Debut author Cheri Radke’s AN ACCIDENT OF DRAGONS, pitched as Marie Brennan’s A Natural History of Dragons with a playfully unreliable narrator meets Emily Tesh’s The Greenhollow Duology, in this cozy fantasy about a middle-aged rakish lord who, through unforeseen circumstances, becomes magically-bonded with his dead lover’s dragon that protects their seemingly idyllic island, and who must live up to his responsibilities as a father and leader when his daughter is kidnapped by pirates demanding the dragon’s egg, to Diana M. Pho at Erewhon Books, in a two-book deal, for publication in Summer 2026, by Brenna English-Loeb at Transatlantic Agency, for World rights.
Cheri Radke has a degree in Linguistics from New York University and a master’s in Library Science from Kent State. She has worked for the University of California in a variety of library and academic support roles for over ten years. She lives in Woodland, California. This is her first novel.
Cheri is represented by Brenna English-Loeb.
Congratulations, Cheri!