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May 21, 2025

Publishers Marketplace Announces Hammerhead Needs Help

Category: Children’s: Picture Book Fiction
Imprint: Magination Press

Hammerhead Needs help

By Stephanie Owen

Author of the forthcoming THE LONELY LIGHTHOUSE, Stephanie Owen’s HAMMERHEAD NEEDS HELP, about a hammerhead shark who loves to build completely on his own, but when the ultimate fort proves too big for two fins to handle, he faces a choice: accept help or watch his dreams sink, to Katie Hagen at Magination Press, in a nice deal, by Andrea Comparato at Inscriptions Literary (world).

April 15, 2024

Publishers Weekly Announces The Lonely Lighthouse

Barb McNally at Sleeping Bear Press has acquired world rights to The Lonely Lighthouse, a picture book by Stephanie Owen, illustrated by Sona Avedikian, which tells the true story of Little Sable Point Lighthouse in Mears, Michigan, told from the perspective of the lighthouse. Publication is scheduled for spring 2026; Andrea Comparato at Inscriptions Literary represented the author, and Christy Ewers at the CAT Agency represented the illustrator.

View the Rights Report for the week of April 15 at Publisher’s Weekly

September 27, 2023

Publishers Marketplace Announces The Lonely Lighthouse

Category: Children’s: Picture Book Fiction
Imprint: Sleeping Bear Press

The Lonely Lighthouse

By Stephanie Owen

Stephanie Owen’s debut THE LONELY LIGHTHOUSE, a true story of the Little Sable Point Lighthouse in Mears Michigan, but told from the perspective of the lighthouse, to Barb McNally at Sleeping Bear Press, in a nice deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Andrea Comparato at Inscriptions Literary (world).