Thursday, November 30, 2006

New Book Deal!! :)

Okay this is official now and will go into today's Publisher's Lunch so I can finally announce it!!

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FICTION: YOUNG ADULT
Mari Mancusi's YA novel THE CAMELOT CODE, in which Merlin sends a sophomore girl back in time to meet the teen once-and-future-pre-King Arthur and have him spend a week in the 21st century only to have him Google himself, discover his fate and refuse to return, to Sarah Shumway at Dutton Children's, in a very nice two-book deal, by Kristin Nelson at Nelson
Literary Agency (World English). knelson@nelsonagency.com
Translation rights: wlee@fieldingagency.com
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So exciting! And these will be my first books in hardcover! I'm very happy. And I couldn't have done it without my fab, superagent Kristin Nelson. She's amazing. I'm so lucky to have had her take me on.

:)
Marianne

8 comments:

Cindy Holby said...

Congrats! Can't wait to read it!

Diana Peterfreund said...

Congratulations, Marianne! I'm so happy to hear how it all came out! I'm so excited for you... and your *hardcovers...*

Anonymous said...

Congratulations!!!! :)

Anonymous said...

lol cant wait! should be interesting!

Michelle Rowen said...

A "very nice" deal. Sweeeeettt! :-) Congrats!

Sarah Palmero said...

I just came over from Kristin's blog. And I'm telling all my friends about this sale, because it's so cute. I can't wait to read it. Congratulations!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations, Marianne! Can't wait to read it.

Gena Showalter said...

Sounds fantastic! And great movie material...