Episode #304: Subrights! with Janelle DeLuise!
Grace and Alvina welcome special guest Janelle DeLuise, Senior Director of Subrights at Hachette Book Group to the podcast. They talk about what Subrights entails, what her most and least favorite aspects of her job are, and what a typical work day might look like for her. She talks about how international news affects the foreign rights market, which countries are licensing US books these days, and which categories are working (romantasy!) and not working (middle grade!).
For the Fortune Cookie segment, they talk about what they've been reading lately (and Alvina's book happens to be a book in translation!). And then they end as always with what they're grateful for.
How have you been?
Grace is looking forward to the opening of her upcoming exhibit at The Carle Museum! The Art of Grace Lin: Meeting a Friend in an Unexpected Place. Grace has been invited to a do a school visit in Hong Kong in March of 2026.
Alvina is looking forward to traveling to Northampton for Grace’s opening. Janelle attended the international Istanbul Publishing Fellowship and in April she was in Bologna for the Bologna Book Fair.
Janelle talks about getting her start in publishing and gives us a background in working as Director of Subrights. We learn about some of the global events on international publishing. Janelle shares her favorite parts of her job.
What have we been reading?
Alvina is reading a “cozy fiction” book called:
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum and illustrated by Shanna Tan.
