Pegasus said the book tells the story of the decades-long battle to end the Boy Scouts of America’s long-standing policy of banning gay scout leaders.
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain is scheduled for 2024.įor Pegasus Books, Jessica Case bought North American rights to Mike De Socio’s Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts-and America. She was represented in the deal by Sally Harding at CookeMcDermid. Tordotcom said the starship-set novella follows “a boy raised in a prison who is granted a university scholarship, and his quest to grasp the shape of the chains-physical and mental, of the past and the present-that are both the tools of subjugation and the key to liberation.” Samatar ( A Stranger in Olondria) has won various literary awards including the British Fantasy Award and the World Fantasy Award. Tordotcom Publishing’s Emily Goldman took world English rights to Sofia Samatar’s The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain. The women “navigate friendship, identity, and dangerous secrets against a backdrop of simmering tension between abolitionists and Southern sympathizers in a city at war with itself.” The novel is set before the Civil War, and the publisher said it follows three young Black women in Philadelphia, two of whom try to help the third escape enslavement. Lattimore is the editor-in-chief of the BIPOC-focused news website Prism and a former lawyer she was represented by Jamie Carr at the Book Group in the North American rights deal.
Ashton Lattimore sold her debut novel, The Free City, at auction to Ballantine’s Susanna Porter.
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