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Contact: Melanie Chang
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
212.364.1167/melanie.chang@hbgusa.com
LITTLE, BROWN BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS ANNOUNCES MAJOR
MULTI-BOOK DEAL WITH BESTSELLING 2010 PRINTZ AWARD WINNER LIBBA BRAY
The Diviners, a Thrilling New Four-Book Series Set in the Jazz Age, Launches in 2012
New York, NY [February 3, 2010] — The bestselling and 2010 Printz Award–winning author Libba Bray will
publish her upcoming young adult series, The Diviners, with Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, it was
announced today by Megan Tingley, the division’s Senior Vice President and Publisher. Tingley, Vice
President and Deputy Publisher Andrew Smith, and Senior Editor Alvina Ling all worked on the North
American rights deal, which was negotiated with Barry Goldblatt of Barry Goldblatt Literary. The series will
launch in hardcover in Fall 2012 and will be edited by Ling.
In The Diviners Bray introduces a uniquely vibrant teen heroine she describes as “part Zelda Fitzgerald with a
little Dorothy Parker,” along with a cast of intriguing characters with prophetic abilities and a supernatural and
sinister serial killer. The Diviners demonstrates Bray’s remarkable range as a writer whose talents can yield not
only a novel as hilarious and thought-provoking as her Printz Award–winning Going Bovine, but also this new
supernatural historical fiction series set in New York City during the Roaring Twenties of the Jazz Age, one of
the most colorful and fascinating periods in American history.
Bray burst onto the young adult literary scene in 2003 with her enormously successful debut novel, A Great
and Terrible Beauty, which went on to become the New York Times bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, which
has sold over 1.25 million copies and has been translated into 15 languages. Bray’s most recent young adult
novel, Going Bovine, is the winner of the 2010 Printz Award and has received much critical acclaim including
a starred review from Booklist, which describes the novel as “an unforgettable, nearly indefinable fantasy
adventure.”
“I can’t imagine a better writer to bring this rich period of social, artistic, and cultural history to life for today’s
young adults than the supremely talented Libba Bray,” remarked Tingley. “Little, Brown is thrilled to welcome
her to our family, and to publish The Diviners, which promises to be her most ambitious epic work to date.”
“Maybe it’s my unnatural love of flapper dresses, wisecracking heroines, outrageous glamour, Dorothy Parker,
and anything related to The Great Gatsby, but I’ve been dying to write something about 1920s New York City
for some time,” commented Bray. “Fusing it with one of my other great loves, the supernatural, just makes it
that much more fun to take on. I’m really happy to be working with the wonderful team at Little, Brown and
look forward to offering readers a wild new ride full of dames and dapper dons, jazz babies and Prohibitiondefying parties, conspiracy and prophecy—and all manner of things that go bump in the neon-drenched
night.”
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is a division of Hachette Book Group, a leading trade publisher based in New York and a
division of Hachette Livre, the second-largest publisher in the world. HBG also publishes under the divisions of Little, Brown
and Company, Grand Central Publishing, FaithWords, Center Street, Orbit, and Hachette Digital.
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