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Penguin UK has bought the rights to Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story by David Levithan, based on Tiny Cooper, a character from YA novel Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Penguin).
Levithan co-wrote Will Grayson, Will Grayson with John Green, author of smash hit The Fault in our Stars (also Penguin). The new novel is written as if it is the full script of the musical Tiny was working on in the original book. It tells the life story of Tiny, Will Grayson's larger-than-life friend, from his birth and childhood to his quest for true love and his infamous parade of ex-boyfriends.
Ben Horslen, editorial director of fiction at Penguin UK, bought the UK and Commonwealth rights from Penguin Young Readers Group in the US.
He said: “As President of the London Chapter of the Tiny Cooper International Appreciation Society, I would just like to say how stupendously excited I am to be publishing Hold Me Closer in the UK. David's legions of British fans are going to go wild for this funny, warm and life-affirming story and we can'twait to bring it to them next year.”
The world rights were bought by Julie Strauss-Gabel, vice president and publisher of Dutton Children’s, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, from Bill Clegg of William Morris Endeavor.
The book will be published simultaneously in the UK, US and Australia and New Zealand (by Text Publishing) in March 2015 to mark the fifth anniversary of the publication of Will Grayson, Will Grayson.