Portuguese Man o’ Wards
So yesterday I accepted an offer from esteemed Portuguese publisher Edições Gailivro for Portuguese language rights to The Painted Man and two sequels. This makes the number of languages the work will appear in an even ten.
Ye gods! Ten languages! I don’t even know how to process it. Two years ago, the thought of it even being published in English was just a pipe dream.
I used to listen to my high school girlfriend talk to her grandmother in Portuguese, feeling entirely left out of the conversation and wondering if she was telling my girlfriend that I wasn’t good enough for her. Who could have imagined that 17 years later I’d be publishing in that language? Amazing.
I feel so blessed with good fortune these days, I don’t know what to do with myself. After years of untreatable chronic pain, jobs that made The Office seem like a documentary, and horrible loss, suddenly I have things like this in my life:
I mean really. What else can compare?
In other news, an interview I did for SFsite.com was posted yesterday, as well, in Sandy Auden’s genre news spotlight column. You can find the interview here, but you have to scroll down the page a bit to get to it; there is no direct link. There are some other great bits in the column, as well. I’ve heard good things about Stan Nichols, who is interviewed just above me.
Also, The Painted Man now has a Wikipedia entry! I dunno who created it, but that is awesome. You haven’t arrived until you’re wikied. It’s a bare bones entry now, but hopefully readers will add to it over time.
I would also like to note that acclaimed ward-designer and Arlen portraiter Lauren Cannon, aka Navate, was interviewed recently on Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Review site. Check it out. Lauren is awesome.
Okay, that’s it for now. My next post will actually be about the writing process, if I ever get around to finishing it. I guess that says something about my writing process right there…
What a heartwarming picture. I’m printing it out and keeping it in the inside cover of my field portfolio. Whenever I’m deployed I’ll be able to look at it to remind me who I’m fighting for.
You never know. That may have been exactly what she was saying. :op
That picture is precious!
Você sabe quem eu sou!?!?!
Seriously, saying congrats at this point seems redundant, but congratulations anyway. Cassie–what a munchkin! Every time you think she can’t get cuter, she does it again!
I thought that was Cassie’s gargantuan hairy toe poking out of the towel and thought, “Good god, what is that THING?!?” Then I realized it was your toe…and thought, “Good god, what is that THING?!?” 😛