Rights News
- German paperback rights to Shelter by Frances Greenslade, about two young women in search of their missing mother, have been sold in a six-way auction by Mare Verlag to Suhrkamp. Marebuch published their hardcover edition this month. The book is now out in the US, UK, and Canada as well, and will be released in Holland in September.
- French-language rights in Canada to The Golden Mean author Annabel Lyon’s second novel The Sweet Girl, about the life of Aristotle’s daughter and her struggle for survival after his death, to Editions Alto by Sandrine Bilan at Anna Jarota Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing total number of territories sold to six.
- Greek rights to Annabel Lyon’s novel about the relationship between Aristotle and Alexander the Great, The Golden Mean, have been sold to Metaihmio Publishing S.A. by Nelly Moukakou of JLM Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold to nineteen.
- Mainland Chinese rights in simplified characters for The Messenger, Stephen Miller’s forthcoming thriller about a new form of terrorism stalking America, have been sold to Yilin Press, for release in both book and serial magazine form, by Claire Feng at Big Apple Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold to six.
- Finnish rights to Alan Bradley’s first novel in his bestselling Flavia de Luce mystery series The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie have been sold to Bazar Publishers by Trine Licht of Licht & Burr on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold to 36.
- Indian English-language rights to Dahanu Road author Anosh Irani’s first novel, The Cripple and His Talismans, first released in 2004, have been sold again to V. K. Karthika at HarperCollins India by Denise Bukowski of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the total number of territories sold to five.
- Swedish rights to Alan Bradley’s first novel in his bestselling Flavia de Luce mystery series The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie have been sold to Lind & Co by Trine Licht of Licht & Burr on behalf of Denise Bukowski at The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold to 35.
- Finnish rights to Lori Lansens’ novel about the friendship between an old woman and a little girl who are contemporary descendants of the Underground Railroad in Canada, Rush Home Road (2002) have been sold to Bazar Forlag by Tracy Williams at Little, Brown, bringing the number of territories sold for this title to thirteen.
- Brazilian rights to volumes 4 and 5 in Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie author Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows and Speaking from Among the Bones, have been sold again to Saraiva by Joao-Paulo Riff of Riff Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the total number of territories sold for these two volumes to 12.
- Turkish rights to The Golden Mean author Annabel Lyon’s The Sweet Girl have been sold again to Pegasus Yayinlari by Atilla Izgi Turgut of Akcali Copyright Agency. Rights previously sold in the US, UK, Canada and France.
- Italian rights to volumes 3 and 4 of Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series, previously with Mondadori, have gone to Sellerio via Alessandria Mele of Grandi & Associati. Sellerio will also reprint volumes 1 and 2 when rights become free, and plans to continue with the series.
- Swedish rights to The Locavore’s Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-Mile Diet by Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu to Timbro by Philip Sane of the Lennart Sane Agency for Isabelle Bleecker at the Perseus Books Group
- Publisher Trena White of Douglas & McIntyre has picked up Canadian rights to actor and writer Darrell Dennis’ satirical myth-busting book about North American Indians, Peace Pipe Dreams. Dennis, ooriginally from the Shuswap First Nation in B.C., is know most recently for his CBC Radio show “ReVision Quest.” See www.cbc.ca/revisionquest.
- Variety has announced that American Beauty and Revolutionary Road director Sam Mendes’ Neal Street Productions has optioned television rights to the New York Times bestselling Flavia de Luce mysteries by Alan Bradley (The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustard, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows). The deal was done by Jody Hotchkiss on behalf of Denise Bukowski at The Bukowski Agency. Bradley is published in the US by Delacorte, in the UK by Orion, and in Canada by Doubleday, as well as in 32 other countries. Four books in the series have been published; ten are under contract. Mendes’ most recent success is the BBC-TV series “Call the Midwife.”
