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Angry Robot has signed a "stunning" series of books which centre around an overworked police department in a city "full of vampires and werewolves".
Publishing director Marc Gascoigne bought world English rights to the series, by Justin Gustainis, for "a good five figure sum" from Miriam Kriss of the Irene Goodman Agency. The contract is for at least three books. The first title, Hard Spell, will be published by Angry Robot in spring 2011,
simultaneously in both the UK and USA.
Gascoigne said: "Justin's series is a genuinely new twist on vampires and werewolves at a time when there are so many feeble Bella & Edward wannabes.
"As well as its gritty setting, amid the weary cops of the Occult Crimes Unit having to police these supernatural freaks, Justin has built a whole alternate history of the USA. The flashback to the McCarthy Witch Trials, with the line "Are you now, or have you ever been, a werewolf, vampire or
member of a coven?" is priceless. If it has any comparisons, it would be with Alan Moore's legendary comicbook series Top Ten. There's nothing in fantasy fiction to touch this."
Gustainis added: "I'm tremendously pleased to be associated with one of the most dynamic publishers in speculative fiction today, and I look forward to selling enough books to put a smile on that robot’s face."