Ink Girls

Martha Mihalick at Greenwillow has acquired world English rights to bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp‘s (l.) middle-grade graphic novel Ink Girls, illustrated by Sylvia Bi, in a two-book deal. It’s set in a city-state inspired by Renaissance-era Italy, and tells of a young printer’s apprentice who must find a way to save her master who is arrested for sedition after she printed a newspaper calling out the crimes of the most powerful man in the city. Publication is planned for winter 2023; Suzie Townsend at New Leaf Literary & Media represented the author, and Natascha Morris at Tobias Literary Agency represented the illustrator.