JAMAICAN publisher LMH Publishing has come away from the recently held Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany with an order for books valued at US$100,000 and the finalisation of arrangements for representation of its entire list in the United States by Africa World Press.LMH Publishing was the only Jamaican company to participate in the book fair which exhibited more than 400,000 new books this year and which is regarded as the world's largest trade show for authors and publishers.
Jamaican writers Anthony Winkler and Barbara Lalla, published by LMH Publishing, also experienced success at the book fair.
Dawn Chambers, director of marketing at LMH, said that her company, along with associates in Germany, have launched the German edition of Ms. Lalla's Arch of Fire and Mr. Winkler's Painted Canoe. She also pointed out that Arch of Fire had been entered into Germany's Award Competition for Caribbean and Latin American Women Writers, while leading German author Ilse Grafen Von Bredow has offered to help market Painted Canoe. German publishers have also shown interest in two other books by Winkler which are soon to be published.
Mike Henry, chairman of LMH Publications, in his capacity as author has been advised that his book, Caribbean Cocktails sold more than 1,500 copies in two months in Czechoslovakia.
At the same time, LMH also negotiated the New York launch of Lois Samuels's Glow in the Dark with Africa Press. European publishers also showed great interest in other LMH publications including Bahama Passage, The Gingerbread Man, Marley and Me, Who Am I (The Beenie Man Story) and the Banana Cook Book.
LMH has also obtained from the U.S. publisher Power House, the Caribbean rights to the titles Yes Rasta and The Truth, With foreword by Perry Henzel and photographs by Patrick Cariou, Yes Rasta has been described as a "significant photographic treatment of the life of one rural rastafarian community." The Truth is by British writer Trudy Waite and is a book in which friends of the late Princess Diana speak of their relationship with her.
