Just got a call from my agent. After I have ecstatically told everyone I know that my novel will be coming out in hardback, all my friends have pre-ordered it on Amazon, and the galleys are done, the publisher has decided it will be printed only in paperback. The contract specifies royalties etc for both hardback and paperback, but doesn't require them to produce a hardback version.
Although I began with extremely meager expectations, after meeting with their publicists and hearing very positive things about how many of their marketing staff had read it and were excited, I had begun to fantasize about reviews in newspapers and radio interview shows and stuff like that. Is there any chance that the publisher (one of the big ones) will push a paperback, or have I been thrown under the train?
Although I began with extremely meager expectations, after meeting with their publicists and hearing very positive things about how many of their marketing staff had read it and were excited, I had begun to fantasize about reviews in newspapers and radio interview shows and stuff like that. Is there any chance that the publisher (one of the big ones) will push a paperback, or have I been thrown under the train?