Never one to rest on our laurels, we’ve been busy acquiring new authors for our 2014 schedule. You’ve seen the press releases about our exciting antipodean authors Ben Peek and Rjurik Davidson, we now welcome M D Waters to the list. She’s the American author of two fantastic supernatural thrillers – Archetype and Prototype. You can find the details here:

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TOR ACQUIRES UK RIGHTS TO DYSTOPIAN THRILLER BY M D WATERS

Julie Crisp, Editorial Director at Tor UK, has acquired UK and commonwealth rights in two novels by American author M D Waters from Judith Murray at Greene and Heaton. Jennifer Weltz at JVNLA, Inc had an intense auction for the novel in the US, which was won by Denise Roy at Dutton.

The first title is called Archetype and will be published in hardback in January 2014, followed six months after by the sequel Prototype. It’s a dystopian thriller with thought-provoking and chilling echoes of The Handmaid’s Tale and Never Let Me Go with a love story to rival The Time Traveller’s Wife.

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