Book Deal!
Mar. 17th, 2004 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanAll right, the offer on the sequel to The Dubious Hills and The Whim of the Dragon has been made, chewed on, tossed in the air, lost under the sofa, and retrieved. A deal is done.
The manuscript is due August 1, 2006, with the hardcover to be published in 2007 and the paperback in 2008. Yes, those dates are very far away, but I have to write the thing, and I don't do that either quickly or consistently.
I am smug and delighted.
People who tendered congratulations when the deal was only beginning need not feel obliged to do so again, but no discouragement is intended.
Pamela
The manuscript is due August 1, 2006, with the hardcover to be published in 2007 and the paperback in 2008. Yes, those dates are very far away, but I have to write the thing, and I don't do that either quickly or consistently.
I am smug and delighted.
People who tendered congratulations when the deal was only beginning need not feel obliged to do so again, but no discouragement is intended.
Pamela
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Date: 2004-03-17 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-17 05:57 pm (UTC)hee hee hee
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Date: 2004-03-17 06:08 pm (UTC)Pamela
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Date: 2004-03-17 05:58 pm (UTC)Congratulations. Although the moment after I signed the papers on my one and only book deal, I mostly wanted to go throw up. It meant I had to produce the damned thing. Good thing it wasn't to be a work of literature of any sort, just an extension of my work.
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Date: 2004-03-17 06:08 pm (UTC)Pamela
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Date: 2004-03-17 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-17 06:05 pm (UTC)The money, though, the money helps a lot. I have trouble writing when I don't know how to pay the phone bill.
Pamela
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Date: 2004-03-17 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-17 06:04 pm (UTC)I don't know if I said anything about it. I'm scattered, too.
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Date: 2004-03-17 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-17 06:04 pm (UTC)(Yeah, I already scoured up an old copy of all those others . . .)
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Date: 2004-03-17 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-17 06:06 pm (UTC)(Thanks!)
Pamela
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Date: 2004-03-17 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-17 06:11 pm (UTC)So, do you need offers of vegan care packages to keep you writing?
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Date: 2004-03-17 07:30 pm (UTC)Pamela
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Date: 2004-03-17 06:21 pm (UTC)(which reminds me; I shoud read the first two at some point -- maybe when the sequel comes out! (maybe before))
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Date: 2004-03-17 06:43 pm (UTC)It is good to have friends in positions to be delighted and smug.
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Date: 2004-03-17 09:36 pm (UTC)Ditto redbird's comment about friends in such positions.
I'm looking forward to meeting your editor in a couple of weeks; I already know I really admire her sensibilities!
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Date: 2004-03-17 06:59 pm (UTC)I am delighted. This post nudged me to finally go to bookfinder.com and scare up copies of the trilogy, which I've yet to read, and they've been ordered. I was especially pleased to find The Dubious Hills, as previous searches have failed to score a copy.
Now I'll be all primed when the sequel comes out. (-:
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Date: 2004-03-17 07:27 pm (UTC)*confetti*
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Date: 2004-03-17 07:31 pm (UTC)Pamela
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Date: 2004-03-17 07:37 pm (UTC)Not to mention a faint hope that if they are publishing more of your books, they might start bringing the older ones (Tam Lin? Please?) back into print.
By the way - I periodically run across your short stories in (sigh, out of print again!) anthologies. Is there any likelihood, do you think, of putting them all together into a collection?
Catherine, ever hopeful
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Date: 2004-03-17 10:45 pm (UTC)Pamela
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