Archive for the ‘Publishing’ Category
I am very proud finally to be able to show you the US cover for A GOOD AMERICAN. I had discussed various possible themes with Amy soon after the text was finished, but really had no idea what to expect when this little electronic file plopped into my inbox. I was, I can admit now, Click here to continue…
I love New York. I like to think I know my way around the town, just a little bit – enough, at any rate, not to want to be seen gawping like a tourist and snapping photos every thirty seconds. Hence this terrible photo of the Empire State Building, surreptitiously snapped with my iPhone two Click here to continue…
Yeah, so this is still sitting on my desk. Deadline, schmeadline.
Some good news, in brief – we recently sold the Italian rights to A GOOD AMERICAN to Italian publishers Sperling. It’s always fun to sell foreign rights, especially in languages that I don’t speak. (The French editions of my earlier books always bothered me a bit, because the translator took some pretty extraordinary liberties with Click here to continue…
Earlier this week I tweeted and posted on Facebook that we had received an offer for UK and Commonwealth rights to A GOOD AMERICAN. This is obviously wonderful news for me personally, since I am English, and it would have been a little strange to have written a book (even though it is an “American” Click here to continue…
Very interesting piece up at The Awl about the trials and tribulations of novelists when it comes to the choice and design of their book covers, and the sometimes painful process of asking other writers for blurbs. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we are deep in that process right now, and so far, Click here to continue…
So, this is how it works. You sit alone, for hours and hours, and years and years, creating characters, telling stories, imagining lives. You live through the good days and the bad days. You slog away, you persevere, even when everything seems utterly hopeless and you think you’ll never write another word. Finally you have Click here to continue…
My good friend Amy Stephenson, who runs Get Lost Bookshop in downtown Columbia – literally a stone’s throw from my office – is putting together a series of readings by wonderful authors. I’m very excited by the inaugural event, since it is a reading by fellow Amy Einhorn author and New York Times best-seller, Eleanor Click here to continue…
Well, things are moving ahead. It now appears that we have a tentative date scheduled for the publication of A GOOD AMERICAN – January or February of 2012. It seems an awfully long way off right now but I know that there’s a lot to do in the forthcoming months and I will be kept Click here to continue…
So, yesterday was a big day for me. I have lost count over the past couple of years how many times I have written on this blog that the book is “finished”. There have been so many drafts and rewrites that it makes my head spin. The difference then, of course, was that I was Click here to continue…