First Foreign Language Deal: Novel to be published in Germany

[Ian Whates]

I'm delighted to announce that my debut space opera novel http://www.solarisbooks.com/titles/t...e_noise_within (which came out in the UK and USA last year) is to be published in Germany by Heyne, a German publishing house dating back to the 1930s.

This is my first ever foreign language deal, so please excuse my enthusiasm as I say...

WOO-HOO!!

[SJAB]

WUNDERBAR!!!! (I hope I got that right!)

The first of many I hope, Ian...

[Ursa major]

Ausgezeichnete Nachrichten!

[Vertigo]

Nice one Ian. Congratulations!

Now, I really must get around to picking up your books and giving them a read. I keep saying it but I have so much on my TBR that I keep not getting around to it

[thaddeus6th]

Surely "Das Woo-hoo!" ?

Congratulations

[chopper]

put your Hans together!





*gets coat*

[Ian Whates]

Danke. Es tut mir leid, aber meine deutsch ist nicht sehr gut. Ich kann nur ein bischen gesprechen... Das ist alles.


(Goes to find coat in the same cupboard where Chopper's was hidden)

[Gary Compton]

Does this mean the German books will be much better quality than the British ones, maybe with a lifetime guarantee against curling covers and sat nav fitted as standard?

[Stephen Palmer]

Sehr gut, mein freind!

Your book will be considerably larger in terms of pages than the English version. I remember speaking to the fantasy author Jane Welch about it, she said her books were half as long again. In fact, I think one was split into two for the Deutsche edition...

[HareBrain]

Originally Posted by Stephen Palmer

Your book will be considerably larger in terms of pages than the English version. I remember speaking to the fantasy author Jane Welch about it, she said her books were half as long again.

But the word-count might still be lower, if my memory of German is anything to go by.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Originally Posted by Gary Compton

Does this mean the German books will be much better quality than the British ones, maybe with a lifetime guarantee against curling covers and sat nav fitted as standard?

If mass market paperback, they'll be of about the same quality as American paperbacks. Heyne published some of my books some time ago, and the pages are turning yellow around the edges. The cover stock is, I think, a tiny bit thicker. I don't know what their hardcovers are like.

And yes, my thin little volumes came out looking a lot more robust.

[DrMclony]

congratulations This is great news and I hope it brings you even more success

Every happy post of joyful success gives the rest of us reason to keep plodding :P Thanks!