A Tale of Two Agents: Chapter Forty-Five. Your DropCap Holiday Round-Up
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
As the year wraps up, and we wrap up warmly in our part of the world, we thank all of you for spending 2024 with us. Thanks to you, we have had fantastic open rates on this newsletter and our other Featured Titles e-mail blasts. We love sharing our news with you, here and in person, and look forward to an exciting 2025 together.
November Highlights
Carry Your Own Backpack (Scribe/Lioncrest)
Editorial Trillas — Spanish
Modern Achievement (Amplify Publishing Group)
Jaico — English Reprint (India)
Return on Ambition (Greenleaf Book Group)
Van Lang Culture Joint Stock Company + CA-LINK International LLC — Vietnamese
Reset Mindset (Amplify Publishing Group)
Manjul — English Reprint (India)
Fear Traps (Berry Powell Press)
Notos Kitap — Turkey
Dear Eliza (Flashpoint)
Fika + LENA Agency — Korean
Sonia and the Super-Duper Disaster (Free Spirit Publishing)
Gama + Livia Stoia Agency — Romanian
Included (Educate2Empower Publishing)
Gaby Books S.r.l. — Italian
New Partners
Post Hill Press joins us this month as our newest publisher client. Founded in 2013 by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and book industry professionals, Post Hill Press has successfully published a wide spectrum of books, with a focus on the categories of pop culture, business, self-help, health, politics, and memoirs. We’ll be working on those most suited for global travel including:
We are also starting our partnership with Dexterity Books on their top sellers. Self-described “Book People with Startup Hustle,” both their in-house team and the Dexterity Collective that is now more than 100+ book publishing professionals, believes in the power of books to make a difference.
News from FIL Guadalajara
Allison met with many Spanish language editors & publishers at this year’s Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), the most well-attended (907,300 visitors) in its 38-year history. In addition to the amazing weather and kindest hosts, FIL is a special mix of business-to-business during the day (over 18,000 publishing professionals), and the public in the evenings for numerous cultural events, live music and the gathering of friends and colleagues. It made for a primed atmosphere for licensing Spanish language rights to many of our titles. News of these deals to follow in our forthcoming chapter after the New Year.
Award News
Congratulations to Finding Mr. Trunks (Familius), winner of the prestigious 2024 PenCraft Book Award. Annemarie Riley Guertin’s heartwarming picture book highlights the positive impact of social media and brings people together to help #FindMrTrunks.
We’re also delighted to share that In the Garden Behind the Moon (Girl Friday Books) by Alexandra Chan has won the American Bookfest 2024 Award for Multicultural Non-Fiction. It was also a finalist in several other categories:
Finalist in Parenting & Family
Finalist in Self-Help: General
Finalist in Spirituality: General
We’re so proud of all of our authors and the publishers who help them shine.
In March 2025 we will be at
the London Book Fair!
