The Bookseller – Rights – Jo Fletcher Books swoops for poet Williams’ eco-fable The Night time Discipline 

Jo Fletcher Books has acquired poet, educator and environmentalist Donna Glee Williams’ “highly effective, magical eco-fable” The Night time Discipline. 

Writer Jo Fletcher acquired world rights from Richard Curtis, of Richard Curtis Associates, for publication concurrently within the UK and North America by Jo Fletcher Books and Mobius in July 2024.

In The Night time Discipline, Pyn-Poi, a tree-whisperer, should dare the treacherous climb to the land above the Wall, the place the Ancestors dwell, to cease the stinking blight that’s poisoning her folks, their crops and their bushes, the writer’s synopsis reads.

Pyn-Poi expects to discover a entire new world up there, however the actuality is stranger and extra harmful than she might ever have imagined. 

Williams, a Pushcart Prize nominee and Fulbright Fellow, stated: “For me, being acquired into the Jo Fletcher Books household is like coming residence: sharing a imaginative and prescient of world therapeutic via story and positioning The Night time Discipline to have a powerful voice within the international dialog about cultural and environmental degradation. 

“And attending to work with Jo Fletcher, who for 17 years edited Ursula Ok Le Guin, my hero since school days and the creator to whom my writing is most frequently in contrast – what else might an creator ask for?”

Fletcher stated: “Simply begin studying this scrumptious, devastating literary eco-fantasy novel and you may be drawn into probably the most astonishing world, and into an thrilling, heartbreaking, desperately actual journey that runs via pleasure and despair to, finally, hope (though by no means the place we thought it will be).

“It’s well timed, and gripping, and particular, and everybody at JFB and Quercus is so excited to have the ability to welcome Donna Glee to the fold.”