- UK rights to The Golden Mean author Annabel Lyon’s The Sweet Girl, about the coming of age of Aristotle’s daughter, who faced an arranged marriage and a struggle to survive after his death, again to Ravi Mirchandani at Atlantic Books via Bill Hamilton at A.M. Heath. And French rights again to Alice Deon at Editions la Table Ronde via Anna Jarota. Rights previously sold to Random House Canada for publication in fall 2012 and to Knopf in the USA.
- U.K. and Commonwealth rights to Claire Cameron’s Algonquin, about two children alone in the wilderness after their parents are attacked by a bear, have gone to Publishing Director Elizabeth Foley at Harvill Secker at Random House UK via Bill Hamilton at A.M. Heath on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. US rights previously to Reagan Arthur Books at Little, Brown and Canadian rights to Doubleday Canada.
- US rights to The Golden Mean author Annabel Lyon’s The Sweet Girl, about the coming of age of Aristotle’s daughter and her dramatic life in the face of an arranged marriage after his death, again to Diana Coglianese at Knopf for publication in 2013. Canadian rights previously sold to Random House Canada, who will publish in fall 2012.
- US rights to Claire Cameron’s Algonquin, about two small children left to fend for themselves in the wilderness after their parents are attacked by a bear, to Sarah Murphy at Reagan Arthur Books/ Little, Brown for publication in 2013. Canadian rights also went to Kristin Cochrane at Doubleday Canada.
- French rights to Ryad Assani-Razaki’s award-winning La Main d’Iman, about an African teenager who stows away on a ship to Europe, to Sylvie Mouchès at Editions Liana Levi, by Anna Jarota on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. French-Canadian rights previously to Martin Balthazar at l’Hexagone/ VLB Editeur.
- Czech language rights to volume two of Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series, The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, have gone again to Euromedia Group via Agnieszka Zielinska at Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the total number of territories sold for this title to twenty-seven.
- German rights to New York Times bestselling Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie author Alan Bradley’s further adventures of the intrepid Flavia de Luce, volumes 7-10, have gone again in a significant deal to Urban Hofstetter at Blanvalet via Annelie Geissler of MOHRBOOKS on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights sold previously to Delacorte in the USA and Doubleday in Canada.
- Czech rights to Eden Robinson’s award-winning 2000 aboriginal coming-of-age novel Monkey Beach have been sold to Havran by Agnieszka Zielińska at Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Audio rights to Alan Bradley’s precocious kid sleuth Flavia de Luce’s adventures at Buckshaw mansion in 1950s England, volumes 7-10, have been sold again to Laura Duane at Random House Audio by Denise Bukowski at The Bukowski Agency. Volume rights previously to Delacorte and Doubleday Canada (North America).
- Albanian rights to Alan Bradley’s A Red Herring Without Mustard, the third volume in the bestselling Flavia de Luce mystery series, have gone again to Morava via Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold to twenty-five.
- Random House USA has announced that New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley (Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie) returns with four more adventures of the intrepid Flavia de Luce (volumes 7-10), following the sixth book in the internationally bestselling series, The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, which Delacorte will publish in 2014. Kristin Cochrane, Publisher of Doubleday Canada, has also picked up Canadian rights again.
- Canadian rights to No Man in the House author Cecil Foster’s first novel in ten years, Independence, about the sudden and baffling estrangement of two teenagers who are abandoned by their mothers and coming of age in Barbados just as the country achieves its independence, to Iris Tupholme at HarperCollins Canada, in a pre-empt.
- Bulgarian rights to Alan Bradley’s third and fourth books in the Flavia de Luce mystery series, A Red Herring Without Mustard and I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, have gone again to AMG via Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal; and Korean rights to I Am Half-Sick of Shadows have gone again to Munhakdongne via Joe Moon of Duran Kim Agency, all on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold for I Am Half-Sick of Shadows to 11, and for A Red Herring Without Mustard to 23.
