Once a year, the entire world of publishing gathers in one hall to buy and sell the rights that carry books across borders. This October, Red Penguin is bringing our authors with us — and we’ve built four clear, tangible ways for your book to make the trip.
Frankfurter Buchmesse has been the industry’s meeting point since 1949 — the place where translation, territorial, and subsidiary rights actually change hands. It isn’t a consumer book fair; it’s a working marketplace of publishers, foreign scouts, and rights buyers from over 100 countries, all in Frankfurt for five days to make deals.
That’s the room Red Penguin is walking into on your behalf this year. The four levels below determine how far into that room your book travels — from a line in our digital catalogue, all the way to a face-to-face introduction with a foreign publisher.
Every level below builds on the one before it — nothing is ever taken away as you move up. Only Dealmaker includes direct meetings with foreign publishers.
Materials due Sept 15
Materials due Sept 15
Materials due Sept 15
Only Dealmaker includes individual meetings with foreign publishers. Every level gives your book real, tangible visibility at Frankfurt — Dealmaker is the one where we’re actively pitching it in the room. And no matter your level, an extra book in the same series never costs more than $75 — only a standalone, unrelated title costs more to add.
Let us know which level you’d like, and send over your final cover, blurb, and (for Showcase, Spotlight & Dealmaker) a copy of your book — all by September 15, to make print and shipping deadlines.