In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonDecember 9 Our last Rights Roundup of the year features work selling into Galician Two sales reported so far: Les Éditions du Panseur is using this feline image to promote Isabelle Aupy’s ‘The Man Who Didn’t Like Cats Anymore,’ one of the books in today’s Rights Roundup By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson As we watch the end of a very long 2022 arrive much of the world book publishing industry is braced for deepening economic challenges Q4 is expected to be a second consecutive month of economic contraction technically the signal of the start of a recession and other regions also face inflationary and possibly recessionary headwinds is an old and effective form of diversification a way to hedge against falling consumer sentiment when discretionary household budgets may tighten even those most needed in a world beset with challenges can be the hardest—and yet the best—for which to sell rights Sometimes the slower sellers are among the most satisfying As we reported in July, Juliette Kayyem’s The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning To Live in an Age of Disasters (Hachette Book Group/Public Affairs) is one of the most relevant releases of the year And it’s one of the most internationally fluent works you’ll find about our exploding contemporary crises It’s not “the feel-good hit of the year,” but what it tells readers is central to our debates of the moment–precisely the kind of book that demonstrates why the world book industry is indispensable Kayyem, a former assistant secretary of Homeland Security in the Obama administration, writes about both international and domestic issues, events, analysis. The audiobook is a fine example of an author who knows how to read her own work But who can sell the rights to a book about the disasters we fear most? It turns out that Rebecca Gardner, Nora Gonzalez, and their colleagues at The Gernert Company can. They’ve just sold the Korean rights to the largest general trade publisher in South Korea: Seoul’s Minumsa Compared to stacks of rights sales for some books that deal might not seem the cue to form the conga line But those of us who watch these things carefully know that once a book is up on its feet and walking And what the compassionate Kayyem is telling her readers is how to understand and react (better) to the shocks and tremors and catastrophes we know are gaining power Many books—maybe every book—has something that requires a smart agent an innovative scout to get those rights sold It’s a lot of work and it lies at the very heart of the internationalism of the book business especially as we support it here at Publishing Perspectives Thanks to all of you for being part of another year of Rights Roundups We applaud all rights sales shared with us this year and look forward to highlighting more in 2023 it’s good to see the tougher deals closing we use some of the sales copy supplied to us by agents and rights directors editing that copy to give you an idea about a book’s nature and tone If you’d like to submit a deal to Publishing Perspectives see the instructions at the end of this article In How Winston Delivered Christmas: An Advent Story in 24-and-a-Half Chapters “Winston the mouse is on a very important mission he finds a letter that has gotten lost on its way to Father Christmas he sets out to deliver it himself in time for Christmas Day “Each chapter includes its very own festive activity for the family to enjoy together including writing a letter to Father Christmas an old man recalls his island and its inhabitants as they were before Before the day when suddenly all the cats disappeared with no explanation and were replaced by dogs “Such dogs people were asked to call ‘cats.'” “Rahel and Peter have been married for almost 30 years the love has taken its leave from their marriage intended to salvage what still remains between them and to answer the question of how and with whom they want to spend their later years.” “The luxurious Japanese spa Yasuragi just outside of Stockholm is a haven for the stressed-out inhabitants of the capital city “But when four people are found dead around the resort and there’s no denying that there must be a connection “The headstrong and fearless police detective is put on the case and she soon realizes that this is no ordinary investigation Will she be able to find the murderer before he gets another victim?” The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths  and sensual account of early deep sea exploration and its afterlives The Bathysphere Book begins with the first voyage to the deep ocean in 1930 and expands to explore the adventures and entanglements of its all-too-human participants at a time when the world still felt entirely new.” The book is called an “assemblage of brief chapters along with more than 50 full-color images records from the original bathysphere logbooks and the moving story of surreptitious romance between researchers William Beebe and Gloria Hollister that anchors their exploration “Brad Fox blurs the line between poetry and research unearthing and rendering a visionary meeting with the unknown.” but just when she’s presented with the chance to head a help center for gang members in Los Angeles a series of attacks attributed to the Hispanic community put her at risk “Through her attempt to escape from a plot that involves the upper echelons of American politics the novel explores the mechanisms of political far-right mafias in the present-day United States and the overall rise of anti-Latinx sentiment and other extremisms.” “Mathilde is forced to leave her teaching position after having an affair with an 18-year-old student and she moves to the picturesque Norwegian countryside “Her life becomes involved with the locals “But underneath the friendly and pastoral surface on the farm and wild snowball battles take place in winter the three friends face the bigger and the smaller adventures in their lives together.” Thomas Wellman is a comics artist and storyteller from Germany Panels from comics artist and writer Thomas Wellman’s series ‘Nita Do you have rights deals to report? Agents and rights directors can use our rights deal submission form to send us the information we need please send them to Porter@PublishingPerspectives.com More of Publishing Perspectives‘ rights roundups are here, and more from us on international rights trading is here Porter Anderson has been named International Trade Press Journalist of the Year in London Book Fair's International Excellence Awards He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives He formerly was Associate Editor for The FutureBook at London's The Bookseller Anderson was for more than a decade a senior producer and anchor with CNN.com which now is owned and operated by Jane Friedman You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed.