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FATHOM FORCE de Mike de Seve

Dive into a world of adventure, where four ordinary teensbecome extraordinary ocean protectors.

FATHOM FORCE
by Mike de Seve
TBD
(via The Lennon-Ritchie Agency)

Four ordinary teens find themselves with extraordinary powers to transform into sea creatures when an ancient order recruitsthem to protect the world’s oceans. Guided by their mentor Pierre and a shape-shifting vessel endowed with the collectiveconsciousness of the Elders, heroes Jaden, Parker, Yu Qi and Logan must dig deep and discover that they have what it takes tostop worldwide evil from destroying the world’s oceans. Together they are … the Fathom Force!

Mike de Seve is an Emmy-nominated animation writer and director working in feature films and television. He is founder of Baboon Animation, acollective of some of the most accomplished animation writers in the US, with 31 Emmys among them and clients including Disney, Netflix,Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Warner Brothers. At DreamWorks, Mike was a script consultant on six films, including Madagascar (on which hewas also a sequence director), Shrek 2 and Shrek 3, and he co-wrote the original story, with Mark Osborne, for Monsters VS Aliens. At Paramount,Mike was a director and writer on the feature film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. In Television, Mike has head-written for and/or directed suchiconic series as Angry Birds Toons, Sesame Street, Pocoyo and Saturday Night Live, and for numerous major clients such as Disney, WarnerBros., Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and DreamWorks He’s lately focused on applying his company’s skills and relationships toward progressivecauses – such as the launch of Baboon Animation Africa, integrating BIPOC talent into the industry, and addressing climate change with fun kids’content.

TARZON OF THE EEPS de Mike de Seve

A cyborg’s fight to save his jungle. High satire by Mike de Seve.

TARZON OF THE EEPS
by Mike de Seve
TBD
(via The Lennon-Ritchie Agency)

Planet Eep: home to the Eeps, a colony of stupid little battle robots who evolved to survive in their extraterrestrial jungle. TheEeps rebuilt Tarzon after finding his body, equipping him with self-regenerating biomechanics that grew as he grew. Just asTarzon reached his early cyborg adulthood, humans invaded Planet Eep. Carrying blob technology, the humans’ high-poweredblobcrafts fired blob-lasers all over the planet. To them, Planet Eeb is the perfect setting for a blob-themed amusement park.Tarzon and the Eeps look like primate-level tech compared to the humans’ blobcrafts, but they’ll tear anyone limb from limb todefend their jungle.

Everything changes when Captain Jane Proter arrives. Her family’s own centuries-old pre-colonial past gives her a possible linkto understanding a supposed ‘savage’ like Tarzon. Are the values she now defends as corrupted as she suspects? Tarzon’s simplesense of right, wrong and love for the jungle may be the only hope to save the Eeps and their civilization.

Mike de Seve is an Emmy-nominated animation writer and director working in feature films and television. He is founder of Baboon Animation, acollective of some of the most accomplished animation writers in the US, with 31 Emmys among them and clients including Disney, Netflix,Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Warner Brothers. At DreamWorks, Mike was a script consultant on six films, including Madagascar (on which hewas also a sequence director), Shrek 2 and Shrek 3, and he co-wrote the original story, with Mark Osborne, for Monsters VS Aliens. At Paramount,Mike was a director and writer on the feature film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. In Television, Mike has head-written for and/or directed suchiconic series as Angry Birds Toons, Sesame Street, Pocoyo and Saturday Night Live, and for numerous major clients such as Disney, WarnerBros., Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and DreamWorks He’s lately focused on applying his company’s skills and relationships toward progressivecauses – such as the launch of Baboon Animation Africa, integrating BIPOC talent into the industry, and addressing climate change with fun kids’content.

THE ROYAL WITCH d’Emily Kaye

The Fate of a Kingdom: in the hands of two kids who just can’t get along. By YouTube Silver-Play-Button recipient Emily Kaye.

THE ROYAL WITCH
by Emily Kaye
TBD
(via The Lennon-Ritchie Agency)

Each generation, a grand ceremony in the Kingdom of Alveria binds its crown prince to a powerful witch. Jointly, future king andwitch must protect their realm.

Enter timid and awkward Gus. He’s trained his entire life to become the Royal Witch and is absolutely terrified to meet the – sogorgeous – prince. Prince Emilio: confident, self-absorbed, and Gus’s opposite in every way.

