German Sale for Tate
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lydamorehouseHey, good news for Tate:
My agent just informed me that the German publisher VGS publishers want the first four books (_Tall, Dark & Dead_, _Dead Sexy_, _Romancing the Dead_ and _Dead if I Do_) for a paperback original publication under their imprint LYX. Of course, I don't really know anything about this publisher, but it's all a yay as far as I'm concerned.
I have to tell you, my psuedonym is a serious money maker (foregin sales are especially nice because I don't have to do anything except sign the contract and take the euros.) I don't think I can regret having "sold out."
Tate's other big foregin sale was, of course, to the UK, which is just strange. They translated my books into... English (although, as far as I can tell they really didn't do much other than change the double quotation marks to singles.) Her short story "Fire and Ice and Linguine for Two" appeared in _Many Bloody Returns_ which has been translated into German and Polish, but I didn't get a cut of the advance for those sales... though I think it may now be obvious that they helped build a market for me in Germany.
This is the cool part of being a writer, IMHO.
Meanwhile, I must get back to Tate's latest which is kind of kicking my butt. I've been working on the revisions![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seanmmurphy served up last week, and I'm now on the part where I'd originally written "and things work out somehow" and we all rush to the end, THE END. He gave me a really great idea that involves a Troll, three billy goats gruff, and a bridge (seriously), and now all I have to do is get it all written by Thursday when I hope to convince naomikritzer to reading the next draft.
The weekend was nice; thanks for asking. We were supposed to go to the SPCO concert on Saturday, but collectively none of us was up for it. Shawn wanted to nap. Mason wanted to play video games. I wanted to write. So we all stayed home. On Sunday, I'd been hoping to coax everyone out to pagan kids and kin at the UU Fellowship at Mount Curve, but it snowed. We all just looked at the white sludge falling from the sky and crawled back in bed. So, really, I did a whole lot of bupkis this weekend.
It was very enjoyable.
My agent just informed me that the German publisher VGS publishers want the first four books (_Tall, Dark & Dead_, _Dead Sexy_, _Romancing the Dead_ and _Dead if I Do_) for a paperback original publication under their imprint LYX. Of course, I don't really know anything about this publisher, but it's all a yay as far as I'm concerned.
I have to tell you, my psuedonym is a serious money maker (foregin sales are especially nice because I don't have to do anything except sign the contract and take the euros.) I don't think I can regret having "sold out."
Tate's other big foregin sale was, of course, to the UK, which is just strange. They translated my books into... English (although, as far as I can tell they really didn't do much other than change the double quotation marks to singles.) Her short story "Fire and Ice and Linguine for Two" appeared in _Many Bloody Returns_ which has been translated into German and Polish, but I didn't get a cut of the advance for those sales... though I think it may now be obvious that they helped build a market for me in Germany.
This is the cool part of being a writer, IMHO.
Meanwhile, I must get back to Tate's latest which is kind of kicking my butt. I've been working on the revisions
seanmmurphy served up last week, and I'm now on the part where I'd originally written "and things work out somehow" and we all rush to the end, THE END. He gave me a really great idea that involves a Troll, three billy goats gruff, and a bridge (seriously), and now all I have to do is get it all written by Thursday when I hope to convince naomikritzer to reading the next draft.The weekend was nice; thanks for asking. We were supposed to go to the SPCO concert on Saturday, but collectively none of us was up for it. Shawn wanted to nap. Mason wanted to play video games. I wanted to write. So we all stayed home. On Sunday, I'd been hoping to coax everyone out to pagan kids and kin at the UU Fellowship at Mount Curve, but it snowed. We all just looked at the white sludge falling from the sky and crawled back in bed. So, really, I did a whole lot of bupkis this weekend.
It was very enjoyable.
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snowed?
Date: 2009-04-06 07:38 pm (UTC)Even more absurd seems the 'translation' into English.
Congrats on the German connection. Get rich, girl, very soon :-)
Re: snowed?
Date: 2009-04-07 02:46 pm (UTC)