Sure, most of the big literary and commercial guns fired up their latest projects for Fall 2006, but Frank McCourt wasn’t one of them. Instead, agent Molly Friedrich has just sold his latest offering to longtime publisher Scribner for Fall ’07.
ANGELA AND THE BABY JESUS, as Publishers Marketplace reports, is “based on a story from his mother’s childhood about “the baby Jesus on the altar” of a local church.” The special tie-in? There will be both an adult and children’s edition of the book. Oh yes, it’s going to go very well with caramel no-whip skim macchiatos around the holiday season next year…