Allain Bray groups with longtime pal and former movie, theater and publishing government Jenny Klion for his or her first literary collaboration, slated to publish in spring 2024.
Emmy-nominated movie and TV producer and Homegrown Photos founder Stephanie Allain Bray is releasing her first ebook.
Candlewick Press president and writer Karen Lotz has acquired the world rights to Allain Bray’s image ebook I’m In Cost. For the ebook, Allain Bray groups with longtime pal and essayist and memoirist Jenny Klion, marking their first literary collaboration.
The image ebook, slated to publish in spring 2024, is described as one which “joyously and energetically fashions for kids how they will take cost of their our bodies, voices and selections.” New York Occasions bestselling creator and illustrator Marissa Valdez will illustrate the image ebook.
The ebook deal for the authors was negotiated by UTA, and Kelly Sonnack at Andrea Brown Literary Company represented the illustrator.
Allain Bray, who made historical past in 2020 when she grew to become the primary Black girl to provide the Academy Awards alongside Lynette Howell Taylor, based the manufacturing firm Homegrown Image in 2003 and has produced titles together with Hustle & Move, One thing New, Peeples, Past The Lights, Expensive White Folks, French Soiled, Burning Sands, Juanita and The Weekend. She can be a board member for American Cinematheque, Producers Guild of America and Forged & Crew.
Information of Allain Bray’s ebook follows the producer just lately increasing her relationship with Warner Media. Final month, Allain Bray renewed her first-look cope with Warner Bros. TV, extending the partnership with HBO. Beneath the multi-year deal, Allain Bray and Homegrown Photos will develop unique scripted programming for the studio, premium cable community and HBO Max.
Klion has beforehand served as a author on CBS’ Energy of 10 recreation present, and has had her writing featured in The New York Every day Information, BREVITY, The Rumpus, amongst others. A former movie, theater and publishing government, Klion has additionally consulted on screenplays and manuscripts for creator Booker T. Mattison and director Deon Taylor.
Allain Bray is repped by UTA, Artists First and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.