Tim asked Alwyn Hamilton:

Hi Ms Hamilton! We met earlier this year at YALC. You signed Traitor and I saw Hero at the Fall's cover reveal. I was one of the Belgian visitors. I'm studying a semester in Italy now. This afternoon I went to one of the bookshops here - and found the Italian edition of Hero, just published! It took me quite some effort to NOT buy it, because I want all the English editions. Did you know they'd publish it so soon?

Alwyn Hamilton Hi there! Studying in Italy sounds like a fantastic opportunity! Congrats! I did know HERO would be out early in Italian yes! REBEL and TRAITOR were also out early in Italy :-) The reason for that is that when we sold REBEL in the winter of 2014, the US planned to publish it in the fall of 2015. Italy acquired it shortly after and decided to do the same. The US then changed their planned publication date to 6 months later, early 2016, but Italy decided to keep the original publication date as they had already begun to make plans around that. I actually got to go to Lucca comic-con for in the fall of 2015 for the release of REBEL and it was a fantastic experience!

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