Reverting Rights

Tue 25 Mar 2025 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , , | Posted by: Gavin

This is to note that we’re reverting — by Angélica Gorodischer’s estate’s request — rights on two of the three of her books that we have in print: Kalpa Imperial (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin) and Prodigies (translated by Sue Burke). The contract for Trafalgar (translated by Amalia Gladhart), which I had already extended once, runs until March 2026. At that point I expect the estate will ask for those rights to be reverted, too.

This means our ebook edition will stop being available soon. The print editions will still be available at a few excellent stores — such as Alienated Majesty in Austin, TX, and Moon Palace in Minneapolis, MN — but bookshops will no longer be able to order them. We’ll have copies for the foreseeable future — I don’t like to run out so I have a good amount of stock on hand . . . ) which will be available here and in Book Moon.

We’ve loved publishing these books and helping to bring Angélica’s books to Anglophone readers and I am only sorry now not to be able to bring any more into print. But as a reader I’m very happy the estate is focused on getting more of Angélica’s books published here.

I expect I will have more posts along these lines this year as my condition hasn’t changed much since last year.