Diamond Kahn and Woods (DKW) has appointed Anna Holmwood as foreign rights manager to develop the literary agency’s foreign rights department in-house. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
New deals this week for Holly Goldberg Sloan, Meg Wolitzer, Nahoko Uehashi, Akwaeke Emezi, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first group of emerging playwrights to benefit from Audible's $5m fund will include two British writers: Gary McNair, from Glasgow, and James Fritz, from London. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quarto has made five roles redundant from the foreign rights team based in its Brighton office. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paramount Pictures has optioned film rights for the Ology World series published by Templar, an imprint of Kings Road Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
With a background in rights at Wylie, Random House/Fodor, Hyperion/Disney, and FSG, Kris Kliemann comes to IPR License as a veteran in publising right based in New York City. The post Key Publishing Rights Consultant Kris Kliemann Joins IPR License appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the Audio Publishers Association's Audie Awards organizers say they get more and better entries annually, the market's hunger for audio rights is ratcheting up, too. The post The Audie Awards Finalists Are Announced, Amid Louder Competition for Audiobook Rights appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
In our interview with Grano de Sal, a brand-new publishing house in Mexico City, we learn that the publisher is looking for edgy books and world Spanish rights. The post Mexican Publisher Grano de Sal Looking for World Spanish Rights, Translations, and Controversy appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
For advice on selling rights into the Chinese market, we speak with Andrew Nurnberg Associates' Jackie Huang of Beijing, who will address the Taipei International Book Exhibition's Frankfurter Buchmesse professional program next week. The post Selling Rights Into China: Interview with Literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
From Germany, the States, Sweden, Spain, Israel, Mexico, and France, here are works of nonfiction, adult trade and children's fiction, including a sweeping graphic memoir and a novel headed for a cinema near you in February. The post Rights Roundup: Ten Titles Doing Brisk Business Early in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In her new memoir, Melba Pattillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine, the black teenagers who broke the color line in segregated 1950s Arkansas, says God will always be there to lift people out of pain, disillusionment and despair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Close to 30 international publishers are spending two days in New York City to meet with US acquisitions editors and publishing executives in the first Children's Books Salon organized by the Frankfurter Buchmesse New York and Publishing Perspectives. The post Children’s Books Salon:... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
As 'Fuego y Furia' is readied by a Planeta team of translators for Vintage Español's North American Spanish edition, 'Fire and Fury' is now listed as 'in stock' on Amazon.com and selling fast. The post Macmillan’s ‘Fire and Fury’: Now More Than 30 Foreign Rights Deals, ‘Fuego y Furia’ on the Way... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Music continued to fill the air in Menlo Park, Calif., as Facebook announced three new partnerships with music publishers, coming on the heels of its deal with Sony/ATV earlier this week and its pact with Universal Music Group, inked in December. Facebook head of music business development and... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2018-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
In London, Foyles' flagship store in Charing Cross triumphantly tweets its hardcovers of 'Fire and Fury'–'some book about some guy now in our window'–and Andrew Wylie's offices in New York City fill us in on international sales already in place. The post Rights Focus: Macmillan’s ‘Fire and Fury’... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
W F Howes has bought exclusive rights to sell the audiobook of Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff into libraries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten backlist Peter James suspense novels will be published in audio for the first time after Orion Audio bought world rights from Isobel Dixon at Blake Friedmann. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
A couple of auspicious debuts are included in our latest rights update, which includes historical fiction, a children's entry, serial work and lots of noir. The post Year-End Rights Roundup: Deals Reported From Sweden, Poland, Brazil, Spain appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amid discussion bout how audiobook rights are bought and sold, our roundup shows a robust rights trading scene on the international publishing stage. The post Rights Roundup: Reports From Sweden, Spain, Germany, Greece, Canada, Australia appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Berlin's InterKontinental agency is ending its first year ready to accelerate rights sales with its African literature festival: Writing in Migration. The post Agent Stefanie Hirsbrunner of InterKontinental: Selling African Literature Rights Into Germany appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]