HarperCollins Children's Books :: HarperCollins Children's Books Signs Debut Author for Worldwide Three-Book Deal
HarperCollins Publishers today announced that it has acquired world-English language rights to three books by screenwriter Derek Landy, following a frenzy of interest from publishers around the world. The book, audio and e-formats will be published in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.
The series will begin with SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT, a comic-fantasy-adventure in which a young girl teams up with the wise-cracking skeleton of a dead magician to defeat an Ancient evil. "Sharply dressed skeleton detectives, feisty young heroines, scary monsters, and super-creeps -- I think my career guidance teacher is spinning in her grave. Or she would be if she were dead," said Landy, a Dublin-based screenwriter who wrote the 2003 thriller Dead Bodies and the 2005 dark comedy Boy Eats Girl.
The deal was negotiated by Gillie Russell, Fiction Publishing Director and Sally Gritten, Managing Director, both of HarperCollins U.K., and Michael Stearns, Editorial Director, HarperCollins U.S., with Landy's agent Michelle Kass of Michelle Kass Associates... ...
