Publishing Deal - Tara Hudson

From today's Bookseller:

HarperCollins has bought UK and Commonwealth rights to a young adult ghost romance novel.

It is scheduled for a July 2011 publication in paperback. The publisher said the novel features a ghost, Amelia, who drifts through the world without any memories of her former life.

Her lonely existence is suddenly changed when she tries to save a young boy, Joshua, from drowning in a river ­ their vivid connection marks the beginning of a paranormal romance that is threatened by strange outside forces.

Read the whole article here.

Deatails of the US deal are here.

Publishing Deals - Hudson, Doctorow, Despain

From the most recent Publishers Lunch Weekly email:

Tara Hudson's HEREAFTER trilogy, about an eighteen-year-old whose afterlife is forever altered the night she saves a boy from drowning and suddenly finds herself haunting the all-too-willing boy, who not only sees her but is determined to reintroduce her to the world of the living, to Harper Children's, in a pre-empt, for publication in Summer 2011.

NYT bestselling YA author of LITTLE BROTHER and FOR THE WIN Cory Doctorow's PIRATE CINEMA, a story of teens on the raw cutting edge of the Internet, pirates who set out to save the world from Hollywood and Hollywood from itself, to Tor Children's, for publication in 2011.

Bree Despain's final entry in THE DARK DIVINE trilogy, plus another untitled novel, to Egmont.