Rights round-up

Sales

Fiction

Allen & Unwin has sold Dutch rights to The Sisters’ Song (Louise Allan); and Macedonian rights to The Mummy Bloggers (Holly Wainwright).

Nonfiction 

Allen & Unwin has sold the film and television option to Danger Music (Eddie Ayres).

Children’s

Allen & Unwin has sold Japanese rights to I Just Ate My Friend (Heidi McKinnon) to Ushio Shuppan; Spanish rights to books one and two in ‘The Rogues Trilogy’ (Accidental Heroes and Secret Guardians, both Lian Tanner) to Anaya; Italian rights to A Song Only I Can Hear (Barry Jonsberg) to Piemme; renewed Danish rights and Swedish rights to Tales from Outer Suburbia (Shaun Tan) to ABC Forlag and Lilla Pirat, respectively; renewed simplified Chinese character rights to Milli Jack and the Dancing Cat (Stephen Michael King) to New Buds; Polish rights to The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard (Gregory Rogers) to Wydawnictwo Literówka; and Polish rights to Brindabella (Ursula Dubosarsky) to Znak Emotikon.

Black Inc. has sold world Korean rights to How to Win a Nobel Prize (Barry Marshall & Lorna Hendry, illus by Bernard Caleo) to Lime Co.

Hardie Grant Egmont has sold Italian rights to Tales from a Tall Forest (Shaun Micallef, illus by Jonathan Bentley); Catalan language rights to four titles in the ‘Billie B Brown’ series (all by Sally Rippin); simplified Chinese character magazine rights to Too Busy Sleeping (Zanni Louise, illus by Anna Pignataro); Turkish rights to Molly & Mae (Danny Parker, illus by Freya Blackwood); Turkish rights to Perfect (Danny Parker, illus by Freya Blackwood); ANZ English-language audio rights to four titles in the ‘Magic Misfits’ series (Neil Patrick Harris) to Bolinda.

Scholastic has licensed US rights to three titles in the ’48 Hours’ series (The Vanishing, The Medusa Curse and The Crocodile Heist, all Gabrielle Lord); Swedish and Norwegian rights to Tiny Timmy: Living the Dream (Tim Cahill, illus by Heath McKenzie); Turkish rights to Pig the Pug (Aaron Blabey); and simplified Chinese character rights to Within These Walls (Robyn Bavati).

Acquisitions

Fiction

Hachette has acquired world rights to Triptych (Julie Keys) via Sarah McKenzie at Hindsight Literary Agency. (See news.)

Children’s

Text has acquired world rights to 2018 Text Prize-winner It Sounded Better in My Head (Nina Kenwood) and The End of the World is Bigger Than Love (Davina Bell). (See news.)

Category: Rights round-up