Those Italians...

Those Italians are being very good to me. News just in today is that my Italian hardback publisher, Piemme, has just negotiated a separate contract to publish a paperback edition. I love this news, especially as Piemme knows exactly how Annibale performed, and they still think there's more life in it. Their going out with a first printing of 45,000 copies! That would be plenty even in the US, but for them to do that in Italy means they're quite confident the market for the book is there. Groovy.