Agent John Jarrold reports that Stephen Hunt sold US rights to two novels to Tor Books. The deal was handled by Tara Hiatt (Head of International Rights at HarperCollins UK) and Claire Eddy at Tor, "for a good five-figure sum in US dollars."
The deal covers The Rise of the Iron Moon and Secrets of the Fire Sea, the third and fourth novels (of six) by Hunt, which follow The Court of the Air and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves.
As we said in this article, The Rise of the Iron Moon features "the invasion of the Kingdom by an enemy that everyone at first mistakes for a particularly successful horde of polar barbarians… the Army of Shadows. To their ever-lasting regret, the peace-loving Jackelian people soon find that their terrible foe is far more dangerous, cunning, and ancient than a mere nomad incursion. To defeat them, the Kingdom and their steammen allies must look beyond their borders and make common cause with the wicked republic of the Commonshare, but even the armies of all three nations combined might not be enough to defeat this new evil." This third volume features the return of Molly, Oliver, Commodore Black, and the steamman scientist Coppertracks.
Hunt said of the books "This is the third of six adventure books set in my Jackelian world, and like the previous two, it's a stand-alone novel with a self-contained plot, albeit with some very familiar faces making their return. It was incredibly great fun to write, and it answers some of the questions and mysteries that many fans of the first two works have been writing to me about."
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