New to Foreign Rights? DropCap Has You Covered.

Here’s how literary representation with DropCap works:

  • First, we take high quality English language books to the foreign rights marketplace.

  • Then, our agenting team negotiates foreign rights contracts with our global partners around the world.

  • Finally, authors and publishers receive advances and royalties from book sales.

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FAQs

How do you get your titles?

DropCap has partnerships with traditional publishers, indie presses, and successful self-published authors to help us discover titles for our ever-growing database.

Check with your publisher to see if they work with DropCap, and if they don’t, have them contact us.

We also created DropCap Marketplace as a way to scout great titles to represent.

How will I know if my book is a good fit for DropCap?

The genres that our international buyers are most interested in are: self-improvement, business and career, general fiction, and children’s books.

Keep in mind that if your book is specific to a region in the US or deals with a topic that is US-centered, it might not have global appeal.

This post on our blog goes into even more detail about what makes a book a great fit for representation at DropCap.

How do you secure international rights deals for the books you represent?

Through our outstanding agenting team, with a combined 30+ years experience in international book rights.

Additionally, we showcase our titles in several ways, including hand-pitching titles to our international partners and attending international book fairs.

If I already have a publishing contract, can I still work with DropCap?

Yes! DropCap is a unique literary agency specializing exclusively in international rights contracts with global book buyers.

These contracts can be on top of or in conjunction with any contracts you already have in place with your publisher.

Do you work with self-published authors?

We do! We work with traditional publishers, indie publishers, and self-published authors alike.

If you are a self-published with a great book you would like to sell on the global marketplace, check out DropCap Marketplace.

Doesn’t my current publisher handle international rights for my book?

Probably not.

International rights are a whole different sector of the publishing world, and many small to mid-sized publishers don’t have agents that are experienced in the global market.

That’s what makes DropCap so special.

What makes the international rights market unique in publishing?

Anyone who’s worked in publishing or written a book knows how complicated the industry can be.

Everything from production to distribution to marketing requires a wealth of knowledge, and that is just here in the US.

International rights include understanding the global book market, the needs of each region, and the cultural know-how to reach a mutually beneficial contract agreement.

That’s what we specialize in at DropCap, and why we are leading rights literary agency in the world.

Do all of the books you represent acquire at least one international rights contract?

We could never promise an author or a publisher that their book will be picked up by our worldwide partners.

What we can promise is that with the team at DropCap you’ll have the best in the business actively marketing, pitching, and showcasing your titles, curating them very specifically to the buyers we know will be the most interested in licensing and publishing your work in their region.