August 2026 New Releases

 

 



Release date not yet known
Good Mourning by Circe Moskowitz and Caleb Hosalla (Dial) - YA graphic novel, moved from 2024, then from August 2025.
Michelle Lee at Dial has bought, in a preempt, world English rights to Good Mourning, the debut YA graphic novel by Circe Moskowitz, pitched as Schitt's Creek meets HGTV. Black vampire Theo trades in the city and her coven for a quiet, New England inn only to find it more rundown than advertised. After (accidentally) murdering the current owner, Theo places herself in charge and ends up falling in love: with running a bed and breakfast... and with Ronny, the handywoman, who knows Theo's vampiric secret. Caleb Hosalla will illustrate; publication is slated for fall 2024. Natascha Morris at the Tobias Literary Agency represented the author, and Thao Le at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency represented the illustrator.

August 1st
There Are Ghosts Here by Adrienne Tooley
(Delacorte)
Krista Marino at Delacorte Press has acquired There Are Ghosts Here by Adrienne Tooley (The Third Daughter), a contemporary speculative thriller in which a girl arrives at a halfway house with no memory, to meet two sinister girls who seem to already know her, for a stay that devolves into horrifying revelations. Publication is planned for summer 2026; Jim McCarthy at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret sold world English rights.

August 11th
Song For Medusa by Grace Desmarais (Andrews McMeel) - YA graphic novel, moved from October 2025.
Katie Gould at Andrews McMeel has acquired Grace Desmarais's debut graphic novel Song for Medusa. This feminist, romantic sapphic re-imagining of the classic myth finds Medusa and blind princess Danae falling in love in the face of insurmountable odds—and the constraints of patriarchy on their lives. Sara Crowe and Katie Bircher at Sara Crowe Literary negotiated the deal for publication in fall 2025.

August 18th
Bound by Fury by Noelle Monét (Margaret K. McElderry Books) - moved from Spring 2026.

Some secrets can’t be taken to the grave…

The ancestral magic and feuding bloodlines of WITCHES STEEPED IN GOLD meets the themes of ACE OF SPADES, but set in a town infused with magic like in THE RAVEN BOYS, in this atmospheric debut YA Contemporary Fantasy with Dark Academia and Romantic elements.

When her 16th birthday comes and passes without the magic promised by her now deceased grandmother, Harper feels vindicated in her doubts about Gigi’s fanciful stories featuring pretty brown girls with magic in their blood. But when a rage-inducing encounter brings forth strange new abilities, Harper follows them to the one school she promised she’d never attend.

Perched atop a small Appalachian town called Earnest, Black Mountain Academy looms in the background of every memory worth having. Creaky, old, and haunted by the town’s insidious past, Harper is sure BMA has the answers she’s looking for. But when the truth about a missing student parallels her life in more ways than one, what Harper finds is more sinister than she ever imagined.

Ancient magic, vengeful ancestors, and Kai Matsoukas—her childhood best friend turned disgustingly hot mortal enemy. The closer she gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes: if Harper wants to survive BMA she’ll have to do two things first. Kill Kai Matsoukas and transform into something she never knew existed.

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