Australian playwright and children’s author Lian Tanner sold a trilogy to Michelle Poploff at Delacorte. The auction was handled by Jill Grinberg Literary Management, on behalf of Tanner’s Australian agent, Margaret Connolly.
Museum of Thieves, the first book, is “about a young girl who escapes the oppressive city of Jewel, where children are required to wear guardchains for their protection, and finds refuge in the extraordinary living Museum of Dunt, an ever-shifting world where she meets up with an eccentric cast of characters and evolves into a courageous and resourceful heroine who saves her city from destruction.”
Her first children’s novel, Rats!, was published in 2004.