Publishing Deals - Shepherd, Brown

A couple of new YA publishing deals in yesterday's Lunch Weekly:

Megan Shepherd's debut THE MADMAN'S DAUGHTER, a gothic thriller trilogy pitched as loosely inspired by H.G. Wells' classic THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, in which Dr. Moreau's 16-year-old daughter travels to her estranged father's island and finds murder, madness, and a love triangle with an enigmatic castaway and her father's handsome young assistant, to Balzer & Bray, in a three-book deal, for publication in Winter 2013, by Adams Literary.

Hate List and Bitter End author Jennifer Brown's THOUSAND WORDS, about a teen girl who learns just how powerful one photo can be when she finds herself at the center of a public sexting scandal, to Little, Brown, for publication in Spring 2013.