Agent: marilyn@transatlanticagency.com

2021 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award winner, Deepa Rajagopalan’s PEACOCKS OF INSTAGRAM (Spring 2024), a debut short story collection, filled with the dilemmas, heartbreak, and joys of diasporic Indians; the abundant colours, flavours, and religions of the Motherland, and characters so real that readers share intimately their most devastating losses and soaring hopes and dreams. Rights sold: World (House of Anansi Press), Film/TV available. Agent: marilyn@transatlanticagency.com

Sonya Singh’s THE FAKE MATCHMAKER (Spring 2024) and INDIAN SUMMER (Spring 2025) have been acquired in a two-book deal as much-anticipated follow ups to her wildly successful debut romcom SARI NOT SARI which was selected as a Good Morning America April Pick, a Cityline July Bookclub pick, Elle Magazine's Buzziest Books, Rakuten Kobo Book of the Month Best in Romance Pick, Brown Girl Bookshelf Top 20 of 2022 pick, Indigo's Most Anticipated Romcom pick, CBC Fiction to watch for Spring 2022, Book Riot’s 10 Best Romances of April 2022 and 33 Must Read South Asian Books for 2022, BuzzFeed’s 15 Brilliant Books by South Asian authors, Anokhi Life – List of Fave Spring Books by Desi Authors, PopSugar’s Novels to Read on a Summer Getaway list, Daily Hive’s Asian Canadian Writers We Are Reading list.‌ Rights sold: Canada (Doubleday Canada), UK (S&S UK), Film/TV available. Agent: carolyn@transatlanticagency.com

Anna Julia Stainsby’s THE AFTERPAINS (Spring 2024), following two families connected by a secret as one of them gears up to commemorate a heartbreaking anniversary and the characters grapple with their understanding of family, motherhood, and grief. Rights sold: North America English (Random House Canada), Film/TV available. Agents: samantha@transatlanticagency.com; amanda@transatlanticagency.com

Author of Reese's Book Club pick LUCKY Marissa Stapley's THE LIGHTNING BOTTLES (Spring 2024), a love letter to star-crossed love and '90s grunge, about an ex-rock star's road trip around Europe as she attempts to find out what really happened to her soulmate who, after their band's meteoric rise to fame in the '90s, disappeared without a trace. Rights sold: US (S&S), Canada (S&S), UK (Hodder & Stoughton), Film/TV available. Agent: samantha@transatlanticagency.com and Dana Spector CAA.

Amy Stuart's A DEATH AT THE PARTY (March 2023), a thriller set over the course of a single day as a woman prepares for a party that goes dreadfully wrong. Rights sold: North America (S&S Canada), World ex. North America (Penguin Michael Joseph) sold in association with Evan Brown, Film/TV available. Agent: samantha@transatlanticagency.com

Gwen Tuinman’s UNREST (April 2024), told in four first-person voices and taking place in 1830s Bytown, about a family of Irish immigrants, filled with adventure, a taboo love triangle, and vivid portrayals of 19th-century life. Rights sold: Canada English (Random House Canada), Film/TV available. Agent: marilyn@transatlanticagency.com

Jennifer Whiteford's MAKE ME A MIXTAPE (October 2024), a contemporary romance about a former punk singer who has given up on music, and the big-hearted sound tech who helps her realize that it's never too late to reinvent herself. Rights sold: North America (Doubleday Canada), Film/TV available. Agent: samantha@transatlanticagency.com

Daryl Sneath’s IN THE COUNTRY IN THE DARK (Fall 2023), in an ominous farmhouse in a small rural town, a thrilling psychological tale of the secrets we keep, the love we need, the family we sometimes find—and the lengths we might go to keep it. Rights sold: World English (Signature Editions), audio and Film/TV available. Agent: evan@transatlanticagency.com

Canadian musician, singer, songwriter and internationally renowned touring and recording artist Tara MacLean's SONG OF THE SPARROW (March 2023), a memoir revealing the challenges the author has overcome and the healing power of music. From being raised off the grid in the backwoods of Prince Edward Island by Wiccan parents, to performing on some of the biggest stages in the world, this story is a daring and provocative musical adventure, filled with the same raw, open and elegant poetry that her fans have come to expect. This is the story of one woman’s pilgrimage toward beauty and love in a world of abuse, violence, and addiction. Rights sold: North America English (Harper Canada), Film/TV available. Agent: carolyn@transatlanticagency.com

Allyson McOuat's THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE: ESSAYS ON THE MOMENTS THAT HAUNT US IN LOVE, LIFE AND PARENTHOOD (Spring 2024), a collection of essays on true crime, the supernatural, grief, and real-life experiences with near-miss moments and the unexplained that leave us haunted. Rights sold: World (ECW Press), Film/TV available. Agent: carolyn@transatlanticagency.com

