First of all, what are rights? When a publisher acquires your book, what they're really acquiring are underlying rights that get spelled out in the contract. A U.S. publisher, for example, may acquire the North American rights to your book, meaning you, the author, can sell rights to other territories. If you have an agent, that agent works with a network of other agents around the world who know their particular market and the publishers in it. If a publisher acquires World rights, then the publisher is responsible for placing foreign rights (often using the same set of co-agents). TV/film rights are often placed with a TV/film co-agent. If your publisher didn't retain audio, your agent can place those directly.

Foreign Rights

My agency's foreign rights are managed by Sandy Hodgman of Hodgman Literary. We sell rights directly in the UK, Netherlands, India and Arabic language. For all other territories, we collaborate with respected co-agents to ensure book properties are well represented to publishers in each respective market.

TV/Film

My agency's TV/film rights are handled in a variety of ways. If you are interested in optioning one of the agency's properties, please email me and I will refer you to the TV/film agent handling the project.

Audio

If you're interested in licensing the audio rights of one of the agency's properties, please email me.

CO-AGENTS
Brazil:
The Foreign Office
China:
Grayhawk Agency
Eastern Europe:
Andrew Nurnberg Associates
France:
Agence Lapautre
Germany:
Mohr Books
Greece:
JLM Agency
Hebrew:
Deborah Harris Agency
Italy:
Berla Griffini Rights Agency
Japan:
Japan Uni Agency
Korea:
Duran Kim Agency
Poland:
Book/lab
Portugal:
The Foreign Office
Russia:
Andrew Nurnberg Associates
Scandinavia:
Ia Atterholm
Spain:
The Foreign Office
Taiwan:
Grayhawk Agency
Turkey:
AnatoliaLit
Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia:
Grayhawk Agency