sold: Leaving Fortusa
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realthogI've just heard this morning that my "mosaic novel" Leaving Fortusa has sold (with the usual caveats about crossing the "t"s and dotting the "i"s in the contract) to Vera Nazarian of Norilana Books (aka
norilanabooks). My notoriously ballbusting agent forwarded along to me the e-mail containing the guts of the offer, in which Vera remarked:I've just finished reading LEAVING FORTUSA and it proved to be an amazing experience all the way to the end [. . .] Very complex, philosophical, mind-blowing, terrifying, in short, what the best science fiction should be.
The very last sentence was a profound WOW, and I think this is an extremely powerful book that should one day become a dystopian classic (I just hope not a self-fulfilling prophecy!).
Aside from a sneaky thought that this meant I already had my first cover quote sewn up (well, maybe not), it struck me that more publishers should learn to say things like this to the authors/agents of manuscripts they want to acquire. After reading Vera's comments I was prepared to agree to just about anything offered contractually! Fortunately, though . . .
I'll witter more about Leaving Fortusa in due course. At the moment I must finish off my Foreword to the Wimbledon Society Museum's edition of T.G. Jackson's Six Ghost Stories.
The very last sentence was a profound WOW, and I think this is an extremely powerful book that should one day become a dystopian classic (I just hope not a self-fulfilling prophecy!).
Aside from a sneaky thought that this meant I already had my first cover quote sewn up (well, maybe not), it struck me that more publishers should learn to say things like this to the authors/agents of manuscripts they want to acquire. After reading Vera's comments I was prepared to agree to just about anything offered contractually! Fortunately, though . . .
I'll witter more about Leaving Fortusa in due course. At the moment I must finish off my Foreword to the Wimbledon Society Museum's edition of T.G. Jackson's Six Ghost Stories.
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Date: 2008-04-03 11:30 pm (UTC)Congratulations!
Love, C.
P.S. I forwarded your congrats to Vaquero.
We also got translation rights and royalty check in mail today for the Cuba book.
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Date: 2008-04-03 11:37 pm (UTC)"We also got translation rights and royalty check in mail today for the Cuba book."
Well, dang! Had we but known we'd have been in to NYC to bum free drinks off you . . .
"She has broken the first rule of being an editor, which is never to praise an author's work to his / her face."
And I cannot laud her enough for so doing.
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Date: 2008-04-04 07:32 pm (UTC)Many congratulations, sirrah.
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Date: 2008-04-04 07:42 pm (UTC)Thank you, young whippersnapper!
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Date: 2008-04-04 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-04 08:20 pm (UTC)"I'm not worthy, oh Master..."
True.
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Date: 2008-04-04 08:21 pm (UTC)