New Deal: CHARLIE JOYCE prequel by David Skuy

We’re thrilled today to share the news that Diane Kerner has acquired a new, 6th book in the Charlie Joyce Game Time Hockey Series from Sam Hiyate of The Rights Factory by author David Skuy.

Author of THE BAND OF MERRY KIDS and RUN David Skuy's untitled prequel to Charlie Joyce Game Time Hockey series, in which an eighth-grader and hockey star makes a move to a new team only to be undermined by the emotional roller-coaster of the tragic death of his father, to Diane Kerner at Scholastic Canada, in an exclusive submission.

New Deal: THE RESURRECTIONISTS by Ho Che Anderson

We’re thrilled today to share the news that John Jennings and Charlotte Greenbaum at Megascope have acquired THE RESURRECTIONISTS from Sam Hiyate of The Rights Factory by author Ho Che Anderson.

Author/Illustrator of KING and GODHEAD, Ho Che Anderson’s new graphic novel, THE RESURRECTIONISTS, about a young woman in NYC circa 1870 who joins a group of grave robbers who sell corpses to medical schools and finds that contact with the dead triggers a latent ability to bring the dead back to life, illustrated by Jeremy Love, to John Jennings and Charlotte Greenbaum at Megascope, a line of books under the Abrams ComicArts imprint, by Sam Hiyate at The Rights Factory representing Anderson (world).

Born in London, England, and raised in the wilds of Scarborough in Toronto, Ho Che Anderson was named after the Vietnamese and Cuban revolutionaries Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. Anderson is the author of numerous graphic novels, including King, a biography of Martin Luther King, and the science-fiction action-adventure, Godhead. After a couple of years as a reporter for the Toronto Star, Anderson studied film production at the Toronto Film School and Sheridan College and went on to be the writer/director/camera operator/editor on more than 40 short films before joining IATSE as a camera assistant in 2014. Anderson is currently in post-production on his first feature film as writer/director, the supernatural heist thriller, Le Corbeau.

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Stacey Kondla Promoted to Agent

We're happy to announce associate agent Stacey Kondla has been promoted to full agent at The Rights Factory. Stacey joined us in 2018 and has already completed a record-breaking number of deals. With nearly 40 clients, Stacey is a powerhouse, currently ranking in the top ten in Children's: Middle Grade Non-Fiction on Publishers Marketplace.

Some of her deal highlights include:

• THE BEEKEEPERS by Dana Church to Scholastic Focus, about the history and interaction of humans and bumblebees;

• UNDER THE RADAR by Judith Clark to Dancing Cat Books, following a boy who wants to become captain of his school's wrestling team and get a boyfriend;

• THE HILL by Ali Bryan to Dottir, a near-future feminist coming-of-age adventure set on a reclaimed garbage dump inhabited solely by girls;

• JEANNE AND THE ARGONAUTS by Danna Staaf to Lerner, a middle grade narrative biography of pioneering 19th-century female scientist, Jeanne Villepreux-Power;

• LISTEN UP! by Stephen Aitken to Orca Books, a children's non-fiction exploring various types of sounds encountered today.

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