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Who we are

Founded in 2014, Azantian Literary is committed to guiding the careers of both new and established voices in fiction and nonfiction, particularly those who have been historically underrepresented. Whether a heart-warming contemporary, a moving true story, or a grand epic fantasy, we look for the universal truths in our stories that connect us all.

Books

Recent and Upcoming Books

Jude Saves The World

Ronnie Riley Middle Grade

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Travis Daventhorpe for the Win!

Wes Molebash Middle Grade

Hungry Ghost

Victoria Ying Young Adult

Jagged Little Pill

Eric Smith Young Adult

News

Recent News

Umair Khan
December 8th, 2022 | Book News

SOLD! AT SIX-FIGURE AUCTION! WORLD ENGLISH RIGHTS TO George Jrieje's and Umair Khan's MG GN!

Author of SHAD HADID AND THE ALCHEMISTS OF ALEXANDRIA George Jrieje and illustrator of RIDA & MADIYA Umair Khan's TARIK'S BAZAAR ADVENTURE, based on the author's lived experience, following a 12-year-old as he navigates the highs and lows of middle school after being diagnosed with alopecia. It is coming from Harper Alley in Winter 2025!

Translation: Brent Taylor at Triada

Film/TV: Film and Television

KELSEA YU
November 30th, 2022 | Book News

SOLD! KELSEA YU'S YA THRILLER!

Debut author Kelsea Yu's IT'S ONLY A GAME is a thriller in which a girl and her friends are blackmailed into playing a dangerous video game with deadly consequences that forces them to lie, trespass, and steal in real life, but the deeper into the game they get, the more the girl realizes that whoever is pulling the strings knows too much about the past she's tried to leave behind. It is coming from Bloomsbury Children's in spring 2024!

Film/TV: Film and Television

ALISON PEARCE STEVENS
November 29th, 2022 | Book News

SOLD BY ALEXANDRA WEISS! ALISON PEARCE STEVENS'S DETECTIVE DOGS ARE ON THE CASE!

Author of RHINOS IN NEBRASKA and ANIMAL CLIMATE HEROES Alison Pearce Stevens's DETECTIVE DOGS ARE ON THE CASE, about conservation projects utilizing working dogs. It will be coming from Holiday House in fall 2024!

Film/TV: Film and Television

K. M. ENRIGHT
October 26th, 2022 | Book News

SOLD! WORLD ENGLISH RIGHTS TO K. M. ENRIGHT'S ADULT FANTASY!

K. M. Enright's debut THE MISTRESS OF LIES is a romantic fantasy with a villainous, bloodthirsty heroine who finds herself plunged into the dangerous world of power, politics, and murder in the court of the Eternal King. It will be coming from Orbit US and Orbit UK in 2023.

Translation: Brent Taylor at Triada

Film/TV: Kim Yau at Echo Lake