Here’s the Swedish cover of The Light We Lost from Albert Bonniers Forlag–except in Sweden the book’s title translates to The World Without You. And the tagline says (so I’m told): On life choices, passion, September 11 and finding the first really big love.
I really love the gorgeous hand-lettered type face my name and the title are in on this one.
The Danish publisher of The Light We Lost sent over a beautiful jacket for their edition. Check it out!
I’m told that the tagline translates to: When the first love is the strongest. I think that’s such a perfect encapsulation of this story.
My UK publisher, HQ Stories, sent The Light We Lost to Sarah Morgan, the USA Today bestselling author of the From Manhattan With Love books, and she liked it! Here’s what she said: “Emotional and heartbreaking. I predict a global tissue shortage.” Thank you so much, Sarah! (I’ll start stockpiling tissues now.)
HQ, a imprint of HarperCollins UK, is publishing the British edition of The Light We Lost, and they have some proofs over there for early readers to check out. These are some pictures the HQ team took. I’m really loving that rose-gold foil..
So excited to share that The Light We Lost is going to be available in 28 languages in way-more-than-28 countries around the world. Here’s the list of the wonderful, enthusiastic publishers who are going to be sharing Lucy, Gabe, and Darren’s story across the globe. (Huge shout out to the subsidiary rights licensing team at Penguin who has absolutely blown me away.)
It was so lovely to see The Bookseller announce the deal for The Light We Lost in the UK. (HQ, an imprint of HarperCollins, will be publishing it there, releasing it in August 2017, just like Putnam will be doing in the US.)
Here’s the article, if you’d like to click for more info.
Thanks to Google Alerts, I found out that there was an article written about me and The Light We Lost in Dutch! And thanks to Google Translate, I sort of found out what it said. Here’s the article. And here’s the translation:
Prometheus, following an auction acquired the rights to “The Light We Lost,” a novel about love written by the American author Jill Santopolo Book Journal reports.The novel has been sold to eight countries in three weeks, including Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway and Brazil. Remarkable, this international attention. It is not often that a major title is auctioned everywhere so quickly during the holiday season. The Light We Lost is the story of a love triangle, about a woman who must choose between two lovers: her great childhood sweetheart Gabriel, who left her as a war photographer to travel around the world but with whom she has always maintained a passionate relationship, and her husband Darren, with whom she now has two children. Jill Santopolo, according to her website, has twelve children’s books and two books for teens to her name. With The Light We Lost she focuses for the first time on adults as a target group. Source: Boekblad
There’s something especially exciting about being written about in a language I don’t know…
So thrilled to be announce that The Light We Lost will also be published in Germany, Denmark, China, and the U.K.! This is a screen grab of the announcement in Publisher’s Marketplace.
Look what came in the mail from Paris: Sparkle Spa #4 in French! In English it’s called True Colors, but in French, it’s called (I think) Enemy Sisters, which makes perfect sense as a title for this one.
Et voila! Three French Sparkle Spa books! In French the series is called “Sequins and Friends at the Beauty Salon,” and Aly and Brooke are named Lise and Elodie. How cool is that? The fact that kids in France can read these books now makes me so happy.
