Rights People News

April 15th, 2008

Rights People now representing Stimola Literary Studio in the UK

As of April 2008, Rights People will handle UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada for Rosemary Stimola’s fiction titles.






April 1st, 2008

THE DEVIL’S KISS sold in five territories

Following a very busy Bologna Book Fair, Rights People has sold rights to debut novelist Sarwat Chadda’s YA novel THE DEVIL’S KISS to Blanvalet/Penhaligon (Part of Random House) in Germany, Pocket Jeunesse in Fance, Arnoldo Mondadori in Italy, Livanis Publishing Organization in Greece and Editora Rocco in Brazil.






March 16th, 2008

Rights People now representing Luath Press’s children’s authors

As of March 2008, Rights People will be exclusively representing non-UK English language rights to children’s authors published by Luath Press, including 2007 Children’s Costa Award Winner Ann Kelley.






March 15th, 2008

German rights to SVETLANA GRIMM sold

Susanne Evans at Random House Germany has bought German rights to debut middle grade novel SVETLANA GRIMM AND THE CIRCLE OF RED from Rights People, on behalf of Erin Murphy Literary Agency. The novel by author Lewis Harris is about a girl named Stephanie who believes she is a vampire until an elderly neighbour reveals the truth. Stephanie is in fact a member of the Circle of Red, an elite group of vampire hunters, and only she can stop her blood-thirsty science teacher from sucking her classmates dry!

SVETLANA GRIMM AND THE CIRCLE OF RED will be published by Clarion in spring 2009.