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Baby Steps is an upcoming middle-grade graphic novel by Maggie Edkins Willis of Smaller Sister, from Roaring Brook in 2026.
Baby Steps is an upcoming middle-grade graphic novel by Maggie Edkins Willis of Smaller Sister. “Bringing a new baby home seemed exciting and fun, until 14-year-old Erika’s mother experiences a traumatic birth, followed by postpartum depression. As her mom recuperates and her stepfather moves away for work, it’s up to Erika to care for the baby, which throws her life into chaos and alters her perspective on the real-life consequences of pregnancy and choice.”
Connie Hsu at Roaring Brook has acquired Baby Steps for publication within the Spring of 2026. Maggie Edkins Willis’ agent Jennifer Rofé at Andrea Brown Literary brokered the deal for world rights.
Maggie Edkins Willis studied design and artwork historical past at Penn and for seven years, labored in-house for 2 main youngsters’s publishers. She is now a full-time writer/illustrator dwelling in Princeton, New Jersey. Her debut middle-grade graphic novel, Smaller Sister, was printed with Roaring Brook / Macmillan final 12 months, adopted by one other deliberate middle-grade graphic novel in 2024.
Roaring Brook Press is a part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, distributed by Macmillan, and already has a graphic novel imprint First: Second, however now could be rising its personal central graphic novel listing for kids. The Tobias Literary Agency states that they specialize in “all Intellectual Property matters in the publishing industry, from the seed of an idea to the day a book hits the shelves and beyond”. A full-service literary company headquartered in New York City with satellite tv for pc places of work in Boston, Nashville, and Fort Worth, The Tobias Literary Agency represents established and debut authors.
Andrea Brown Literary Agency has develop into a well-known identify to Bleeding Cool, a mid-sized company specializing in youngsters’s and grownup literature, celebrating hundreds of titles bought since their founding in August 1981. They are headquartered in Northern California and now have places of work in San Diego, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Orlando, and Denver. Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LawCo LLP is a full-service transactional regulation agency offering counsel to people and corporations all through the leisure and media industries.
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