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Quirk Books has begun a six-month pause on acquiring new books due to “marketplace and operational challenges.” As a result, the company laid off several staff members, including seven members of the union that won voluntary recognition in June—part of an exodus of staff members that began with president and publisher Jhanteigh Kupihea’s resignation at the end of 2024 and leaves the company at nearly half the staff they had at the beginning of the year. “Quirk has been facing marketplace and operational challenges for the past few years, and are in the first stage of implementing a strategic plan …
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C.S. Quill's Campus Drivers series, about four college boys, one ride-share app, and a wild road through love, rivalry, and growing, to Ghjulia Romiti at Gallery, in a good deal, in a three-book deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Flavia Viotti at Bookcase Literary Agency, on behalf of Hugo Publishing (world English). TV rights to Amazon Studios.
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