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 […]
The Best Part of Writing
There’s the hard parts, and then there’s the easy parts. I’ve really been feeling like writing was a chore for the last couple of weeks. I didn’t know if it was performance anxiety over having people suddenly throwing me money from all directions, or stress, or what. I was just missing my writing quota (1,000 […]
Golden Ticket
Peat’s Agent: “Now that we have a US sale, we can try to sell the book to other markets, as well.”Peat: “How’s that?” Agent: “I have sales contacts in the UK, and proxies who will sell to foreign language markets in Europe.” Peat: “No shit.” Agent: “Shit. All together, it won’t add up to the […]
Kvell
Yeah, so when I first go to sell my book, my agent is all like, “I just want to warn you, this is going to take a while. I am going to try and convince editors to move your book to the top of the reading pile, but still, it may be months before anyone […]
Did I Mention I Sold My Book?
Did I mention I sold my book, along with two as-yet-unwritten sequels, last week? No? Oh. Well, I will. Remind me.