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Holy Foreign Sales, Batgirl!

While looking up info for the new website, I came across a new German edition of Bewitching Kittens, the Halloween-themed Regency that contains my novella Charlotte's Kitten. (Side note: yes, Halloween and Regency England, I was as skeptical as you are when I was given the assignment.)

The English edition of the novella quickly earned out, and though Zebra didn't go back to press, they did sell German language rights. And the German language edition sold well. And kept selling. And they reissued it with new covers, and those editions kept selling. By my count they are on their fourth cover.


( Other covers under the cut tag )

Cover art for Первое предательство by Патриция Брей, otherwise known as the Rusisan edition of THE FIRST BETRAYAL. Very cool.



There were several reviews out on a discussion board, but the Google assisted translation renders all comments hilarious, making it impossible to tell if they were originally meant as praise or scorn. Come to think of it, I ought to run an English to Russian and then reverse translation before reading my Amazon reviews.

Here's the cover for the Russian language edition of DEVLIN'S JUSTICE (Правосудие Девлина) which was released in July.


Once again they've completely changed the style from the previous covers. But it's still pretty cool, and even cooler to find message boards discussing the works of Патриция Брей (Patricia Bray).

( Click here to view the previous covers )

THE FIRST BETRAYAL will also be appearing in a Russian language edition. Will be interesting to see what they make of that one.

Bewitching Kittens was published in the US in 1998 and rapidly sold out its print run, but it continues to crop up in new places. In today's mail I received a copy of the Swiss edition, a lovely hardcover.

Briefly I was confused by the title, since I recognized "Auf weichen Tatzen ins Glück" as the title of the German edition published by Lübbe, however this cover didn't match, and further investigation revealed a new ISBN. A little web surfing and I found out that Weltbild is based in Switzerland, which also explains why their website sells books in francs.

Their online bookstore has both German language editions for sale, if you'd like to compare covers. Neither cover gives a shout out to "Halloween themed Regency set novellas featuring kittens" but they're nearly as cute as the original.