Jeff Carlson reports that Japanese rights to his s self-published novel The Frozen Sky sold to Tokyo Sogen in a “solid” deal via Cameron McClure of the Donald Maass Literary Agency.

In The Frozen Sky, “Something is alive inside Jupiter’s ice moon Europa. Robot probes find an ancient tunnel beneath the surface, its walls carved with strange hieroglyphics. Led by elite engineer Alexis Vonderach, a team of scientists descends into the dark… where they confront a savage race older than mankind…”

The book is based on a short story by the same name which was a quarterly first-prize winner in the Writers of the Future contest in 2007.