puddleshark asked: Question: I love the Ile-Rien books, b...

puddleshark asked: Question: I love the Ile-Rien books, but I came across them quite by chance - they never appeared in bookshops and were never promoted in the United Kingdom. What happens when books go out of print? Can the author regain the rights to sell them to another publisher?

Thank you! And basically, yes. Unless they're work for hire (like media tie-ins where the rights to the world/characters/etc are actually owned by someone else and only temporarily licensed to the publisher), i...