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Wendy Xu sells rights to two Graphic Novels , the center - degree Yarrow and the Burning Mountain , for 2027 and the YA A Ghost Is a Wish for 2028
Wendy Xuhas sold North American rights to two new vivid novels . The first is the halfway - level bookYarrow and the Burning Mountain , due out in 2027 . It is about a young hob who , to protect her fashion of life , and takes on her evil alienated cousin who is attempting to mass produce her village ’s special clayware . The second , a YA pictorial novel , A spook Is a Wish , will be published in 2028 and features a teen who sees the ghost of a classmate ’s baby and starts to advert out with an pestiferous son and his spook - hound admirer to escape life with her operate female parent .
Alexandra Cooperat Quill Tree Books has acquire North American rights to bothYarrow and the Burning Mountain , andA ghostwriter Is a Wish . Wendy Xu ’s agent , Linda Camacho , at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency , negotiate the deal .
Wendy Xuis a bestselling , laurels - nominate Brooklyn - based illustrator and comics artist . She is the Jehovah of Infinity Particle from HarperCollins / Quilltree in 2023 , Tidesong from HarperCollins / Quilltree in 2021 and Colorado - creator of Mooncajes , a Hugo constitute unseasoned grownup illusion lifelike novel print in 2019 from Oni Press . Her workplace has been featured in various places on the internet including Catapult , Barnes & Noble Sci - fi / Fantasy , and Tor.com . For such an accomplished graphic novelist and comics creator , Wendy Xu has revealed that she did n’t take a peck of comics growing up , but did look on a lot of Zanzibar copal , and adoredKiki ’s Delivery Service , and identify with Kiki ’s bratty and imperfect nature .
Quill Tree Books is an impression of HarperCollins Children ’s book that plunge in crepuscle 2020 , with picture books byMichael ChabonandNeil Gaiman , a pictorial novel byJerry Craft , a halfway - class novel bySaadia Faruqi , and YA novel byZ Brewer , Jessie Ann Foley , Anica Mrose Rissi , Neal Shusterman , and Nina Varela . Since then , they also signed upKathleen Gros’AnneandCarousel Summergraphic novel . HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the world ’s with child publication company and is one of the Big Five English - language publication companies , alongside Penguin Random House , Simon & Schuster , Hachette , and Macmillan . The fellowship is headquartered in New York City and is a subordinate of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing firm name : Harper & Row , an American publication company evolve in 1987 — whose own name was the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers ( founded in 1817 ) and Row , Peterson & Company — together with UK publication troupe William Collins , boy ( founded in 1819 ) , acquired in 1989 .
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