I had a helluva birthday this year. Well, actually, I didn’t do all that much on Friday, my actual birthday. Went to yoga class. Did a 2 mile walk. Worked a little on UK marketing for The Painted Man. Dani gave me a plastic Spider-man web shooter, and the cats chewed up all the webs. […]
2007: A Reflection
2007 has been an amazing year. Really. I know we as a culture seem to say that every year, to try and make the endless drudgery of another year seem important, as if Britney’s 16 year old sister getting pregnant is some event worthy of historical note. Sure, there are world events that ARE of […]
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 […]
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 […]