- Hebrew rights for A Red Herring Without Mustard, volume three in Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series, have gone again to Matar, via Ilana Kurshan of the Deborah Harris Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the total number of territories sold for this novel to 22.
- On the eve of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Russian rights to the fourth installment of Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, have today gone again to AST Publishers via Julia Goumen of Goumen & Smirnova on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold for this title to nine. The book will be released in the US, UK, and Canada in November. AST will also release an omnibus edition of the series.
- Norwegian rights to the third novel in Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series, A Red Herring Without Mustard (Delacorte), again to Forlaget Press via Trine Licht of Licht & Burr on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold for this title to twenty.
- Romanian rights to the fourth novel in Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series, I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Delacorte), again to Editura Trei via Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold for this title to eight. Rights previously sold in the US, UK, Canada, Japan, Poland, Netherlands, and Germany. English-language editions will be released in November 2011.
- Serbian rights to Stephen Miller’s The Messenger, a thriller about a bioterrorist and the scientist who tries to stop her, have been sold to Beoknjiga (www.beoknjiga.rs) by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold to Bantam ( for Summer 2012 publication), Spain, Israel, and Denmark.
- Turkish rights to Leo McKay Jr.’s debut novel Twenty Six (Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2003), based on the true story of a Nova Scotia coal-mining disaster that killed 26 men, have been sold to Pegasus Yayinlari (www.pegasusyayinlari.com) by Atilla Izgi Turgut of Akcali Copyright Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Turkish rights to Kerri Sakamoto’s second novel (after the award-winning The Electrical Field) One Hundred Million Hearts (Knopf Canada, 2003; Harcourt USA, 2004), about a young woman who goes to Japan to meet her long-lost sister and discover the truth about her father’s wartime experiences there, have been sold to Pegasus Yayinlari (www.pegasusyayinlari.com) by Atilla Izgi Turgut of Akcali Copyright Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights also sold in Holland and French Canada.
- Italian rights to Anita Rau Badami’s psychological thriller Tell It to the Trees, about a mysterious death in an Indian family in a small Northern town, to Grazia Rusticali at Edizioni Piemme by Alessandra Mele of Grandi & Associati on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold: Canada (Knopf, Fall 2011 pub)
- Danish rights to Stephen Miller's The Messenger, about a young terrorist’s odyssey across America and the man whose mission it is to stop her, to Forlaget Punktum by Trine Licht of Licht & Burr on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold: North America (Bantam/Delacorte, summer 2012 pub), Spain, Israeli and Audio.
- Bulgarian rights to the first book in The Mesopotamian Trilogy, the antiquities thriller The Witch of Babylon by D.J. McIntosh, have been sold to Infodar Eood by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of the Bukowski Agency; and Hungarian rights to IPC Konyvek Kft. by Peter Bolza of Katai & Bolza, to bringing the number of territories sold to sixteen.
- The Mysteries author Robert McGill has sold Canadian rights to his second novel, Once We Had a Country, about two women who accompanied Vietnam-era American draft dodgers to a rural commune in Canada, to Anne Collins, Publisher of Random House Canada, for publication in early 2013. The deal was done by Denise Bukowski of The Bukowski Agency on behalf of Euan Thorneycroft at A.M. Heath.
- Italian rights to Ryan Knighton’s Cockeyed, a memoir about growing up and going blind, have gone to Edizioni San Paolo via Alessandra Mele of Grandi & Associati on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold in the US, UK, Germany, China, Taiwan, and Poland, in addition to film rights.
- Mainland Chinese rights to Wayson Choy’s classic debut novel of the Chinese experience in North America during the Depression and World War II, The Jade Peony, first published in 1995 and never out of print, have gone to Nankai University Press of Tianjin via Lily Chen of The Big Apple Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Mainland Chinese rights to Judy Fong Bates’ debut Midnight at the Dragon Café, first published in the USA and Canada in 2004, about a Chinese immigrant girl who discovers that her mother is having an affair with the girl’s half-brother, have gone to Nankai University Press of Tianjin via Lily Chen of The Big Apple Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- World English-language rights to Canadian Whisky: The Portable Expert by connoisseur Davin de Kergommeaux have been sold to Philip Rappaport at McClelland and Stewart, for publication in spring 2012, by Denise Bukowski at The Bukowski Agency. See the author’s site at www.canadianwhisky.org.
