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King and Proko promoted as Bookouture hails best two sales months in its history
Bookouture has made two promotions in rights and audio respectively after “the best two sales months in [its] 10 year history.
Richard King, currently head of rights, has been made rights director while Alba Proko, currently audio manager, has been promoted to head of audio publishing.
Bookouture m.d. Jenny Geras said: “July and August have been, by some way, the best two sales months in Bookouture’s 10-year history.
“It’s been an incredible year, with a succession of standout bestsellers, combined with major growth in a number of areas of our publishing. Rights and audio have been two particularly significant growth areas for us this year, and both Richard and Alba have been transformative in this. I can’t wait to see what they will achieve in their new roles.”
King joined Bookouture from Orion in 2021 and since then the publisher says he has made Booktouture commercial fiction a destination list for translation publishers and more than doubled the revenue from sub-rights deals agreed.
This year he has agreed a high six-figure deal in Germany, along with 10 other territories, for historical fiction author Soraya Lane. He also signed a high five-figure deal for Freida McFadden in Germany along with 27 other territories.
He has also concluded a major Hollywood deal for McFadden’s psychological thriller The Housemaid, with Todd Lieberman’s new company Hidden Pictures in partnership with Lionsgate.
King will continue to report to Peta Nightingale, Bookouture’s contracts, rights and translations director.
Proko joined Bookouture from Bonnier in 2020 and has since commissioned Adjoa Andoh to narrate Florence Ọlájídé’s memoir Coconut and started to build her own audio originals list. She continues to report to publishing director Laura Deacon.
Bookouture is also currently advertising for a number of new roles as part of a further expansion to its editorial team.
