I'm really pleased to be able to announce that The Rainbow Orchid will be published in the Netherlands in September this year (2010) by Silvester Strips, one of the country's top comic publishers (you can see their extensive publishing list here).

They will be following Egmont's lead and publishing the story in three volumes: vol 1 at the end of September 2010, vol 2 in January 2011, and volume 3 in May 2011 (about the same time as the Egmont edition hits the shops, fingers crossed).

On September 26th I will be appearing at a comics festival in the Netherlands for the launch - I believe this is De Stripdagen in Houten. It'll be a somewhat hectic weekend as I'm at the Bath Children's Literature Festival the evening before! (So, fingers crossed again...)

I'm delighted to be working with Silvio Van Der Loo and his team at Silvester Strips, and I understand that I'm lucky enough to have one of their best translators, Mat Schifferstein, working on the books. A huge thanks to Oliver Munson, my agent at Blake Friedmann, for making this deal happen.

You can read the press release here.