#FinnianBurnett’s latest piece, “Pacing Your Writing Career,” is featured in Writer’s Digest magazine! We’re proud to see more of their work out in the world. ✍️📚
Pick up the latest issue of #WritersDigest here to read the full piece: www.writersdigest.com/writers-dige...
📚🖊️ COMIX #BOOKCLUB 🖊️📚
Lion’s Tooth is hosting two fantastic #graphicmemoir/history discussions this spring, and we’re especially thrilled that #MauriceVellekoop, author of I'M SO GLAD WE HAD THIS TIME TOGETHER, will be featured in March!
🚑💘 @cadencerushbooks.bsky.social’s LOVE, PRN and books two and three in the medical romance #HEARTSOFMIDTOWNHOSPITAL series, have sold to #PodiumAudio in a three-book deal, at auction!
Huge congratulations to Cadence Rush and agent @nikkigetsliterary.bsky.social on this exciting audio deal!
📘✨ #COVERREVEAL + PRESALES!
Introducing #GENDERAFFIRMINGCARE: A GUIDE FOR FAMILIES OF MEDICALLY TRANSITIONING YOUTH by #TammyPlunkett, releasing November 3, 2026 from John Hopkins University Press!
📖 Preorder here:
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Big news for A.A. Livingston! 💚
#GRIZELDATHEGREENHATESHALLOWEEN has been named a Finalist for the #2026OregonBookAwards! 🏆
Winners will be announced April 20—fingers crossed for Grizelda!
Full finalist list here:
🔗https://literary-arts.org/2026/02/announcing-the-2026-oregon-book-awards-finalists/
#MarkusRedmond will be a Headlining Author at #BigOhioBookCon2026. ✨📚
Markus will also appear on the panel “Past as Prologue: Horror’s Historical Lens” on Saturday, June 6 (4:00–4:45 p.m.), and his novel #BLOODSLAVES will be available at the event.
🔗 Tickets here: tinyurl.com/bigohiobookc...
Congratulations to #RuneKierNielsen! 📚🌿
The #MissouriAssociationofSchoolLibrarians (MASL) has selected #SPEAKINGONCLIMATE for the 2026 Dogwood Non-Fiction Recommended Reading List for Grades 9–12.
Check out the full list here: maslonline.org/masl-readers...
📖 Get your copy: a.co/d/0fXxHlrM
🌈📘Welcome to the world, #COLORINNATURE by #StephenAitken! Out now from #OrcaBooks.
From rainbow parrots to color-shifting octopuses, this beautifully illustrated nonfiction book explores how animals use color to survive.
📖 Get your copy here: a.co/d/04qHcnIP
#SHOOTINGUP: A MEMOIR by #JonathanTepper (Infinite Books) is out now!
Set in Madrid’s most notorious drug slum during the height of Europe’s heroin epidemic, SHOOTING UP is a raw, compassionate account of a family who chose radical empathy over respectability.
📖 Get your copy: a.co/d/02a2eYW9
🌊📘 BOOK RELEASE 📘🌊
Excited to share that #UNFATHOMABLE by #MaryBoone releases tomorrow from Bright Matter—and it’s a deep dive into the strangest, wildest, and most unbelievable truths our oceans have to offer.
🌊 Out tomorrow, preorder today:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770932...
📚✨The cover for #THETHROWAWAYS by #GretaKelly is here—and it’s all secrets, spies, and family chaos!
On sale Oct 20, 2026 from Sideways (an Entangled imprint).
✨ DELUXE LIMITED EDITION available in a first print run (U.S. & Canada only)
📖 Presales now live: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-throwa...
✈️ #THEFLYINGFEMINIST by #MaryBoone is out now from Andersen Press UK!
Perfect for budding #feminists and fearless adventurers, this narrative nonfiction picture book celebrates curiosity, courage, and the joy of defying expectations.
🔗 Get your copy: www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/the-fl...
🎬📚 Payton McCarty-Simas, author of #THATVERYWITCH: FEAR, FEMINISM, AND THE AMERICAN WITCH FILM, will be on site at #TheIndependentPictureHouse for a special film sub-series exploring the history and evolution of the witch in American cinema!
independentpicturehouse.org/film-series/...
✍️📚 Upcoming Pitch Event!
TRF agent @nikkigetsliterary.bsky.social will be in attendance to receive pitches at the #BostonWritingWorkshop, hosted by #WritingDayWorkshops, on March 28, 2026, in Boston, MA.
