(Thanks go to Leah at Chick Lit Reviews for first posting this news!)Gemma Burgess, author of The Dating Detox and recently released novel A Girl Like You, is to write a brand new series for St Martin's Press in NYC. The series is to be called 'Union Street' and, according to Gemma's blog, is about 'a group of women living together in a brownstone in hip, downtown Brooklyn, and trying to figure out love, life, and adulthood.'
Gemma also writes:
I said that I thought of it as a cross between The Babysitters Club, The Group and The Best Of Everything. But, you know, seriously darn funny. It wouldn't be chicklit, and it wouldn't be YA - it'd be something different.
Little did I know that they are interested in exactly this new genre. They've even coined a term for it: New Adult.
So we started talking. I wrote a proposal. Then I wrote characters. And settings. And themes. We talked some more. I wrote plot outlines. We talked again. I wrote more plot outlines. I wrote three chapters. We talked again. Then I rewrote those three chapters. Then I updated the plot outlines.
And then it all came together in a lovely shiny new book series deal.
We can't wait to find out more!
To read more about Gemma Burgess, check out her website.