- U.S. rights to Frances Greenslade’s debut novel Shelter, about two girls’ search for their missing mother, have been sold to Millicent Bennett at Free Press by Denise Bukowski of The Bukowski Agency, for release in summer 2012. Rights previously pre-empted in Germany, Holland, and the U.K. Knopf Random House Canada will publish in September 2011.
- From Publishers' Lunch on the London Book Fair and rights fairs in general
- “Assessing the dealmaking is random, particularly as these rights fairs are more about cementing relationships and presenting lists than closing big sales. Deal reporting has been robust for the six weeks leading up to the show--March deals at Publishers Marketplace were up 25 percent over the prior year, with more than 1,000 reports in the month, and April-so-far is up about 20 percent. That's a significant jump over January and February as well (helped by the Bologna Book Fair, too) and qualifies as among our busiest deal months ever, though we'd have to check the record books to be sure. But that means most big deals were set up in at least some territories prior to LBF and the at-the-show deal news has been decidedly modest.”
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- That long-standing state of affairs is reflected most recently by our current LBF Hot Title (a new book not presented before), Frances’ Greenslade’s forthcoming first novel Shelter (Knopf Canada fall 2011), which was pre-empted in three countries just before the fair: Germany, Holland and the UK, and closes in the USA April 14, after the fair.
- Our other two new books featured at the fair, Stephen Miller’s thriller The Messenger (Bantam USA, Fall 2012 or Spring 2013) and Anita Badami’s Tell It to the Trees (Knopf Canada, September 2011) were presented (pitched) but not sold because we don’t yet have final manuscripts. Publishers made their interest known for future reference. For The Messenger, US, Israeli, Spanish, and Audio rights were sold based on the first draft of the manuscript; others decided to wait because the changes to the plot were going to be substantial.
- German rights to Frances Greenslade’s debut novel Shelter, about two girls’ search for their missing mother, have gone to Katja Scholtz at Mare Verlag, in a pre-empt, via Annelie Geissler of Mohrbooks on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold in Canada, Holland, and the UK. Closing in the USA April 14.
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Canadian English-language paperback rights to Sunray: The Death and Life of Captain Nichola Goddard by Valerie Fortney, published in hardcover in September 2010 by Key Porter Books, have been sold to Kim McArthur at McArthur & Company, for publication in fall 2011.
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Albanian rights to the second novel in Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series, The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, again to Morava via Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold for this title to 24.
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Japanese rights to the first book in D.J. McIntosh’s Mesopotamian Trilogy, The Witch of Babylon, to Engine Room Co. Ltd. via Cecilia Akiko Kashiwamura of Japan Uni on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the total number of territories sold to 15.
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French-Canadian rights to Trillium Award-winner Ryad Assani-Razaki’s debut novel Iman, about an African teenager who stows away on a ship to Europe, again to Martin Balthazar of VLB Editeur, via Anna Jarota on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
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Dutch rights to Frances Greenslade’s debut novel Shelter have gone to Jacqueline Smit at Orlando, in a pre-empt, via Marianne Schönbach on behalf of the Bukowski Agency. Previously sold to Knopf Random House Canada and Virago U.K.
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UK rights to Frances Greenslade’s debut novel Shelter, about two women’s search for their missing mother, have gone to Lennie Goodings at Virago, in a pre-empt, 24 hours after submission, via Bill Hamilton of A.M. Heath on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Previously sold to Knopf Random House Canada for release in Canada in September 2011.
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Bulgarian rights to Alan Bradley’s first two novel in the Flavia de Luce mystery series, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag, have been sold to AMG Books by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold for the first volume to 34.
