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Sick and Book Bad News/Good News
Jan. 9th, 2014 07:17 amI've STILL got this laryngitis thing, which has now successfully passed through our entire family, from Mason to Me to Shawn (who just started to get symptoms yesterday afternoon.) :-(
In the book bad news/good news category, I got an email yesterday afternoon from the small press Mad Norwegian Press who published the prequel/sequel of my AngeLINK books, Resurrection Code. They're taking Resurrection Code out of print.
That's obviously the bad news.
Part one of the good news is that the Norwegians are being extremely generous in their parting offer, including sending me the remaining print copies for me to distribute as I see fit. They've also reverted my rights including rights to digital books, and have even donated the cover art (which is possibly the most gorgeous art I've *ever* had on the cover of any of my books). I'm going to have to decide what I'm going to do with the print copies, but it may be possible for interested people to buy them directly from me or through my ancient website--though if I do that, it may be time for a major overhaul, which I've resisted for years. Nay, decades.
But, part two of the good news is that I emailed my e-publisher, Wizard's Tower Press, the folks who have been returning the other AngeLINK books back into e-print, and asked if they'd be interested in doing the same for Resurrection Code. To my extreme pleasure, they said yes.
It was the kind of quick turnaround I really needed.
I'm off to work at the library today. I work today, tomorrow, and Saturday in an effort to really finally learn the job. You wouldn't think being a library page would be that difficult, but as I said before it's so much more than shelving books these days. A LOT of what they have me doing is staffing the front desk, which means I do things like replace lost library cards, check people out who've forgotten their library cards (did you even know you could do that?), collect overdue fines, deal with damaged CDs, and a surprising array of other functions. So far, I really enjoy it. I mean, as far as jobs go, it has a lot of variety. One of the first jobs I ever had was as a receptionist at an extremely busy switch line/front desk at college. I had to a zillion things, including record a daily announcement recording about all the events on campus. I really liked that job. I'm about twenty-five years older now and out of practice at being perky and pleasant, but I can feel the muscle memories returning. :-)
In the book bad news/good news category, I got an email yesterday afternoon from the small press Mad Norwegian Press who published the prequel/sequel of my AngeLINK books, Resurrection Code. They're taking Resurrection Code out of print.
That's obviously the bad news.
Part one of the good news is that the Norwegians are being extremely generous in their parting offer, including sending me the remaining print copies for me to distribute as I see fit. They've also reverted my rights including rights to digital books, and have even donated the cover art (which is possibly the most gorgeous art I've *ever* had on the cover of any of my books). I'm going to have to decide what I'm going to do with the print copies, but it may be possible for interested people to buy them directly from me or through my ancient website--though if I do that, it may be time for a major overhaul, which I've resisted for years. Nay, decades.
But, part two of the good news is that I emailed my e-publisher, Wizard's Tower Press, the folks who have been returning the other AngeLINK books back into e-print, and asked if they'd be interested in doing the same for Resurrection Code. To my extreme pleasure, they said yes.
It was the kind of quick turnaround I really needed.
I'm off to work at the library today. I work today, tomorrow, and Saturday in an effort to really finally learn the job. You wouldn't think being a library page would be that difficult, but as I said before it's so much more than shelving books these days. A LOT of what they have me doing is staffing the front desk, which means I do things like replace lost library cards, check people out who've forgotten their library cards (did you even know you could do that?), collect overdue fines, deal with damaged CDs, and a surprising array of other functions. So far, I really enjoy it. I mean, as far as jobs go, it has a lot of variety. One of the first jobs I ever had was as a receptionist at an extremely busy switch line/front desk at college. I had to a zillion things, including record a daily announcement recording about all the events on campus. I really liked that job. I'm about twenty-five years older now and out of practice at being perky and pleasant, but I can feel the muscle memories returning. :-)