NEWS: BREAK THE BODIES, HAUNT THE BONES by Micah Dean Hicks Acquired for John Joseph Adams Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

In my role as editor of John Joseph Adams Books for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I just made a new acquisition. Here’s the deal memo that just ran on Publishers Marketplace:

Author of New American Fiction Prize-winning ELECTRICTY AND OTHER DREAMS, Micah Dean Hicks’s debut BREAK THE BODIES, HAUNT THE BONES, in which dangerous machines and unnatural beastmen mysteriously arrive in a dying town already filled with ghosts, forcing a haunted brother and sister to figure out how to save their family before tortured spirits tear the town and the newcomers apart, to John Joseph Adams Books, in a preempt, for publication in Spring 2019, by Kerry D’Agostino at Curtis Brown (NA, Audio).