International Book Deal

[Patrick Mahon]

Great news Mark! Is there any way for you to find out how many copies of the Italian version of Imperial Spy have been sold, or is that not information that gets back to the author with foreign rights deals?

[Mark Robson]

Originally Posted by Patrick Mahon

Great news Mark! Is there any way for you to find out how many copies of the Italian version of Imperial Spy have been sold, or is that not information that gets back to the author with foreign rights deals?

It is information that should get back to me eventually, Patrick, but by the time it reaches me it will be out of date. I do take particular heart, however, in the fact that they have not just taken up the option, but they are looking to translate it and publish it very quickly. That alone speaks volumes for how they think it's all going.

[Freda]

Terrific news about the translations, Mark. It is very weird for an author to see their work in another language! My 'Dracula the Undead' made it into Korean and they split a fairly slim book into TWO even slimmer volumes - very strange! I hope they will give you nice covers...

[Mark Robson]

Thanks, Freda. Nice to see you around again. I've been stupidly busy recently, so only seem to pop in briefly these days. Must try to catch up with you again properly soon. It seems ages since I came to Ashby.

[Mark Robson]

It's the New Year and time for another little fanfare announcement. I can now release that another translation deal has been struck, this time with Random House Books in Germany, who are buying the German translation rights for all the Imperial books and all of the Dragon Orb books. It's a very nice bonus to begin the year on such a positive note.

My understanding is that they intend to launch the Imperial books all at once in Autumn 2008 and then begin publishing the Dragon Orb books in Spring 2009, following the UK release programme, but roughly 6 months behind.

[Joel007]

That's great news Mark! First Germany, next the world!

[HoopyFrood]

Joel, you forgot the evil laugh!

Hem...

MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

Go you, Mark!

[M@.Price]

Great news mark...germany...the world...then the whole universe! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *Cough*

[Threddy]

u ruined it m@
u should have gone like the solar system, so that then someone else could have had galaxy and universe but you went too big.
Mweh - Mwahahahahahahahahahaha

[Lilly]

well done, thats brilliant.. you will know that you are world renowned when they publish it in afrikaans...

[Marky Lazer]

First Dutch, surely!

[Lilly]

every language comes before afrikaans, they are always near the bottom of the list!
so yes dutch, french, chinese.. they all come before!

[Dean F. Wilson]

Congrats Mark! That's a pretty sweet deal (which, I feel, ensures the likelihood that other languages won't be too far behind).

I'm sure Irish is pretty low on the list. Afrikaans might beat it easily

-D

[Mark Robson]

Thanks very much for your good wishes everyone. To date this means that aside from English, the Imperial books will be published in:

Italian, French, German, Danish & Romanian (for those who haven't read the thread all the way through.)

The German deal for the Dragon Orb books is the first such contract. I hope you're right, Dean, and that this is the first of many. It's certainly a very positive sign.

[M@.Price]

Wow, five languages! And English of course. Not bad at all.
Im sure the publishers will be quick to snap up deals on the dragon orb books.