US rights to UK writer Debbie Gallagher’s The Spider’s Bride have sold to Sean Wallace of Prime Books, via agent John Jarrold. This is Gallagher’s debut novel, and it will also be distributed in the UK and Commonwealth.
Gallagher has previously written for comics, including DC’s Batman Book of Shadows, and has worked in tv production.
The Spider’s Bride is set in “a world of faerie inhabited by strange and frightening beings—and a human woman, who has been chosen by the Spider Prince as his bride. REminiscent of the darker work of Arthur Rackham, it also features the insane Victorian artist Richard Dadd as a character.”