Libba Bray Signs for New Series
Printz-winner (Going Bovine) Libba Bray has signed to write a new YA series called The Diviners for a rumored $2 million, according to Publishers Weekly. Described as supernatural fantasy set in Manhattan during the 1920s, Bray said the series will offer “readers a wild new ride full of dames and dapper dons, jazz babies and Prohibition-defying parties, conspiracy and prophecy—and all manner of things that go bump in the neon-drenched night.”
The first title in the four-book series is planned for Fall 2012.
The books were won in a six-house auction by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Bray’s last four books were published by Delacorte.