In a partnership that seems doomed from the start, things go from bad to worse when Emilio announces in the middle of theceremony that he hates magic and doesn’t want to be the Royal Witch at all. A fight breaks out. Everyone watches in horror asthe two boys, meant to protect their country, brawl it out on the palace floor.

Despite their disastrous tantrum, the ceremony is concluded, leaving them bound together and forced to cooperate.

THE ROYAL WITCH follows the many misadventures of Gus and Emilio as they learn to work together to protect their kingdom.

Based on a Webtoon featured as a Rising Star, Staff Pick, Hot Series, and one of the faces of Webtoon’s 2022 LGBTQ+ Prideevents.

Emily Kaye got her start in social media, writing skits for YouTube and TikTok which gained over 100,000,000+ views and earned her YouTube’s SilverPlay-Button. She branched out into writing webnovels that had millions of views. Her most popular, HERO VS VILLAIN, is ranked as the #1 LGBTQ+novel and the #4 romance novel on Wattpad and is the fourth most liked free-to-read novel on Tapas. HERO VS VILLAIN received a manhwa (comic)adaptation by the Korean studio Toomics and has been optioned for an animated series. Emily specializes in writing queer and female-led stories andwas one of the main faces for Webtoon’s 2021 Pride. She wrote and co-directed the prize-winning short film FREELY WE SERVE, which screened atfestivals including Newfest, Genreblast, the Seattle Queer Film Festival, and PRISM.

WINNIE-THE-POOH de Mike de Seve

The Winnie-The-Pooh you never knew! He’s funny and cute and a kid like you! By Emmy-nominated Mike de Seve.

WINNIE-THE-POOH
Beyond Pooh Corner: Ten New Tales from the Hundred Acre Wood
by Mike de Seve
TBD
(via The Lennon-Ritchie Agency)

With a mad craving for honey and twisted logic that would make Douglas Adams scratch his head till it’s sore, Winnie-the-Pooh is a creature of great passion and terrible ideas. Too bad he’s the only one who can save his home and all his fuzzy friends. The Hundred-Acre Wood will be taken over by the biggest belching honey plant that the industrial revolution ever spawned, and in three days, Pooh’s pals will all be kicked out for big-hive development. Their only hope: prove they have the deed to the land. That’s no problem; the deed is right over there in the honeypot. Oh bother, where did Pooh put it? Detective Pooh decides to head to a beehive, but many many bee stings makes Pooh delirious. Ah, there’s the solution! The vast honeycombs he seesbefore him lead to … the future! A brand-new series of Pooh adventures to enthral old and new alike, by one of the minds behindi conic series like Angry Birds and Sesame Street.

Mike de Seve is an Emmy-nominated animation writer and director working in feature films and television. He is founder of Baboon Animation, acollective of some of the most accomplished animation writers in the US, with 31 Emmys among them and clients including Disney, Netflix,Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Warner Brothers. At DreamWorks, Mike was a script consultant on six films, including Madagascar (on which hewas also a sequence director), Shrek 2 and Shrek 3, and he co-wrote the original story, with Mark Osborne, for Monsters VS Aliens. At Paramount,Mike was a director and writer on the feature film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. In Television, Mike has head-written for and/or directed suchiconic series as Angry Birds Toons, Sesame Street, Pocoyo and Saturday Night Live, and for numerous major clients such as Disney, WarnerBros., Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and DreamWorks He’s lately focused on applying his company’s skills and relationships toward progressivecauses – such as the launch of Baboon Animation Africa, integrating BIPOC talent into the industry, and addressing climate change with fun kids’content.

TO A DARKER SHORE de Leanne Schwartz

Dante’s Inferno meets the mythic atmosphere of Hadestown, when an inventor goes to hell to kill the devil and save her best friend.

TO A DARKER SHORE
by Leanne Schwartz
Page Street YA, April 2024

Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her kingdom that she’s too useful to be sacrificed—like so many of their country’s poor—to appease the infernal monster across the poison sea in hell. When Alesta’s attempt to prove herself with inventions goes awry, her best friend and heir to the throne, Kyrian, takes the blame expecting leniency—and ends up tithed in her place. To end the sacrifices forever, Alesta plans to kill the monster that killed her friend. She travels to the depths of hell only to find Kyrian, alive, but monstrously transformed. There’s no escaping hell or their deeper feelings for one another, and the farther they go, the closer they come to uncovering a truth about the tithings that threatens to invoke the wrath of not only monsters but the gods as well.

Leanne Schwartz teaches English, poetry, drama, and history in San Diego. She believes in hard work, actively dismantling systems of oppression, and the power of singing along to show tunes.