Publishers Weekly is reporting that Kat Falls sold her first two books to David Levithan at Scholastic Press via agent Josh Adams at Adams Literary. The books are the beginning of a YA series about “a post-apocalyptic future in which the Earth’s surface area, greatly reduced as a result of global warming, sees some humans living in ocean-floor communities.” According to Adams’s coagent Caroline Walsh, the first book, Dark Life is scheduled to be published in 2010. She says the book is about a 16-year-old boy, who “when outlaws attack his family’s ocean floor homestead, offers to help a girl from above sea level in a dangerous aquatic search for her missing brother.”
Levithan said Scholastic is “extremely excited” about Falls and that she’s “already transfixed a good portion of our staff.”
Fall is a screenwriter and stage play writer who has had several screenplays optioned, but none yet produced. With her husband, Robert Falls, she co-wrote the brook for the Broadway musical Aida. She wrote and directed an independent feature film, and a half-hour video. She has an MA in Media Studies from The New School for Social Research, and an MFA in Screenwriting from Northwestern University, where she is currently a professor of screenwriting.