30.09.09 - Gollancz acquires The Wild Hunt

It finally happened. Those lovely people at Gollancz, home of the finest fantasy and sci-fi, decided they would splash an embarrassingly large sum of money to acquire the world rights to The Wild Hunt. Cue demented giggling and random exclamations of an Anglo-Saxon nature (I could write what I actually said, but my mum might be reading this).

No less a personage than Gollancz associate publisher Jo Fletcher said:

"There is no shortage of good books out there, but when you read a really great novel you know, instantly, that you have an absolute gem in your hands. This is one of those rareties: an unputdownable fast-paced adventure with characters who leap off the page at you and leave you begging for their stories."

Oh my. She then added:

"It's the sort of fantasy that reminds me why I fell in love with this genre; if I were not a grown-up and able to sit up all night when I choose, I would have been reading this under the covers by torchlight until I'd turned that very last page."

Gosh. <blushes>

Read the full announcement in theBookseller.com.