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We Need Diverse Books will host a short story contest for unpublished diverse writers. Entries (5,000 words or less) will be accepted starting on April 27th; the deadline has been set for May 8th.
The winning piece will be included in the organization’s anthology (working title Stories For All Of Us). This book is dedicated to the memory of the late Walter Dean Myers and his quote, “Once I began to read, I began to exist.”
Phoebe Yeh, the publisher of Crown Books for Young Readers at Random House, has acquired this project. Some of the authors who plan to contribute pieces include Sherman Alexie, Grace Lin, and Jacqueline Woodson. Click here to learn more details about this contest.
Irish Times arts editor Shane Hegarty landed a four-book deal with HarperCollins after an auction at the Bologna Book Fair. You can meet the debut author on Twitter.
The publisher bought English world rights for Hegarty’s Darkmouth, a series of middle grade fantasy novels. Marianne Gunn O’Connor of Marianne Gunn O’Connor Literary Agency negotiated the deal with HarperCollins U.S. editorial director Phoebe Yeh and HarperCollins U.K. fiction publishing director Nick Lake. Here’s more from the release:
In this monster-hunting, debut middle-grade fantasy series, DARKMOUTH, humans and monsters—properly called Legends—live in separate worlds. And it is the Legend Hunters who work to keep the population safe. Our hero Finn is the son of the last remaining Legend Hunter. In a society where Legend Hunting skills are passed down through generations, Finn is slated to carry on that tradition. Ironically, Finn proves unskilled and the fate of the world rests with him.
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HarperCollins Children's Books has signed a debut trilogy in which ordinary boys and girls are trained to become fairy tale heroes or villains.
HC US Editorial director Phoebe Yeh pre-empted world rights from Jane Startz of Jane Startz Productions to the three books by Soman Chainani. The first book in the trilogy, The School for Good and Evil, will be published in spring 2013.
The book follows two girls, one beloved and one reviled, who are kidnapped by a storyteller who runs the school for good and evil.
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