Tag Archives: YA

Jeff Sampson sells YA series to Balzer & Bray, about genetically engineered teens

Jeff Sampson's The Death and Life of Emily Cooke follows a teenager who discovers her genetically engineered birthright while evading a murderer. Balzer & Bray will publish... Read more [...]

Scott Tracey sells first novel, Witch Eyes, to Flux

Debut author Scott Tracey's first novel will be "Smallville meets a gay Romeo and Juliet" when Flux publishes Witch Eyes, a YA urban fantasy... Read more [...]

One-shot comic Deadlocke ties in with Christopher Krovatin’s Venomous

Christopher Krovatin's new YA novel Venomous is the basis for a feature film now in pre-production, following a young man's struggle with the dark comic character taking over his life. Now Dark Horse is publishing a comic tie-in called Deadlocke... Read more [...]

Agent Colleen Lindsay briefly open to new queries

FinePrint's agent Colleen Lindsay is briefly considering new authors, but only in very limited genres... Read more [...]

Cory Doctorow sells film option on Little Brother

Cory Doctorow has sold a film option on his YA novel Little Brother to Don Murphy, who has produced films such as Transformers, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen... Read more [...]

Catherynne M. Valente offering her first YA novel for donations

Catherynne M. Valente made mention of a children's book in her novel Palimpsest. Now she's writing it, and making it available for free (for donations). The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making will appear Mondays... Read more [...]

The Familiars sells to Sony Animation

Sony Animation has pre-empted film rights to Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson's recently sold YA fantasy trilogy The Familiars... Read more [...]

Screenwriters Epstein & Jacobson sell YA fantasy trilogy to Harper Children’s

Screenwriters Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson have teamed up yet again, this time for a prose fantasy trilogy called The Familiars... Read more [...]

Jane Yolen and Rebecca Guay sell graphic novel to Dark Horse

Jane Yolen's words and Rebecca Guay's paintings combine to create the world of The Last Dragon, a YA graphic novel Dark Horse will publish in 2010... Read more [...]

Link & Grant sell YA steampunk anthology to Candlewick

Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant sold YA anthology Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories to Deborah Noyes Wayshak at Candlewick Press, for publication in Fall 2011... Read more [...]

Lucienne Diver sells Revamped, offers more news

Flux has bought the sequel to Lucienne Diver's debut YA novel. The author also offers an interview and a contest to win Vamped... Read more [...]

Stephen Deas sells new YA fantasy trilogy to Gollancz

New British author Stephen Deas just sold his second YA fantasy trilogy, hard on the heels of the publication of the first book in his first trilogy. The new series... Read more [...]

Leah Cypess sells two YA fantasies to Greenwillow

New author Leah Cypess sold two YA fantasy novels to Greenwillow, including Shifter, in which Isabel can't imagine being the legendary shape-shifter everyone claims she is... Read more [...]

Sarah Mlynowski options new YA novel to Paramount

Paramount bought an option on Sarah Mlynowski's forthcoming Gimme a Call, which Delacorte will published next year. Director Andy Fickman is already attached... Read more [...]

Harlequin Teen to be new imprint aimed at teen readers

Harlequin is expanding its line with a teen-friendly imprint debuting later this year. Harlequin Teen will publish a variety of genres, with the first two looking like paranormal romance... Read more [...]

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