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Ian Fleming Publications is the production company formerly known as both Glidrose Productions Limited and Glidrose Publications Limited, named after its founders John Gliddon and Norman Rose. In 1952, author Ian Fleming bought it after completing his first James Bond novel, ''Casino Royale''; he assigned most of his rights in ''Casino Royale'', and the works which followed it to Glidrose. In 1956 Ian Fleming hired literary agent Peter Janson-Smith to handle the foreign translation rights in the James Bond novels. He was the literary consultant and chairman of Ian Fleming Publications until 2001. Today, Ian Fleming Publications administers all of Ian Fleming's literary oeuvre and is owned by Fleming's family. ==Publication history== After Fleming's death in 1964, the estate either commissioned or permitted new Bond works to be published. In 1968, Kingsley Amis published ''Colonel Sun'', under the pseudonym "Robert Markham". The company changed its name from Glidrose Productions to Glidrose Publications. Soon thereafter, in 1973, Glidrose sanctioned ''James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007'' by John Pearson. In 1977 and again in 1979, Eon Productions authorized Christopher Wood to write novelisations of his scripts for the Bond films ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' and ''Moonraker''. In 1981 the James Bond book series was revived, with new novels written by John Gardner. In 1996 John Gardner retired from writing Bond books, and Raymond Benson quickly replaced him. Benson is the first American to write James Bond novels, a fact that was initially controversial. It was during Benson's tenure that the company changed names from Glidrose Publications Ltd to Ian Fleming Publications; the publisher's new name appeared first in the 1999 book ''High Time to Kill''. In turn, Benson retired from writing Bond books in 2002. Since then Ian Fleming Publications has published a series of Bond books based on a young teenage James Bond in the 1930s. The ''Young Bond'' series, written by Charlie Higson, consists of five novels, published between 2005 to 2008. In 2005 Ian Fleming Publications launched another series of Bond-related books entitled ''The Moneypenny Diaries'' by Samantha Weinberg under the pseudonym "Kate Westbrook". On what would have been Fleming's 100th birthday—28 May 2008—the novel ''Devil May Care'', written by Sebastian Faulks, was published. Faulks was true to Bond's original character and background too, and provided "a Flemingesque hero" who drove a battleship grey 1967 T-series Bentley. After Faulks, American writer Jeffery Deaver was then commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications to produce ''Carte Blanche'', which was published on 26 May 2011. On 11 April 2012, Ian Fleming Publications announced that William Boyd will write the next Bond novel, ''Solo'', due for release in the autumn of 2013; the publishers will be Jonathan Cape in the UK and HarperCollins for Canada and the US. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ian Fleming Publications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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