Penguin Announces InkLit, a New Graphic Novel Imprint

Penguin is launching InkLit, a new imprint for graphic novels … and several crime novelists are already planning books for it to publish.

The first book to be published — in October 2012 — will be an adaptation of the urban fantasy novel Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs.

In early 2013, however, Charlaine Harris — no stranger to graphic novels, with an adaptation of her "Harper Connelly" novel Grave Sight published in 2011 — will publish Cemetery Girl, the first of a new series co-written with fantasy author Christopher Golden. (This project was announced last year and at the time associated with Ace Books, another Penguin imprint.)

Laurell K. Hamilton, who seems to us like a natural for the graphic novel format with her series character vampire hunter Anita Blake, will adapt the fourth in the series, Lunatic Café (first published in 1996), and write an original story set in universe of Anita Blake but featuring the character of Edward, a human assassin/bounty hunter (also known as Ted Forrester) and friend of Anita.

Finally, Karin Slaughter will adapt her stand-alone novella Martin Misunderstood.