Hot off the Press: RHCB acquires three new novels from YA author Karen Mahoney!

Fabulous news from RHCB today - to all the fans of The Iron Witch, this is something to delight you with I'm sure!

Random House Children’s Books is delighted to announce a three book deal with YA author Karen
Mahoney. Fiction Publisher Annie Eaton and Fiction Editor Jessica Clarke secured a deal for World
English Language rights for two titles in a brand new series called Beautiful Ghosts, on behalf of
Miriam Kriss at Irene Goodman, the first book of which will be published by Random House in 2012.
A separate deal was made with Heather Baror of Baror International for The Stone Demon, the third
and final book in The Iron Witch trilogy which will be published in 2013.

Annie Eaton, Fiction Publisher comments ‘Karen Mahoney is a natural storyteller with a wonderful
imagination. Her debut novel, THE IRON WITCH, was published to rave reviews, and there is an eager
audience out there wanting more!’

Jessica Clarke, Karen Mahoney’s Editor adds ‘Karen is a dream author, with an incredible passion for
YA fiction and a huge online following on both sides of the Atlantic. Her blend of strong female
protagonists and punchy paranormal drama is breathing new life into this genre, and we are very
proud to have her on the RHCB list.’

THE STONE DEMON is the final book of The Iron Witch trilogy, where Donna Underwood must work with the alchemical Order of the Crow in London to create a new Philosopher's Stone. If she fails? A three-way war between the dark elves, demons and alchemists will lead the world into an
unimaginable apocalypse.

BEAUTIFUL GHOSTS - Being a vampire is for life - not just a lifestyle. Reluctant teenage vampire Marie 'Moth' O'Neal infiltrates a group of Otherkin kids in Boston, teenagers who believe they are reincarnated vampires, in order to find out who or what is killing off the troubled teens... and then turning them into something truly undead with a taste for human flesh. All this while trying to stop sexy young hunter Jace Murdoch from shooting anything that doesn't breathe - including her.

Karen Mahoney is the author of The Iron Witch and The Wxtood Queen. She has been published
alongside some of her favourite authors, in anthologies like THE ETERNAL KISS and KISS ME DEADLY.

Karen lives in London though she dreams of one day living in Boston. You can visit her website at www.kazmahoney.com.

Score! :D