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Company Pictures Options TV Rights To The Three
Published December 2, 2013 | 
According to Broadcast, Company Pictures has optioned TV rights to Sarah Lotz’s novel The Three, with the intention of turning the novel and its sequel into an international mini-series.
Kate Sinclair – former UK Film Council and Film 4 book scout discovered the books for Company and will executive produce the series, with Lotz acting as a consultant.
Underground – Pan Macmillan Secures New SL Grey Novel
Published October 3, 2013 | Pan Macmillan is thrilled to announce the acquisition of two S. L. Grey novels by Julie Crisp, Editorial Director, in a six-figure deal with agent Oli Munson, of AM Heath, after a hard-fought pre-Frankfurt auction. Rights have already been sold in Germany, France and Holland.
A high concept thriller with overtones of Stephen King, Underground takes place in The Sanctum, a luxurious, self-sustaining survival condominium situated fifty feet underground in a remote location in rural Maine. It’s a plush bolt-hole for the rich and paranoid – a place where they can wait out the apocalypse in style.
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Home Affairs
Published December 1, 2012 | 
‘Home Affairs’ featured in AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, edited by Ivor Hartmann and published 2012 by StoryTime.
AfroSF is the first ever anthology of Science Fiction by African writers only that was open to submissions from across Africa and abroad. It is comprised of original (previously unpublished) works only, from stellar established and upcoming African writers: Nnedi Okorafor, Sarah Lotz, Tendai Huchu, Cristy Zinn, Ashley Jacobs, Nick Wood, Tade Thompson, S.A. Partridge, Chinelo Onwualu, Uko Bendi Udo, Dave de Burgh, Biram Mboob, Sally-Ann Murray, Mandisi Nkomo, Liam Kruger, Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu, Joan De La Haye, Mia Arderne, Rafeeat Aliyu, Martin Stokes, Clifton Gachagua, and Efe Okogu.
If I Die, Kill my Cat
Published November 6, 2012 | ‘If I Die, Kill my Cat’ featured in Magic, edited by Jonathon Oliver, published
by Solaris, 2012
They gather in darkness, sharing ancient and arcane knowledge as they manipulate the very matter of reality itself. Spells and conjuration; legerdemain and prestidigitation – these are the mistresses and masters of the esoteric arts.
This amazing collection of new fiction has an extraordinary list of contributors, featuring an original short story from the international No. 1 bestseller Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveller’s Wife; alongside NYT bestseller Dan Abnett and more modern masters of the art: Christopher Fowler, Gemma Files, Alison Littlewood, Thana Niveau, Robert Shearman, Paul Meloy, Will Hill, Sarah Lotz, Storm Constantine, Lou Morgan, Sophia McDougall, Liz Williams, Gail Z. Martin and Steve Rasnic Tem.
Sarah Lotz Signs Deal With Hodder & Stoughton
Published October 4, 2012 | Sarah Lotz has accepted a pre-emptive six-figure offer from UK publishers Hodder and Stoughton for her novel The Three, as well as another book.
Lotz’s agent, Oliver Munson, submitted a partial manuscript to a group of editors ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair and the deal was snapped up by Hodder and Stoughton less than a day later.
Charlotte
Published July 15, 2012 | 
‘Charlotte’ is featured in Solaris Rising 1.5, edited by Ian Whates, published 2012 by Solaris’.
An elderly female farmer in South Africa feels vulnerable when her guard dog is poisoned. Fortunately her daughter has a replacement, albeit not a canine one…
Inspector Bucket Investigates
Published April 4, 2012 | 
‘Inspector Bucket Investigates’ is featured in Stories of the Smoke, edited by Anne Perry, Jared Shurin, Jurassic London, 2012
Charles Dickens lived and breathed London in a way few authors ever have, before or since. In his fiction, his non-fiction, and even his own life, Dickens cast an extraordinary shadow over the city he so loved – so much so, indeed, that his name has become synonymous with a certain image of London. A London of terrible social inequality and matchless belief in the human potential; a London filled with the comic and the repulsive, the industrious and the feckless, the faithful and the faithless, the selfish and the selfless.
Something Wicked Interview with SL Grey
Published July 14, 2011 | 
Over the last decade South African genre fiction has been slowly making its presence known, but nothing could have prepared us for the impact that District 9 would have, both on how our product is viewed internationally, and more importantly how it is viewed here at home.
Add to that Lauren Beukes winning the Arthur C Clarke Award earlier this year for her second novel Zoo City and suddenly our genre stories are beginning to find audiences both at home and abroad..
Which brings me to SL Grey.
SL Grey’s debut novel, The Mall, has literally exploded onto the market, with critics all over the world almost unanimously praising it. Words commonly associated with The Mall tend towards “weird” “surreal” and “terrifying”, all of them fitting.
Pigeon Fancier
Published June 1, 2011 | 
‘Pigeon Fancier’ is featured in African Pens 2011, winning stories selected by J M Coetzee, published by Jacana Media, 2011
SAPEN brings you a brand new anthology of writings from Africa, a collection that will give the reader insight into what African writers are experiencing and writing about in the new decade.
Heaven or Something Like It
Published May 1, 2010 | 
‘Heaven or Something Like It’ is featured in The Bed Book of Short Stories, edited by Joanne Hichens, published by Modjaji Books, 2010
“This collection is unique and makes for compelling bedside reading.” – Sharon Sorour-Morris, The Cape Times
“The Bed Book of Short Stories – some quirky and tender, others traumatic or macabre – is the perfect companion to take to bed with you, to keep you reading long into the night.” – African Books Collective
“A Quality Street box of stories: each entirely different from the one before and each completely delicious in its own right.” – Janet van Eeden, Litnet