Harry Cook’s debut YA novel acquired by Scottish small press
Scottish independent publisher Black & White Publishing has acquired world rights to the debut novel by Australian actor and LGBTQIA+ activist Harry Cook. A romance set in small-town Australia, Fin...
Scribe sells Giggs’ ‘Fathoms’ to US in record deal
Scribe has sold North American rights at auction to Rebecca Giggs’ forthcoming Fathoms: The World in the Whale to Simon & Schuster (S&S), in what publisher Henry Rosenbloom describes as...
A&U acquires second Kitty Flanagan book
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ and Oceania rights (including audio) to 488 Rules for Life by comedian Kitty Flanagan. A spoof of Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life...
A&U sells ‘The Museum of Modern Love’ to UK
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold UK rights to Heather Rose’s The Museum of Modern Love to Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a division of Orion Publishing. A&U rights associate Maggie Thompson...
‘Real Pigeons’ series sold to US in three-book deal
Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) has sold North American rights to three books in the ‘Real Pigeons’ series (Andrew McDonald, illus by Ben Wood) to Random House Children’s Books, following a...
Making the deal: The state of rights sales in the UK
While the UK remains a tough market for Australian publishers to break into, UK indies are showing an interest in Australian voices, reports Catherine Moller. Several Australian independent publishers have had...
NZ picture book on Trump sold to UK
New Zealand publisher Millwood Press has sold UK, Irish and Australian rights to picture book Dear Donald Trump (Sophie Siers, illus by Anne Villeneuve) to Bonnier Books UK imprint Templar...
Debut novel ‘Half Moon Lake’ sold to US
US and Canadian rights to Kirsten Alexander’s debut novel Half Moon Lake (Bantam, January 2019) have been acquired by Grand Central, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. Natasha Solomun of...
PRH sells Stevenson crime-thriller debut in US and UK
Penguin Random House (PRH) has sold North American and UK (ex ANZ) rights to debut crime-thriller Greenlight (Michael Joseph) by Sydney-based author Benjamin Stevenson. PRH senior rights manager Nerrilee Weir...
Webb-Pullman awarded Frankfurt Fellowship
Scribe associate publisher Marika Webb-Pullman has been awarded a fellowship by Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF). Webb-Pullman is one of 16 book industry professionals to receive the Frankfurt Fellowship, and was...
Scribe acquires US nonfiction titles by Stack, Villarosa
Scribe has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to two nonfiction books by American authors Megan Stack and Linda Villarosa, reports BookBrunch. Stack's book, Women's Work: A Reckoning with Home and...
Turkish agency seeks support from international publishers during economic crisis
In Turkey, the Istanbul-based Kalem Agency is urging publishers and agents to support the country's book trade in light of the current economic crisis, reports the Bookseller. Kalem Agency owner Nermin...
Pantera Press signs first international rights deal
Pantera Press has signed its first international rights deal with the sale of North American rights to the first seven books in Sulari Gentill’s ‘Rowland Sinclair Mysteries’ series and J M...
Rights round-up
Nonfiction—Exisle has sold Polish rights to Younger Skin in 28 Days (Karen Fischer); Japanese rights to The Happiness Trap; and Italian rights to Mindfulness for Life (Craig Hassed & Stephen...
Shaw joins Alex Adsett Publishing Services, announces sub-agenting services
Outgoing Readings books division manager Martin Shaw will join Alex Adsett Publishing Services this month.Shaw, who is moving to Germany, has joined the company as a literary agent specialising in...
Affirm signs 10-book deal with Oz press photographer
Affirm Press has signed a 10-book deal with Australia press photographer Bruce Postle to publish a photography series reflecting on the past 50 years of Australian life.Affirm Press publishing director...
MidnightSun signs first international rights deals
Adelaide-based small press MidnightSun Publishing has signed its first three international rights deals.The publisher has sold US rights to Amanda Hickie’s thriller An Ordinary Epidemic to Little, Brown in a...
Successes celebrated at ‘solid’ 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair
Nerrilee Weir, rights manager for Random House Australia, writes:The 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair was held in unseasonably balmy and rainy weather, making the pre-fair meetings at the Frankfurter Hof even...
Behind closed doors: Rose Michael on the acquisitions process
Ten years ago, as a lecturer in the publishing and communications program at the University of Melbourne, Rose Michael hosted a debate on the then-contentious topic of whether the marketing tail wagged...
Scribe acquires bookseller’s award-winning debut in two-book deal
Scribe has acquired Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson, the winning entry in the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Scribe acquired world rights in the novel...