Webinar with Dr. Jan Yager, bestselling international author, publisher, and author of Foreign Rights and Wrongs

Dr. Jan Yager is a foreign rights pro and author who has successfully sold foreign rights for her books and the authors of her company, Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc., and for selected client publishers, authors, and literary agents, including one or multiple sales into 34 languages.

In this webinar, you will learn 21 ways to make a foreign deal happen through real-life examples.

• It does not matter if you are self-published, published by a small press, or by a major house. This webinar offers 21 suggestions for making a foreign deal happen.
• It applies to all genres -- adult fiction, adult nonfiction, middle school, and YA fiction, and illustrated children's books. The webinar leader, Dr. Jan Yager, has sold foreign rights to ALL those genres for one or multiple titles!
• Most of the time you need a PUBLISHED book to sell foreign rights. But you can start planning for it, and occasionally even sell, a proposal or a finished manuscript!
• Dr. Yager has been profitably selling foreign rights since at the age of 25 she became the Director of Foreign and Subsidiary Rights for Grove Press, Inc., mentored directly by legendary publisher Barney Rosset.
• Foreign sales can mean translations of your book, additional revenue, international publicity, and, on occasion, even an international author tour or speaking engagement.

Don’t miss out on how to tap into this lucrative market for your book.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Jan Yager is a sociologist, author, coach, speaker, artist, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She also teaches at Baruch College and William Paterson University.

Jan has a Ph.D. from The City University of New York Graduate Center and an M.A. in criminal justice from Goddard College. She did a year of graduate work in art therapy at Hahnemann Medical College, took courses in nonfiction writing at the New School and editing and publishing in the NYU Publishing program.

Her 50+ award-winning books, translated into 34 languages, include the international hit relationship title, When Friendship Hurts: How to Deal With Friends Who Betray, Abandon, or Wound You, published by Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, and translated into 29 languages, as well as the business books Work Less, Do More: The 7-Day Productivity Makeover (in 10 languages); as well as children’s books. Jan has appeared on The View, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN, NPR and other major shows.

Jan worked in publishing, first at Macmillan Publishing Company, in the school division, followed by Grove Press, Inc., where for a year she was head of foreign rights, as well as doing acquisitions, publicity, and sales. In 1996, Jan founded Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc., a small press that publishes nonfiction adult titles, adult fiction, young adult and middle school fiction, illustrated children’s books, dramatic literature, poetry, and journals.

Beginning at the age of 26 with the release of her first nonfiction book, The Vegetable Passion: A History of the Vegetarian State of Mind, published in the U.S. by Scribner’s and in London by Routledge, Jan went on author tours throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. The Vegetable Passion has been translated into Dutch and Vietnamese. Jan’s own small press, Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc., brought out an e-book addition, with a new introduction, in 2015.