International Book Deal

After quite a long break, I am pleased to be able to announce another international sale, this time for the Romanian rights to the entire Imperial Trilogy. I understand this is a bit of a coup, as apparently it is the first ever translation deal with a Romanian company made by the International Rights Team for the children's department of Simon & Schuster UK.

The books are to be published by Editura Corint Junior in Bucharest.
 
I've no idea when the Romanian books will launch, Patrick. I imagine it will take them at least a year to get the books translated, so I'm not going to hold my breath. I must admit to being very intrigued to see what they will do with the cover and layout. The Italian publisher, Mondadori, did a wonderful job with 'La Spia di Shandar'. I find the whole idea that people will be reading my work in several different languages very exciting.
 
I just heard today that Mondadori (Italian Publisher of Imperial Spy as La Spia di Shandar) have taken up their option and bought Imperial Assassin. They will be publishing it in Spring 2008. This is great news, as it's a good indicator that La Spia di Shandar is doing well in Italy. After the magnificent cover they did for Imperial Spy, I'm looking forward very much to seeing what they do with Imperial Assassin. Let's hope its success will trigger further deals in the future. :)
 
That is great. Im sure they will be quick to do a deal for imperial traitor aswell. Should be a good summer for reading. Harry potter and just after the holidays we have imperial traitor! What more could we want (other than dragon oracle)
 
Great news Mark! Is there any way for you to find out how many copies of the Italian version of Imperial Spy have been sold, or is that not information that gets back to the author with foreign rights deals?
 
Patrick Mahon said:
Great news Mark! Is there any way for you to find out how many copies of the Italian version of Imperial Spy have been sold, or is that not information that gets back to the author with foreign rights deals?
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It is information that should get back to me eventually, Patrick, but by the time it reaches me it will be out of date. I do take particular heart, however, in the fact that they have not just taken up the option, but they are looking to translate it and publish it very quickly. That alone speaks volumes for how they think it's all going.
 
Terrific news about the translations, Mark. It is very weird for an author to see their work in another language! My 'Dracula the Undead' made it into Korean and they split a fairly slim book into TWO even slimmer volumes - very strange! I hope they will give you nice covers...
 
Thanks, Freda. Nice to see you around again. I've been stupidly busy recently, so only seem to pop in briefly these days. Must try to catch up with you again properly soon. It seems ages since I came to Ashby.
 
It's the New Year and time for another little fanfare announcement. I can now release that another translation deal has been struck, this time with Random House Books in Germany, who are buying the German translation rights for all the Imperial books and all of the Dragon Orb books. It's a very nice bonus to begin the year on such a positive note. :)

My understanding is that they intend to launch the Imperial books all at once in Autumn 2008 and then begin publishing the Dragon Orb books in Spring 2009, following the UK release programme, but roughly 6 months behind.
 
Great news mark...germany...the world...then the whole universe! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *Cough*
 
u ruined it m@
u should have gone like the solar system, so that then someone else could have had galaxy and universe but you went too big.
Mweh - Mwahahahahahahahahahaha
 
Congrats Mark! That's a pretty sweet deal (which, I feel, ensures the likelihood that other languages won't be too far behind).

I'm sure Irish is pretty low on the list. Afrikaans might beat it easily :cool:

-D
 
Thanks very much for your good wishes everyone. To date this means that aside from English, the Imperial books will be published in:

Italian, French, German, Danish & Romanian (for those who haven't read the thread all the way through.)

The German deal for the Dragon Orb books is the first such contract. I hope you're right, Dean, and that this is the first of many. It's certainly a very positive sign.
 
Wow, five languages! And English of course. Not bad at all.
Im sure the publishers will be quick to snap up deals on the dragon orb books.
 
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