First Up
New Signing BRYONY PEARCE
We are delighted to bring you the news today that we have signed a
truly wonderful talent in the form of Bryony Pearce. Her novel The
Weight of Souls is due from Strange Chemistry in Autumn 2013, and the
deal was made between me and Juliet Mushens of PFD.
ABOUT BRYONY PEARCE
Bryony Pearce completed an English Literature degree at Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge in 1998 and afterwards worked in the research
industry. After a while she moved to a village at the edge of the Peak
District and went freelance so she could devote more time to writing.
Her first book, the award winning Angel's Fury, was published by Egmont
in 2011. She is now a full time mother to two children, writes as much
as possible and enjoys doing school visits and events when she can fit
them in. Her agent is Juliet Mushens at PFD. For more information on
Bryony, please visit her website www.bryonypearce.co.uk and @BryonyPearce
ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF SOULS
16 year old Taylor Oh is cursed: if she is touched by the ghost of a
murder victim then they pass a mark beneath her skin. She has three
weeks to find their murderer and pass the mark to them - letting justice
take place and sending them into the Darkness. And if she doesn't make
it in time? The Darkness will come for her... She spends her life trying
to avoid ghosts, make it through school where she's bullied by popular
Justin and his cronies, keep her one remaining friend, and persuade her
father that this is real and that she's not going crazy.
And then Justin is murdered and everything gets a whole lot worse.
Justin doesn't know who killed him, so there's no obvious person for
Taylor to go after. The clues she has lead her to the V Club, a vicious
secret society at her school where no one is allowed to leave... And
where Justin was dared to do the stunt which led to his death. Can she
find out who was responsible for his murder before the Darkness comes
for her? Can she put aside her hatred for her former bully to truly help
him? And what happens if she starts to fall for him?
Second Up
Cover Reveal THE HOLDERS By JULIANNA SCOTT
17-year-old Becca has spent her whole life protecting her brother –
from their father leaving and from the people who say the voices in his
head are unnatural. When two strangers appear with apparent answers to
Ryland’s “problem” and details about a school in Ireland where Ryland
will not only fit in, but prosper, Becca is up in arms..
She reluctantly agrees to join Ryland on his journey and what they
find at St. Brigid’s is a world beyond their imagination. Little by
little they piece together information about their family’s heritage and
the legend of the Holder race that decrees Ryland is the one they’ve
been waiting for—but they are all, especially Becca, in for a surprise
that will change what they thought they knew about themselves and their
kind.
