Dear Reader,

I am pleased to announce that I have recently accepted an offer from Stockholm publisher Earbooks for Swedish rights to “The Jewel of Medina.” This is the newest deal cut by our Scandinavian agent Phillip Sane of the Lennart Sane Agency, who promises more publishing opportunities in the near future. “Jewel’s” German publisher, Pendo Verlag, already holds German distribution rights in Sweden.

The contract, on which the ink is barely dry, adds Sweden to a list of 20 publishers, including Beaufort Books of New York, the book’s U.S. publisher, which launched the book Oct. 6. The book is also available in Germany, where it was published Nov. 2; Italy, where Newton Compton published it Oct. 16, Serbia, where Beobook published it in mid-August, withdrew it, then re-published it Sept. 14 (and where it was the number-one best seller for two months); and Denmark, where Pressto Kommunikation published it Nov. 27. In Spain, Ediciones B plans to debut the novel Feb. 4, 2009.

Publication is pending in Hungary, Russia, Greece, Macedonia, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Romania, Albania, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Poland, and Bulgaria.

Keep reading!

Sherry