Rights Deals, Publishers Weekly ● Posted 6/20/2016 12:00 am

Plum Street Publishers’ Liz Russell took world rights to James Babb’s middle grade novel Devil’s Den. The book is the third in the author’s Brody Martin series; Babb self-published the first two titles in the series. The book follows a 14-year-old boy searching for his family in post–Civil War America. Russell said the quest takes the young hero “into the Indian Territory west of Fort Smith during the tenure of federal judge Isaac C. Parker, known to history as ‘The Hanging Judge.’ ” Babb did not use an agent in the deal. View the article here.

Written by Lucy Parkhurst Baehr