Book Deals: Week of December 16, 2024

Headpress to Publish Metal Memoir Sequel Melissa Meszaros, founder of the Grrrl Front PDX Music Festival and creator of the comic book publicity firm Don’t Hide PR, has sold world rights to Song over the Bones, a new memoir, to Headpress imprint Oil on Water. Osman Re-ups with Pam Dorman Books Richard Osman has sold North American rights to a sixth book in his bestselling Thursday Murder Club series as well as a second book in his recently launched We Solve Murders series to Pamela Dorman at Pamela Dorman Books. Berkley said the novel is “a life-affirming love story with a bookish twist that follows a woman who, “months after the death of her husband, receives an unexpected gift from him via her local bookshop: a year of books, one for every month and each accompanied by a letter from her late spouse.