New Foreign Rights Sales for the Southern Reach Trilogy (and digging out and digging in)

So, there has been more good news for the Southern Reach series (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) on the foreign rights front. The Spanish rights have sold to the absolutely first-rate publisher Seix Barral and the Dutch rights have sold to the equally high-class De Bezige Bij. Just as good: Andrea Cannobio at Einaudi took the Italian rights. They all publish some of my favorite authors.Some more information on the deals mentioned in a prior blog post. The trilogy went to Nicholas Pearson at Fourth Estate, in a six-figure pre-empt; to Iris Tupholme at Harper Canada, in another six-figure pre-empt, to Intrinseca in Brazil, in a pre-empt as well.Hungarian rights have also sold, but I'm waiting for details before posting about that, and a few other deals will come through in the next week or two. I'm just...well, stunned, appreciative, over-the-moon--these are just powerhouse publishers.I'll also have more information on the publication schedule for the Southern Reach trilogy through FSG in the U.S. and, hopefully, some updates on the progress on the possible movies.I'm currently digging in to finish off the second and third novels in the trilogy. But I'm also hoping in the coming weeks to blog more--and not updates but actual posts about craft, along with some reviews of books read recently. I'm off of social media until November, and only on the internet very rarely now. One nice thing about being off the internet for long stretches is you find your attention span comes back to you, and I'm having a great time diving into some very long, very convoluted, and very satisfying novels.More soonish.P.S. Karen Joy Fowler asked for a wild animal encounter--I gave her this post about seeing a Florida panther. It kind of fits with the Southern Reach series, since the landscape, transformed, is really the North Florida trails I've hiked for the past 15 years.