Cat Clyne at Mira has preempted world English rights to The Jester and the Queen by Russian novelist Alisa Dzhukich and illustrator Karolina Kharit Prihodko, according to Publishers Weekly’s Book Deals roundup for the week of October 5, 2026 (column dated October 2, 2026).
Alena Kuptsova at Eksmo Publishers handled the deal. PW frames the book as a romantasy about a queen and her court jester drawn into a forbidden romance, sparked by Prihodko’s viral character art — more than 850 million TikTok views, per the column. PW sets a December 2027 release.
