Nineteen-year old Kaleb Nation sold world English language rights to his debut novel, The Fairfield Curse, to Lyron Bennett at Sourcebooks for its children’s imprint, Jabberwocky, via agent Richard Curtis of Richard Curtis Associates. The book is the beginning of Nation’s middle-grade series Bran Hambric. In the first volume, “a boy living in a world where magic is banned discovers he has inherited dangerous gifts from his criminal mother, and the world he knows may not be his own.”
According to Nation’s web site, he started writing the book when he “was 14 years old. Awake on the night of 3 March 2003, Kaleb suddenly had the idea of a boy and a banker sitting on a rooftop, waiting for a burglar to come. From that image was born the story of Bran Hambric, a teenage boy who was found in a bank vault when he was six years old with no memory of his past.”