HarperCollins won the English language rights to three books by Derek Landy:
The series will begin with SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT, a comic-fantasy-adventure in which a young girl teams up with the wise-cracking skeleton of a dead magician to defeat an Ancient evil. “Sharply dressed skeleton detectives, feisty young heroines, scary monsters, and super-creeps — I think my career guidance teacher is spinning in her grave. Or she would be if she were dead,” said Landy, a Dublin-based screenwriter who wrote the 2003 thriller Dead Bodies and the 2005 dark comedy Boy Eats Girl.
Hmmm. I don’t like thrillers or horror. But I guess I’ll have to check these out to see why there was world-wide interest and to see why Sally Gritten, Managing Director of HarperCollins U.K. says:
“We always hope that the next big thing will come across our desks. Many wonderful manuscripts are submitted, but too often they are just not universal enough. Then one comes along that is so fresh, so funny, and so magical that you just know this is it. For me, SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT is that book.”
I must admit, I love that title.
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