UPDATE – All books have found new homes. Thanks to everyone who commented. And sorry about the language/country mistake!
It’s been a while since I wrote an In the Mailbox post, mostly because nothing of note had arrived in a while. Then two things happened. First a batch of foreign language edition books arrived. Trouble is, I can’t remember which language it was in because then my agent had a clean out, giving me three boxes of foreign language editions she didn’t need, and they quickly became part of the general sorting out of what to keep. After I made sure I had one of everything I looked at the price of postage to the countries the book had come from, picked myself back up off the floor, and sent everything to charity. Well, except for these:
Set 1: The Dutch reissue of the Black Magician Trilogy.
Set 2: The Italian Black Magician Trilogy.
Set 3: The Spanish Black Magician Trilogy plus The Magician’s Apprentice.
All which I’m going to send to send to three lucky commenters.
Please take note:
One set of books per commenter. Please indicate which set/language you would like.
I will not separate sets of books. Posting books to the other side of the world from Australia costs almost as much as the book does, but the larger the parcel the more economical the postage is. If you want only some of the books, please give the rest to friends, family, the local library or a charity.
The first to leave a valid comment gets the set. Valid comments are ones expressing a wish to have the books, and an intention for them to go to someone who reads in the language (not that you wish one day to speak it, collect books, or think the cover is cool). I prefer to send books to people who will read them.
Bear in mind that while most of these books are in good condition, some arrived a little marked. It is a bit too much to expect books to travel halfway around the world and still be in perfect shape.
I will email you to get your address. If you do not reply in 3 days I will select the writer of the next valid comment.
I will sign and dedicate the books to whoever will receive them. I’ll leave some books undedicated if requested, but not all. If requested I’ll include a few signed bookplates as well, but only for the commenter who gets the books.
I’ll be sending them sea mail, so it’s going to take up to two months for them to arrive.
These three sets of books are all I have up for grabs so don’t ask me for another set or books in other languages.
Hi Trudi!!
Wow, those books look great! If I won, I would ask that you sent the books to my best friend, who is fluent in Italian and loves her books in Italian
Thanks,
Shaheen
They’re yours, Shaheen! Well, your best friend, to be precise. I’ll send you an email to get her address.
Hi again, Shaheen. Did you get my email?
Hi,
I would love to have the spanish one, i live in Spain and since i already “La maga” i could also give it to one of my friends
Thank you very much for this oportunity!
All yours! Look out for an email, coming soon…
Hi Trudi,
It’s good to hear from you again, and I’m still looking forward to your next book to arrive.
I would really like to request the spanish set of your books. To be honest, they are not for myself, since I already own (and read) all your books released so far. But a very good friend of mine (e.g. the sister of my partner) is spanish and living in Guatemala and I recently told her about your books. Since it’s hard to get such books there, I would request the spanish edition for her, which I would forward to her as a gift of course.
I would be very grateful to hear from you.
Frank
Sorry Frank, the Spanish editions are already spoken for. But thanks for buying all my books. I hope I can keep on giving you many hours of reading enjoyment.
Dear Trudi,
I would like the first set, which you have named Danish, but it is really a Dutch set.
I am certain of this since I live in the Netherlands. Anyways, I hope I am the first one to be noticed by you on this post.
Raimo
Ooops! Right… fixed that.
As you can see, you are the first. An email is winging it’s way to you.
Hi, the first set is not a Danish but a Dutch release. Love the idea but I’ve already read the books so I wish the person who receives the book lots of reading fun.
I would first like to say that set 1 are dutch, not danish! I would love to have set 1 for my sister. She has just read the black magician trilogy in english for the first time, and sunce we live in holland and she speaks dutch better than english, she would really love these books. We moved to holland 5 years ago, and my sister is now a dutchgirl through and through
She’d be thrilled if she got these!
Thanks a lot for thinking of your foreign fans!
Amy
hello! i am Danish but live in England, i have all your books in English but would love them in my home language. thank you
I would love to read the Italian edition of the Black Magician Trilogy!
Buon giorno!
To read The Black Magician’s trilogy in Italian would be GREAT! (As I would one day love to read Harry Potter books in French simply because they’re longer… sadly French is not in my language arsenal… yet. 
) So… I would love to read those books in Italian also! (This far have read them in both English and Estonian.)
I always love to see foreign covers of the books I like. Since I’ve been learning Italian for 3 years by now (started out when a reeeeeally cute Italian came as an exchange student to our town… and after that the wish to study it remained) and though I may not be as good a speaker or listener as one could be, I can understand Italian pretty well.
Sille
Hey. I’m not commenting for the books – I already have a set
I just wanted to tell you that the first set isn’t Danish (I’m Danish and that’s definitely not my language). I can’t tell you exactly which language it is, but to me it looks like a Scandinavian language, so maybe you weren’t all wrong 