What is your role at the agency? I’m a Translation Rights Agent. My role is to get our authors publishing deals in other languages. We (the Rights Team) are across all the books at the agency. We develop pitches for the books and send them to editors/publishers/rights teams in other countries with the aim of…
Category: Translation Rights
We’re hiring – Junior Rights Agent
Vacancy: Junior Rights Agent A great full-time opportunity for an enthusiastic Junior Rights Agent to join our dynamic literary agency in Fulham, London, to work on our international rights and sell some of the world’s bestselling fiction authors globally. This role would suit a proactive Rights Assistant or Executive, or someone who has worked in scouting…
A Guide to International Rights
It wouldn’t be an Open Week without a closer look at one key part of the Agency, our International Rights Team. Whilst we are a London based Agency, our reach extends far beyond the Channel. Our brilliant team work tirelessly to get our author’s books published in territories and languages across the world. Made up…
Meet the Team – Mary Darby
What is your role at the agency? Head of International Rights. I oversee the agencies’ authors’ translation rights, more specifically handling language rights in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, France and the Nordic territories. How did you get into publishing? I’ve been in the DA Rights Team since 2011 – when I joined, I was also…
Getting Into Publishing – Emma Winter Rights Assistant
‘Don’t worry, you’ll get there soon enough’ and ‘If it’s worth getting, it’s worth waiting for’ were among the many platitudes that kept me going whilst trying to get a job in publishing. Having graduated in 2011, with a BA Hons in American Literature and Creative Writing, there was nothing I really wanted to do more…
We’re Back!
Welcome back to the Darley Anderson blog after our summer/Frankfurt Book Fair break. Did you miss us? We missed you. Hope you’ve all had a brilliant time in the sun reading only great stories and that the writing process has been kind to those of you who write. We’re excited to get going again and…