EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Nigerian-American author Tomi Champion-Adeyemi, who wrote the New York Times bestselling novel, Children of Blood and Bone, which was released in 2018 via Henry Holt Books.At just 23-years-old, Adeyemi landed a high figure publishing deal for her debut novel, which stayed at No.
1 on the NYT bestseller list for 25 consecutive weeks. Children of Blood and Bone, the first in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, picked up the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and the Hugo Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book.The story takes place in the fictional land of Orïsha and follows Zélie Adebola, a young girl who remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic.
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