The Diviners on the Big Screen?

According to Deadline Libba Bray's The Diviners, published in the UK and the US on 18 September (my birthday!) has been snapped up by Paramount.

The Diviners is the first in a four-part series.

Synopsis:
It's 1920s New York City. It's flappers and Follies, jazz and gin. It's after the war but before the depression. And for certain group of bright young things it's the opportunity to party like never before. For Evie O'Neill, it's escape. She's never fit in in small town Ohio and when she causes yet another scandal, she's shipped off to stay with an uncle in the big city. But far from being exile, this is exactly what she's always wanted: the chance to show how thoroughly modern and incredibly daring she can be. But New York City isn't about just jazz babies and follies girls. It has a darker side. Young women are being murdered across the city. And these aren't crimes of passion. They're gruesome. They're planned. They bear a strange resemblance to an obscure group of tarot cards. And the New York City police can't solve them alone. Evie wasn't just escaping the stifling life of Ohio, she was running from the knowledge of what she could do. She has a secret. A mysterious power that could help catch the killer - if he doesn't catch her first.

Publishing Deal - Libba Bray (UK)

I mentioned this new series from Libba Bray a couple of months ago but it's now been announced in The Bookseller that Atom will be publishing it in the UK:

Stephenie Meyer’s imprint Atom has made a major acquisition in a four-book deal for a new super­natural young adult series set in Jazz age New York.

Samantha Smith, editorial director, bought UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to The Diviners by Libba Bray.

The publisher described it as “a wonderfully-drawn tale” with a “fierce yet vulnerable” heroine and a cast of characters with “prophetic abilities” and a “super­natural evil that threatens them all”.

Smith said it would be Atom’s big launch for 2012 with a major print and online marketing campaign ahead of publication in the autumn. The series will be published concurrently by Little, Brown Young Readers in the US.

Bray added “I’ve been dying to write something about 1920s New York City for some time. Fusing it with one of my other great loves, the supernatural, just makes it that much more fun to take on.”

Publishing Deal - Libba Bray

From Publishers Weekly, details of a new YA series by Libba Bray:

Libba Bray, hot off her Printz win for Going Bovine, has landed a major book deal at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers... a new YA series called The Diviners [ ] a planned four-book series, which will bow in hardcover in fall 2012.

In The Diviners, a supernatural fantasy series set in Manhattan during the 1920s, Bray follows a teen heroine she says is reminiscent of two of the era's most famous literary women—Zelda Fitzgerald and Dorothy Parker. Bray, who admitted to having always been fascinated by the Jazz Age, said she's looking forward "to offering readers a wild new ride full of dames and dapper dons, jazz babies and Prohibition-defying parties, conspiracy and prophecy—and all manner of things that go bump in the neon-drenched night.”

Read the whole article, here.