As every year, the Pontas Agency travels to New York to meet editors and scouts in their own offices. Maria Cardona was the one attending on behalf of the Pontas team. Maria also took the time to catch up with many Pontas authors who either live in New York or were passing by the big apple. There are more editors and
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Basque author Kirmen Uribe is a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow 2018-2019, where he is working on his new novel titled The Book She Writes, inspired by Edith Wynner’s life, the secretary of Rosika Schwimmer, a Hungarian feminist, suffragist and peace activist who lived in the United States in the 1920s till her death in 1948. By the way,
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As every year, the Pontas Agency travels to New York to meet editors and scouts in their own offices. This year, Maria Cardona was the one attending on behalf of the Pontas team. There are more editors and imprints in the US eager to acquire international fiction, both in English and in translation. In three days of meetings, Maria met with more than
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As every year, Pontas travels to New York to meet editors and scouts in their own offices and take the pulse of the publishing industry. This year, Maria Cardona was the one attending on behalf of the Pontas team. There are more editors and imprints in the US eager to acquire international fiction, both in English and in translation. In
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This 2016, several novels by authors represented by the Pontas Agency have been published or are about to be published in the United States (and distributed also in Canada). It’s always fascinating to witness the process from sending a submission of a novel to an editor and then following up their interest; to selling them the
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Jessica Craig recently traveled to New York for her first office meetings with US editors since starting with Pontas last September. Her days were full of meetings at some of the major publishing houses: Penguin Random House, Little, Brown, and HarperCollins. There are more editors and imprints in the US eager to acquire new fiction than
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