Hello, literature fans. It’s been a long time since we’ve done a Friday Night Rights post, so we have a doozie for you!
Thanks to the hard work of ARLA’s international teammates, our bookshelf will soon be looking like the Olympic Village — and so will yours! To celebrate all of these great foreign deals, we’re giving away some of our favorite international editions, as well as advance reader’s editions of selected titles. Scroll down to the end of the post to see how you can get your hands on them!
A lot of these deals were lay-ups, going to Dennis Lehane’s longtime fans: Misook Hong sold MOONLIGHT MILE to Minumin in Korea, Ulf Töregård sold it to Bonniers in Sweden and Tammi in Finland (who also decided to renew their licenses for SHUTTER ISLAND and MYSTIC RIVER), Michele Kanonidis sold it to Rivages in France, Naomi Colvin sold it to The House of Books in the Netherlands, Daniela Petracco sold it to Companhia das Letras in Brazil, Sarah Nundy sold it to RBA in Spain, and Sabine Pfannensteil-Wright sold it to Ullstein in Germany.
There were also a couple of very nice surprises! Ilana Kurshan at the Deborah Harris Agency, the hotshot rookie on the ARLA team, scored a deal with Aryeh Nir Publishers in Israel for Lehane’s latest. It sold in Poland to Proszynski I Ska, who, thanks to the good work of Aleksandra Matuszak at ANAW, also bought A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR; DARKNESS, TAKE MY HAND; and SACRED.
Next, we had some Greeks bearing gifts; Kedros bought MOONLIGHT MILE and THE GIVEN DAY, thanks to John Moukakos at the JLM Literary Agency.
Petra Tobiskova and Jana Borovanova of Team Prague sold A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR to Epocha in the Czech Republic and SHUTTER ISLAND to Mladinska knjiga Zalozba in Slovenia.
SHUTTER ISLAND will also be published in a German audio edition, thanks to Schreiber & Leser and Sabine.
Atticus in Russia made a play for THE GIVEN DAY and MOONLIGHT MILE, with assists from Ludmilla Sushkova and Vladimir Chernyshov at Andrew Nurnberg Associates in Moscow.
Through Daniela Petracco, Piemme decided to renew its licenses for all of Lehane’s backlist. She also convinced them to bring a bit of BLUE HEAVEN to Italy. There are sunny skies over Bulgaria, too, thanks to Hermes and Mira Droumeva at ANA Sofia.
In other C.J. Box news, THREE WEEKS TO SAY GOODBYE went to Forum in Sweden (another score for Ulf) and to Centrepolygraph in Russia (thanks again to our Moscow dream team). Aleksandra Matuszak sold Box’s forthcoming standalone, BACK OF BEYOND, to the most awesomely named publisher in Poland the world, Wydawnictwo Albatros Andrzej Kurylowicz.
We’re too worn out to think of a hockey pun to use, but Goose Lane Editions and ARLA made a nice deal with Groupe Librex for French rights for YOU COMMA IDIOT.
At the buzzer, ARLA sold world English rights to Kathleen McCleary’s next two novels, A SIMPLE THING and LEAVING HAVEN, to Tessa Woodward at William Morrow.
Great game, everyone!
Want to get in on the action? Check out this list of foreign and advance reader’s editions that we have for you! If you’d like one of the books listed below, all you have to do is mail us a self-addressed pre-paid USPS Priority Mail envelope and tell us which one you’d like.
