The last couple of weeks have been interesting, as I try to adjust to the complete change in lifestyle that has come with quitting my job to write full time. My last “official” day was Oct. 31, and then I packed up and went to the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs for four days. Then I […]
Free Agent
So I did it. On Thursday, I signed my contracts with Voyager, the Fantasy imprint of Harper Collins UK, which, in conjucntion with the contracts I signed a couple months ago with Del Rey (Random House) and Hayakawa in Japan, and two weeks ago with Bragelonne in France, ensures that I will have enough guaranteed […]
Maybe I Could Feeze Myself
So my publisher, Del Rey Books, aka Random House, has decided on a schedule to release the three books they bought from me. They had originally said they were looking into publishing in fall of ’08. Fall of ’08 is a LONG time away, when you sell your books in June of ’07, I thought, […]
Super-fun Number 1 Tattoo Man Kill Many Demon!
Got an offer for hundreds of thousands (of yen) for the first book of the Painted Man series today. It’s not huge compared to the Western offers, but it is apparently quite sizeable for Japan. I know the Japanese tend to be much more literal in their book titles than Americans, and it winds up […]
Ich bin ein Berliner
Okay, this is getting to be ridiculous.Yesterday, I got two rejections from small publishers in Germany. My agent tells me not to worry about it. “With what’s going on in the US & UK, the ones that can’t afford you will always be the first to refuse,” he says. “The bigger German publishers will either […]