Peter Riva, President

In 1975 Peter and Sandra Riva started the business of international idea brokerage specializing in multi-national licensing and rights representation; particularly award-winning television, film production, and book licensing.

They have been responsible for over 30 years of production, in both media and product resulting in excess of $1.3 billion in sales and several international historic events (the memorabilia of which are on permanent display in national institutions in America, Germany, and France as well as touring internationally).

"...my literary agent... whose advice, enthusiasm and connectons brought this book to print." Herbert W. Warden III
"...my agent, Peter Riva, who has stood behind me (and often pushed me) for the last eight years and through the trials of writing my last six books. You know the old saying, “behind every successful man there is a great woman,” well behind every successful author there is a great agent." Dennis A. Adler
"My loyal and trusted agent and friend..." R. L. Wilson
"...without whom, nothing was possible." Maria Riva
"unerringly guided by Peter Riva, my literary agent..." Gillies Turle

Prisma Bokforlaget, Sweden
Nordstedts, Sweden
Steig Larsson
Maria Riva
Marlene Dietrich
Dennis Adler
Gillies Turle
Justin Webb
Ake Edwardson
Sam Moses
Herb Warden
Larry Wilson
Nino Filasto
Theodore Riccardi
John Koehler
R. L. Wilson
Allan Levine
Ron Lealos
Global Arts (London)
Nia Wyn
Richard Novak
Eric Maisel
John Enright
Brutus Ostling
Derek Lin
(and in-house projects)

"At All Costs" by Sam Moses
"Blue Sky July" by Nia Wyn
"Lady with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson
"Det. Winter Series by Ake Edwardson
"Wingtips" & "Penguins" by Brutus Ostling
Legends Series by Larry Wilson (14 titles)
Car Series by Dennis Adler (7 titles)
Wildthings (78 1-hr TV series)
Dietrich by Her Daughter (12 languages)
Voyager, Around World Flight

"Blue Sky July" by Nia Wyn (Dutton, 2008)
"Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Steig Larsson (Knopf, 2008)
"The Tao of Daily Life" by Derek Lin (Penguin, 2007)
"Colt, Single Action" by Dennis Adler (Book Sales, 2007)
"Penguins" by Brutus Ostling/Nordstedts (HarperCollins 2007)
"Between the Wingtips" by Brutus Ostling/Nordstedts (HarperCollins, 2006)
"Daimler-Benz" by Dennis Adler (HarperCollins, 2006)
"Winchester Shotguns" by Dennis Adler (Book Sales 2006)
"Nachdedanken" by Marlene Dietrich (Bertelsmann 2005 + 4 countries)
"Ruger" by Larry Wilson (Book Sales, 2006)
"Beretta" by Larry Wilson (Book Sales, 2006)
"American Courage" by Herb Warden (Wm. Morrow);
"At All Costs" by Sam Moses (Random House, 2006);
"Ferrari, the Road from Maranello" by Dennis Adler (Random House, 2006);
"Chocolate Passion" by Prisma (Barnes & Noble, 2006);
"Wooden Boats" by Prisma (Barnes & Noble, 2006);
"The Peacemakers" by Larry Wilson (Book Sales, 2005);

"Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes" by Ted Riccardi to Global Arts Films, London, UK
"Dietrich by Her Daughter" by Maria Riva & Marlene Dietrich bio world film rights (Dreamworks SKG);
"Her Own Song" (Turner Classic/ MGM); Wildthings (Paramount TV).

"With Peter Beard in Africa", ABC primetime special, 1988
"WildThings", Paramount TV, 78 x 1 hr, 1995
"Voyager", BBC TV, 1987

"Telly Award", 1999 - "Only One Earth" for UNEP
"Teddy Award", 1988/9 - "ABC Television Special"

Ancoral of Norway

Peter Riva, President, priva@intltrans.com
Sandra Riva, Vice-President, sriva@intltrans.com
JoAnn Collins, Associate Editor, jcollins@intltrans.com

Submissions Guidelines
Although International Transactions has an open-door policy with authors of all categories of books, even if we currently cannot handle every format, language, or trade category. Regretably we cannot, at this time, accept any further fiction inquiries from non-published authors.
To help you know if we will consider reviewing your work, please send us an e-mail to Submissions@IntlTrans.com with a brief letter of introduction and a two-paragraph description of your manuscript. If we then wish to see further material, we will send you a return e-mail within two to three weeks asking you to make a formal submission; along with guidelines for that formal submission.
Please make note: If you are submitting a non-fiction query, then a partial manuscript will be acceptable providing you have completed the bulk of the research, illustration (if applicable), and have a written outline. We will only consider one query per author at a time. If you cannot follow these criteria, please know we will not respond to your query.
Generally, because we do not charge for such review of queries (or later manuscript submissions, if requested) we take this in stages to avoid wasting your time and ours. We cannot help every prospective author, we cannot review every manuscript. We try and walk that line between what we’re enthralled with (and we would need to be, to represent an author) and what we feel the market will accept for publication. It is a very narrow line, it is a fine line, for which we sincerely hope your work will qualify.
Thank you.

Ancoral of Norway