Petra Molnar’s ARTIFICIAL BORDERS: AI, SURVEILLANCE, AND BORDER TECH EXPERIMENTS (Spring 2024), detailing how experimental technologies are tested on migrants by governments and private companies alike and the human rights abuses that ensue. Rights sold: World English (The New Press), Film/TV available. Agents: amanda@transatlanticagency.com, brenna@transatlanticagency.com

Award-winning author of Women Who Dig and Lookout, Trina Moyles’ BLACK BEAR (2025), a tender, insightful, and deeply intimate portrait of coexisting with black bears in the northern boreal forest. From her fire tower station deep in the bush of northern Alberta, Trina comes to know, and identify strongly with, a community of black bears, as she learns their habits, individual characteristics, and the mysteries and myths that people associate with them. Trina reaches beyond what she’s been taught about bears as predators to sense and read the landscape for their glorious presence. In the process, Trina contemplates her own identity and past, and emerges stronger, and with gratitude for what the bears have taught her. Rights sold: Canada English (Knopf Canada), Film/TV available. Agent: marilyn@transatlanticagency.com

Dr. Anthony Christian Ocampo’s ON THE MARGINS OF JUSTICE (Fall 2024), a narrative account of the way Asian Americans have been systematically marginalized and disenfranchised by the criminal justice system in the United States. Rights sold: North America English (Little, Brown), Film/TV available. Agent: amanda@transatlanticagency.com

Tania De Rozario’s DINNER ON MONSTER ISLAND (Spring 2024), a collection of personal essays braided with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events that explores growing up a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore. Rights sold: World English (Harper Perennial), Film/TV available. Agent: amanda@transatlanticagency.com

Dr. Zazie Todd’s SHIVER: THE SCIENCE OF HELPING FEARFUL DOGS - a follow up to the award-winning WAG: the Science of Making Your Dog Happy by Canada’s top animal behaviorist, this is the first book to address how the latest canine science can be used to help our pet dogs to feel more safe and secure, including practical advice for dealing with behavioral issues. Rights sold: World English, Film/TV available. Agent: fiona@transatlanticagency.com

Critically acclaimed and two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner MG Vassanji's NOWHERE, EXACTLY (Winter 2023/24), an essay collection which explores themes of belonging and identity in writing and culture in Canada. Rights sold: Canada (Doubleday Canada), Film/TV available. Agent: carolyn@transatlanticagency.com

Speaker and author of A GOOD WIFE Samra Zafar's UNCONDITIONAL, written with Kim Pittaway, about unlearning the limiting beliefs of our past, connecting with our authentic selves, and tapping into the power of unconditional self-love and self-acceptance to transcend societal barriers, cultivate courage and embrace freedom, for all women, including those from diverse racialized backgrounds. Rights sold: Canada English (Harper Canada), Film/TV available. Agent: samantha@transatlanticagency.com

Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau’s GOING SOLO: ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BECOME YOUR OWN BOSS (September 2023 Canada, Fall 2023 US), a timely and comprehensive guide to the ins and outs of self-employment, a must-read perfect for today’s shifting employment landscape. Rights sold: World English (Sutherland House), Film/TV available. Agent: evan@transatlanticagency.com

Alice Haddon and Ruth Field’s HEARTBREAK HOTEL (Winter 2024) a toolkit to free everyone from the heartbreak we will all encounter and endure in our lives. Rights sold: World English to HQ/HC (UK), HarperCanada, HarperOne USA, World English (Harper Australia), Pilar/Rowohlt (Germany), Mondadori (Italy), HarperCollins (Netherlands), Arab Scientific Publishers (Lebanon), Park Publishing/Libri (Hungary), Czarna Owca (Poland), Film/TV available. Agent: chandler@transatlanticagency.com

Karma Brown's RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE, sold to Shueisha (Japan).

Perry Chafe‘s CLOSER BY SEA sold to Mareverlag GmbH (Germany).

Danielle Daniel’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DEER sold to Wydawnictwo Kobiece (Poland), and Editions Paulsen (France).

Genoveva Dimova’s THE WITCH'S COMPENDIUM OF MONSTERS sold to Ciela Norma (Bulgaria), Hidra (Spain), Atticus (Russia), Klett-Cotta Hobbit Presse (Germany), and Proszynski Young (Poland).

Chantel Guertin‘s GIGI LISTENING (title TWO FOR THE ROAD in Canada) sold at auction, part of a two-book deal to Heyne (Germany).

Khaled Hosseini’s AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED sold to Foliant Publishing House (World Kazach rights).

