It's a joyous week when you get to announce two debut deals—and this week might just take the cake. Elaine Vickers is one of those super-hardworking and talented authors that you just know are going someplace big. And this deal has a particularly sweet history: While the manuscript was on submission, I happened to see a tweet from an editor who was looking for, among other things, "middle-grade a la Penderwicks."

Well, I thought. I've got that!

So I sent LOST & FOUND to HarperCollins, and I set about waiting. Turns out that I didn't have long to wait at all! This warm, classic MG story is about three young girls, each with their own POV, each undergoing a big change in her life, who meet and become friends when they each find a mysterious box in their library's lost-and-found. All of this wrapped in a rich, warm voice that is classic MG through-and-through.

To our great delight, LOST & FOUND sold very quickly to Emilia Rhodes at HarperCollins, in a two-book deal! So keep an eye out for this book, folks—it's a keeper, and Elaine Vickers is a name you should get used to hearing a lot of in future.

Huge congrats, Elaine!