The Blade Itself in Taiwan
Fantasy Foundation Publications are putting out The First Law in Taiwan:
Always fascinating how different publishers with different markets choose to present the same book. I believe this is the 26th translation deal for The Blade Itself, if you can credit that. It’s rather wonderful to think of such diverse people thrilling, thrilling I say, to stuff that I basically dreamed up in the middle of the night for my own amusement. So my thanks to the wonderful editors and rights agents at Orion who’ve put all these deals together over the last seven or eight years, and my thanks to all the far-flung publishers who’ve taken a chance on the books. I won’t thank the readers. MY FANTASTIC WORK IS THANKS ENOUGH.
Thanks, readers.
Should you have considerably better command of traditional Chinese than I, you can order a copy at one of these online retailers.
And while we’re about it, here’s their forthcoming Before They are Hanged:
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