Text acquires ‘Our Magic Hour’
Text Publishing has announced it has acquired Our Magic Hour by Melbourne writer Jennifer Down. Down’s manuscript was a runner-up for the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished...
Exisle acquires Rennie’s ‘Art in Nature’
Exisle has acquired Art in Nature, the first book by photographer David Rennie. Rennie was the 2013 winner of the Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year competition. His...
Fourth Estate acquires Australian debut
HarperCollins Australia has announced the acquisition of a debut novel by Australian writer Sandra Leigh Price.HarperCollins acquired ANZ rights to A Tabernacle for the Birds in a two-book deal with the...
HarperCollins signs three-book deal with bestselling self-published author
HarperCollins has signed a three-book deal with self-published Perth author Lili St. Germain. St. Germain’s self-published ‘Seven Sons’ series—a ‘dark romance set in the outlaw world of biker clubs’—has sold nearly...
Barclay joins Jane Curry Publishing
Jane Curry Publishing (JCP) has appointed Jennifer Barclay as international rights agent. Barclay, who is based on the Greek island of Tiros, will present the publisher’s books to European, US...
PubMatch unveils rights sales function
PubMatch, an international book rights database founded by Publishers Weekly and Combined Book Exhibit, has unveiled its new rights sales function at the London Book Fair, reports Publishers Weekly. Rights@PubMatch,...
Perth bookseller’s debut novel picked up in multiple countries
Multiple overseas rights to a debut novel by Perth bookseller Brooke Davis have been acquired ahead of its publication by Hachette Australia in July.Rights to Lost & Found have been...
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—Text has sold US and Israeli rights to the sequel to The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion) to Simon & Schuster and Miskal respectively; and US rights to an untitled...
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—Random House has sold German rights to Losing Kate (Kylie Kaden). Nonfiction—Exisle has sold North American rights to Younger Skin in 28 Days (Karen Fischer); Latvian rights to The Healthy...
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Canadian and French rights to Coal Creek (Alex Miller); Italian rights to The Ancestor Game (Alex Miller); Italian rights to Dinner at Rose’s (Danielle...
Rights round-up
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold rights to 20 x 3: Eliminate Your Belly Fat in an Hour a Week (Steve Boutcher) to Rupa Publications for an English-language edition in the Indian...
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has licensed stage adaptation rights to In Flanders Fields (Norman Jorgensen & Brian Harrison-Lever) to Spare Parts Puppet Theatre; and North American rights to The Amazing Spencer...
Walker Books creates international sales team; Vahtrick appointed sales executive for Northern, Eastern Europe
Walker Books has appointed a new sales team to manage all international sales of Walker Books UK, Candlewick Press and Walker Books Australia titles, reports the Bookseller. As part of...
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—Alex Adsett Publishing Services has signed a two book deal with Simon & Schuster for Chasing The Ace and Running The Red (Nicholas Johnson); has signed a three book...
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—Paul Collins at Ford Street has sold rights to The Beckoning (Paul Collins) to Damnation Books in the US. Children’s—Scholastic has licensed German rights to Peggy (Anna Walker); Korean...
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold world English language (ex ANZ) rights to The Death of Napoleon (Simon Leys) to New York Review of Books Classics. HarperCollins has sold German translation...
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—The Drummond Agency has sold world rights to books five and six in the ‘Tales from the Highland Gazette’ series (A D Scott) to Atria US, and to the already published...
Rights round-up
Sales Nonfiction—Exisle Publishing has sold rights to Growing Yourself Up (Jenny Brown) in the Netherlands and Belgium; French language rights to The Happiness Trap Pocket Book (Russ Harris & Bev...
Rights round-up
Sales Fiction—Jenny Darling & Associates has sold UK and Commonwealth rights ex-ANZ to The Dressmaker (Rosalie Ham, published in Australia by Duffy & Snellgrove) to Serpent’s Tail. Random House has...
Patricia Cornwell moves to HarperCollins
HarperCollins has acquired world English language rights to two new books from crime writer Patricia Cornwell. The author was previously published by Penguin in the US and Little, Brown in...