Post by Anne on Mar 25, 2010 1:51:22 GMT -5
I have Garth Nix as a friend on facebook, so I get all his updates about stuff as he does post more on it then on his personal website.
This was the latest thing to be posted:
"Out of the mists, a secret project emerges!
This is the text of a media release that went out today, minus most of its formatting:
Two New York Times Bestselling novelists join forces to write children’s fantasy series
Garth Nix and Sean Williams team up to create Troubletwisters, sign three separate six figure deals in USA, UK and Australia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Bestselling novelists Garth Nix (The Keys to the Kingdom series, Old Kingdom Trilogy, The Seventh Tower series) and Sean Williams (Star Wars: Force Heretic, The Broken Land Trilogy, The Fixers series) have teamed up to co-write a new children’s fantasy adventure series called Troubletwisters, to be published in the USA by Scholastic, in the UK by Egmont, and in Australia by Allen & Unwin.
The series was picked up in three separate six-figure deals by David Levithan at Scholastic USA; Stella Paskins at Egmont UK; and Erica Wagner and Eva Mills at Allen & Unwin. The deals were made by Jill Grinberg of Jill Grinberg Literary Management in New York; Antony Harwood of Antony Harwood Limited in the UK in association withJill Grinberg; and Fiona Inglis of Curtis Brown (Australia).
Troubletwisters tells the story of twins Jaide and Jack Shield, who have to move from the city to a small coastal town to live with their eccentric grandmother, where they are drawn into an age-old struggle against an ancient entity called The Evil, in the process discovering their own magical gifts and heritage.
“Sean and I are old friends and we have been talking about co-writing something for years, so it’s great we’ve finally got our double act together with Troubletwisters,” said Nix. “We’d discussed co-writing a thriller or a science fiction screenplay but then it hit us that we both love children’s fantasy books, so that’s what we should write together. Troubletwisters is the result.”
“Writers like Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, and Ursula le Guin inspired both of us when we were kids,” said Williams. “Now we’re older and have kids of our own, our job is to inspire them in turn. But really, it’s our inner children we’re writing for first. That we’ve never really grown up is what makes these stories so much fun, for children of all ages.”
The first of five planned books in the series, Troubletwisters: The Beginning, will be published in 2011.
About the Authors
Garth Nix’s novels include the award-winning fantasies Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen and the YA SF novel Shade’s Children. His fantasy books for children include The Ragwitch; the six books of The Seventh Tower sequence; and the seven books of The Keys to the Kingdom series. His books have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Australian. His work has been translated into 38 languages.
Number-one New York Times-bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Sean Williams is best-known internationally for his award-winning space opera series. He is also the author of the YA Broken Land trilogy (The Changeling, The Dust Devils, and The Scarecrow) and the Books of the Change (The Stone Mage & the Sea, The Sky Warden & the Sun, and The Storm Weaver and the Sand). Sean’s new series for a middle-grade audience, ‘The Fixers’, will be published by Omnibus/Scholastic in Australia in 2010."
Way to go Nix for pulling in the big bucks xD
This was the latest thing to be posted:
"Out of the mists, a secret project emerges!
This is the text of a media release that went out today, minus most of its formatting:
Two New York Times Bestselling novelists join forces to write children’s fantasy series
Garth Nix and Sean Williams team up to create Troubletwisters, sign three separate six figure deals in USA, UK and Australia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Bestselling novelists Garth Nix (The Keys to the Kingdom series, Old Kingdom Trilogy, The Seventh Tower series) and Sean Williams (Star Wars: Force Heretic, The Broken Land Trilogy, The Fixers series) have teamed up to co-write a new children’s fantasy adventure series called Troubletwisters, to be published in the USA by Scholastic, in the UK by Egmont, and in Australia by Allen & Unwin.
The series was picked up in three separate six-figure deals by David Levithan at Scholastic USA; Stella Paskins at Egmont UK; and Erica Wagner and Eva Mills at Allen & Unwin. The deals were made by Jill Grinberg of Jill Grinberg Literary Management in New York; Antony Harwood of Antony Harwood Limited in the UK in association withJill Grinberg; and Fiona Inglis of Curtis Brown (Australia).
Troubletwisters tells the story of twins Jaide and Jack Shield, who have to move from the city to a small coastal town to live with their eccentric grandmother, where they are drawn into an age-old struggle against an ancient entity called The Evil, in the process discovering their own magical gifts and heritage.
“Sean and I are old friends and we have been talking about co-writing something for years, so it’s great we’ve finally got our double act together with Troubletwisters,” said Nix. “We’d discussed co-writing a thriller or a science fiction screenplay but then it hit us that we both love children’s fantasy books, so that’s what we should write together. Troubletwisters is the result.”
“Writers like Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, and Ursula le Guin inspired both of us when we were kids,” said Williams. “Now we’re older and have kids of our own, our job is to inspire them in turn. But really, it’s our inner children we’re writing for first. That we’ve never really grown up is what makes these stories so much fun, for children of all ages.”
The first of five planned books in the series, Troubletwisters: The Beginning, will be published in 2011.
About the Authors
Garth Nix’s novels include the award-winning fantasies Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen and the YA SF novel Shade’s Children. His fantasy books for children include The Ragwitch; the six books of The Seventh Tower sequence; and the seven books of The Keys to the Kingdom series. His books have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Australian. His work has been translated into 38 languages.
Number-one New York Times-bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Sean Williams is best-known internationally for his award-winning space opera series. He is also the author of the YA Broken Land trilogy (The Changeling, The Dust Devils, and The Scarecrow) and the Books of the Change (The Stone Mage & the Sea, The Sky Warden & the Sun, and The Storm Weaver and the Sand). Sean’s new series for a middle-grade audience, ‘The Fixers’, will be published by Omnibus/Scholastic in Australia in 2010."
Way to go Nix for pulling in the big bucks xD
