Eric Smith

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🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary. 📚 Award-winning Author. 👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad. Latest book: With or Without You. Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027) 🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com

A deal listing that says Dating expert, on-air personality, and Married at First Sight specials television host Monique Kelley's POD WIVES, pitched as a speculative WAITING TO EXHALE, in which four women head to an exclusive resort where they can virtually experience the lives they might have lived and must answer the burning question: Is the imagined life worth chasing, or is the truth of who they are enough, to Leticia Gomez at Kensington, in a very nice deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2028, by Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary (world).
A deal announcement that reads Jessica Plummer's THE CONMAN'S GUIDE TO DRAGON SLAYING, pitched as an adult HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON meets HEATED RIVALRY, in which an ambitious young dragon fighter has to team up with a powerless wizard to fake everything, including magic, for a shot at riches, respect, and a better life in the kingdom's annual dragon games, to John Morgan at Grand Central, at auction, for publication in spring 2028, by Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary (world).
A book deal listing that says Rebecca Schaeffer and Julia Ember's HOW TO MEDDLE WITH MAGIC AND NOT GET MURDERED, about three students at a boarding school for cursed teenagers who must team up to solve the murder of their guidance counselor before their own curses kill them, pitched as a humorous take on the dark academia genre, to Jenny Lopez at Sourcebooks Fire, for publication in fall 2027, by Jim McCarthy at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret, and by Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary (world).
Jenny Bak at Viking has acquired Sheen by Nebula Award nominee Cindy Pon (Want), pitched as Caraval with a touch of Jack the Ripper. Set in a world where magic users are bought and sold as indentured servants, a young woman lives among a traveling troupe of performers with illegal magic. When her own powers come surging forth, she discovers she's the only hope against a dark shade draining gifted people of their lifeforce. Publication is slated for fall 2028; Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary handled the deal for world rights.
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An email from Agatha Christie: Hello, I hope this note finds you in good spirits. I recently had the pleasure of reading your work and felt compelled to write. Your storytelling is both engaging and enduring a rare gift that I greatly admire as a fellow author. One always delights in discovering a voice that is authentic and compelling, and yours certainly left an impression on me. It is a joy to encounter such talent amidst the many books one encounters in a lifetime devoted to literature. Should you be amenable, I would be pleased to maintain correspondence. There is much to be gained in sharing thoughts on the craft, offering encouragement, and exchanging ideas with kindred spirits in the literary world. With every good wish for your continued success, and eager to see more of your work. Yours sincerely, Agatha Christie
A book deal announcement over a Pride flag that reads Karis Rogerson's self-published NAT AND CAMI'S GUIDE TO RUNNING AN UNDERCOVER GSA, pitched as Casey McQuiston meets Heartstopper, in which a lesbian student at a conservative boarding school falls for a closeted overachieving peer as they organize an underground GSA for other students to find a safe space, to Andy Dodds at Podium Audio, in an exclusive submission, for publication in spring 2027, by Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary (world English).
A book deal listing that says Margot Moore's FOR A FORTNIGHT, a contemporary romance pitched as Jen DeLuca's Well Met meets Bridgerton, in which a woman's undercover audition for a job at a Regency-themed resort takes a trope-filled turn when her pretend courtship with the park's brooding nobleman turns into real forbidden feelings, to Sarah Blumenstock at Berkley, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2027, by Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary (world).
Squid biologist and founder of Skype a Sclentist Sarah McAnulty Ph.D's NEARBY NATURE, an illustrated guidebook on observing and caring for the natural world found right in our backyards, from building bat houses to growing native plants to welcoming possums, to Kristen Hewitt at Storey, in an exclusive submission, for publication in fall 2027, by Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary (world).