Tomi Adeyemi

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Tomi Adeyemi (born August 1, 1993) is a Nigerian-American novelist and creative writing coach.

She is best known for her book Children of Blood and Bone, the first book in the Legacy of Orcasha's Legacy, which was released by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, and she is a finalist for the 2019 Lodestar Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Early life

Tomi Adeyemi was born in the United States in 1993 to parents who immigrated from Nigeria on August 1, 1993. Her father, a Nigeria physician, but he found work as a taxi driver while waiting to transfer his certificates. Adeyemi's mother used to work as a cleaner. Adeyemi grew up in Chicago but was not aware of her Nigerian roots; her parents decided not to teach her or her siblings their native tongue. "I didn't think too much of it," she said as an adult, and I suspect that was the first generation's experience. You're just trying to fit in. You don't know how cool your culture is until you get out of the phase of trying to fit in." One of her books would later be characterized as a love letter to her culture.

Adeyemi wrote her first story when she was five years old and continued to write into teenage years. She graduated from Hinsdale Central High School in Hinsdale, Illinois, in 2011. Adeyemi was accepted into the Hinsdale Central High School Foundation's Young Scholar Program in 2008 and went on to win their "Young Scholar" award in 2010–2011. Adeyemi earned the Rani Sharma scholarship in her senior year. She went on to graduate from Harvard University with an honors degree in English Literature, and then concentrated on West African mythology and culture in Salvador, Brazil, on a fellowship. It was this experience that prompted her to write Children of Blood and Bone, the breakthrough book that would launch her career.

Personal life

Tomi Adeyemi lives in San Diego, California. She is of Yoruba origins. She has two siblings. Her mother runs hospices in Chicago, her father is a surgeon, and her brother is a performer.

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Career

After Tomi Adeyemi migrated to California, she worked with a Los Angeles film production firm. When she decided to minimize her hours there to write a book, her parents, who had relocated their lives in Nigeria, were not entirely supportive of this. "I'm first-generation Nigerian so I came out of my mother's womb and I was supposed to be a surgeon, a scientist, or engineer, so I'm like "Oh, hey, I'm quiting my very lucrative job with a large corporation that has many future job opportunities for me." 'Obviously we're not crazy about this but we love you,'" I'm so grateful that my parents were like.

Adeyemi's first published book received no positive feedback. She instead took a year to write another book titled Children of Blood and Bone, which is a competition in which emerging writers are matched with editors and authors to revise their manuscript before submitting it to a literary agent.

Children of Blood and Bone, Adeyemi's debut novel, was released in March 2018 and debuted at number one on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover Bestseller List. It's a young-adult (YA) fantasy book starring protagonist Zélie Adebola, who fights a tyrant to restore magic to her people. Adeyemi has stated that she wanted to write a fantasy novel set in West Africa so that "a little Black girl [could] pick up my book one day and see herself as the protagonist, and she will have a wild, magical journey even if an ignorant part of the world tells her she will never be Hermione Granger." The 2018 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy was given to Children of Blood and Bone, and he is a finalist for the 2019 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book.

Fox 2000 Pictures acquired the film adaptation rights to the book in late March 2017. According to reports, the magazine and film rights fees were around seven figures. "One of the biggest YA debut novel publishing deals ever," the website said.

Nora Roberts was accused by Adeyemi in November 2018 of plagiarizing the name of her book, Of Blood and Bone, from Children of Blood and Bone. "I believe our titles were created in anonymity after speaking with her," Adeyemi later retracted his accusation. Roberts later revealed that her book had been named and submitted to her publisher a year before Adeyemi's. Adeyemi's inability of fact finding and the fact that Adeyemi had not dismissed the allegation a day later were also attacked.

Children of Virtue and Vengeance, her second book, was delayed from its initial publication date of March 2019 to June 2019. Adeyemi later posted on Instagram that her publisher gave her two choices: June 2019 and December 2019, but she chose the former so that visitors would not have to wait. Sadly, the author, editor, and publisher decided to give the second book more time. In December 2019, Children of Virtue and Vengeance became the top New York Times bestseller.

Fox's current parent company, Disney, has confirmed that its affiliate Lucasfilm will be converting Children of Blood and Bone into a film in December 2020. Adeyemi had become dissatisfied with Lucasfilm's film conversion process by 2021. She wanted to write scripts, which Lucasfilm had declined. Since Lucasfilm needed to concentrate on its own intellectual properties, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Willow, the company had allowed Children of Blood and Bone's film rights to Children of Blood and Bone to lapse in late 2021. Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to a definite theatrical release in mid-January 2022, with Temple Hill Entertainment assisting with Sunswept Entertainment. Adeyemi will write the script and also act as executive producer as part of the deal.

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