Deals Deals Deals for May 2025 [Teaser]
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I feel like we do this all the time now. I know it's only quarterly, but we went from yearly to quarterly, but there's still plenty of deals. I just like, oh, I have to do this. Yeah. The task is here again. I think it's just that time is passing faster now because we've done it quarterly for a few years now, my friend.

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to do Deals, Deals, Deals. If this is your first time listening or your first time hearing a bonus preview, this is which I break out a Google Doc that I've been keeping of notable deals that have been announced since the last time we did this. The last time we recorded this was February 9th. So this is February 10th, all the way up until yesterday. Yep. May 21st. That's where we are. And the game is not a game so much as

I talk, I mentioned a deal, describe what it is. And Rebecca says something about it, or I say why it's interesting. The heuristic for this is,

Only that in the looking at the matrix of looking at a lot of deals, something about it stuck out to me. Either that I was interested in, I thought it was notable writ large, I thought listeners might be interested, or just for Rebecca to get a kick out of or say, that's weird. That's the heuristic Rebecca. We get some for you, we get some for me, we get some for general folks. And since these are freshly announced book deals...

Like you can't pre-order these. Most of these books don't even exist yet. There's no links to be had for anybody. So you'll just have to make a mental note. And then in somewhere between 18 months and three years, look forward to the book you heard about coming out. Meta points. I feel like a lot of TikTokers got books. I mean, we've seen this, but it seemed like there was more than usual. I don't know if I was looking for it or thinking about it differently or whatever, but it seemed like there was a lot more of those. Yeah.

I'll call them the men's rights are nothing genre is really kicking. Like, dudes, come on. Yeah. Can we just shovel them all to that new imprint that's only doing books by dudes? I guess, and then bury it. This is the best use of that forest of stories thing. A hundred years. But don't unearth them. Yeah, right. The Manosphere isn't going to keep track. One thing I know with the Manosphere is they're not going to have their pants all the way on to be like, you know what, on May 22nd,

2125, it's time, boys. It's because most companies are run by women with a bunch of spreadsheets. That are households, NGOs. Yeah. Anyway. Anything else? Also, and I don't remember if I said this last time. I don't remember if this was true last time, but it's certainly true now. In Publishers Marketplace, where a lot of these come from, not all of them, but a lot of them,

They've broken into like debut, fiction, literary, horror, romance. Romanticy, it's getting its own breakout now. Okay. I was just about to ask because I think last time we did this, there were a ton of romance. Like you just noted that there were a ton of romanticy deals. They get their own category now. Okay. Because at this point, they're not getting lumped. It's not romance. It's not fantasy. It's not. We know what we're talking about here. It's romanticy. I did feel like in the cryptography,

The Kremlinology of how this is presented of like you translate significant deal into X dollars or whatever. I feel like maybe the size of the deals was a little smaller. Again, maybe not as major auction, significant major deal, four-way with all these internationalized romances. There were still some big deals, but I don't think I had one in Romanticy that was huge. So there's that. A couple more Substack mentions. Interesting. Love to see that. Which is very cool to see. All right, let's get into it.

I don't know how many I have. We're going to go 45 minutes and I'll stop unless there's something I really wanted to go to. Okay. Emmy award-winning journalist Elizabeth Flox, The Woman Who Talked to Animals, pitched as a true life. This is nonfiction. A true life dark fairy tale in the spirit of the Brothers Grimm about a traumatized woman who flees to an old growth forest for healing, only to be swept up in a love story.

I mean, relatable? Yes, very strange. This is what I will do in the event of big trauma. What do we think is happening here? Run off to the forest. She falls in love with a dog? I mean, seriously, what is happening here? I need that to not be happening, but I don't know. I'm in prodigal summer mind now, thinking about Barbara Kingsolver, but those are people. Night bitch. Maybe more of a night bitch, but for forests. But non-fiction? Non-fiction?

I don't get it. That's what I'm saying. That's why it's here, Rebecca. That's why it's here. A true life dark fairy tale is not a thing under the sun yet. So there we go. Deb Olin Unforth has a new book coming out. Oh, nice. She's one time finalist and kind of a if you know, you know, literary writer that does interesting things. Her new book is going to be called Earth Seven to Gray Wolf, a near apocalyptic love story. I'd also like to talk about modifications of apocalypse. That's you know, this is one of my hobby horses.

If it's the apocalypse, none of us are here anymore. It's like kind of pregnant. This is a binary situation. Love story about two women, one raised in a research pod under the ocean by her mother and an emotionally distant scientist and one luxury resort bartender who may or may not be a robot. Also kind of feel like, I guess that's Blade Runner. Who's a synth and who isn't? Trying to hold on to one another and together perhaps salvage planet Earth. Wow, okay. Grey wolf. Anyway, here we go.

Kathy Leonard CZEP IELS.

It's probably Krzyzewski. I don't know how you say that. Sorry, Kathy. Tangled Roots, A Family History in Five Forests. So a family memoir in five forests. Great. Thanks so much for listening. Join us at patreon.com slash bookriotpodcast to hear the rest of this episode and get access to our full back catalog of premium content. That's patreon.com slash bookriotpodcast.