ALT Graphic with author head shot and the header, Deal News, which reads: Recipient of the Writer’s Trust Rising Star’s award (2022), and Congolese author of the award-winning debut Shut Up You’re Pretty, which won the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award (2020), the Trillium Book Award (2020), and Canada Reads finalist (2024), Téa Mutonji’s long-awaited novel, My Person, for fans of Monica Heisey, Raven Leilani, Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh, which relays, in a deeply intimate conversational style, the life of young “accidentally bestselling” Black writer Tania Johnson, as she is mid-break-up with her life-defining BFF following years of betrayal, micro-aggressions, and heartbreak, and mid-breakdown that threatens everything she’s built, including her new book deal, in a two-book deal, in a six-figure deal, to Sarah Jackson and Sue Kuruvilla at Random House Canada (Canada, English), by Rachel Letofsky at CookeMcDermid Literary Agency.

ALT The Canadian cover for VenCo is styled in a vintage pulp novel style. The background is black. An outline of a lilac gate is at the center of the cover, opening up with two crescent moon outlines above and below each other. Between the moons is a keyhole. Above the gates are two yellow birds facing each other, a green circle above them, and above the circle is the word “coven.” Willowy branches drape over the top part of the cover, and purple flowers are on the bottom half of the cover.