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Simon & Schuster has acquired the fifth and six books in its “most successful young fiction series of 2011” the Dork Diaries series.
Jane Griffiths, editor at S&S, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in two books authored by Rachel Renee Russell, from Angharad Kowal at Writers House UK.
As yet untitled, the new titles will be published in October 2012 and June 2013 respectively.
A spokesperson for S&S said: “Dork Diaries was S&S UK’s most successful young fiction series in 2011. Sales of the UK editions have reached almost 700k copies, and worldwide sales across the series now stand at nearly 3 million copies.”