Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket
Everyone from GalleyCat to Publisher’s Weekly to the Huffington Post has been blogging about the big news from Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket). Yesterday afternoon, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers announced that Handler has signed a new five-book deal. The Series of Unfortunate Events was previously published with HarperCollins, and Handler moved publishers because his editor, Susan Rich, got a new job at Little, Brown. The last Series of Unfortunate Events book – The End – came out on Friday, October 13, 2006 (it was also the 13th book).
The five-book deal includes four new Lemony Snicket-authored books (the first book is due out in 2012), and a separate YA novel—written by Handler, not Snicket—due out in 2011.
I loved the Series of Unfortunate Events, and I’m curious about what Handler has in store for the new four-part series. Will he continue writing about the Baudelaire orphans, or dream up some new characters to curse? I am really excited about the non-Snicket YA book. Handler’s written a lot of interesting stuff in his career – from a book of short narratives about love (Adverbs) to an essay for the New York Times Magazine about giving away money . . . not to mention his stint as an accordion player for The Magnetic Fields, one of my favorite bands – and it will be interesting to see what he comes up with for this project. No word yet on plot details, but we’ll keep you posted.
Any Snicket fans out there looking forward to the new series?
I am definitely a Series of Unfortunate Events fan (although I have two more books ’til I complete the whole series). However I do not know what to say about four new sequels.
Think about it, the intial series were perfect as they were, 13 books, the penultimate one titled as such (The Penultimate Peril), the last one titled as such (The End) — I don’t know, I very much liked the ideas behind this.
13 + 4 books with The End somewhere in the middle doesn’t sound as good by far
I will probably read them all though, out of curiosity, but what a pity to ruin the initial series
My daughter has the complete series and would love to see something eles!!! I sure will be looking for it, please keep mus informed.