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Walden partners with HC

Walden Media in the US, a film production company that specialises in bring books to the screen, is becoming a publisher, partnering with HarperCollins Children's Books to launch Walden Pond Press, reports Variety magazine.

The new imprint will acquire and publish books for young readers, and plans to turn several books into film adaptations or pair up properties with other filmmakers. It will be led by Brenda Bowen, vice president and publisher of the Bowen Press at HarperCollins, and Deborah Kovacs, senior vice president of publishing at Walden Media.

The new entity will have offices at HarperCollins' headquarters in New York and Walden Media in Boston, and will be staffed with its own editorial and marketing team, and the first published title will be The Will of Will Wolfkin, by screenwriter Steven Knight, who is also scripting the third instalment of the "Narnia" films.

Variety

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