{"id":77764,"date":"2025-09-21T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/77764\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:55:09","slug":"hachette-acquires-carmodys-dystopian-romantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/77764\/","title":{"rendered":"Hachette acquires Carmody\u2019s dystopian romantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tMonday, 22 September 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hachette Australia has acquired The Shadows that Listen, a debut dystopian romantasy by Louisa Carmody, in a brokered between head of fiction Rebecca Saunders and C&amp;W Agency, after a world all languages exclusive pre-empt to the UK\u2019s Little, Brown Book Group and Little, Brown in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The Shadows that Listen follows human warrior Amara whose boyfriend goes missing. She reluctantly accepts archangel Nathaniel\u2019s help to find him.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Sydney and now based in Melbourne, Carmody first wrote The Shadows that Listen at 19 years old and rewrote it at 26 years old before self-publishing it.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u2018It is an honour to have the opportunity to bring The Shadows that Listen to readers with such dedicated and accomplished publishers.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Saunders said, \u2018This dazzling romantasy blends dystopian, urban and paranormal fantasy in an action-packed, enemies-to-lovers, sexy angels adventure. Louisa has already built a remarkable readership, and we are excited to build on that with a coordinated global campaign alongside our colleagues in the UK and US.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Shadows that Listen is slated for publication in eBook format in September 2025, with the print and audiobook formats to follow in August 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=local-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local\u00a0news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=rights-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rights\u00a0and\u00a0acquisitions<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 22 September 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Hachette Australia has acquired The Shadows that Listen, a debut dystopian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[10852,1128,36766,36769,36763,1879,359,36768,30619,18,117,19,17,36765,5790,36767,36764],"class_list":{"0":"post-77764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-author-interviews","11":"tag-book-awards","12":"tag-book-news","13":"tag-book-reviews","14":"tag-books","15":"tag-bookseller-jobs","16":"tag-ebooks","17":"tag-eire","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-library-news","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-publishing-jobs","24":"tag-publishing-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}