Danielle Binks, via Jacinta di Mase Management, has sold ANZ and UK rights for her next two novels to publisher Kate Stevens at Hachette Australia.
The first of these will be the upper-Middle Grade stand-alone novel Six Summers of Tash and Leopold, to be published in September 2023. A gently suspenseful story with a big heart, that sees an unlikely friendship form between two twelve-year-old neighbours as they try to solve two mysteries in their suburb.
The second novel’s plot will be kept under-wraps, but is slated for 2024-release. This deal cements Danielle’s ongoing relationship with Hachette Australia who also published her best-selling MG novel, The Year the Maps Changed, and her YA novel, The Monster of Her Age in 2021 – winner of the Young Adult category in the Indie Book Awards 2022.
Hachette publisher Kate Stevens says; ‘Six Summers of Tash and Leopold is for fans of Danielle’s bestselling The Year the Maps Changed, but it’s also for anyone who enjoys a big, hopeful, coming-of-age middle-grade book, that features complicated families and life-changing summers. It’ll have you by the heartstrings. I’m so impatient to get it into readers’ hands; I feel like it’s exactly what everyone needs right now.’
Danielle's The Year the Maps Changed will debut in North America with the HarperCollins imprint Quill Tree Books in October 2022 in a deal negotiated by Annabel Barker. Polish translation rights have been sold to publisher Widnokrag, via Kamila Kanafa at Macadamia Literary Agency.
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