NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Bestselling author V.E. Schwab has a 7-figure book deal.
Tor Books, a Macmillan imprint, announced Wednesday that it has agreed to terms on a $2 million contract for a new work from the science fiction/fantasy novelist. 鈥淏ury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil鈥� is scheduled for June 2025. Schwab's novel will span from 16th century Santo Domingo to 21st century Boston as it tracks the entangled stories of three women whose bodies are 鈥減lanted in the same soil.鈥�
Schwab, 36, is known for such series as 鈥淪hades of Magic鈥� and 鈥淐assidy Blake" and for her million-selling novel, 鈥淭he Invisible Life of Addie LaRue,鈥� about a French woman blessed with immortality and cursed with being forgotten by all who meet her.
In a statement released Wednesday, Schwab noted that she had written about supervillains, devils and 鈥渕agic across multiple worlds鈥� and thanked Tor, her longtime publisher, for supporting her. She called her new book 鈥渕y bones, blood, my heart.鈥�
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This story corrects that the deal is for one book, not two.
The Associated Press
