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Hodder Children’s Books has signed a new fiction series from the author of the Stoneheart trilogy, Charlie Fletcher.
The new series of shorter novels will be linked to the Stoneheart books, which has sold internationally to 21 countries, according to the publisher.
Anna McNeil, Hodder Children’s publishing director, acquired world rights in all languages for the new series from Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown.
The original trilogy, Stoneheart, Ironhand and Silvertongue were also published by Hodder Children’s. They are set in London and follow two children who have the ability to enter a parallel world where the city’s statues are alive and potentially dangerous.
The first new title, aimed at readers 9+, will be called The Dragon’s Shield and published in March 2014.
McNeil said: “When I read the opening chapter of Stoneheart in my office on the fifteenth floor a stone’s throw from St Pancras Station in London; I clearly heard the dragon wings beating at my window and saw its sneer.
"Six years later—to re-enter this world of statues and dragons, with a new sequence of shorter novels—is to be once again immersed in the most brilliantly imagined world. I’m delighted to be publishing The Dragon’s Shield and its follow-up novels by Charlie Fletcher.”