| Children's: Young Adult | Dan Krokos's debut FALSE MEMORY, featuring a girl with no memory who discovers she's a genetically altered weapon of mass destruction and must uncover the truth of her identity in order to save her city, to Catherine Onderat Disney-Hyperion, in a significant deal, at auction, in a three-book deal, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management on behalf of Janet Reid at FinePrint Literary Management (World English). Translation: Jacqueline@fineprintlit.com Film: pouya@fineprintlit.com | |
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| Posted: | Today at 2:31 p.m. Eastern | |
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| Children's: Young Adult | Ingrid Paulson's debut VALKYRIE RISING, about a girl who learns she is a Valkyrie descended from Norse Gods, and when her older brother is kidnapped, she and his annoying but gorgeous best friend have to get to Valhalla and get past Odin and his undead army to save him - and the world, to Anne Hoppe at Harper Children's, bySuzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management (World English). | |
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| Posted: | September 14, 2010 at 2:11 p.m. Eastern | |
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| Children's: Middle grade | Nineteen-year-old author of BREAK Hannah Moskowitz's ZOMBIE TAG, about a boy who copes with his brother's death by playing Zombie Tag (a capture-the-flag game but with fake zombies and spatulas) until he brings his brother - and everyone else buried in a five-mile radius - back from the dead, to Nancy Mercado at Roaring Brook Press, at auction, in a two-book deal, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management (NA). | |
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| Posted: | July 6, 2010 at 3:51 p.m. Eastern | |
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| Fiction: Debut | Julie Cross's TEMPEST, the first in a trilogy about a 19-year-old time traveler who witnesses his girlfriend's murder and inadvertently jumps back two years; stuck there, he's recruited by a shadowy government agency run by the man he thought was his father and vows to save his girlfriend no matter the cost, pitched as "Twilight" meets "The Time Traveler's Wife," to Brendan Deneen at Thomas Dunne Books, in a pre-empt, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management (World). | |
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| Posted: | June 22, 2010 at 10:33 p.m. Eastern | |
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| Children's: Young Adult | Cat Hellisen's debut fantasy SEA ROSE RED, about a girl who fakes her own suicide to escape from the strict confines of her aristocratic family and a likely arranged marriage only to be confronted with the harsh realities of living in the slums with the working class and the ultimate discovery that the boy she's fallen in love with is plotting a rebellion to destroy her family, to Beth Potter at Farrar, Straus Children's, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management. | |
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| Posted: | June 14, 2010 at 3:01 p.m. Eastern | |
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| Children's: Young Adult | Sarah Wylie's debut ALL THESE LIVES, pitched as a literary YA My Sister's Keeper, about a girl who believes she has nine lives and copes with her fraternal twin sister's leukemia by setting out to rid herself of all her extra lives, only to discover that she might have only the one life after all, to Margaret Ferguson at Margaret Ferguson Books, in a two-book deal, at auction, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management (NA). | |
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| Posted: | April 9, 2010 at 11:42 p.m. Eastern | |
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| Children's: Young Adult | Lisa Desrochers' debut PERSONAL DEMONS, about a good Catholic girl with a snarky streak who finds herself caught between an angel and a demon both fighting for her soul, and ultimately her heart, to Melissa Frain at Tor, in a three-book deal, at auction, for publication Fall 2010, by Suzie Townsend at FinePrint Literary Management (world English). Translation: jacqueline@fineprintlit.com | |
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| Posted: | January 17, 2010 at 6:38 p.m. Eastern | |