Zoella’s brother Joe Sugg nets deal to write graphic novel

The star of YouTube channel ThatcherJoe and brother of Girl Online’s Zoe Sugg is to make his literary debut this September

Just two months after his sister Zoe Sugg, known online as Zoella, smashed records with her debut novel Girl Online, Joe Sugg has been signed to write a graphic novel.

Sugg, who has over 3.5m subscribers to his YouTube channel, will make his literary debut this September, courtesy of publisher Hodder & Stoughton. His graphic novel will tell the story of a “socially isolated girl who fights to save a virtual world – created as a safe place for her by her dying father – from descending into mayhem”, said Hodder.

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