Filmmaker Chris Columbus & Author Ned Vizzini Team-up to Pen YA Trilogy
October 30, 2012
Movie director Chris Columbus has teamed up with young-adult author Ned Vizzini to pen a YA novel trilogy. HarperCollins' Balzer + Bray imprint will release the first book, House of Secrets, on April 23rd 2013. In an interview with Shelf Life, Vizzini talked about the project and working with the filmmaker.
"House of Secrets is about the three kids in the Walker family — Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor — who have to find a new home after their father loses his job under mysterious circumstances. They move into a beautiful old place in San Francisco that used to be owned by an extremely creepy writer named Denver Kristoff. (Think H.P. Lovecraft mixed with Robert E. Howard.) Shortly after they move in, they realize that one of their neighbors has sinister plans for them. But before they know what’s happening, they are banished into the world of Kristoff’s books — and they have to find their way home through pirates, sharks, and all manner of fantastical adventures."