Publishing Deals - Gratton, Elston

From yesterday's Publishers Lunch Weekly, details of two new publishing deals:

Tessa Gratton's WEIGHT OF STARS, and two more books in her SONGS OF NEW ASGARD series, an alternate history of a USA founded on the tenets of Norse religions, in which two teens take a road trip to find a missing god and encounter small-town zealots, trickster gods, and sadistic field trolls, as they discover who they are to each other and who they want to be, to Random House, for publication starting in Summer 2013.

Ashley Elston's THE RULES FOR DISAPPEARING, about a girl who, desperate to escape the Witness Protection program and discover what really happened the day that ruined her family's lives, breaks her minders' ultimate rule by falling for a boy and embarking with him on a perilous journey to outwit both cops and criminals, to Disney-Hyperion Children's, in a two-book deal, for publication in Winter 2013.

A triplet of publishing deals

From Publishers Weekly, news of three exciting publishing deals:

Simon & Schuster has acquired hardcover and audio rights to a new series by Kieran Scott, who writes the bestselling Private and Privileged series under the pen name Kate Brian. She's So Dead to Us, the first title in the series, which chronicles "lost fortunes and forbidden love," is due out in May 2010.

Random House Children's Books has acquired two books from debut author Tessa Gratton, at auction. The first, Blood Magic, is about two teens who meet in a cemetery and plunge into a dangerous world of dark magic and first love; publication is scheduled for summer 2011. Gratton is a contributor to the fiction blog The Merry Sisters of Fate.

Bloomsbury has bought the next two books in Carrie Jones's paranormal Need series, which began last year with Need, followed by Captivate, which comes out in January. The next book is due in 2011.