More Publishing News

2011 has been a banner year for me. I've been sitting on this news for a while - uncomfortably sitting on it - and now I can share.

Here's what Publishers Weekly Childern's Bookshelf Newsletter has to say:

Andrew Karre at Carolrhoda Lab pre-empted John Hornor Jacobs’s The Incarcerado Trilogy, comprising The Twelve Fingered Boy, Incarcerado, and The End of All Things. The trilogy features two inmates of the Pulaski County Juvenile Detention Center for Boys, who discover their superpowers even as they realize that the sinister Mr. Quincrux, head of the Extranatural Agency, wants to control them. The Twelve Fingered Boy will pub in spring 2012, and the next two installments will follow annually. Stacia Decker at the Donald Maass Literary Agency did the deal for world rights, plus audio.

There were a few houses interested in this, but once I spoke with Andrew on the phone, and we discussed the books, how we could make them better, I absolutely knew Carolrhoda Labs was the perfect home for these books. I thought I couldn't be happier, but sometimes life throws you a curve. I'm happier.