News from the Agency
We’re excited to share some recent highlights and upcoming titles from our incredible authors. From highly anticipated debuts to powerful new works by established voices, there's much to celebrate. Below, you'll find updates on recent releases, forthcoming books, and a few exciting announcements from across the agency.
Recent Books:
06/26/25 -- Everyone is talking about the Amazon Prime adaptation of E. Lockhart’s WE WERE LIARS!
Variety reviewed WE WERE LIARS saying, “intricate and beautifully woven, ‘We Were Liars’ is a twisted and compelling series about family, entitlement and consequences.”
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Collider gave WE WERE LIARS a glowing review calling it “thrilling from start to finish.”
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People, Entertainment Weekly, E! Online, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, TV Insider, TV Line, Indie Wire, and Publishers Weekly interviewed E. Lockhart about the WE WERE LIARS TV series.
USA Today, People, Variety, Cosmopolitan, and Vanity Fair dissected the book to screen changes.
Elle, Collider, Us Weekly, Marie Claire, Decider , and Brit and Co reported on a possible Season 2.
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06/03/25 -- We Were Liars: the Series
Now Streaming on Amazon Prime
Based on the best-selling novel by E. Lockhart, We Were Liars, the series follows Cadence Sinclair Eastman and her tight-knit inner circle, nicknamed ‘the Liars,’ during their summer escapades vacationing on their grandfather’s New England private island. On the surface the Sinclair family is known for their good looks, generational wealth, and close familial bond, but after a life-altering accident, everyone, not just the Liars, seems to have something to hide.
06/02/25 -- Announcing the 2025 Ohio Book Award Finalists:
THE SKUNKS by Fiona Warnick
The Skunks by Fiona Warnick was selected as a finalist in the Fiction category for the 84th annual Ohio Book Awards: the second-oldest state literary prizes in the nation, honoring outstanding works by Ohio authors and illustrators. Winners will be announced in July.
03/19/25 -- Gary Rivlin talks on Fresh Air: "'AI Valley' author worries there's 'so much power in the hands of few people'
NEW TITLE -- We Fall Apart by E. Lockhart
#1 New York Times bestselling author E. Lockhart returns to the world of her TikTok sensation We Were Liars with all her signature beachy gothic atmosphere, family intrigue, and high-stakes romance.
“Compulsively readable to the very last page.” —Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games
NEW TITLE -- Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King by Caroline Bicks
Hogarth Press
The University of Maine’s Stephen E. King Chair in Literature and the first scholar granted full access to his archives, Caroline Bickes, presents an original and incisive study of how King drafted some of his most iconic works, including CARRIE and THE SHINING, delivering never-before-published insights into the master of horror’s process, the origins of some of his most memorable characters and scenes, and the craft of writing itself, while telling Bicks’s own story about a grown-up literature professor facing her childhood fears and getting to know the legendary writer responsible for them.
REISSUE IN PAPERBACK -- The Upgrade: How the Female Brain Gets Stronger and Better in Midlife and Beyond by Louann Brizendine
Harmony
Welcome to the better half of your life. The New York Times bestselling author of The Female Brain explains how a woman’s brain gets “upgraded” in midlife, inspiring and guiding women to unlock their full potential.
“This is an important book. I want all women to read it. I wish I had read it years ago!”—Jane Fonda
NEW TITLE -- Mind Drama: The New Science of Outwitting Your Inner Defeatist
Harmony
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Mind Drama is a scientific exploration of rumination—why we're all doing it more, how it can undermine our mental health, and what science tells us about new ways to turn dark ruminative energy into something empowering and purposeful.
NEW TITLE -- Alex by Fiona Warnick
​​Alex is the chronicle of a college senior’s obsessive and romantically unrequired crush on the titular character, in which all the sex scenes are replaced by endnotes written as rhymed sonnets.
NEW TITLE -- Alice Childless Biography by Bill Mullen and Arminda Thomas
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NEW TITLE -- The Power of Belonging: Leveraging Biology for a More Compassionate World by Lobsang Tenzin Negi
Simon & Schuster
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Leverage your biology to support the healing of anxiety, isolation, deep sadness, and conflict with this research-tested program for actively practicing compassion and unlocking the emotional and physiological benefits, in the tradition of Buddha’s Brain and Why Buddhism Is True.
NEW TITLE -- Untitled Memoir by Don Reed
Emmy Award nominee and Snap Judgement Performance of the Year winner Don Reed's untitled memoir, about the author's decades-long journey to becoming a working actor and comedian, from growing up in Oakland where as a teenager in the 1970s he left his mother's home to escape his overbearing, Jehovah's Witness stepfather and moved in with his father—who unbeknownst to the author was a pimp—and attending UCLA where he was a collegiate debate competitor and an unhoused student, to voice acting on animated shows and earning his place as the first Black warm-up comic for The Tonight Show.
NEW TITLE -- I'll Try Anything Twice: Misadventures of a Self-Medicated Life by Carly Schwartz
​Simon & Schuster
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Eat, Pray, Love tells the story of a woman who quits her job, ends her relationship, and moves to a far-flung country to find herself. I’ll Try Anything Twice tells the story of a woman who quits her job, ends her relationship, and moves to a far-flung country to find herself—inside a moldy tent in the middle of the jungle with a plastic bag over her head.