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Jenni Signs New Murder Mystery Book Deal

4/30/2025

 
Author of UNSINKABLE Jenni L. Walsh's THE GATSBY GIRLS DO MURDER, a locked-room mystery, pitched as in the vein of KNIVES OUT and CLUE, featuring the real-life socialites from 1920s Chicago who inspired THE GREAT GATSBY's Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker, to Jessica Tribble Wells at Thomas & Mercer, in a pre-empt, for publication in June 2026, by Shannon Hassan at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (world).

Jenni Signs Second Middle Grade Deal with Zonderkidz

1/23/2024

 
Author of OPERATION: HAPPY Jenni L. Walsh's THE BUG BANDITS, a story pitched as inspired by true events—the heist of thousands of dollars' worth of rare insects from the Philadelphia Insectarium—in which a young girl and her friends must protect her father's museum from "buglars", using their knowledge of science and some HOME ALONE-type shenanigans, to Katherine Easter at Zonderkidz, for publication in 2025, by Shannon Hassan at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (world).

Jenni signs second two-book deal with Harper Muse

12/12/2022

 
I am so thrilled to continue to publish with Harper Muse!

Walsh Inks Double at Harper

For six figures, Harper Muse’s Kimberly Carlton bought world rights to two books, including a currently untitled historical novel, from Jenni L. Walsh (The Call of the Wrens). The deal was brokered by Shannon Hassan at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. The historical novel is based on the life of 1930s tennis star Alice Marble, who was also a spy during WWII and edited the Wonder Woman comic in the 1940s. Elaborating, Harper Muse said the book follows “Marble’s determined rise on the tennis court from junior player to Grand Slam champion, her complicated love life, and her foray into espionage to avenge her husband’s death.” The novel is slated for winter 2024.

Sold! A Betting Woman to be published by Alexandra (Hungary)!

12/7/2021

 
Jenni L. Walsh's A Betting Woman, to Alexandra (Hungary) on behalf of Taryn Fagerness Agency and Shannon Hassan at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

Jenni signs two-book deal with Harper Muse!

4/27/2021

 
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A New Middle Grade with Scholastic Press!

3/15/2021

 
Author of I AM DEFIANCE Jenni L. Walsh’s OVER AND OUT, set in Cold War Germany, in which a science-loving girl is forced to become a Stasi spy and risks everything for a better future on the other side of the Berlin Wall, to Olivia Valcarce at Scholastic, for publication in spring 2022, by Shannon Hassan at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (world).

More information coming soon! ​

A New Middle Grade Book About Sybil Ludington!

1/22/2021

 
Author of I AM DEFIANCE Jenni L. Walsh’s BY THE LIGHT OF FIREFLIES, based on the true story of a hidden Revolutionary War hero, Sybil Ludington, dubbed the “female Paul Revere,” and following a teen girl who braves a perilous midnight ride to warn the troops, with the believed magic of the fireflies to light her way, to Nancy Cleary at Wyatt-MacKenzie, for publication in early November 2021, by Shannon Hassan at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (world English).
More information coming soon!

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Adult Historical about Madame Moustache coming from Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing!

9/18/2020

 
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GUYS, I am so excited for this book and so thankful to Shannon and Nancy for helping me bring Eleanor Dumont's (aka Madame Moustache's) story to readers.
My interest in Eleanor Dumont’s story bloomed as I began researching the women of the California gold rush. It wasn’t long before I came upon a name unknown to me, Madame Moustache. As it turned out, Madame Moustache was the sobriquet for Eleanor Dumont, who was born as Simone Jules, and who had popularized vingt-et-un, now known as blackjack.

The presence of three names for a single woman intrigued me. I wondered how one name bled into the next and how life winded to a nickname—one I didn’t initially find particularly endearing—that Eleanor lived with for over a decade. I wondered if she endured the moniker for all those years or if she was accepting of the name, which was spat at her after taking a man’s last dime during a game of vingt-et-un and offering him a glass of milk, Eleanor having been claimed to have said, "Any man silly enough to lose his last cent to a woman deserves a milk diet.”

In all the anecdotes I found of Eleanor, she was warmhearted, quick-witted, business savvy, courageous, and tenacious. The attributes led me to believe that perhaps Eleanor didn’t tolerate the nickname but instead embraced it. After that, there was no stopping me from telling her story.

And I hope you're excited to read it!!

​If you're on Goodreads, please take a quick moment to click the "Want to Read" button >>> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55367443-a-betting-woman
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New Middle Grade Book with Capstone

12/13/2019

 
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🎉 Book news! 🎉

I'm such a nerd for research and outlining so it's with immense pleasure that I get to say I've begun researching a new middle grade book and that I'll be contributing to Capstone Publishing's Girls Survive series!

The Girls Survive series is for kiddos 8 and up that tells amazing stories of survival during events like the sinking of the Titanic, the San Francisco Earthquake, the bombing of Pearl Harbor and stories about the underground railroad, spying during the civil war and the Night of Broken Glass.

My book -- which is coming Spring 2021 -- is about the London Blitz. It occurred during WWII when Hitler turned his attention away from bombing military targets and instead terrorized civilians in London night after night. For 57 days!
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I am very excited to be writing and sharing a young girl's story of survival during this time. Thank you to Capstone for the opportunity to contribute to this awesome series!

New Middle Grade Novel with Scholastic

8/15/2019

 
I'm very excited to announce a new middle grade novel with Scholastic, inspired by a real-life resistance group in Nazi Germany! Stay tuned for updates. This beauty is planned to hit shelves in early 2021!
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      • Unsinkable
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      • Side by Side: A Novel of Bonnie and Clyde
      • Becoming Bonnie: A Novel
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      • The Bug Bandits
      • Operation: Happy
      • Over and Out
      • By the Light of Fireflies: A Novel of War Hero Sybil Ludington
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      • Hettie and the London Blitz: A World War II Survival Story
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