WCA Deal Report for July 11, 2025
- Lauren McKeon from HarperCollins Canada has acquired World rights to Jennifer Kingsley and Teuatakiri Tua Pittman’s STAR COMPASS, from Michael Levine at Westwood Creative Artists. This book takes readers inside the comeback of traditional Polynesian navigation, one of the most incredible stories of cultural revival on earth. It follows a Canadian journalist and a Master Navigator on a powerful adventure across the Pacific Ocean as they guide large sailing canoes across vast distances—all without the use of charts or compasses—and illustrates how an ancient way of life has returned, against all odds.
- Author of SAVING AMERICAN BEACH Heidi Tyline King‘s FLASH!, chronicling the firefly research of John Bonner Buck and his discoveries in bioluminescence, illustrated by Laura Ramos, to Stacey Barney at Nancy Paulsen Books, in an exclusive submission, for publication in summer 2027, by Hilary McMahon at Westwood Creative Artists for the author, and by Caryn Wiseman at Andrea Brown Literary Agency for the illustrator (world).
