July 2027 New Releases

July 6th
They Carved Us to Be Perfect by Deke Moulton (Tundra)

Peter Phillips at Tundra has bought, in an exclusive submission, Deke Moulton's debut YA horror novel They Carved Us to Be Perfect, a "Pinocchio" retelling also based on elements of Golem lore in which two teens who were formerly part of the same tree struggle with assumptions others make about them and the expectation of perfection when one was made to serve a certain purpose. Publication is set for summer 2027; Rena Rossner at Deborah Harris Agency sold world rights.












Two for Joy by Susan Dennard (Quill Tree Books) - description not yet updated on Goodreads, moved from May 2026. Goodreads still lists some editions with a May 2026 release, but the publisher confirms a July 2027 release.
New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard returns to paranormal romance with a suspenseful and darkly atmospheric summer mystery with fiery kisses and haunting melodies.

Magpie Adams, a lonely teen pariah in the tourist town of Two Pines, finds her reputationin tatters after her ex-boyfriend cheated on her and then lied about it. With her only true friends being the dramatic Adeliade and her brooding twin brother Buck Taylor, Magpie finds solace in romance novels, and in noticing the tiny details that everyone else seems to miss.

Things turn eerie when a museum exhibit honouring Two for Joy, the cult-classic romance filmed in that very town, gets vandalized: fake magpies are impaled with knitting needles, a mannequin is mutilated, blood is spilled. The town people brush it off as a prank. But Magpie knows better. Especially when the attacks seem to follow her.

Magpie begins to suspect someone is recreating scenes from the movie, and she might be the stand-in for a missing woman from the 1970s: Becky, the forgotten body double whose face looks eerily like her own. Someone is covering up a decades-old death tied to the film’s crew. And someone doesn’t want the truth revealed.

As the mystery spirals toward murder, Magpie must use her uncanny empathy to uncover the past, and survive the present. Because Becky’s story was never told.

Until now.

July 27th
A Death Kissed Song by De Elizabeth (Holiday House) - moved from August 2027.
Kade Dishmon at Holiday House has bought, in an exclusive submission, A Death Kissed Song by De Elizabeth (This Raging Sea), a YA dark fantasy in which an ambitious but struggling senior at a prestigious music conservatory joins a secret society led by her cutthroat childhood-friend-turned-academic-rival, where she discovers his group is using dangerously alluring magic to enhance their craft—magic that may claim the life of the boy she still can't help but love. Publication is set for summer 2027; Samantha Fabien at Root Literary negotiated the deal for world rights.