Translation Rights
Acquire territory-specific publishing rights to proven, fast-moving fiction with clear hooks, strong series identity, and built-in binge appeal. Single-title and multi-book proposals are welcome.
Translation • Film • Television • Audio • Dramatic Rights
Stories with the power to thrill.
Glass Dagger Press controls a growing catalogue of commercial thrillers and historical romance built for readers and audiences. We welcome serious enquiries from translation publishers, producers, scouts, audio companies, agents, and rights buyers.
Rights portfolio
One catalogue. Multiple opportunities
Selected titles and complete series are available for professional exploitation across multiple territories, languages, and formats. Tell us exactly what you want to acquire and where you intend to take it.
Film and Television Rights
Discover high-concept properties with distinctive protagonists, repeatable story engines, international stakes, and the narrative momentum to support features, limited series, or returning television.
Audio, Stage and Other Rights
Audio, dramatic, serialisation, anthology, book club, large-print, educational, and other subsidiary rights may be available by title and territory. Ask - and be specific.
Commercial fiction with a clear engine
These are not passive story worlds. They move. Covert teams cross borders, institutions fracture, clans turn on one another, loyalties are tested, and desire becomes dangerous. The result is adaptable IP with immediate hooks, scalable series potential, and stories audiences can understand in a single compelling sentence.
Selected catalogue
Series and properties
A representative selection of the brands and story worlds open to rights conversations, subject to existing agreements and territory availability. The full catalogue is available to qualified buyers.
Department 89
Germany’s most deniable covert unit takes on terrorists, war criminals, corrupt networks, and threats too dangerous for conventional bureaucracy. Hard-edged, mission-driven thrillers with a formidable team.
View Department 89 on Amazon →Jack Maddox Thrillers
International conspiracies, intelligence failures, and investigations that reach the people power was supposed to protect. A capable lead, escalating global stakes, and institutions with plenty to hide.
View Jack Maddox on Amazon →Edelweiss
A modern German black-ops response unit confronts attacks on national security, critical infrastructure, and European stability. Grounded action, urgent threats, and character pressure built for contemporary audiences.
View Edelweiss on Amazon →Ghost Sector
They were erased from the system. Now they are turning on the system itself. Betrayed by the agencies they served, a team of former operatives fights an invisible war against weaponised secrets, AI surveillance, digital warfare, and deep-state corruption. Female-led, tech-charged espionage.
View Ghost Sector on Amazon →Hearts of the Highlands
Steamy Scottish historical romances where fierce heroines, brooding lairds, clan rivalries, forbidden desire, lost memories, false identities, and dangerous second chances collide. Each story stands alone while the Highlands provide a rich, recognisable world with broad romantic appeal.
View Hearts of the Highlands on Amazon →
A straightforward process
From enquiry to agreement
Send the essentials. We assess the fit and availability. If the opportunity is credible, we move quickly to materials, terms, and documentation.
Send a focused enquiry
Name the book, series, or rights category. Include the language, territory, format, intended exploitation, company details, and relevant track record.
We confirm availability
Rights status varies by title, language, territory, and format. We will give you a clear answer and, where there is a commercial fit, define the next step.
We supply the right materials
Qualified enquiries may receive title lists, series information, sales context, samples, synopses, and rights status. Screen discussions can include deeper creative and option detail.
We negotiate the licence
Territory, term, advance, royalty, format, reporting, approvals, reversion, and production obligations are agreed case by case and documented properly.
For translation publishers
Include your publishing company, market, language, territory, proposed formats, comparable titles, distribution model, and whether you want one title or a complete series. Credible series plans are particularly welcome.
For producers and scouts
Include your company, role, IMDb listing, development interest, relevant credits, intended format, and whether you are seeking an option, shopping agreement, or acquisition discussion. A concrete commercial plan gets a concrete response.
Start the conversation
Where could these stories go next?
Send a professional rights enquiry to the address below. Include the rights requested, title or series, language, territory, format, company details, and intended use.
licencing@markoneill.org