Ivy Pochoda sold her first novel, The Art of Losing, in which “a woman weds a talented magician, whose hands attract stray saltshakers and poker chips. After one of his tricks goes terribly awry, the newlywed is left with the question whether things she believes in are real or just another illusion,” to Hilary Rubin Teeman at St. Martin’s. Agent on the deal was Kim Witherspoon of Inkwell Management.