Publishing Deal - Anne Cassidy

Being a crime fiction fan, I'm very excited about this announcement in today's BookTrade:

Bloomsbury Children's Books has acquired The Murder Notebooks, a series of crime thrillers by Anne Cassidy, renowned teen novelist and author of the award-winning Looking for JJ. The deal .. is a joint acquisition by Bloomsbury UK and Bloomsbury USA for world English language rights. With publication throughout 2011 and 2012, it will be backed up by a strong marketing and publicity campaign.

[Bloomsbury] says 'Murder Notebooks is an incredibly stylish series of crime thriller novels that promises to have every reader compulsively turning the pages as quickly as they can read them! We are thrilled and very proud to welcome the renowned Anne Cassidy to the Bloomsbury YA list.'