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Overall deal reports remained strong in the third quarter, running ahead of the consumer marketplace, though there was some softening in what has been a long run of new records for major deals in particular and six-figure deals overall. After a soft second quarter (when deal reports declined 4.7 percent, due to a big drop in reports from digital publishers), third quarter deals were up 4.8 percent over the same period in 2024. Fiction remained strong, up over 9 percent, while adult fiction and children’s books declined modestly, and digital publisher deals recovered after a weak first half of the year. …
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Callum Broadway-Bennett's debut DUSKBORN, first in a fantasy series about a holy warrior battling the vampiric empire who must become the thing he hates most in order to save humanity, to Rebecca Brewer at Bloomsbury Archer, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, in a three-book deal, for publication in 2027, by Ariana Philips at Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, on behalf of Judith Murray at Greene & Heaton (NA). Rights also to Vicky Leech Mateos at Bloomsbury Archer UK.
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