My three-book deal with Boyd’s Mill was announced this week! (Finally!!) From Publisher’s Weekly:
Rebecca Davis at Boyds Mills has acquired three historical middle-grade novels from Memento Nora author Angie Smibert. The first, Ghosts of Ordinary Objects, is about 12-year-old Bone, who has inherited her family’s Gift that allows her to see the stories in objects around her—a Gift that she believes killed her mother. The next two novels will continue Bone’s story. Publication is set for spring 2018; Susan Hawk at Upstart Crow Literary brokered the deal while at the Bent Agency, for world English rights.
Actually, I’ve been sitting on this news for nearly a year! The first book of the series is set to come out March 20th of next year, and I’m currently writing away on book 2.
Sidenote: even though the announcement says historical, the books are really (IMHO) ‘historical fantasy’ / magical realism. Maybe. Okay, they don’t fit neatly into a category. They’re set in 1942 in a small coal mining community in SW Virginia–with a bit of paranormal / magical realism mixed with Appalachian folklore. 😉
My thanks to Susan and Rebecca for believing in Bone!
