I’m in Michigan visiting M’s family when what should show up in my inbox? OH HI:
What’s this? Why it’s the Publishers Marketplace announcement of next year’s book! I’m doing edits on That Fatal Discontent now, to bring it to the world next summer! Something else to look forward to!
Since I’m traveling, I’m in an unfamiliar format that is not making it clear whether there’s alt-text, so in case you can’t read the image, it’s all text, and it says, “PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE Deal Report. Category: Sci-Fi and Fantasy. August 13, 2026. THAT FATAL DISCONTENT by Marissa Lingen. Imprint: Union Square & Co. Poet and short story author Marissa Lingen’s THAT FATAL DISCONTENT, pitched as a Shakespearean-inspired sci-fi exploration of disability justice, rebellion, and survival aboard a generation ship as two sisters–a ‘shipsider’ genetically unsuited for life on the gravity-bound colony, and the ship’s dazzling and ambitious new captain–lead battling factions after the death of their reckless third sister throws the ship into chaos as it hurtles toward the end of its centuries-long mission, to Ardyce Alspach at Union Square & Co, for publication in summer 2027, by Kurestin Armada at Root Literary (world).”