New author Rachel Hawkins sells paranormal YA trilogy to Hyperion

New author Rachel Hawkins sold a paranormal YA trilogy to Jennifer Besser at Hyperion. The sale, via auction, was handled by agent Holly Root of the Waxman Literary Agency. The first book in the series, Demonglass, is "about a sixteen-year-old witch shipped off to a boarding school for witches, shapeshifters, and faeries, where the traumas of mortal high school are nothing compared to the goings on at 'Freak High'." Hyperion expects to publish the first book in Winter 2010.

In honor of the sale, Hawkins is "devoting the next few days of blogging to The Story of How I Got Published" at readingwritingrachel.blogspot.com