Rights round-up

Sales

Fiction

Text has sold North American and US rights to The Plotters (Un-su Kim, see news).

Nonfiction

Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to Leather Soul: A Half-back Flanker’s Rhythm and Blues (Bob Murphy) to Audible.

Children’s

Hardie Grant Egmont has sold US rights to The Witching Hours: The Vampire Knife, and its sequel The Troll Heart (Jack Henseleit) to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Walker Books Australia has sold US rights to Let Me Sleep, Sheep (Meg McKinlay, illus Leila Rudge) and Under the Southern Cross (Frané Lessac) to Candlewick Press; and UK rights to Dig, Dump, Roll (Sally Sutton, illus by Brian Lovelock) and Dinosaur Day Out (Sara Acton) to Walker Books Limited.

Black Inc. has sold Turkish rights to How to Win a Nobel Prize (Barry Marshall & Lorna Hendry, illus by Bernard Caleo) to Epsilon at auction.

Acquisitions

Children’s

Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to the following titles: the sequel to The Turnkey, The Seven Keys (Allison Rushby); Queen Celine (Matt Shanks); Ten Little Figs (Rhiân Williams, illus by Nathaniel Eckstrom); The Corner of My Eye (Colin Thompson); The Book of Stone (Mark Greenwood, illus by Coral Tulloch); and Good Question (Sue Whiting, illus by Annie White).

Category: Rights round-up