Tor snaps up two books in dystomance series from debut novelist Ariel Sullivan

Tor publisher Gillian Green has signed two books in an ambitious new "dystomance" series from American debut author Ariel Sullivan, including her debut novel, Conform.

The deal was struck with Cathryn Summerhayes of Curtis Brown for British Commonwealth rights excluding Canada on behalf of UTA, with North American rights going to Penguin Random House US as the launch title for Thousand Voices, the recently announced new venture with television presenter Jenna Bush Hager and the Random House Publishing Group.

Described by Tor Bramble as "The Hunger Games meets romantasy, Conform is the first novel in a sweeping dystopian romance trilogy of love and rebellion, set in a post-apocalyptic future".

The imprint added: "In this society, a woman’s worth is measured by her ability to procreate and our heroine will find herself torn between the one man who might rescue her from her place in the underclass of society, and another who wants to burn it all to the ground."

Green said: "We’re very happy to be welcoming Ariel to Tor Bramble with her genre-bending debut that takes romantasy into an exciting new direction. This is a smart, romantic futuristic novel with a love triangle at its heart and brilliantly compulsive storytelling. It’s for readers who grew up with reading and loving dystopian YA novels like The Hunger Games, Divergent and Delirium, looking for their next obsession in a romantasy space."

Tor Bramble will publish the first book, Conform, in October 2025 with the second book to follow in 2026. Sullivan lives in Connecticut and Conform is her first novel.