TAIWANESE DEAL WITH SUN COLOR FOR THE RIVER BANK BY KIJ JOHNSON
Sun Color have acquired Taiwanese rights in The River Bank by Kij Johnson.
The deal was done by Gray Tan of the Grayhawk Agency on behalf of the John Jarrold Literary Agency.
The River Bank is a comic adult sequel to The Wind in the Willows, which assumes that two female Animals come to live on the same river bank as Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger: a lady novelist, Beryl (who is a Mole), and her companion, the Rabbit. This of course disrupts the status quo, and the story ends up being a mix of high comedy and lyrical nature-pieces, very much in the late-Edwardian manner.
The author’s shorter fiction has won three Nebulas, three World Fantasy Awards, and a Hugo. She also writes for tabletop roleplaying games. Her short stories and collections have been reprinted many times all over Europe and Asia. Her World Fantasy Award-winning novella The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe in 2016 was a successful reinvention of Lovecraft – and The River Bank is a satirical engagement with gender (and class). It is definitely not a children’s book!