Rachel Deahl

DEAL OF THE WEEK Morrow Goes ‘Magnolia’ for Frank In a mid-six-figure agreement, Carrie Feron at William Morrow bought North American rights to Victoria Benton Frank’s debut, My Magnolia Summer.

DEAL OF THE WEEK Scribner Traps Bird’s ‘Scoundrel’ Scribner v-p and executive editor Rick Horgan bought world rights to Kai Bird’s American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn and the World He Made for mid-six figures in a five-house auction. Bird is a coauthor of American Prometheus, the Pulitzer Prize–winning 2005 biography of Robert J. Oppenheimer. Scribner described American Scoundrel as a portrait of the titular “super-lawyer, fixer, and gossip-fixated social networker” who was a mentor to Donald Trump.

DEAL OF THE WEEK One Signal Rides Glass’s ‘Rainbow’ Psychotherapist Sara Glass sold Black Skirt, Rainbow Soul to One Signal in a six-figure, world rights agreement. The memoir, subtitled My Journey to an Authentic Self and set for spring 2024, was acquired by Julia Cheiffetz and Nick Ciani in a preempt. Harvey Klinger at Harvey Klinger Inc.