Tyra Banks announced today that she is publishing a series of three novels with Random House. Modelland will be the first novel in the series. It is about a fictional place that is home to Intoxibellas, drop-dead beautiful, kick-butt fierce models that have super powers.
I hope it's a story everyone will fall in love with. And I know my partners at Random House (whom I love, BTW) are hoping you like it too, since we're doing not one but a series of THREE Modelland books. Hey, I think you’re going to have fun following the lives of the characters... I won't tell you their names YET, but I can tell you many of them are based on the real people in my life as well as some of the models I've known - both nice and "ice" (Brrrrr...).
The story happens in a make-believe place called Modelland - every girl in the world wants to go there because it's where "Intoxibellas" are trained. Intoxibellas are drop-dead beautiful, kick-butt fierce and, yeah, maybe they have some powers too. (But I'm confirming NOTHING! Ha. You gotta wait for the book.) The story follows a teen girl and her friends who find themselves magically transported to Modelland, even though they're really not supposed to be there. (Okay, now, that’s ALL I'm saying!)
Tyra Banks also says she physically shakes when she enters bookstores because she loves books so much. She has formed a new division of her company called Bankable Books for her emerging novel empire.
