Amazon Publishing’s Marshall Cavendish to Publish the Blood Guard Trilogy
October 15, 2012
Amazon Publishing’s Marshall Cavendish has signed on an award-winning short story writer who bears the pseudonym Carter Roy. Publisher Margery Cuyler and Associate Publisher Tim Ditlow teamed up to oversee the acquisitions process for this six-figure book deal. They secured U.S. rights to a new middle-grade trilogy called the Blood Guard.
"The series, which also just sold for six figures in the U.K. to Scholastic (in a deal handled by Curtis Brown’s Stephanie Thwaites), is about a 13-year-old-boy who, Stearns said, gets 'swept up in an ancient order of protesters who put their lives on the line to safeguard 36 secret saintly people.' The agents, who called Blood Guard a 'swashbuckling sword-swinging adventure,' compared it to Rick Riordan’s