WONDERKIN sold to Putnam

Colin Winnette’s new novel WONDERKIN will be published by Putnam Books in 2027.

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Fiction: Literary 

Author of 2024 Pen/Faulkner Finalist USERS, Colin Winnette’s WONDERKIN, set in the near future and intimately focused on a father and his twin sons who receive an unexpected visitor on the eve of their eleventh birthdays, forcing long-held secrets into the light; a propulsive, big-hearted novel about love, loneliness, and the radical act of being human in an era when humanity falters; for fans of Emily St. John Mandel, Kazuo Ishiguro, and David Mitchell; to Lindsay Sagnette at Putnam, at auction, by Marya Spence at Janklow & Nesbit.

 

Rights also to Alice Johnstone at Viking UK, at auction, by Emma Leong at Janklow & Nesbit UK; and to Elisabeth Bosl at Heyne (Germany), in a pre-empt, by Mairi Freisen-Escandell at Janklow & Nesbit UK; and to Hiroyuki Chida at Hayakawa (Japan), in a pre-empt, by Ellis Hazelgrove at Janklow & Nesbit UK.

 

Film/TV: Kristina Moore and Orly Greenberg at UTA

USERS in Paperback Row

USERS was one of six paperbacks recommended in The New York Times’ Paperback Row this week:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/22/books/new-paperbacks-robbins.html

They call it an “acute novel,” saying, “As a “lead creative” at a virtual reality company that turns people’s dreams and pasts into paid daytime fantasies, and that is newly mired in scandal, Miles is increasingly beholden to those shadowy parts — of his users, and of himself.”