PRESS RELEASE – TWO-BOOK US RIGHTS DEAL FOR NEW BRITISH FANTASY WRITER
Margaret Halton, Rights Director at Pan Macmillan, has sold US rights in two fantasy novels by UK novelist Mark Charan Newton to Chris Schluep for a good five-figure sum in US dollars.
World rights in the novels, which open with Mark’s mainstream debut NIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR (to be published in hardback in the UK in June 2009), were acquired by Peter Lavery at Tor UK from John Jarrold in 2008.
Chris Schluep said: ‘I am so excited to be publishing NIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR, which is an absolutely wonderful book, and I’m very much looking forward to launching the U.S. career of an important and talented new writer in the field. I’m convinced that Mark has a bright future ahead of him; he’s one of those writers that you come across only on occasion . . .’
‘Chris acted quickly and with great enthusiasm. Mark and I are delighted, and looking forward to working with him and his colleagues at Del Rey, who I know well,’ said John Jarrold.
Share: 
11 responses so far ↓
1 Dave // Thursday, May 7th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Awesome stuff!
Congrats, Mark! And watch out Erikson and Martin! 
2 Adam Whitehead // Thursday, May 7th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Congrats!
3 Marco // Thursday, May 7th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Huzzah!!
4 TimK // Thursday, May 7th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Congratulations Mr. Newton.
5 Brian // Friday, May 8th, 2009 at 12:31 am
Congatulations, well done!
*Eats own face in jealousy*
6 Tim Akers // Friday, May 8th, 2009 at 1:35 am
I think we all knew it wouldn’t be long. Congratulations, sir.
7 Kate Elliott // Friday, May 8th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
That’s excellent news!
8 Aidan from A Dribble of Ink // Friday, May 8th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Nice to see Del Rey has some taste left!
9 Mark C Newton // Saturday, May 9th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Thanks very much everyone! Plans for global domination well under way…
10 Racism In SFF? // Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 9:18 pm
[...] fair to say that people were more concerned about the content of my book rather than question my ethnic background. We’re not dealing with the BNP [...]
11 Thoughts On 2009 // Monday, December 21st, 2009 at 5:13 pm
[...] I’ve learned #3 – The View From The Skyscraper Window. Random House bought Nights of Villjamur for the US, and it’ll be published by Bantam Spectra (with the same [...]
Leave a Comment