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New Release · On Sale March 3

The Weight of Small Rooms

A daughter comes home to close her mother's apartment and finds, in a shoebox of receipts, the reason her parents stopped speaking twenty years before anyone told her why.

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In Development for Screen

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"Vance writes grief the way it actually arrives — sideways, in a shoebox, twenty years too late." — Early reader, advance copy

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From a first chapter book to a debt owed to something in the dark — four in-house authors, four ages, one house.

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When a torn page from her grandfather's atlas folds itself into a paper crane, ten-year-old Mira follows it into the Nook Between Maps — a hidden valley where lost geography drifts and settles. The Nook is shrinking, and only one thing can save it: the last hand-drawn map in the world.

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The Difference

Page to screen.

Every title we take on, we ask the same second question: could this also be watched? These are the ones already on that road.

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Harbor Lights

Colm Reyes

A lighthouse keeper's last winter, optioned for a limited series.

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Foreign rights: 6 languages

The Cartographer's Daughter

Priya Anand

A middle-grade adventure about a girl who redraws the family map, one honest line at a time.

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New Release

The Weight of Small Rooms

Naomi Vance

What a daughter finds when she finally empties her mother's apartment.

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From the Journal

Notes from the desk.

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Naomi Vance on writing the mother she didn't have

The long conversation behind our lead spring title.

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What actually changes when a book becomes a screenplay

Notes from the Harbor Lights option.

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Why we said yes to The Cartographer's Daughter

A scouting report, in the editor's own words.

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