Anna Termine spends an hour teaching us all a great deal about subsidiary rights and foreign language rights sales.  Watch this video and use the materials Anna so generously provided.

Publishers and Agents

A great resource for foreign publisher lists and sub agents are the book fair exhibitor directories – you can search by country and this also has agents listed as well. Here are a few examples:

London Book Fair (held in April)  http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/exhibitor-directory/  .

Frankfurt Book Fair (held in October): http://catalog.services.book-fair.com/en/exhibitors-and-directories/exhibitors-a-z/letter/all/xoffset/0

Book Expo (BEA held the end of May/early June) in NYC the end of May,: http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/The-Floor/Exhibitor-List/#

New York Rights Fair (held the same time as BEA) http://www.newyorkrightsfair.com/exhibitor/directory-listing

Other key rights fairs are:

Bologna Children’s Books Fair held in late March/early April

Gothenburg Sweden Book Fair for Scandinavia in September

Guadalajara Mexico  Book Fair held in late November

 Here are the basics that should be included in a pitch email:

Subject line should say Translation rights available (specify language if it is not a blast email ie: Translations rights available: Spanish Language)

Short description of the book and table of contents

Any reviews

Author bio

Links to the book’s Web site/Amazon/ publicity – radio/tv

Catalog

Offer to send PDF’s or hard copies if interested.