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Bologna 2016 Sandra Bruna author’s titles catalogue Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria Gal·la Placídia 2, 5-2 Barcelona 08006 T +34 93 217 74 06 F +34 93 415 86 25 [email protected] Sandra Bruna young adult & children titles catalogue our agents Sandra Bruna. Director Natàlia Berenguer Sandra started working at a literary agency at a Natàlia has been fond of books and stories since very young age and combined a Bachelor’s de- she was a little whirlwind girl. After studying a gree in Spanish with her job at the agency. After Master in Publishing at IDEC/UPF to get into the ten years of experience she decided to embark mess of this book business, in 2001 she started on a solo adventure, and she started up her own her book career in Planeta Group as an intern in agency in 2001. The beginnings were slow, but Editorial Crítica and she left the group six years more than ten years after, Sandra Bruna Agencia later being the junior publisher of the Interna- Literaria has grown to currently become a con- tional Fiction books of Editorial Planeta. It was solidated agency with 130 Spanish and Catalan then, in 2007, that she decided to jump and authors, and a list of more than 30 publishers change the side of the negociation table by and agents represented for the Spanish and joining the SB team, where boredom or routine Portuguese speaking markets, both for adult and are, definitely, unknown words. children & YA titles. [email protected] [email protected] Berta Bruna Anna Gurguí B.A. in Statistics and Market Research. She works Since she can remember, she has always had a in the publishing world since 1993. She has wor- book in her hand. Her grandmother was a great ked in large publishing groups such as Penguin guide to her early adventures as a reader and she Random House and Planeta Group. She has still is. She studied three years of Law studies but been Director of Marketing and Communication finally opted for her passion for literature and in Grup 62, where she launched new projects, graduated in Literary Studies at the University of and Editorial Director in Columna and Planeta Barcelona. She began her career in Sandra Bruna and Destino’s Catalan collections. She current- in 2014. Her passions are literature and reading, ly heads the Department of New Projects and but she also loves traveling and new technolo- Multiplatform Content in Sandra Bruna Agencia gies. She always keeps learning in order to keep Literaria . growing personally and professionally. [email protected] [email protected] index / young adult & children 7. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 15. Lienas, Gemma 23. Moon River El libro de los rostros El rastro brillante del caracol Por una sonrisa, un beso 8. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 16. Lienas, Gemma 24. Riera, Pedro Excalibur - New Serie Britania Carlota’s Red Diary El ladrón de las croquetas 9. Amor, Paula 17. Lozano, David 25. Santos, Care Pedazos de ti La puerta oscura Sapere Aude - Eblu’s Trilogy 10. Baró, Santi 18. Lozano, David 26. Santos, Care La luna de hielo Donde surgen las sombras William 11. Carmona, Rocío 19. Lucas, Dorian 27. Santos, Care Huziel 99% feliz Laura Chef Evans, Justine 12. 20. Miralles, Francesc & Ruescas, Javier 28. Sanz, Esther El octavo clan Pulsaciones Yes, we dance Sanz, Esther 13. Fernández-Vidal, Sonia & Bayés, 21. Palomas, Alejandro 29. Pilarín Un hijo Si el amor es una isla El universo en tus manos García de Oro, Gabriel Olloquequi, Jordi 14. 22. 30. Seymour, Cliff Los caníbales EXO Los secretos del viejo Horace young adult & children EL LIBRO DE LOS ROSTROS ANA ALONSO & Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? JAVIER PELEGRÍN “I had been thinking about it for a while. Maybe, • It talks about the social through Facebook it was easier for me to relate to other networks and its dangers. people. What if I became someone else, with a fake • If you don’t like who you name? It would be like starting from scratch — at least are. Why not invent a online. At the time I reckoned it was a brilliant idea, but character? now I think about what I did and see it like it really was: • The reader identifies with absolute stupidity.” the reality of the story. Being someone else on the Internet looks like a game. • It’s a book to entertain, So, if you don’t like who you are, why not make up a but also to learn about the character? Or make up the person you really want to dangers of the Internet. be? It’s easy, funny, with no consequences. But the 174 pages. • Spanish publishers are Internet is not too different from real life: the fingers proud to have Ana Alonso Ana and Javier