I was lured to headline this “No new Amelia Rules! books for two more Years”, however that’s since I’m selfish. Congratulations to Jimmy Gownley in getting chosen up as well as republished to a bigger audience! From the press release:
Ginee Seo Books, an imprint of Atheneum/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, today revealed it has obtained the world rights to Jimmy Gownley’s prominent comic as well as graphic book series Amelia Rules! …
Centered around the happenings of ten-year-old spitfire Amelia Louise McBride, the Amelia Rules! series captures the true essence of being an teen woman in America today, as Amelia adjusts to life in “small town America” after her parent’s divorce as she is required to leave NYC. “Jimmy is a true innovative genius, as well as Amelia Rules! has that unusual combination of mass charm as well as literary compound that every publisher dreams about. We are thrilled for Jimmy to be joining the S&S list, as we work to broaden our listing with a few of the top comic as well as graphic book skill publishing today, as well as we look ahead to making his name as well as his characters understood to even wider audience beyond his already considerable following,” stated Ginee Seo, VP, Editorial director of Ginee Seo Books.
Over the next two years, the four existing collections will be republished. The fifth book, The Tweenage guide to Not Being Unpopular, will be published in both hardcover as well as paperback in autumn 2010. No word on whether there will be continue to be comic problems in the meantime — I hope so!
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