News Summary

• An author's debut novel scored $2.4m in licensing deals after Minotaur/Macmillan acquired it, but they unraveled after "questions were raised" over exactly who, or what, wrote it.
• Sandy Hodgman, an independent from Hodgman Literary who sells foreign rights for Europa Content, pulled back its submission of the novel to international publishers.
• This news follows The Atlantic reporting that Daggermouth, a self-published hit that scored a seven-figure publishing deal, may be largely the work of AI.