Khaled Hosseini’s THE KITE RUNNER, A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED sold to Laguna (Serbia), OMSCA-1 Publishing House (World Albanian rights), and Nova Knjiga (World Montenegrin rights).

Khaled Hosseini’s THE KITE RUNNER and THE KITE RUNNER Graphic Novel sold to HBKU Press (world Arabic rights).

Khaled Hosseini’s A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS sold to Hyundae Munhak (world Korean Rights), Globo Livros (Portuguese rights in Brazil), Mizan (World Indonesian rights).

Khaled Hosseini’s audio rights to THE KITE RUNNER and A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS sold to Mladinska knjiga Zalozba (world Slovenian rights).

Khaled Hosseini’s THE KITE RUNNER, A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED, and THE SEA PRAYER sold to Ali & Nino Publishing (world Azerbaijani rights).

Hannah Mary McKinnon's NEVER COMING HOME sold to Piper (Germany), Swiat Ksiazki (Poland).

Iain Reid‘s I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS sold to Publik Praktikum (Serbia).

Marissa Stapley‘s LUCKY sold to Editura Trei (Romania) and to Kossuth Kiado (Hungary).

Benjamin Abelow’s HOW THE WEST BROUGHT WAR TO UKRAINE sold to Siland Press (Germany), Fazi (Italy), Wyanwnictwo Wektory Bintek Trojanowkski (Poland), Research Center of Slovenia Academy of Science and Arts (Slovenia).

Elisabeth Breslow’s BLACKOUT, BOMBS AND SUGAR BEETS sold to NedVision (the Netherlands, world rights).

Alice Haddon and Ruth Field’s HEARTBREAK HOTEL sold to HQ/HC UK (World English), Pilar/Rowohlt (Germany), Mondadori (Italy), HarperCollins (Netherlands), Arab Scientific Publishers (Lebanon), Park Publishing/Libri (Hungary), and Czarna Owca (Poland).

Eliza Reid‘s SECRETS OF THE SPRAKKAR: ICELAND’S EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN AND HOW THEY ARE CHANGING THE WORLD sold to Nakladatelství JOTA (Czech Republic), Grada Slovakia (Slovak Republic), and Akashi Shoten (Japan).

Libbie Grant's THE PROPHET'S WIFE in the New York Times and was a finalist for the Audie Awards.

Catherine Hernandez’s SCARBOROUGH, Shortlisted for Canada Reads.

Renee Hess's nonprofit, Black Girl Hockey Club, continues to garner fantastic media attention, including being featured in this national commercial for ESPN.

Lang Johnson’s DEVIL'S BREATH, a glowing blurb from NYT bestselling author Talia Hibbert: “This dark, dramatic world dragged me in deep. The high stakes and murderous heroine are blockbuster-worthy.”

Maggie Knox's THE HOLIDAY SWAP in the New York Times.

Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s REHEARSALS FOR LIVING, a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction. 

Jean Meltzer’s MR PERFECT ON PAPER recommended by Good Morning America, Amazon Editors’ pick, and glowing Booklist review. 

Ann Shin's THE LAST EXILES was awarded the prestigious Trillium Book Award.

Prince Shakur’s WHEN THEY TELL YOU TO BE GOOD, selected for Best Memoirs of 2022 by Library Journal, and Best Books of October by TIME Magazine.

Sonya Singh’s SARI NOT SARI on Good Morning America’s April Reading list, Elle Magazine’s Buzziest Books in Canada. SARI NOT SARI was selected as a Cityline July Bookclub pick, Rakuten Kobo Book of the Month Best in Romance Pick, Brown Girl Bookshelf Top 20 of 2022 pick, Indigo's Most Anticipated Romcom pick, CBC Fiction to watch for Spring 2022, Book Riot’s 10 Best Romances of April 2022 and 33 Must Read South Asian Books for 2022, BuzzFeed’s 15 Brilliant Books by South Asian authors, Anokhi Life – List of Fave Spring Books by Desi Authors, PopSugar’s Novels to Read on a Summer Getaway list, Daily Hive’s Asian Canadian Writers We Are Reading list.‌

Jesse Thistle’s SCARS AND STARS, on Indigo's 2022 Top Ten Books of the Year

Clayton Thomas-Müller’s LIFE IN THE CITY OF DIRTY WATER: A MEMOIR, Finalist for the 2022 Canada Reads, shortlisted for the 2022 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, shortlisted for the 2022 Manitoba Book Awards’ Mcnally Robinson Book Of The Year Award, and was a National Bestseller.

Dr. Zazie Todd’s PURR: THE SCIENCE OF MAKING YOUR CAT HAPPY, The Morning Show interview, the Washington Post, the London Times, and massive media coverage by national and international media outlets.