In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’m please to announce a new acquisition for the imprint. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

Gene Doucette’s APOCALYPSE SEVEN, about seven strangers who have woken up to a world without power or people who will have to learn how to survive long enough to figure out how they managed to sleep through the apocalypse in the first place, to John Joseph Adams Books, for publication in Spring 2021. (World)

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In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’m please to announce a new acquisition for the imprint. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

NYT bestseller Hugh Howey’s previously self-published HALF WAY HOME, in which an abort order to terminate a colony ship fails, and the remaining colonists don’t know if their new home or their fellow survivors are the greater threat, to John Joseph Adams at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in an exclusive submission, for publication in fall 2019, by Kristin Nelson at Nelson Literary Agency.

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In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’m please to announce a new acquisition for the imprint. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

Nicole Glover’s THE CONDUCTORS, an #ownvoices historical fantasy set in post–Civil War Philadelphia, about a magic-wielding African-American couple, former conductors on the Underground Railroad, who solve mysteries the white authorities won’t touch, with a sequel, to John Joseph Adams at John Joseph Adams Books, by Jennie Goloboy at Donald Maass Literary Agency. [Translation: Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency.]

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In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’m please to announce a new acquisition for the imprint. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

NYT bestselling author of the DIVERGENT and CARVE THE MARK series Veronica Roth’s adult debut THE CHOSEN ONE, which tells the story of five friends who saved the world when they were teenagers, but now, as celebrity adults, must face even greater demons—and reconsider what it means to be a hero by destiny or by choice, to John Joseph Adams at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in a major deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2020.

The deal announcement first ran in Entertainment Weekly, which has a bit of extra background on it.

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In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’m please to announce a new acquisition for the imprint. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

Molly Tanzer’s CREATURES OF CHARM AND HUNGER, the third book in her series that began with CREATURES OF WILL AND TEMPER, a WWII-era fantasy set in England where two teenage girls seek to become full members of an international society of diabolists, a quest that will nearly ruin their friendship and take them down dark paths when one girl learns her parents were taken to a concentration camp and the other summons a powerful and mysterious demon, to John Joseph Adams Books, for publication in Spring 2020, by Cameron McClure at Donald Maass Literary Agency (World English).

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In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’m please to announce a new acquisition for the imprint. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

Jack Skillingstead’s THE CHAOS FUNCTION, about a war reporter who is drawn into a mysterious world of shifting timelines, machines that control probability, apocalypses both nuclear and biological, and a secret society that has the power to shape history—and save the world, to John Joseph Adams Books, for publication in Spring 2019. (World)

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In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just made a new acquisition. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

NYT bestseller and multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Greg Bear’s THE UNFINISHED LAND, about a time of great peril—the sailing of the Spanish Armada—when a young man is transported in a wrecked fishing boat to a lost island at the top of the world, to be caught up in a war that pits gods against monsters and humans against the slavery of history, to John Joseph Adams Books, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2019, by Richard Curtis at Richard Curtis Associates. (NA).  UK/ translation: Baror International.​

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In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just made a new acquisition. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

Author of New American Fiction Prize-winning ELECTRICTY AND OTHER DREAMS, Micah Dean Hicks’s debut BREAK THE BODIES, HAUNT THE BONES, in which dangerous machines and unnatural beastmen mysteriously arrive in a dying town already filled with ghosts, forcing a haunted brother and sister to figure out how to save their family before tortured spirits tear the town and the newcomers apart, to John Joseph Adams Books, in a preempt, for publication in Spring 2019, by Kerry D’Agostino at Curtis Brown (NA, Audio).

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In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just made a new acquisition. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

Todd McAulty’s THE ROBOTS OF GOTHAM, a debut about a future where the world is on the brink of total subjugation by machine intelligences when a man stumbles on a sinister conspiracy to exterminate humanity and a group of human and machine misfits who might just be able to prevent it, to John Joseph Adams Books, for publication in Spring 2018 (World).

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