Jeff Carlson's Plague Year in more languages; Plague Zone coming soon

Author Jeff Carlson writes that "the international bestselling Plague Year thrillers struck another country this week," as the first two novels—Plague Year and Plague War—sold in the Czech Republic "after multiple bids between Czech publishers BB Art and Triton. Earlier this month, the Czech Republic's premiere genre magazine, Pevnost, featured a translation of Carlson's Writers of the Future award-winning novelette "The Frozen Sky". Impressed by the story, editors from both publishing houses sought out English editions of Plague Year and were immediately in contact with Carlson's literary agent, Don Maass. BB Art, which also translates books by household names such as Douglas Preston and Dean Koontz, won Czech rights to Carlson's thriller novels and plans to release the first title late in 2009."

The third novel of the trilogy, Plague Zone, is slated for publication in North America by Ace/Penguin Books this autumn.

The first book in the series became a bestseller as in Spain as La Plaga, and the second, Antidoto, is currently on the charts as well. The books are also receiving a major promotion campaign in Germany, where Plasma (the first book) will be Piper Verlag's Book of the Month in August. Both novels are also set for publication in Romania.