The star of the danmei wuxia television series ‘Word of Honor’ has catapulted a volume of Neil Gaiman stories onto the Chinese bestseller lists.
Rights Roundup: A Monstrous 31 Rights Sales for a Trilogy in Finland
Titles in this Rights Roundup come from Finland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Italy, and they include a single entry with 31 rights sales.
Licensing News: ‘Ninja Life Hacks’ and Insight Editions
A series of children’s ‘life hacks,’ each addressing an emotion or experience, is being developed in extended formats.
Struan Murray, Ben Horslen Win the UK’s Branford Boase Award
The illustrated debut novel ‘Orphans of the Tide’ wins the 2021 Branford Boase Award, which honors both authors and their editors.
Rights Roundup: Becoming Conscious of Consciousness
Today’s Rights Roundup has material originating in French, Arabic, English, Finnish, and Italian, altogether selling into at least 30 markets.
Singapore’s Asian Festival of Children’s Content Draws More Than 3,000 Views
Making quick adjustments when a new level of COVID-19 alert went into effect, Singapore’s Book Council mounted the AFCC digitally.
Rights Roundup: Nostalgia, Uncertainty, an ‘Ex-Son,’ and ‘Lost Words’
Rights Roundup today includes titles from Russia, Catalonian Spain, Turkey, Australia, Germany, Chile, and the Belarusian struggle.
China Bestsellers: TikTok Helps Boost Michaelides’ ‘Silent Patient’
Recommendations on TikTok and other media push Alex Michaelides’ bestselling debut onto the charts in China in May.
Taiwan’s Pei-Hsin Cho Wins $15,000 Illustration Award at Bologna
The winner of Bologna’s 2021 International Award for Illustration, Taiwanese illustrator Pei-Hsin Cho, is part of an exhibition that this year drew more than 3,200 submissions.
Bologna Book Fair Names Its Children’s Publishers of the Year
The winners of this year’s publishing-house awards are based in Tanzania, Switzerland, Iran, the United States, Colombia, and New Zealand.