May 7th
The Scorpion Queen by Mina Fears (Flatiron Books) - moved from June 2023, then from January 2024 and April 2024.
Sarah
Barley at Flatiron Books has bought, in a preempt, Mina Fears's The
Scorpion Queen, inspired by a Malian fairy tale and steeped in West
African traditions, pitched as Uprooted meets Children of Blood and
Bone. The crossover fantasy fairy tale is about a disgraced merchant's
daughter who is forced to become a chambermaid to an emperor's daughter,
a princess whose suitors are challenged to gruesome and impossible
trials to win her hand, and who makes a choice between escaping Timbuktu
and ending the trials forever. Publication is tentatively scheduled for
2023; Jenny Bent at the Bent Agency acquired North American rights.
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