Disney studios have acquired the rights to develop Tony Cliff’s DELILAH DIRK AND THE TURKISH LIEUTENANT (First Second) as a feature film! Click here to read the Variety article: Delilah Dirk to Disney. Can’t wait!
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HOPE FARM Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin!
The Scribe title HOPE FARM by Peggy Frew is one of the 5 books on the shortlist of the Miles Franklin Award, Australia’s most prestigious literary prize. The winner will be announced in Melbourne on 26 August.
BADDAWI Is Coming to France!
French publishers Steinkis Groupe have acquired the rights to Leila Abdelrazaq’s graphic novel, BADDAWI. Originally published in the USA by Just World Publishing, BADDAWI tells the story of the author’s father, who spent his childhood in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. The stark black and white illustrations lend an air of false naïveté adding to the effectiveness of the story.
THE WALLED CITY Trilogy Goes to IDW!
The California-based publisher IDW has just acquired the world English-language rights to THE WALLED CITY trilogy, written by Anne Opotowsky and illustrated by Aya Morton, Angie Hoffmeister, and Amber Ma. Publication, starting in Spring 2017, will be under the Top Shelf imprint. French-language rights to the first two titles were previously sold to the Urban China imprint of…
DARE TO DISAPPOINT Now in Dutch!
Özge Samanci’s graphic novel about growing up in Turkey, DARE TO DISAPPOINT, is now out in Dutch from Soulfood Comics! Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Özge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and society demanded predictability. Her dad expected Özge, like her sister, to become an engineer….
PW on ART & BEAUTY
Publishers Weekly’s Calvin Reid reviews Robert Crumb’s newest book, ART & BEAUTY, published for the opening of the exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery in London on 14 April. Read the article here:
TRANSFERRAL Goes to Michel Lafon
French rights to Kate Blair’s frighteningly realistic sci-fi YA novel, TRANSFERRAL, from Canadian publisher, Cormorant Books (via The Rights Factory), have been snapped up by éditions Michel Lafon. We also represent this title for Dutch and Italian rights, and we’re betting it will be picked up quickly, especially once the news of the TV sale is…
QUEEN OF HEARTS sold to Universal!
Grant Pierce Myers, who wrote last year’s The Maze Runner, has been tapped to adapt Queen Of Hearts, Universal Pictures’ pic based on the Colleen Oakes YA book series that imagines the queen from Alice In Wonderland fame when she was a teen. The plot centers on the young Queen of Hearts from Lewis Carroll’s famed fairytale,…
NIL Is Now Out in France!
“How can you escape from an island that doesn’t exist?” The French edition of NIL by Lynne Matson has just come out from Pocket Jeunesse, and the first reactions are great! A bookseller from the FNAC in Lille says: Si vous avez aimé Lost, croyez moi vous allez adorer Nil. Lynne Matson nous fait voyager…
HIS DREAM Come True!
HIS DREAM OF THE SKYLAND (Volume 1 of the Walled City trilogy) is now number 88 in Amazon’s Top 100 Graphic Novels list! Congratulations to author Anne Opotowsky and illustrator Aya Morton!
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