https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/16/malorie-blackman-memoir-stormzy-merky-books-noughts-and-crosses

The Noughts and Crosses author’s life story has been signed to the grime star’s imprint and is scheduled for 2022

Stormzy’s publishing imprint #Merky Books has acquired the autobiography of Malorie Blackman, the novelist and former children’s laureate who the rapper has called a formative inspiration.

The memoir, to be published in 2022, will begin with Blackman’s childhood in south London, the daughter of parents who arrived from Barbados as part of the Windrush generation. It will also chart her writing career, from the 83 rejection letters she received when she sent out her first book to her gaining the laureateship in 2013. #Merky Books said the autobiography would be “empowering and inspiring”. It described Blackman’s series Noughts and Crosses, which is set in a world where the dominant population is black, as one that “sparked a new and necessary conversation about race and identity in the UK” when it was published in 2000.