Even though most of these deals were announced in March….
Gail Carriger has a new series – a four part YA series – called Espionage and Etiquette.
Gail says: “The Finishing School Series is set in the same world as The Parasol Protectorate series, only 25 years earlier, and features a finishing academy located in a giant caterpillar-like dirigible floating over Dartmoor in which young ladies are taught to . . . finish . . . everything . . . and everyone . . . as needed. There will be steampunk etiquette! There will be well-dressed espionage! There will be Victorian fake food. There will be flying mechanical sausage dogs named Bumbersnoot. I am excited. The first book will come out in 2012. And I am writing it . . . next.”
I am very excited to see what Gail Carriger will do with her steampunk world with younger characters. I love her style and humor in the Parasol Protectorate, but do not like the more “adult” sections, so I certainly am interested to see how she handles this next series!
Sarah Rees Brennan, authoress of the deeply brilliant and criminally underappreciated Demon’s Lexicon trilogy, has a new book deal:
Author of the Demon’s Lexicon Series Sarah Rees Brennan’s YA gothic romance trilogy beginning with LISTEN FOR A WHISPER, about a budding journalist who investigates when she realizes the town she has lived in all her life is hiding a multitude of secrets and a murderer, and the truth may lie with the ruling family who have just returned to the manor on the hill and in the whispers she hears in her head from a boy who may not be imaginary after all.
Sarah says:
I so wanted to write this book, and I was so worried people wouldn’t want it! For I do so many things in it that I love.
I get to be goofy, and I get unlikely partners fighting crime. I got to make up a beautiful country town in the Cotswolds, one of the prettiest parts of England, and use it as a setting for murder. I have your traditional Gothic heroine – you know, unexpectedly thrown into the gloomy manor with secrets caught in the cobwebs and insane family members swooping about – except he’s this scruffy pool hustler from San Francisco. I have a lady sleuth and the answer to what the townsfolk are doing while mad stuff happens in the manor: they’re sleuthing. I get to dissect the fact that being in someone else’s head would be truly terrifying and deeply uncomfortable.
I have, in other words, too much fun.
And does that sound fantastic? So, so very excited for this. Should be headed our way Autumn 2012.
