The Tenth Circle

Ladies, I spoke to my OH this morning (he's a non-fiction sales rep) and he confirmed my suspicions. The London Book Fair is mainly for English rights, so US agents will be going there looking to sell into the UK and Commonwealth (Aus, NZ, Canada) - traditionally, UK agents often handle all of these. (My agents do, for a number of big-name US fantasy authors.)

Frankfurt is where agents go to sell EU foreign language rights (French, German, Italian, etc, etc) and probably the former Eastern Bloc countries too. Not sure about other foreign markets - Beijing is apparently becoming prominent.

Hope this helps!

Thanks, Anne. Now we know in which direction we need to channel our positive energies.

Did I mention that I GOT MY CONTRACT FROM S1MON AND SCHUST3R TODAY?????

Thanks, Lily!

I keep pinching myself. Daren't sign the copies in case I smudge the ink and ruin it.

It's surreal. I wrote my first novel when I was now 23. I'm now 37. I came close a couple of times but never crossed the finish line. I guess sometimes it just takes a while.

Getting a little teary-eyed (probably just hormones).

rosie!

Fingers crossed for you Lily!

Well done, Rosie!

I had to print out three copies of my contract from an emailed PDF, sign them and send them to my agent - still waiting for my countersigned copy to be returned to me!

(I used my husband's colour laser printer - having an OH who works from home is a bonus!)

Anne, thanks for that information!

Rosie, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Hey, all! I've been crazybusy lately. I'll be in Australia next week and in New York two weeks after that - and somewhere in between all those trips I need to get a ton of promo work done for the release and finish my second book. Can I get someone else to be me until August? Meep.

callalily61 said:

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: I love my agent. I sent him a joing email that said I planned to officially hate him because he'll be at the London Book Fair and I'll be in Bflo... still... slogging at the Day Job. . He sent back that he'll be pitching FoH to foreign editors and has already packed a copy to show off.



I suggested he bribe them with offers of my Killer Brownies.

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Good luck!!!

rosiecotton said:

Fingers crossed, Lily. Inkw3ll's gonna be touting my hide there, too. I'm trying not to think about it. Folk back home keep asking when they're gonna see my book in the shops. I have to keep saying--"urm... right at this moment? Never." Come on, London! You've got an ex-pat and an ex-nun over here! What more could you want?

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Amen!

Anne Lyle said:

Ladies, I spoke to my OH this morning (he's a non-fiction sales rep) and he confirmed my suspicions. The London Book Fair is mainly for English rights, so US agents will be going there looking to sell into the UK and Commonwealth (Aus, NZ, Canada) - traditionally, UK agents often handle all of these. (My agents do, for a number of big-name US fantasy authors.)

Frankfurt is where agents go to sell EU foreign language rights (French, German, Italian, etc, etc) and probably the former Eastern Bloc countries too. Not sure about other foreign markets - Beijing is apparently becoming prominent.

Hope this helps!

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Thanks for the info!

rosiecotton said:

Thanks, Anne. Now we know in which direction we need to channel our positive energies.

Did I mention that I GOT MY CONTRACT FROM S1MON AND SCHUST3R TODAY?????

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Woooohoooo!

Well done Rosie and HC!

Thanks, Mario! I hope all is well with you

Thanks for the well wishes, guys

HC--yikes, Mrs! Go see the Dolly the Sheep guys, they can clone you and then one of you can be writing for July while the other jet sets around the world and launches your wonderful book into the universe.

Happy, (if you're still around) can I ask... are you contracted for a July deadline or is it self-imposed?

rosie - WOOT for receiving contracts! It makes everything start to feel that much more real, doesn't it?


The official back cover blurb for ANOTHER KIND OF DEAD is finally out there, so folks can find out what the book is about. 3 months, 13 days. Rah! I love this book, and I can't wait to see reactions to the--um, stuff.

As long as the cover copy gets it right, Kelly - today I blogged about the fact that The Bookseller took a minor comment from my publisher's press release and turned it into a major feature of the book!

Thanks, Chaos andon your news! Have you posted the blurb on your blog? I popped across but didn't see it up. Noticed you're on the eastern shore, though. Woohoo. I'm in Annapo1is (waves to Chaos from across the Chesapeake).

Anne--I wouldn't stress. There's plenty of time for you to get out the message you want. I can see how it'd drive you crazy, though. My PM announcement had a huge effing spoiler right in the middle of it. I was like Don't be giving that away! Then I was like, whatever. Who the hell cares but me? Shrug. Interesting what you said on your blog about describing the novel, though. I'm in exactly the same boat. A fantasy with my own cast of creations--no vampires, werewolves, zombies, elves, dwarves or dragons in sight. Got a gutterscamp, though. They're pretty cute, even if they do carry screes. Itch.

Rosie, I like the sound of gutterscamps

I'm not really stressed about it - I just thought it would make an interesting blog post. Nothing like a bit of controversy to stimulate debate, right?

Anne Lyle said:

As long as the cover copy gets it right, Kelly -

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Yep, they did. My editor is great about letting me take a pass at the copy. We both rewrote a good chunk for the second book, because the stuff marketing wrote up was pretty awful.

And misinformation sucks, but just think of it was awesome early chatter about the book.

rosiecotton said:

Thanks, Chaos andon your news! Have you posted the blurb on your blog? I popped across but didn't see it up. Noticed you're on the eastern shore, though. Woohoo. I'm in Annapo1is (waves to Chaos from across the Chesapeake).

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I'll post it on the blog today. I wanted to wait because I'd just posted about my League post, and I didn't want to push it down the page right away.

I go out your way fairly often. You've got the best mall in two states.

Yesterday's parade of good things was also compounded by my agent selling audio adaptation rights for the first 3 Dreg City books!

Audio rights do seem to be a lot more popular - mine were included in the world English deal, since AR intend to release all their books on audio at some point.

In fact I simplified the invented languages used in my book, on the assumption that some poor sap (possibly even me!) will have to read bits of them aloud one day...

Anne Lyle said:

In fact I simplified the invented languages used in my book, on the assumption that some poor sap (possibly even me!) will have to read bits of them aloud one day...

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Hehe. I'm super curious how the narrator (whoever she may be) will do Smedge's voice, considering he's basically talking concrete.

ChaosTitan said:

Yesterday's parade of good things was also compounded by my agent selling audio adaptation rights for the first 3 Dreg City books!

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Holy crow, Chaos! That's all kinds of awesome

Just got an email from my agent to say that my first advance installment is on its way - that'll pay my convention hotel bill, then!

Yay, Anne!

Rosie! Chaos! Anne! Jumping for joy for you guys.

I was a doof and posted my crazy/good news on the other thread: http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6049271&postcount=12803

The contract fairies visited my bank account yesterday - now I can plan my research trip to Venice