- Croatian rights to D. J. McIntosh’s antiquities thriller, The Witch of Babylon, have been sold to Znanje d.o.o. of Zagreb by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency Ltd. Rights have now been sold in 14 territories including Canada, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, Russia, Poland, Taiwan, Turkey, and the Czech Republic.
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Romanian rights to the first book in The Mesopotamian Trilogy, the antiquities thriller The Witch of Babylon by D.J. McIntosh, have been sold to Rao Books by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal on behalf of the Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold to 13.
- Japanese rights to A Red Herring Without Mustard and Seeds of Antiquity (books #3 & #4 in the Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley) have gone again to Tokyo Sogensha via Miko Yamanouchi of Japan UNI Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency Ltd.
- Czech rights to D. J. McIntosh’s antiquities thriller, The Witch of Babylon, have been sold to Michal Rybka Publishers by Agnieszka Zielinska of Graal Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency Ltd. Rights have now been sold in 13 territories including Canada, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, Russia, Poland, Taiwan, and Turkey.
- World Spanish rights to D.J. McIntosh’s antiquities thriller The Witch of Babylon have been sold to Atico de los Libros by Natalia Berenguer Gamell of The Sandra Bruna Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Italian rights to Annabel Lyon’s The Golden Mean to Aliberti Editori, Polish rights to D.J. McIntosh’s upcoming The Witch of Babylon to Bellona S.A., and Lithuanian rights to the second and third books in Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce series – The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag and the upcoming A Red Herring Without Mustard – to Leidykla VAGA.
- Chinese language (Complex Chinese character) rights for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao (ex Mainland China) have gone again to Azoth Books for the third title in Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce series, A Red Herring Without Mustard (publishing in February 2011), via Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency Ltd. This latest sale brings the total number of territories sold for this title to 17.
- French Canadian rights to The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon’s novel about Aristotle and Alexander the Great, have gone to Editions Alto via Anna Jarota of the Anna Jarota Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency Ltd.
- Croatian rights to the third book in the Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce mystery series, A Red Herring Without Mustard (publishing in February 2011), have gone again to Naklada Ljevak via Peter Bolza of Katai & Bolza Literary Agents on behalf of The Bukowski Agency Ltd. Also, Dutch rights to A Red Herring Without Mustard and Seeds of Antiquity (book #4 in the Flavia de Luce series) have also been sold again to Sijthoff via Marianne Schonbach of Marianne Schonbach Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency Ltd. These two sales bring the total number of territories sold for A Red Herring Without Mustard to 16.
- Romanian rights to the second and third books in the Flavia de Luce mystery series, The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag and A Red Herring Without Mustard (publishing in February 2011), have gone again to Editura Trei via Lukasz Wrobel of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the number of territories sold for Weed to 21 and for Herring to 13.
- World Spanish-language rights to Stephen Miller’s The Messenger, about a bioterrorist who infects America and the scientist who tries to stop her, to Editorial Viceversa by Natalia Berenguer of the Sandra Bruna Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Czech-language rights to The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon’s novel of Aristotle’s encounter with the young Alexander the Great, to Albatros Media a.s. via Lukasz Wrobel of Graal on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
- Memoirist Frances Greenslade’s first novel Shelter, about two sisters’ search for the truth about their mother, who disappeared when they were young, has been sold at auction to Louise Dennys at Knopf Random Canada, for publication in fall 2011 as part of their New Face of Fiction program. British Columbia academic Greenslade previously published two memoirs with Penguin Canada, A Pilgrim in Ireland and The Secret Ladder.
- Mainland Chinese rights to all three books in D.J. McIntosh’s Mesopotamian Trilogy of antiquities thrillers, starting with The Witch of Babylon, to Beijing Xiron Media by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold in 8 territories, including Canada, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, Russia, Slovakia and Turkey.