- Jack David from ECW Press has acquired World rights to Private Investigator Ellen White’s HOSPITAL OF HORRORS, from Michael Levine at Westwood Creative Artists. In the book, co-written by Hope Thompson, Ellen and her Whereabouts Unknown team investigate the cases of six people who vanished without a trace from the notorious North Bay Psychiatric Hospital, for publication in Fall 2026.
Film/TV:
- White Pine Pictures has optioned the scripted rights to cyber security expert Ron Deibert’s book, CHASING SHADOWS, which details the unseemly marketplace for high-tech surveillance, professional disinformation, and computerized malfeasance, and how his team at The Citizen Lab have lifted the lid on dozens of covert operations targeting innocent citizens. The deal was arranged by Michael Levine at Westwood Creative Artists.
Foreign rights:
- Marc Lewis’s THE BIOLOGY OF DESIRE to Say Yayinlari (Turkey), by Atilla Izgi Turgut at Akcali Copyright Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for Michael Levine.
- Yann Martel’s BEATRICE & VIRGIL renewed to Presenca (Portugal), by Milagros Paissan at Sandra Bruna Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for Jackie Kaiser.
- Thomas King’s ALIENS ON THE MOON to Memoire d’encrier (World French), by Megan Husain at Anna Jarota Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for Jackie Kaiser.
- Craig Shreve’s THE AFRICAN SAMURAI to Navona (Catalan), by Sandra Bruna at Sandra Bruna Literary Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for Chris Casuccio.
- Rohinton Mistry’s A FINE BALANCE to Beagle (Ukraine) and Bogart Media (Georgia), by Tatjana Zoldnere at Eastern European and Asian Rights Agency, on behalf of Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists.