Natalie C Parker sold her debut novel to HarperCollins Childrens Books. She offers this official announcement:
Natalie Parker’s Beware the Wild, pitched as Twin Peaks meets The Village, in which a claustrophobic Louisiana town is dominated by its sinister, encroaching swamp, which swallows up a boy who is instantly forgotten by everyone except his sister, and replaced by a mysterious girl from the past who is intent on taking over his family and his life, to Phoebe Yeh at Harper Children’s, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in Winter 2014, by Sarah Davies at the Greenhouse Literary Agency.”
She writes: “That’s right. Harper Collins Children’s Books! I am so happy I could sprout flowers from the top of my head. And oh, holy crow, there’s already a Goodreads page.”
Parker works in higher education, and is a cellist. She lives in Kansas.