The Gotham Group Acquires Rights To YA Novels ‘Their Vicious Games’ & ‘That Night in the Library’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Gotham Group has secured the motion picture and television rights to two YA novels. Their Vicious Games, a YA novel from debut author Joelle Wellington, focuses on a teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance.
She enters an elite competition only to discover the stakes aren’t just high, they’re deadly. The novel publishes July 25 from Simon & Schuster.
Quressa Robinson of Folio Literary Management, while at Nelson Literary Agency, sold North American rights at auction in a major six-figure deal.
That Night in the Library, from author Eva Jurczyk, centers around seven students who sneak into the basement of a rare books library on the eve of graduation to carry out a ritual borrowed from the ancient Greeks that will free them from fear.
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