Now for some good news, I am happy to announce that my wonderful agent, Beverley Slopen, has sold The Midwife of Venice to both a Turkish publisher, Inkilap Kitabevi and to a German publishing house, Bloomsbury Berlin. I have to thank Paul & Peter Fritz, my sub-agents in Zürich for the sale to Bloomsbury and Kezban Akcali of Istanbul for the sale to Inkilap.

Visions of touring the E.C.C. are dancing in my head. If I someday do a book tour of Turkey and Germany I need a few countries in between to fill in the gap. What about Italy and Rumania and France and, well, how about Lichtenstein, a good place to stash my millions!