TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: PUBLISHING SURPRISES

Sunday, March 2, 2008

PUBLISHING SURPRISES

I don't know what's going on, but today I stumbled upon a site mentioning a Turkish edition of my first novel, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept. This is a mystery to me because I never gave any publisher permission to translate this novel into Turkish and to publish it in Istanbul. I'm checking with University of Michigan Press, my publisher of this novel, to see if they know what's going on.

This concerns me, of course. A couple of years ago, I discovered a hardbound edition of Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults, put out by Sagebrush Press, without my permission. Sagebrush had done the same for other best-selling books by small presses, and complaints were made. I wrote Amazon.com to inform them that Sagebrush did not have the rights to do a hardbound edition. I note that now, Amazon.com lists a "School and Library Edition" by Tandem Library. Again, Tandem does not have my permission to reprint Growing Up Filipino.

This is all quite disconcerting and I will have to followup to protect my rights to these books.

See the sites below:

http://worldcat.org/oclc/66532569&referer=brief_results Gökkuşaǧı tanrıçası aǧladıǧında ; [İngilizce'den çeviren]: Füsun Talay.
by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard; Füsun Talay
Type: Book
Language: Turkish
Publisher: İstanbul : Bilge kültür sanat, 2001.
ISBN: 975850908X 9789758509089
OCLC: 66532569

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:YLsy-beTursJ:www.tulumba.com/storeItem.asp%3Fic%3DzBK981162TR128+cecilia+brainard+turkish&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=us

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.