MARCH 2026. ANOTHER ACQUISITION BY BOOKMASON HOUSE
BOOKMASON HOUSE is happy to announce another acquisition: BEHOLD A VIRGIN, an upmarket investigative mystery by Peter Swirski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Swirski) in an exclusive five-figure deal.
About BEHOLD A VIRGIN: March, 1957. A lone policeman trudges through smog-filled streets of London to a scene of a savage domestic homicide. Trying to wrap his head around a series of attacks in which men senselessly brutalize the women they live with, Detective Inspector Shepard finds himself following a trail of mysterious disappearances, inexplicable suicides, and attacks of panic and hysteria in an effort to find a common denominator among them. Enlisting the help of a life scientist and a journalist, he dogs the bloody trail of the mysterious syndrome right down to a fatal standoff with a hostage taker, in the process coming eye to eye with the most haunting mystery in the history of the Western civilization. The book is set to be out in Fall 2026.
FEBRUARY 2026.
January 2026. ANOTHER ACQUISITION BY BOOKMASON HOUSE
BOOKMASON HOUSE is happy to announce another acquisition: THE IDES OF AUGUST by Mary Williams in a nice deal. The title calls up a day in 1969, on which a series of odd—at first droll, later increasingly unsettling—incidents begin to beset a doctoral student in Paris. Trying to wrap his head around the forces that threaten to take over his life, Marty and his best friend Augustus spiral into a deepening crisis even as they question whether what they stumbled upon is only a figment of their imaginations. Unfortunately for them, their summer will end tragically, raising a host of questions about what exactly they encountered on the streets of the fever-hot city.
January 2026. BOOKMASON HOUSE SELLS SIMPLIFIED CHINESE RIGHTS TO THE ORION PROJECT
BOOKMASON HOUSE is happy to announce the pre-publication sale of Simplified Chinese rights of Peter Swirski’s THE ORION PROJECT (forthcoming from BOOKMASON HOUSE in late summer 2026) to Chongqing, publisher of the recent hit series The Three-Body Problem, in a five-figure deal.
January 2026.
January 2026. IBPA MEMBERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
December 2025. FIRST ACQUISITION BY BOOKMASON HOUSE
BOOKMASON HOUSE is happy to announce its first acquisition: THE ORION PROJECT by Peter Swirski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Swirski) in an exclusive five-figure deal. This upmarket science mystery reconstructs the ill-fated flight of Orion, the first nuclear spaceship launched by NASA in 1973. The book is set to be out in Fall 2026.
NOVEMBER 2025. INTERN/ASSISTANT OPPORTUNITY
If you’re interested in joining us as an intern, assistant, or editor at large, please send a full CV to Teresa at teresa.lian@bookmasonhouse.com