PRH Grupo Editorial gets translation rights to English-language titles from Wattpad Books in the deal, comprising a world Spanish exclusive for Grupo Editorial.

‘A Strong Pool of Diverse New Voices’

In a statement from Barcelona this morning (August 27), Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial has described a new partnership with Toronto-based Wattpad, establishing an imprint to publish Spanish-language Wattpad stories in Spain and in other Spanish-language markets.

The deal will also see Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial granted translation rights to English-language titles from Wattpad Books, Wattpad’s publishing division headed by Ashleigh Gardner.

The imprint at PRH Grupo Editorial housing the Wattpad work is to be named—with formidable logic—”Wattpad.”

The first fruits of the new program are to be seen quickly, a release being planned for September 17 for the first part of Alex Mirez’s Perfectos Mentirosos (Perfect Liars), a work that at this writing has 47.1 million reads on the platform and Wattpad cover art credited to the platform’s @austrova.

The book’s plot involves a college student, Jude, working on a plan to expose the “darkest and most wicked secrets” of three “cruel rich-kid” campus swells. This, of course, is in line with the bad-boy material that seems to captivate so many readers in the Wattpad universe.

Also planned are Mi Estúpido Niñero (My Stupid Babysitter), which today has 69 million reads and is by Veronica Barsotti, who operates as @blue_woods on the platform. In this one, the male Tyler Harrison is the 19-year-old babysitter of the 17-year-old female protagonist.

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