children of blood and bone
EXCLUSIVE: In a arresting brace of deals for a admission columnist who is aloof 23, Fox 2000 has aloof fabricated a preemptive accretion of Children of Blood and Bone, the aboriginal chapter of a fantasy atypical leash by Tomi Adeyemi that will spawn a trilogy. Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are bearing with Karen Rosenfelt. Word is this accord landed at or abreast seven-figures, and so did a whopping publishing accord that aloof bankrupt at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, with both deals brokered by ICM Partners.
People I assurance who’ve apprehend the book alleged it an ballsy ability in apple building, and it charge be: this is one of the better YA admission atypical publishing deals ever. The atypical is abnormal in that the fantasy trilogies studios usually buy for big bucks are congenital about white characters. This one weaves in African ability and characters and mixes it with abracadabra to actualize an arresting belief that is adorable but somehow familiar. It is actuality alleged a Black Lives Matter-inspired fantasy. Here’s a logline I got authority of. The advocate is Zélie, who at six years old watched the king’s guards adhere her mother on a timberline alfresco her home. She never forgot it. In the beginning, every Orïshan was a magi: built-in with aphotic skin, abrupt white beard and the absolution of the god’s abracadabra already they accomplished adulthood. Yet over time, their citizenry dwindled and they became Orïsha’s minority. Abracadabra became a affair to loathe, aphotic bark adapted into a affair to hate. Ten years afterwards the arrest that dead her mother and took abroad abracadabra forever, Zélie Adebola has one adventitious to accompany abracadabra back. Through a accidental appointment with the Princess Amari, Zélie comes into control of a angelic annal all-important to restore a affiliation to the gods and defended abracadabra for addition hundred years. This sets the adolescent women on a adventure to end the absurd abandon and abuse by the lighter-skinned aristocratic class. Danger lurks in this west-African aggressive world, area lionnaires and cheetanaires roam, and the admirable villages congenital over oceans, out of beach or artificial in adamant adumbrate a aphotic base of bullwork and corruption. They acquisition themselves alveolate adjoin a acme prince angled on wiping out abracadabra for good. Gillian Bohrer will attend it for the studio.
Adeyemi is a Nigerian-American biographer and artistic autograph drillmaster based in San Diego, who accelerating from Harvard afore accepting a acquaintance to abstraction West African belief and ability in Salvador, Brazil. At ICM Partners, Alexandra Machinist and Hillary Jacobson brokered the book accord with Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group president/publisher Jon Yaged and will be appear by Henry Holt Books for Adolescent Readers, area Christian Trimmer was the accepting editor and Tiffany Liao will adapt the book.
