We have an extra long edition this month to fill the long summer days. Our Short Stay in Hell keeps growing, and we have some great — The Great Gatsby in fact — new fiction which we highlight at the end of our newsletter this month. In Fiction will become a regular addition to Tale of Two Agents given the many successes of our talented authors. 

Enjoy the ride, and your summer reading! 

June Deal Highlights

Our New Partners

Qomix Classics

“QOMIX Classics is building the Library of the Future — reimagining the world’s greatest literature as visually stunning, collectible graphic narratives.”

We are super-excited to be partnering with Qomix, and have seen nothing else like it in the market. Distributed by IPG in the US and UK, whose summary best captures their mission:  the imprint's ambition is singular — to build the world's first Library of Universal Classics, Comicised (LUCC): the great works of world literature, across cultures and traditions, transformed into stunning, sophisticated comic-graphic narratives available in print and digital formats. 

These are not abridgements or retellings. Each adaptation retains the original language, syntax, tone and atmosphere of the text, overseen by highly skilled writer-editors and literary scholars to ensure interpretive integrity. 

Current titles include Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby,Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher (and Other Stories), Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Shelley's Frankenstein, among others — with a rapidly expanding catalogue to follow. Qomix Classics is also committed to creating unabridged, annotated editions of the great Shakespearean texts — beginning with Macbeth.

Quaderer Media Group

After spending 17 years as a banker on Wall Street, publisher and founder Joseph Quaderer left finance to pursue his passion for storytelling. Here are some of the treasures he has found: 

IN FICTION