Gouden Saffraan, the Dutch edition of The Saffron Gate, has been released by Unieboek Publishers.

The Danish publisher Borgen has purchased rights for The Saffron Gate. They will also release The Linnet Bird, published in Denmark in hardcover in 2008, in paperback this year. 

Linda will be a guest author at the Harbourfront Reading Series in Toronto on June 2. For details and tickets, go to Linda Holeman at Harbourfront.

In April-May, Linda was a guest author at the Yukon Writers Festival in Whitehorse. Along with public readings in Whitehorse and Haines Junction, she also conducted workshops at the Yukon Young Authors Conference at F. H. Collins Secondary School in Whitehorse.

The mass market edition of The Saffron Gate was released throughout the Commonwealth in February 2010.

Uniboek Publishers have released Witte Jasmijn, the Dutch edition of In a Far Country.

J'ai Lu has released La Rose Rebelle, a French edition of The Moonlit Cage.

A Rosa do Deserto, the Portuguese edition of The Moonlit Cage, has been released by Bertrand Editora.

Audio rights for The Saffron Gate have been sold to Oakhill Publishing.

See also, news from previous years ...

•  Please direct queries regarding publication rights for Linda's adult fiction novels to Sarah Heller, Helen Heller Agency.