Grandes noticias…

I’m between blog-entries right now. Odd I know, but I have a long-ish blog entry in the offering that I’m trying to squeeze in between being a dad, work and writing fiction, yet I reckon the following was worth a little blog entry on its own...

I’m delighted to announce that the Spanish translation rights to The Secret War have been sold to La Factoria de Ideas for an undisclosed sum plus royalties. I’m quite excited about this, as La Factoria de Ideas contacted me direct through the MFWCurran.com website (and I pointed them in the direction of Pan Macmillan who handle the rights sales); so I feel more than just a cog this time in the selling of the rights - it shows that having a website can pay off in more ways than just the obvious publicity. Other reasons for being excited is that La Factoria de Ideas publish the Spanish translations of Clive Barker amongst others (as someone said to me, it’s one step away from God) and sells not only to Spain, but the US and the South Americas, so there’s the potential for a very large readership.

It’s expected the Spanish edition of The Secret War will publish sometime in 2010, not far off the German edition of the Hoard of Mhorrer. If “La Guerra Secreta” sells well, then The Hoard of Mhorrer may well be snapped up too – so here’s hoping Spanish speakers everywhere enjoy my brand of vampire/demon slaying!