Publishers Weekly is reporting that Sookie Stackhouse creator Charlaine Harris has signed a deal with Ace Books imprint to publish Cemetery Girl, an original graphic novel trilogy (Ace is the publisher of the Sookie Stackhouse novels).
Cemetery Girl is “a paranormal/fantasy mystery novel about a teenage girl with amnesia living alone in a cemetery. It is Harris’ first effort at creating an original graphic novel series and she will collaborate on the graphic novels with fantasy writer Christopher Golden and with artist Don Kramer. The first book in the graphic novel series will be released in 2013.”
Harris said she had the plot of Cemetery Girl, “in my head for a year when Chris suggested I re-imagine it as a graphic novel. Suddenly the project made a lot more sense. Since Chris has more experience in the the graphic novel field than I do, we agreed to team up for my first ever collaboration. This is an exciting venture for both of us.”