I am delighted to announce that Ian Fleming Publications Ltd (IFP), the Fleming family company that owns the copyright to the James Bond books, has appointed me to manage the worldwide English language literary rights in the Ian Fleming titles and Young Bond.
Corinne Turner, Managing Director of IFP said, “Simon Trewin joins us at a very exciting time. The centenary year has generated a phenomenal amount of interest in Fleming - the writer - and his work. We’ve achieved an incredible amount and now wish to build on our successes by taking on a dedicated literary agent. In this way, we benefit not only from the expertise of a talented agent but also of the whole team at United Agents. We very much look forward to working with Simon.”
Ian Fleming Publications’ rights include Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the best-selling Young Bond series by Charlie Higson. Foreign rights for these will continue to be managed by The Buckman Agency.
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Press Release
Stricly embargoed until 00.01 hrs Monday 7th July 2008
Ian Fleming Publications Ltd appoints literary agent Simon Trewin of United Agents
Ian Fleming Publications Ltd (IFP), the Fleming family company that owns the copyright to the James Bond books, has appointed United Agents’ literary agent, Simon Trewin, to manage worldwide English language literary rights in the Ian Fleming titles and Young Bond. The appointment is effective from the beginning of July 2008.
Corinne Turner, Managing Director of IFP said, “Simon Trewin joins us at a very exciting time. The centenary year has generated a phenomenal amount of interest in Fleming - the writer - and his work. We’ve achieved an incredible amount and now wish to build on our successes by taking on a dedicated literary agent. In this way, we benefit not only from the expertise of a talented agent but also of the whole team at United Agents. We very much look forward to working with Simon.”
Ian Fleming Publications’ rights include Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the best-selling Young Bond series by Charlie Higson. Foreign rights for these will continue to be managed by The Buckman Agency.
Devil May Care, the centenary James Bond novel written by Sebastian Faulks, and the MoneyPenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook will remain in the care of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Simon Trewin is co-head of the book department of United Agents Ltd, which was founded in 2007. Trewin’s client list includes Henry Chancellor, author of James Bond: The Man and his World, a joint venture with Ian Fleming Publications.
Simon Trewin said, “I remember picking up a battered old paperback edition of Dr. No when I was a teenager and I was bowled over, at once, by the masterly storytelling of Ian Fleming. I quickly read the whole series and became a huge fan so I am naturally thrilled to be appointed to manage this prestigious estate. I am very much looking forward to working with the Fleming family on raising awareness levels of Ian Fleming even higher over the coming years”.
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Notes to Editors
· For further information about Ian Fleming Publications Ltd please visit www.ianflemingcentre.com
· For further information about the Ian Fleming Centenary please visit www.ianflemingcentenary.com
· Simon Trewin and Corinne Turner, Managing Director of Ian Fleming Publications, are available for comment through Colman Getty
· Images of Simon Trewin are available through Colman Getty
Ian Fleming Publications Ltd
In 1952, on completion of his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, Ian Fleming took the advice of his accountant and purchased a small production company, Glidrose Productions Limited (so named for its founders, John Gliddon and Norman Rose). He assigned most of its rights in Casino Royale and the works which followed it to Glidrose and fifty years and two changes of name later, Ian Fleming Publications still administers Ian Fleming’s literary estate.
In 1956, on the recommendation of friend and fellow thriller writer Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming hired a young literary agent, Peter Jason-Smith, to handle the foreign translation rights in the Bond novels. For the next forty-five years, Peter was the company’s literary consultatns and some-time Chairman, guiding both it and Bond through many changes. By the time of Peter’s retirement in 2001, the Fleming Bond novels and those by Kingsley Amis, John Gardner and Raymond Benson, had sold close to a hundred million copes worldwide.
In 2003 IFP took the literary legacy of Ian Fleming in an entirely new direction, with the commissioning of Charlie Higson to write the bestselling Young Bond novels.
Today, IFP is wholly owned by the Fleming family and managed by Corinne Turner as Managing Director.
United Agents
United Agents represent clients across all areas of the creative landscape - theatre (Tom Stoppard, Alan Bennett, Michael Frayn), film (Richard Curtis, Kevin Macdonald, Michael Apted), actors (Keira Knightley, Ewan McGregor, Kate Winslet, James McEvoy), comedy (Rob Brydon, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, French and Saunders, Justin Lee Collins, ‘Gavin and Stacey’ creators Ruth Jones and James Corden) and authors (Nick Hornby, Danny Wallace, Ruth Rendell, Joanna Trollope, Robert Harris and Julian Barnes). They also look after a number of estates including Ellis Peters, the tv/film rights of Evelyn Waugh, the tv, film and theatre rights of J B Priestley and the letters and diaries of Kenneth Williams.
Simon Trewin also represents John Boyne, author of the prize-winning novel The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas, Booker-shortlisted author Andrew Miller, Whitbread Novel-winner Patrick Neate, Orange-longlisted Scarlett Thomas, Somerset Maugham-winner Steven Hall, Danny Wallace, Fiona Neill, Zoe Williams, Robert Goddard and Petite Anglaise.
James Bond publishing
· Over 100 million Bond books have been sold and over half the world’s population has seen a Bond film
· Ian Fleming wrote 14James Bond books: Casino Royale (1953); Live and Let Die (1954); Moonraker (1955); Diamonds Are Forever (1956); From Russia with Love (1957); Dr. No (1958); Goldfinger (1959); For your Eyes Only (1960); Thunderball (1961); The Spy Who Loved Me (1962); On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963); You Only Live Twice (1964); The Man With The Golden Gun (1965) and Octopussy and the Living Daylights (1966)
- Fleming’s other works include the children’s favourite, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964), which was made into a film and stage musical, The Diamond Smugglers (1957) and a collection of travel writings called Thrilling Cities (1963)
- Devil May Care, the centenary James Bond novel written by Sebastian Faulks, was published by Penguin Books on 28th May 2008
- Charlie Higson is the author of the Young Bond books which are published by Puffin
- Samantha Weinberg, writing as Kate Westbrook, is the author of the Moneypenny Diaries
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