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P.J. Lynch doing new covers for classic children’s trilogy
Best-selling children’s author Marita Conlon-McKenna’s most famous books are getting a great makeover. PJ Lynch, Ireland’s most celebrated children’s illustrator, is creating new covers for all three...
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German cover for The Poison Throne
We have just seen the cover approach being used by Heyne, the German publisher for The Poison Throne by Celine Kiernan: they are calling it “SchattenPfade” which, the internet assures me, translates...
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Alice goes to Portugal
One of the very best bits about this publishing game is when a foreign edition of one of our books hits the desk. It is the culmination of a process that starts with meeting an editor or scout at a...
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Another country conquered!
Well, you can now get OBP books in another country, as copies of our first Albanian editions have arrived in the office! It’s amazing that so many countries, and small countries at that, can justify...
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Children of the Famine new covers again
Well, PJ Lynch has finished the covers, Emma has worked her magic with the type and the new books are at the printers now, going on sale in a couple of weeks. It has been great to see these lovely new...
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Two More Eastern European Epics
Please accept my apologies if all these foreign covers are boring you, but I just find them endlessly fascinating! It’s also a little unusual to get two new international editions of a book in within...
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An artist talks about creating covers
There is a lovely piece here by Elise Hurst, the artist who has created the new covers for The Moorehawke Trilogy in Australia. You can see the cover for The Poison Throne to the left. She talks about...
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Love in a Time of War
Debut novelist Susan Lanigan talks about the inspirations behind White Feathers. In my diary dated 22nd February 2009, I have a list of short story ideas. One appears at the top, for the first time:...
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