Maria Fröhlich Sells Rights To Lyra And The Lighthouse For 6 Figures

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Captain Marvel artist Maria Fröhlich has bought rights to her debut middle-grade graphic novel, Lyra And The Lighthouse, for a six-figure sum.

Captain Marvel, Bitch Planet, and Shadow Show artist Maria Fröhlich has bought the rights to her debut middle-grade graphic novel, Lyra And The Lighthouse, for an undisclosed six-figure sum. Lyra And The Lighthouse follows a lonely thirteen-year-old woman known as Lyra, who strikes to a haunted lighthouse on the coast of Sweden. There, she groups up with its resident ghost to defeat a nefarious captain, making her first actual good friend within the course of.

Maria Fröhlich relies in Stockholm, Sweden, however has been working internationally since 2013. She spoke to Focus On Africa’s Mark Wilberforce about her journey as a comic book artist for BBC Radio.

Rachel Diebel at Feiwel and Friends has acquired world English rights to Lyra And The Lighthouse in a preemptive six-figure provide to be revealed in 2027. Yup, that is the primary time I’ve written 2027 as one in every of these bulletins. Maria Fröhlich ‘s agent Jessica Errera, at Jane Rotrosen Agency, negotiated the deal.

Feiwel and Friends is a subsidiary of Macmillan Press, which states that it’s a writer of progressive youngsters’s fiction and nonfiction literature, together with hardcover, paperback collection, and particular person titles. The imprint states that it’s devoted to “book by book” publishing, bringing the work of distinctive and excellent authors, illustrators, and concepts to {the marketplace}.

The Jane Rotrosen Agency has represented authors of fiction and nonfiction since 1974 with a consumer checklist that features over 1,000 worldwide and home bestsellers in all codecs, from a dog-friendly townhouse in midtown Manhattan.

The enlargement of kids’s graphic novels is fuelling all method of publishers extending into the comics medium. Right now, it looks like an infinite market that’s being tapped into, and creating longstanding comedian guide readers for many years to return. It will not be for nothing that youngsters’ graphic novels in bookstores are being known as the newsstand of the twenty-first century.

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