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Independent Wattle Publishing has acquired world print and digital rights in Fandemonium by US author Rick Schindler.
Anastasia Cavouras, publisher, signed the title direct with the author. She said: "We are excited that we have acquired such a unique and humorous work.”
Fandemonium is the story of Ray Sirico, a comic book writer and reinventor of venerable superhero Skylord, whose heyday was in the 1970s and 1980s. Now, in 1993, he is a drunken has-been and his publishers, now owned by a corporate company, want to kill off his character. But Sirico has one last chance to capture the limelight, at the nation's biggest fantasy convention, Fandemonium.
"Deal-making, drug-dealing, lovemaking and truth-telling all collide at the riotous climax of a fateful weekend that leaves no one unchanged," the publisher revealed.
Schindler lives in New York and is a journalist and life-long comics fan. Wattle will publish Fandemonium in May 2013.