Stealing Fire by Jo Graham is ignored by UK publisher

April 18, 2011

If I was Jo Graham, I would be pretty insulted. Let me explain.

Orbit books, which in the UK is an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, has published two of Jo Graham’s trilogy: Black Ships, and Hand of Isis, but not the third novel; Stealing Fire.

I’ve read Black Ships and Hand of Isis, and I loved them, so naturally I want to read Stealing Fire. As I’m a UK resident, I would like to buy the book that is released in UK. Now, I know that there can be a delay sometimes, between publishing in the UK compared to the US, so I’ve been patient and waited for news of the third book. And waited. And waitied.

This morning, I took the initiative, and e-mailed Little, Brown, and enquired when they would be be publishing Stealing Fire in the UK. The answer I got was short: “We are not publishing this I’m afraid.”

What?

No reason, no excuses, just that they are not going to.

To further add insult to injury, if you search for Jo Graham on Little, Brown’s website, she is inexplicably listed as Janice Graham.

For such a major publishing group to ignore the third book in a trilogy is insult enough, but to then get the author’s name wrong, is unforgivable.