Foreign Rights


Robert J. Sawyer renews an option and sells Lithuanian rights
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Robert J. Sawyer reports an extension of the option on The Terminal Experiment and the sale of Lithuanian rights to Calculating God...

Robert Redick's Red Wolf Conspiracy brings high six figures in US auction
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US rights to Robert V.S. Redick's debut fantasy trilogy—which begins with The Red Wolf Conspiracy (published this month in the UK)—sold to Del Rey for "a substantial six-figure sum..."

John Sclazi sells German rights to The Android's Dream
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John Scalzi reports the second sale of foreign rights to The Android's Dream, for a sum of money that...

Brandon Sanderson sells Hungarian rights
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Brandon Sanderson sold Hungarian rights to Mistborn and The Well of Ascension to Delta Vision via agent Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky.

Crichton sells in China, and HarperCollins buys Chinese children's books
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HarperCollins and PRC publisher Jilin Publishing Group will be publishing four Michael Crichton novels in Chinese. And in a related announcment, HC will be publishing...

JABberwocky reports many foreign rights sales
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Authors selling throughout Europe include Peter Brett, Tobias Buckell, "Jack Campbell", Simon Green, Charlaine Harris, Tanya Huff, John Moore, and Brandon Sanderson...

Jeff Carlson's Plague Year is spreading
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Jeff Carlson's Plauge Year and its two sequels sold in a nice deal to Piper in Germany. They have plans...

Pyr gets new McDonald collection; reprints from Abercrombie and Lloyd
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Pyr will publish Ian McDonald's Cyberabad Days, a collection of stories set in the world of River of Gods, and reprint...

Michael Cordy's forthcoming The Source optioned in Hollywood
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Michael Cordy's forthcoming adventure thriller novel, The Source, has been optioned by Warner Bros., and sold in at least eight countries...

The Oracle's Queen to appear in Czech
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Lynn Flewelling sold Czech language rights to The Oracle's Queen to Fantom Print. Subagent Kristin Olson handled the sale on behalf of Spectrum Literary Agency...

Rachel Caine's Morganville Vampires sell in UK
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Rachel Caine sold her first three Morganville Vampires novels to Allison & Busby in the UK via agent Lucienne Diver...

Doctorow translations and rights discussions
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Cory Doctorow reports two of his classic stories in new translations, and two new columns about creators' rights and copyright protection...

Doctorow in Translation
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Slovak translations of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town and "Truncat," as well as a German translation of "Craphound," are now available...

Goblin Quest going French
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Agent Steve Mancino of JABberwocky sold French rights to Jim C. Hines's Goblin Quest to l'Atalante for their children's line.

Peter Brett's "Demon Trilogy" going international
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Peter Brett's "Demon Trilogy" has just sold to Harper Voyager in the UK and to Bragelonne in France in major deals...

Rachel Caine sells two Weather Wardens in the UK
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The Spectrum Literary Agency's Lucienne Diver reports selling UK rights to Rachel Caine's first two Weather Wardens novels—Ill Wind and Heat Stroke—to Susie Dunlop of Allison & Busby Ltd.

Lawrence Schimel sells French and Icelandic rights
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Lawrence Schimel sold French rights to his Fairy Tales for Writers, and Icelandic rights to The Adventure of Cecilia and the Dragon...

Bud Sparhawk: around the genre, around the world
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Bud Sparhawk has sold a five-novella series to Jim Baen's Universe, reprint rights to an older story to a Romanian sf magazine, and a novel to Wildside Press...

Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom now in German and CC
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Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom has been published in German as Backup and also released...

Del Rey sells foreign rights for a bunch of books
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Del Rey sold foreign rights for a couple Indiana Jones titles, Naomi Novik, Mary Jo Putney...

The Name of the Wind sells in Spain and Japan
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Patrick Rothfuss sold Spanish and Japanese rights to The Name of the Wind for significant advances...

Foreign rights sales for Herbert and Anderson's Dune books
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Agent John Silbersack reports several foreign rights sales for Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Dune books...

Garth Nix sells three for large advances worldwide
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Garth Nix sold two new Abhorsen books and a stand-alone novel in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand for significant six- and seven-figure advances...

Joshua Bilmes makes foreign rights sales in Romania, Spain, and Taiwan
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Agent Joshua Bilmes reports foreign rights sales for Brandon Sanderson in Romania and Spain, and for Simon Green in Taiwan...

Carlson sells Spanish rights to Plague Year
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Jeff Carlson sold Spanish language rights to his debut novel, Plague Year, to Minotauro...
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