We decided to launch the agency after many months of deliberation. We were aware that there were numerous other agencies specialising in selling translation rights, usually from English into the languages of the countries where they live. but John’s experience of working with a variety of publishers around the world, combined with what he was seeing year on year at the major international book fairs, where rights transactions between foreign markets have grown expotenttially, and during his most recent tenure as Rights Director at Rodale - these factorsc onvinced us that there was a new opportunity, embracing but also transcending the traditional paradigm of selling English-language books to foreign publishers: that of selling rights of foreign language books into English and into other languages. We now represent 28 publishers and authors from 14 different countries and cover a variety of adult non-fiction subjects as well as children’s/young adult titles, and fiction. JOHN MIDGLEY