🔗 Register here: thebostonwritingworkshop.wordpress.com
💔🖋️ UPCOMING WEBINAR 🖋️💔
TRF agent #JesTrudel is hosting #Query Unrequited: Why I Didn't Fall in Love with Your Submission, a live webinar offering an honest, behind-the-scenes look at real queries and why they were rejected.
🔗 Register at WritingCommunity.ca
✨📘 It's time for a #COVERREVEAL!
Check out the fantastic cover for #SylvieCathrall's #THEARTOFCHARMINGACHANGELING, the first of three new romantasies and the start of an enchanting new chapter! The book will be released on August 25, 2026 by Orbit Books.
🔗 Preorder here: a.co/d/iXOmSYZ
📘✨ #SHOOTINGUP by #JonathanTepper releases February 17!
Set in Madrid’s most notorious drug slum during Europe’s heroin epidemic, SHOOTING UP recounts a childhood spent among recovering addicts, radical compassion, and hard-won grace.
🔗 Preorder: www.amazon.com/Shooting-Up-...
🖊️📚 Join Chicago-based cartoonist and academic #DaryaForoohar for a live, hands-on online workshop exploring graphic essays and how #comics can make academic theory more accessible.
🔗 Register here: www.crucialcomix.com/product/grap...
🌊📘 #THESEAHIDESITSDEAD by #MeganBontrager is now available for preorder, ahead of its July 14, 2026 release from Orbit Books.
THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD plunges readers into a haunting world where the ocean remembers everything.
🔗 Preorder here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/megan...
📘#MOMBRAIN by #NicoleHackett is available for preorder through Target!
As expectations of modern motherhood collide with manipulation and power, MOM BRAIN reframes the term we’re taught to dismiss as a superpower worth trusting.
🔗 Preorder here: www.target.com/p/mom-brain-...
📚✨ DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT ✨📚
#GretaKelly is now entering her thriller era! Her new novel #THETHROWAWAYS is set for release in October 2026 and follows three generations of women as they are drawn into a deadly spy game when the family matriarch's past as a KGB double agent comes back to haunt them.
🖋️📚 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT 📚🖋️
#SamHiyate, Founder and CEO of #TheRightsFactory, is leading a 10-week workshop titled "Sell Your Memoir," drawing on 22+ years as a literary agent and 25 successfully sold memoirs.
🔗 Apply here: syww.org/products/sel...
🗞️📚 We’re excited to share that two of our clients—#LeslieShimotakahara for #THEBREAKWATER and #AlexisStefanovichThomson for #OPPOSITESULLYSGYM—are featured on #49thShelf’s Most Anticipated Spring 2026 Fiction Preview!
🔗 See the full list here: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/01...
Agent and author #WayneArthurson will be on faculty for #CrimeWriting 2026, a literary arts residency at the #BanffCentre for Arts and Creativity! 📚🖋️
🔗 Apply today: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...
#AlexisStefanovichThomson speaks with #HollywoodNorthMagazine about his forthcoming noir novel #OPPOSITESULLYSGYM, out March 31, 2026.
🔗 Read the interview:
hnmag.ca/interview/ma...
📚✨ DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT ✨📚
#BADWIDOW by Beverley Ann D’Cruz has been sold to Zainab Mirza at Viking Canada for publication in 2028!
Pitched as CRYING IN H MART meets FLEABAG with a touch of HEARTBURN. The deal was negotiated by Julia Kim of The Rights Factory.
We’re thrilled to share the paperback cover (with sprayed edges!) for #BLOODSLAVES by #MarkusRedmond—a bold, defiant reimagining of the vampire origin story set during the early days of American slavery. The paperback edition will be out July 28.
Preorder: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/781340...
🍸📚 Event Highlight 📚🍸
#BarbaraRadecki will be reading from her novel #THEDARKHOUSE at #Drunk Fiction, a beloved literary series pairing bold writing with strong drinks. Barbara will be reading alongside Teri Vlassopoulos, Alex Pugsley, and Catherine Bush, with Heidi von Palleske hosting.
🎉📘 Out now! 📘🎉
We’re celebrating the release of #THESADBOOK by our client #HowardPearlstein, illustrated by James Munro. This is the third title in the beloved #EmotionBook series.
🔗 Get your copy here: graffeg.com/products/the...
🎧📚 DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT 📚🎧
TRF client #MeghanFitzmartin is adapting Boom! Studios' hit comic series #SOMETHINGISKILLINGTHECHILDREN by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera for audio!
The deal was negotiated by Matt Belford of The Rights Factory.
