Monday, March 12, 2012

BIG NEWS!!!

I had such an amazing weekend with writers and readers at the Tucson Festival of Books, and now I'm so thrilled to be able to start this week off by announcing some BIG NEWS I've been dying to share: My next book, Margot, which re-imagines the life of Anne Frank's sister in post-war America sold to Laura Perciasepe at Riverhead/Penguin!!!!

Check out the details from this morning's Publisher's Weekly:

Laura Perciasepe at Riverhead Books took world English rights to the literary debut from Jillian Cantor, Margot. Jessica Regel at the Jean V. Naggar Agency closed the deal for Cantor, whose first book, the commercial women’s fiction outing Transformation of Things, was published by Avon in November 2010. The new novel reimagines the life of Anne Frank’s sister, Margot, who supposedly kept her own diary and died shortly before Anne, in 1945. Perciasepe, Regel said, writes about Margot coming to America, after the war, as “Anne’s growing status as a cultural icon dramatically upends [her] own new identity, love, and life.”

I am so, so excited about this book, and could not be more thrilled that it will be published by Riverhead!!!!!! (I'm overdoing the exclamation points, I know, but there are not enough exclamation points in the world to show how thrilled I am!!!)



7 comments:

Angelica R. Jackson said...

Always great to hear good news, congratulations!

Jillian Cantor said...

Thank you, Angelica!

Brenda's Arizona said...

Hurrah! Can't wait! Fiction based on fact?

Jillian Cantor said...

Thank you, Brenda! I'll post more details about it soon :)

Unknown said...

Congrats! That's totes exciting!

Melissa Crytzer Fry said...

Oh my gosh, Jillian! You knew this at the festival, but couldn't tell... you must have been BURSTING. I'm so, so happy for you! Would you consider this novel historical fiction in some ways?

slb242 said...

Yay! Sounds like a great book. Any idea how long we have to wait to read it?