And Volpe expects that Carve the Mark will further expand Roth’s international fan base. It’s important to remember that Divergent was Veronica’s debut series so, as with most first-time authors, the translation sales did take some time to build since she was initially an unknown author.” “Divergent was published in more than 40 languages over the life of the series, and we expect to get there eventually with Carve the Mark as well. “We had a strategy going in for every territory, based on previous enthusiasm and sales in the individual markets,” she said. Veronica visited nine countries in the past year, and fans in each one of them are so tremendously passionate and devoted! They’re what make such a remarkable publication feat like this possible.”Īccording to Volpe, her firm submitted a pitch for Carve the Mark to publishers in every country that initially published the Divergent series. Volpe noted that having a book published simultaneously in so many languages is, in her experience, “very atypical.” She viewed the large-scale global release as “a testament to Veronica creating such widely relatable characters, and also a testament to her fan base. publisher, has a two million-copy first printing on order for the novel, the first of a duology set on a planet where violence and vengeance rule. HarperCollins’s Katherine Tegen Books, the U.S. Kathleen Ortiz, director of subsidiary rights for New Leaf Literary & Media, negotiated the translation deals on behalf of Joanna Volpe, New Leaf’s president and Roth’s agent. Those fans will have concurrent access to her latest novel, Carve the Mark, on January 17, when the book will be published in 33 languages – among them Bulgarian, Swedish, Thai, and Portuguese – in a simultaneous global release. With more than 35 million copies in print worldwide, debut author Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy clearly won over YA readers across the globe after its 2011 launch.

Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth