I got confirmation of this through a nice surprise in the mail a while ago: a copy of Penguin's fall catalog. The paperback version of The Morgue and Me is being published by Speak, a Penguin imprint started in 2002 that has put out a ridiculous number of classic books -- The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin (which is sitting high on my to-be-read list right now), Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider books, and Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers to name a few.
Paging through the catalog, I spotted a couple of other fall Speak titles that look pretty great:
Hold Still, by Nina La Cour: You can consider me biased on this one, since although I've never met Nina, we share the same literary agent and blog together at the Crowe's Nest. But the people who give out the William Morris Award aren't biased, and they singled out Hold Still as one of the best YA debut books of 2009. Anyway, here's the catalog copy:
"In the wake of her best friend Ingrid's suicide, Caitlin is left alone, struggling to find hope and answers. When she finds the journal Ingrid left behind for her, she begins a journey of understanding and broadening her horizons that leads her to new friendships and first love. Nina LaCour brings the changing seasons of Caitlin's first year without Ingrid to life with emotion, honesty, and captivating writing."
Trance, by Linda Gerber: All I really know about this book is that people were grabbing for advance copies like mad when I stopped by the Penguin booth at this summer's ALA. And the premise has me intrigued:
"Ashlyn Greenfield has always known when bad things are going to happen. Each time that familiar tingling at the back of her neck begins, she knows what's to come--a trance. She's pulled in, blindsided, an unwilling witness to a horrible upcoming event. But she's never been able to stop it--not even when the vision was of her mother's fatal car accident. When soulful Jake enters Ashlyn's life, she begins having trances about another car accident. And as her trances escalate, one thing becomes clear: it's up to her to save Jake from near-certain death."
Hold Still and Trance come out in October, so there's plenty of time to read them before you rush out for The Morgue and Me in November.
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