US REPORT FROM FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2018

 

ADELAIDE BOOKS NEWS & EVENTS

 

ADELAIDE BOOKS LLC

AT THE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2018

 
The Official Report
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Adelaide Book owners Adelaide Franco and Stevan Nikolic with austrian-swiss author Alexander Günsberg

 

 

The Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany, took place from Wednesday, October 10, to Sunday, October 14, 2018. The organizers welcomed 7309 exhibitors from 102 countries and 286425 visitors from 137 countries.

 

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's largest international trade fair for books and magazines. This annual fair was founded in 1949 and is open to trade visitors only, except for the last two days of the fair when the access of the general public is allowed.

 

Adelaide Books LLC took part in this year’s Fair as an exhibitor with its own booth display on the ground floor of the Hall 6 which mostly housed publishers, distributors, and literary agencies from the United States, Canada, Japan, and Israel. United States was one of the largest exhibitors’ groups with over 400 participating publishers.

 

This year’s Frankfurt Fair was very successful for Adelaide Books. We presented to foreign literary agents and publishers 44 of our already released and 79 of upcoming titles. Our publishing list received much attention and compliments during the five days of the Fair, which all resulted in 16 of our titles being taken by foreign literary agents and publishers for consideration for publishing. We will send detailed individual notifications to the authors of the works selected. The titles that got most of the attention were following:

 

THE SPEED OF DARK – Memoir by Joram Piatigorsky,selected for publishing consideration by literary agents and publishers from GERMANY, POLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, TURKEY, GEORGIA, PERU, VENEZUELA, RUSSIA, ISRAEL and BRAZIL

TONI MORGAN’S TRILOGY – Novels by Toni Morgan selected for publishing consideration by literary agents and publishers from INDIA and JAPAN

 

TWO-HEARTED CROSSING and PATRIMONY – Novels by Toni Morgan selected for publishing consideration by a publishers from CANADA and TURKEY

 

THEY – A novel by Janet Mason, selected for publishing consideration by literary agency representing GERMAN, POLISH, and CZECH REPUBLIC publishers.

THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF TOUSSAINT – A novel by Keith Madsen, selected for publishing consideration by literary agency representing GERMAN, POLISH, and CZECH REPUBLIC publishers, and by TURKEY and PERU publishers

THE HOLDOUT – A novel by Gracjan Kraszewsky, selected for publishing consideration by literary agency representing GERMAN, POLISH, and CZECH REPUBLIC publishers, and by TURKEY and PERU publishers.

THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE GOLEM – A novel by Jerry Levy, selected for publishing consideration by literary agency representing GERMAN, POLISH, and CZECH REPUBLIC publishers, and by TURKEY and PERU publishers.

 

THE LONELINESS CAFÉ – A collection of short stories by Richard Dokey, , selected for publishing consideration by literary agents and publishers from UK, TURKEY, PERU, and VENEZUELA

I HEARD A FISH CRY- A collection of short stories by Carolyn Light Bell , selected for publishing consideration by literary agents and publishers from UK, TURKEY, PERU, and VENEZUELA

 

LIKE WATER TO STONE and WHERE THE LEAVES DARKEN – Collections of poems by Steven Pelcman, selected for publishing consideration by a publisher from SOUTH AFRICA

 

GROWING WITH THE SHADOWS – A collection of poems by Dr. Raymond Fenech, selected for publishing consideration by publishers from SOUTH AFRICA and BRAZIL 

 

During the Fair, Joram Piatigorsky and Steven Pelcman, two of our authors, honored us with their presence. During the last day of the Fair, Joram Piatigorsky had a well-attended book signing season at our booth.

Acquiring publishing rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair is usually a “two-way street.” Adelaide Books acquired publishing rights for three novels and two collection of short stories by a renown author from Switzerland, an inspirational book and two collections of poetry by authors from Israel, and we are still considering works by authors from South Africa, UK, and Brazil. All in all, we expect to add another twelve titles to our already rich list.