Emma Törzs’s debut novel, Ink Blood Sister Scribe, made a considerable splash when it was published in 2023. The fantasy tale was chosen as a Good Morning America Book Club pick and a New York Times Notable Book, and now, a year after publication, it has a new claim to fame: Deadline reports that it’s been greenlit as a series by Gato Grande, which is part of Amazon MGM Studios.
The novel will be adapted by writer and executive producer Bronwyn Garrity, who has an interesting track record with SFF shows: She has been a writer and/or producer on series including Under the Dome, Outlander, The Umbrella Academy, and The Peripheral.
Ink Blood Sister Scribe comes recommended by a host of stellar authors, with blurbs from Marlon James, Kelly Link, and more. In The Washington Post, Charlie Jane Anders called it “downright irresistible.” Here’s the book’s synopsis:
For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements—books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther have been raised to revere and protect.
All magic comes with a price, though, and for years the sisters have been separated. Esther has fled to a remote base in Antarctica to escape the fate that killed her own mother, and Joanna’s isolated herself in their family home in Vermont, devoting her life to the study of these cherished volumes. But after their father dies suddenly while reading a book Joanna has never seen before, the sisters must reunite to preserve their family legacy. In the process, they’ll uncover a world of magic far bigger and more dangerous than they ever imagined, and all the secrets their parents kept hidden; secrets that span centuries, continents, and even other libraries . . .
The adaptation news comes just in time for the novel’s paperback release; you can get that edition on June 11th. No casting has been announced for the adaptation yet.
