Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Good News!

Sorry for the long silence! I've been busy writing. I finished two first drafts in the last two weeks. One is the draft for the sequel to THE OTHER LIFE and the other is a secret project (nicknamed ALOMF).
BUT that's not the good news I wanted to tell you.
Here it is (from Publishers Marketplace):


Rights to Susanne Winnacker's THE OTHER LIFE, to Anja Schleicher at Heyne in Germany, in a two-book deal, at auction, and to Fernando Baracchini at Novo Conceito in Brazil, by Alex Webb at Rights People on behalf of Julia Churchill at Greenhouse Literary Agency.



THE OTHER LIFE goes international!



Brazil and Germany. *happydance*



Maybe I should start learning Portuguese and plan a visit to Brazil!



I don't need to plan a trip to Germany nor do I have to learn the language.



I live in Germany and German is my first language and my family doesn't speak English well enough to read my books in English, so it was very important for me that my book would be translated into German.



And Heyne? They are part of Random House and a fabulous publisher. They publish writers like Stephen King, John Grisham, Patricia Briggs (who writes the Mercy Thompson series that I loooove) and Julie Kagawa's Iron Fey series.



Long story short: I couldn't be happier.

8 comments:

Kathy Bradey said...

YEEY!!!!!!!!!

TOL takes its first steps to WORLD DOMINATION! Ahahaha ;)

So excited for you, Sus! This is fantastic news!

<333

Lindsay said...

Yay. Congrats!

Jaydee Morgan said...

Congrats - that is good news!

Meredith McCardle said...

Congrats!! Such awesome news!

Miranda Hardy said...

Congrats! Great news, you should be proud.

Katie Ashley said...

Aw, congrats! That's amazing!!! And so exciting it will be in your native language for your family!!! Awesome!

Connie Keller said...

Congratulations!!! What wonderful news.

Samantha VĂ©rant said...

Awesome! Awesome! Congrats! Super news!