Book Deals: Adam Sass' The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers to Philomel!

It’s wild to me, to think about how Adam Sass first sent me his query for Surrender Your Sons in 2016. I’d been living in Virginia, my wife and I were wild fans of his. You follow him on Twitter, right? He’s a delight.

Fast forward to 2018. We’re working together. In 2020, Surrender Your Sons comes out with Flux, nets critical acclaim. Starred review from Kirkus and Booklist. A 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist, a 2020 Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth selection, a 2020 Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books selection… the list goes on.

To know Adam, is to know a rising star who knows stops hustling.

Please join me in cheering him on, as he continues to take off.

I’m so pleased to say his latest book, THE 99 BOYFRIENDS OF MICAH SUMMERS, has been picked up by Philomel in a six-figure, two book deal, a children’s imprint over at Penguin Random House, and home to so many huge names, from Ruta Sepetys to Jenny Torres Sanchez.

You can learn a bit more about the book via the announcement in Publisher’s Weekly, but here’s a blip from there:

Kelsey Murphy at Philomel has bought, at auction, in a six-figure deal, North American rights to The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers by Surrender Your Sons author Adam Sass, plus an Untitled Book 2. The contemporary YA rom-com is about Micah, a teen boy who posts sketches of his imaginary boyfriends to Instagram—99 of them to be exact—while dreaming of having the courage to one day ask someone out. So, when a meet cute with the much-anticipated Boy 100 goes wrong, Micah embarks on a Prince Charming-like quest throughout Chicago to find true love. Chelsea Eberly at Greenhouse Literary brokered the deal on behalf of Dovetail Fiction/Working Partners, and Eric Smith at P.S. Literary represented the author.

For more, hit up Publisher’s Weekly, and be sure to send Adam all the congrats.