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Ballantine books, a division of Random House Publishing Group, has recently signed a $3.75 million dollar deal for the North American rights to a post apocalyptic vampire trilogy. Writing as Jordan Ainsley, Justin Cronin is the author of The Summer Guest and Mary and O'Neil, which won the Pen/Hemingway Award in 2001. The deal was made based on a 400 page manuscript. CAA is representing the book and hoping for a film option.
The trilogy will be set in 2016 when a government experiment goes terribly wrong, turning death row prison inmates into infectious vampires. Meanwhile, a young girl begins to discover she has powers beyond the norm that may be related to the crisis.
While deals for vampire books are probably a dime a dozen, this one proves significant in just how much it sold for based on only a partial manuscript. Pfft, and people tried to tell me vampires were out & zombies were in. To them I say, bite me!
(copy from vampress.net)
The trilogy will be set in 2016 when a government experiment goes terribly wrong, turning death row prison inmates into infectious vampires. Meanwhile, a young girl begins to discover she has powers beyond the norm that may be related to the crisis.
While deals for vampire books are probably a dime a dozen, this one proves significant in just how much it sold for based on only a partial manuscript. Pfft, and people tried to tell me vampires were out & zombies were in. To them I say, bite me!
(copy from vampress.net)