Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky Literary Agency is reporting a lot of foreign rights sales.
Peter Brett’s debut fantasy novel, tentatively entitled The Painted Man, picked up three more sales. Rights went to Unicorn in Greece, to AST in Russia, and to Heyne in Germany, “which won rights to Painted Man and two sequels in a heated auction for a major five-figure advance.” The three books have previously sold in major five figure deals to Bragelonne in France and Harper Voyager in the UK.
Tobias Buckell sold Czech rights to Ragamuffin to Jules Verne Club.
Solaris bought the British rights to the first six books in Simon Green‘s “Nightside” series. In France, l’Atalante bought the rights to his Deathstalker Return. Polaris extended their Czech licenses on the first three Hawk & Fisher novels.
In the UK, Jo Fletcher at Orion “made a major ten-book buy of Charlaine Harris titles, taking All Together Dead and From Dead to Worse in the Sookie Stackhouse series along with the Sookie novels scheduled for 2009 and 2010, as well as An Ice Cold Grave in the Harper Connelly series, and the entire Lily Bard series of Shakespeare’s Landlord, Shakespeare’s Champion, Shakespeare’s Christmas, Shakespeare’s Trollop, and Shakespeare’s Counselor.” In other Harris news, J’ai Lu will be publishing new trade paper editions of the Sookie Stackhouse books in France, while Germany’s DTV will be publishing An Ice Cold Grave and the anthology Many Bloody Returns, which Harris co-edited with Toni L.P. Kelner. And Luitingh in the Netherlands bought rights to Dead to the World.
John Hemry, writing as Jack Campbell, sold Russian rights to Lost Fleet: Dauntless and Lost Fleet: Fearless to AST via subagent Alexander Korzhenevski.
Tanya Huff‘s “Blood” books will be published by J’ai Lu in France. Feder & Schwert in Germany bought rights to the Vicki/Henry short story collection Blood Bank, VGS bought German rights to do Blood Ties tie-in editions of the entire “Blood” series.
John Moore sold Czech rights to A Fate Worse than Dragons to Polaris.
Brandon Sanderson‘s Mistborn and Well of Ascension sold to EKSMO in Russia.