have teamed up to that press the keys are human fingers, attached to real and Javier Pelegrín in their people — people with faces, people with lives that can write a number of books, including catalogue. Will you miss get entangled with yours, for good … or for evil. the fantasy & sci-fi series La llave del it? tiempo, which has been published by Editorial Anaya and translated into several languages. In 2008, they were awarded the Barco de Vapor Prize El sueño de Berlín is La reina de cristal Rights sold to: for El secreto de If. They also have a novel about Ana, a At the age of seven- SM (Spanish) written together, the trilogy Tatuaje teenager with OCD teen, all the young Byeolsoop (Korean) (translated into five languages) the (Obsessive-Compulsive people of Hydra go Disorder), her over- through the ritual series Agencia Salamandra, and the protective family and of the sea, but only graphic novel La ciudad transparente her schoolmate Bruno, who finds out a few — mostly women — turn into (Bologna’s White Raven Prize in 2012), about the problem and tries to help mermaids and discover the gift of their Coming among others book, translated into her. new condition: clairvoyance, memory, soon: German and Portuguese. XII Anaya Award for Children and YA compassion… We follow the story of Book 3- ODIO Kira, a young girl who will change their Literature. EL ROSA world. Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 7 EXCALIBUR - NEW SERIE BRITANIA ANA ALONSO & Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? JAVIER PELEGRÍN Gwen, the heir of Britannia’s throne, runs away from • Because you have to bet the place the Saxons established as London with help on this series that will from a young knight, Lance. Together they will start a come into the publishing long escape followed closely by a Briton warrior called world with a BOOM. Mordred, who wants to hunt the princess for reasons • A crossover in which they don’t know. Coming soon! everything happens and During the trip, the two kids start a relationship that everything can happen. will cripple once they arrive at their destination, Aquae • This series has the perfect Sulis. Gwen will meet Arthur there. And besides their ingredients for a bestse- differences at the beginning, Gwen and Arthur will end ller. up getting along, and together they’ll start to look for • Penguin Random House’s the Excalibur sword. This sword holds the key to solve Rights sold to: bet of the year. Ana and Javier have teamed up to write the mysterious origin of Britannia and to mend the SUMA (Spanish) a number of books, including the fantasy magic veil that protects the island, which Mordred is Penguin Random House & sci-fi series La llave del tiempo, which trying to destroy. has been published by Editorial Anaya and translated into several languages. In 2008, they were awarded the Barco de La bruja del agua Grial Ávalon Vapor Prize for El secreto de If. They also The new balance reached in Bri- Lance gets a few visits from the king When Galahad found the Grail the have written together, the trilogy Tatuaje tannia thanks to the creation of the Pelés, who died in the battle in Mount Britannia simulation collapsed, (translated into five languages) the series Round Table tears apart when Gwenn Badón. That’s how he discovers that turning Arthur’s kingdom into “the is captured by Meleagant, who’s Agencia Salamandra, and the graphic Pelés lost the battle because he used Vain Land”. Mordred’s supporters taken to Gorr, the beta version of the the Grail, a mysterious object that novel La ciudad transparente (Bologna’s take the chance to reveal that simulation. Gwenn won’t take long to seems like it’s programmed to inter- White Raven Prize in 2012), among Gwenn was unfaithful with Lance. discover that the Ávalon ladies are be- fere with the Britannia simulation, When the truth comes out, Gwenn others book, translated into German and hind this kidnapping, since they want significantly changing the perception decides to leave with Lance and get Portuguese. to test her to see if she has the gift to of all those who connect to it. away from Arthur. become one of them. Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 8 PEDAZOS DE TI PAULA AMOR Crossover / Romantic Novel WHY THIS NOVEL? Pedazos de ti tells the love story between Abbie, a • An Internet phenomenon! college nerd, and Devil, a rocker. • More than a thousand They meet by chance when he prevents her from being readers in her blog. assaulted. After that, Devil proposes Abbie a deal: she • More than 6,400 down- must serve him to return the favor. She doubts, but loads. finally accepts for reasons that are revealed over the • Her previous novel, Son- plot.