LW Entertainment will expand Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera franchise with a new worldwide book publishing program, in partnership with Penguin Random House LLC.
The program will launch in Fall 2026 with OUR STRANGE DUET, a young adult reimagining of this timeless Gothic love story that will bring a new voice to Christine Daaé, a central part of the iconic Phantom canon.
Developed in collaboration with #1 New York Times bestselling author Erin A. Craig (House of Salt and Sorrows, House of Roots and Ruin), OUR STRANGE DUET is a Christine-forward retelling that gives new insight to Christine's experience navigating the Paris Opera House. It will serve as the principal and tentpole foray into the expansion of this beloved franchise. The novel will be published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, and edited by Wendy Loggia, V.P./ Publisher, Delacorte Press. It will publish simultaneously in the U.K. with Penguin Random House Children’s.
The program, which spans books for all ages, will feature additional titles, including three Little Golden Books and a new celebratory coffee-table book from Crown/Ten Speed Press and by Ebury Press in the UK in Fall 2026.
Erin A. Craig said:
“I’m over the moon to announce that I’ve teamed up with LW Entertainment and Delacorte Press to bring you Our Strange Duet, a Phantom of the Opera novel celebrating the 40 year milestone anniversary for the world’s most iconic and sweepingly romantic musical. It’s been the honor of a lifetime to explore the “strange affair of The Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never fully explained” through the eyes of Broadway’s most beloved gothic heroine.”
