PMA PLACES BARBARA CARIDAD FERRER’S WHEN THE STARS GO BLUE WITH TONI PLUMMER OF THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS

Adrienne Rosado, of PMA Literary & Film Management Inc., is proud to announce the sale of North American rights to young adult novel, When the Stars Go Blue by Barbara Caridad Ferrer to Toni Plummer at Thomas Dunne Books.

From RITA award winner Barbara Caridad Ferrer comes a new novel, When the Stars Go Blue, a reinvention of Bizet's Carmen, set in contemporary Miami against the world of competitive drum and bugle corps. Soledad Reyes is our modern day Carmen, a passionate dancer, who is torn between the attentions of her musical prodigy boyfriend and a charming soccer player, who she can’t help but notice.

Barbara Caridad Ferrer is a first generation, bilingual Cuban-American, whose young adult debut, Adiós to My Old Life (MTV Books/2006), won the Romance Writers of America's 2007 RITA® for Best Contemporary Single Title Romance as well as being named to the 2009 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults list, awarded by the ALA. Her second MTV Books novel, It's Not About the Accent was released in 2007 with Publisher's Weekly stating, "…this twisting book amply rewards readers."



I know I don't have to articulate exactly what this means to me. Next to Breathe this has been the project that's meant the most to me, not just because of its content but also because of the journey it had to take. My gorgeous, wonderful agent gets her own Cabana Boy (or twelve) for so, so enthusiastically believing in this project and becoming such a great champion for it and as for my new editor Toni, I have been wanting to work with her for ages. It seems kind of perfect that it's on this book.

Finally, When the Stars Go Blue has found its rightful home.