Fantasy Book Critic: Del Rey acquires Robert VS Redick’s trilogy, Solaris purchases UK rights to Simon R. Green’s Nightside series, Tor's Salvatore Sweepstakes + more!
Del Rey acquires Robert VS Redick’s trilogy, Solaris purchases UK rights to Simon R. Green’s Nightside series, Tor's Salvatore Sweepstakes + more!
NY & UK – February 3, 2008. Susan Howe, Rights Director at Orion, has sold the US rights for the debut fantasy trilogy by American author Robert V.S. Redick to Random House’s imprint Del Rey for a substantial six-figure sum after a hard-fought auction negotiated by Editor-in-Chief Betsy Mitchell.
World rights for the Chathrand Voyage trilogy, which opens with “The Red Wolf Conspiracy” (published in the UK on February 1, 2008), were acquired pre-emptively by Simon Spanton at Gollancz from John Jarrold in 2007.
The US deal follows translation deals for “The Red Wolf Conspiracy” (Reviewed HERE) in France, Germany, Poland, Russia and Spain.
In other news, Solaris Books recently purchased the first six books in Simon R. Green’s Nightside series for UK publication.
The Nightside is Simon R. Green’s New York Times bestselling series set in a seedy, supernatural shadow version of contemporary London.
Solaris will publish Simon R. Green’s first six Nightside books in three omnibus editions in mass-market paperback, summer 2008.
Read HERE for the full press release.
Moving on, R. A. Salvatore is one of fantasy's most prolific and acclaimed authors. Now you can enter Tor's Salvatore Sweepstakes for a chance to win a call-in from the writer himself, autographed copies of The Ancient, and/or a signed extended author interview on DVD for your book club.
To celebrate the release of “The Ancient”, a grand-prize winner and three runner-ups will be chosen once a week for six weeks, starting March 4th, 2008. By April 7th, 2008, a total of six book clubs may be eligible for an author call-in and 18 runner-ups may receive an autographed DVD.
Entries accepted starting January 31, 2008. Sign up HERE and get the complete Official Rules HERE. Even better, starting February 7, 2008, Fantasy Book Critic will be offering even more chances for readers to win a COPY of “The Ancient”!
Now, in addition to the brand new Wild Cards website that launched in December, George R. R. Martin and the authors of “Inside Straight” have contributed all original narrative and scintillating “behind the scenes” material to a new “American Heroes” blog. Each week, the narrative follows the characters of Inside Straight as they compete—some surviving for another round and others getting voted off the show.
Featuring all original artwork by Mike Miller, the “American Heroes” website shows visual profiles of each character and "confessionals" from the individual superheroes.