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Dreams Still Come True. I Can Prove It
An announcement from a late bloomer
If you’re a writer with ambitions of traditional book publishing, then you know about Publishers’ Weekly. It’s a trade magazine and newsletter; pretty much what Variety is to show biz.
In case you’re not familiar with it, trust me on this: for a debut author, having a book deal announced in PW’s “Rights Reports” section more or less equates to a college player being picked in the early rounds of the NFL draft.
Except I’m way past my college years. Way, way past. Which makes this even more delicious. I am pinching myself even as I type.
Because yesterday my two-book deal with Disney Hyperion was listed in Publisher’s Weekly “ Children’s Bookshelf “ Rights Reports:
Rachel Stark at Disney-Hyperion has acquired Jan M.Flynn’s Griffinspeaker and Griffinrider, the first two books in the author’s debut middle grade fantasy series. Pitched as Impossible Creatures meets The Giver, the series follows 12-year-old Rain, a girl from the lowest tier of her strictly ranked society, who forms a forbidden bond with a wild griffin that allows her to change her destiny. But her rise to a higher class threatens the realm’s oppressive social order-and those at the top will stop at nothing see her fail. Publication for book one is slated…
