French rights to Alan Moore’s 620,000 word magnum opus, JERUSALEM, have just been acquired by Inculte, who will publish in autumn 2017 – around the same time as the Brazilian, Italian and Spanish editions. (The English-language editions will come out in September 2016.)
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DARE TO DISAPPOINT sells in Holland
Dutch rights to DARE TO DISAPPOINT: Growing Up in Turkey by Özge Samanci (Farar, Straus, & Giroux) have sold to Soul Food Comics. Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Özge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and society demanded predictability. Her dad expected her, like her sister, to…
RIP Fatema Mernissi
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of the Moroccan sociologist and feminist, Fatema Mernissi, on the 30th of November. In addition to her rôle as professor of sociology at the University of Rabat, Fatema Mernissi was also a militant defender of human rights and democracy who affected whole generation of Moroccan intellectuals. In…
THE SCULPTOR Is Nominated!
The French edition of Scott McCloud’s THE SCULPTOR is nominated for The Fnac Prize, along with 30 others titles. This is a public prize, and the winner will be the book that gets the most votes. Fnac accounts for 20% of French comics market, and the winning book will have a big focus during all 2016 and…
DEAD MAN’S SWITCH wins the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award!
Congratulations to Sigmund Brouwer, winner of the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile/YA Crime Book for DEAD MAN’S SWITCH. Sigmund is represented by Transatlantic Literary Agency.
France Is in Mourning
Once is too often. Twice in ten months is impossible to support. As a sign of respect for the victims of Friday night’s barbaric attacks, most of whom were at the sites of the Bataclan on Boulevard Voltaire and at the Café La Belle Equipe on Rue de Charonne, both of which are within a…
THE CREEPY CASEFILES OF MARGO MALOO Are Coming to France!
After a spirited auction, French rights to Volumes 1 & 2 of THE CREEPY CASEFILES OF MARGO MALOO, Drew Weing’s new graphic novel series for kids about trolls, vampires, ogres, and things that go bump in the night, were acquired by Gallimard Bande Dessinée. Publication is scheduled for autumn 2016, to coincide with First Second’s US launch. We know…
MR. NATURAL is now in Spanish
“How to win friends and influence people. Discover Your Erroneous Zones. Travel optimism. The art of not embittering life. Reinvent and undertake. The Power of Now … Ditch all those self-help books! “Here comes Mr. Natural, our personal favorite guru, the one Mystic able to meditate deeply about the human condition while taking a nap.”…
Yes, WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE!
Congratulations to Daryl Gregory, whose WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE has won the award for Best Novella at the 2015 World Fantasy Awards! It is published in France as Nous allons tous très bien, merci by Le Bélial’. And here’s the poster the Publisher has produced to announce the award:
THE UNDERWATER FANCY-DRESS PARADE Finds a French Home!
THE UNDERWATER FANCY DRESS PARADE by Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys, from the new Scribble children’s books collection at Scribe Publications, has just been bought by Sarbacane. We can’t wait to see it in French! (But we’ll have to be patient until 2016…)
Lora Fountain Literary Agency 