News Mother and daughter pair up for Random House book RIGHTS EXCLUSIVE
HUGHES AND VULLIAMY TEAM UP Charlotte Williams
Children’s author Shirley Hughes has been signed up for a new series by Random House Children’s Publishers, working for the first time in collaboration with her daughter author-illustrator Clara Vulliamy, while OUP Children’s Books also signed up a début author mother-and- daughter team. Hughes is perhaps best known for
her Alfie series, while Vuillamy’s books include Te Bear with Sticky Paws. RHCP publisher for colour and licensing, Fiona Macmillan, bought world rights in Hughes and Vulliamy’s new adventure series, Dixie O’Day, from Hilary Delamare of Te Agency. Te series will launch in September
2013 with Dixie in the Fast Lane, featuring friends Dixie O’Day and Percy. Macmillan said: “Reading Dixie O’Day’s hilarious adventures and seeing Clara’s bold illustrations
pairing has” RHCP publisher for colour and licensing, Fiona Macmillan
SELF-PUBLISHED CRIME TRILOGY GOES TO AVON
HarperCollins imprint Avon has snapped up a series of self-published novels as it looks to boost its crime list. Te imprint, which specialises in commercial fiction, will publish three crime novels by British author Mark Sennen after he found a significant audience online with his self-published books for the Kindle. His Detective Inspector Charlotte
Savage books—police procedurals set in Plymouth and Dartmoor— have sold more than 73,000 e-books in the UK, and have spent 250 days
in the Kindle bestseller chart. Te author lives in rural Devon. Claire Bord, editorial director at
Avon, bought UK and Commonwealth rights, including translation rights, from Claire Roberts at Trident Media. Avon plans to publish Touch, the
first of three titles, as an e-book in January 2013, while the paperback will be published in April. Bord said: “We have been
searching for new home-grown talent for a while.”
bold illustrations alongside them immediately shows what a unique dynamic this mother-daughter
Reading Dixie O’Day’s hilarious adventures and seeing Clara’s
Vulliamy Hughes
alongside them immediately shows what a unique dynamic this mother- daughter pairing has.” “Sitting at the kitchen table and
working on these stories together, sharing ideas and reading bits aloud, are some of the happiest I’ve known,” Vulliamy said. l Meanwhile, OUP Children’s Books has bought three novels for girls aged seven-plus by début author Wendy Meddour, and illustrated by her 11-year-old daughter Mina May, who created the pictures using the Brushes programme on an iPad. Senior commissioning editor
Jasmine Richards bought world rights from Penny Holroyde at the Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency. Richards said the books would play
into the illustrated and comic books trend, and the first book, Wendy Quill is a Crocodile’s Bottom, is a standalone story in the series about school, friendships and family life, narrated by nine-year-old Wendy Quill.
HOT KEY WINS CAREY BOOKS
Hot Key Books has bought three titles from Observatory Mansions author Edward Carey, his first books for the young adult/crossover market. Editorial director Sara O’Connor
bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, in the Iremonger Trilogy, with plans to publish the first title in September 2013. Italian rights in the trilogy, described by O’Connor as set in “a stunning, dark world full of striking characters and so much heart,” have been sold to Bompiani.
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