Yesterday’s post was about the typical pre-publication to-dos and milestones.  Today’s is about the atypical stuff, all of which I’ve seen happen over this past year… Your editor gets laid off, your book dies.  Even though you had a deal. Your editor gets laid off, you get a new one.  Who you totally click with.  [...]

Congratulations!   That’s a big deal.  You’ve probably worked for years on manuscripts, written and revised countless query letters, read rejection after disheartening rejection and finally, you’re there.   If this is your debut novel and you’re anything like me, you have no idea what comes next.  Or you have some ideas, most of which will turn out to be [...]

That’s what my editor said when she told me The Mark has sold in Turkey!  It comes out there in paperback, sometime in the next eighteen months.  Google translator says The Mark translates as…The Mark, though I think that’s more like a punctuation mark.  Isareti – which means “sign” – is probably closer.  Whatever they call it, I’m thrilled!  [...]

The Mark has sold in Indonesia!  It’s my first foreign rights sale and I am completely tickled at the idea of my book in another language.   The literal translation is Angka, which sounds fittingly ominous.  Though they’ll probably retitle it something completely different.  I can’t wait to see what and what the cover will look like… It [...]