When a Favorite Series Isn’t Published in Your Country

Only yesterday Leah was having a chat with the fabulous Lindsey Kelk, author of the I Heart series. Leah’s been working on creating a brand new US Release Page for the site and wondered when more of Lindsey’s books would be published here in the US. Come to find out, at the moment her publishers are planning to skip an entire book in the series! Yes, it’s possible that they may not publish I Heart Hollywood at all here in the US. Being the huge fan that I am of the first book in the series, I Heart New York, I was shocked and very disappointed!

How is it even possible for a publisher to skip an entire book in a series and why would they do that? Obviously, this isn’t limited to Lindsey’s books or HarperCollins at all and it’s certainly not the first book (or series) that’s only been published in one series, but what is a reader to do? If your favorite author suddenly stopped having their books published in your home country for whatever reason what would you do? Do you write the publisher? Start a campaign? I know that not too long ago another series, The Monstrumologist (not at all Chick Lit), had the remaining books in it’s series discontinued by the publisher Simon & Schuster, but after bloggers started a campaign to bring it back they changed their minds and the series will now be continued.

Now, for whatever reason be it lack of sales, the location featured in the book, the need for more attention on the web or any number of other things I Heart Hollywood will remain published outside of the US and not within. While I’m a huge Harper fan I can’t help but feel cheated in a way and sincerely hope they’ll change their minds. It’s absolutely a series I’d love to read straight through and know many other readers would as well. If you happen to be one of those readers I’d love to hear about it as well I’d also encourage you to blog about it, write an email to Harper, chat about it on Twitter and any other way you feel you could bring attention to this fantastic series for fans here in the US.

I’d love to hear from our readers…Do you have a series or favorite author who’s books aren’t published in whole or in part in your country? Have you attempted to read them in other ways and if so, how and did you see any results?