Publishing Deal - Nick Lake

From today's Book Trade:

Bloomsbury Publishing is delighted to announce the acquisition of World English rights for two young adult novels by Nick Lake, author of In Darkness, winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

The as-yet-untitled first book, a literary thriller, will publish in the US, UK, and Australia in 2014. It follows Shelby Jane Cooper, whose life is turned upside-down when she is hit by a car and discovers everything she knows about herself and her family might possibly be a complete and utter lie. As she is drawn into an increasingly complicated, foreign reality, she must grapple with tough questions about the past, the future, and ultimately who she can trust. Lake's emotionally charged story also challenges the reader to decide between fact and fiction in Shelby's world as it twists and turns throughout the narrative to its shocking conclusion.

The novel will be supported by a major global marketing plan, including an international author tour. Lake's second novel in the new deal will publish globally in 2015.

Read the rest of the article here.

Blood Ninja - coming soon

Back in August, I blogged about the publishing deal for Blood Ninja by Nick Lake. Browsing through the newly arrived Corvus catalogue for new crime titles I came across it - scheduled for next April (in the UK):

Taro is a boy from a coastal village in rural Japan, fated to become a fisherman like his father. But in just one night, Taro’s world is turned upside down – and his destiny is changed forever.

Skilled in the art of silent and deadly combat, ninjas are the agents of powerful nobles who rule Japan. So why did a group of these highly trained assassins creep into a peasant’s hut and kill Taro’s father? And why did one ninja rescue Taro from their clutches, saving his life at enormous cost?

Now on the run with this mysterious saviour and his best friend Hiro, Taro is determined to learn the way of the ninja to avenge his father’s death. But if they are to complete their perilous journey, Taro must first evade the wrath of the warring Lords, decipher an ancient curse, resist forbidden love…and come to terms with the blood-soaked secrets of a life lived in moonlight.

The sequel is scheduled for April 2011.

Nick Lake - Publishing Deal

From Book2Book:

Atlantic Books, has acquired BLOOD NINJA by Nick Lake. First of a two-book deal for UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada, the young adult novel set in sixteenth-century Japan will be published in April 2010.

'BLOOD NINJA has it all: assassins, samurai, ancient curses, scheming warlords, a feisty princess, volcanic lairs, forbidden love and, most importantly, vampires'.