I hope you’ll forgive a just little bit of trumpet-blowing. Can I use the cover of the book as an excuse? Since I put up this blog post about my lovely galleys a couple of days ago, several people have written to ask me what is written half way down the page, between my name and the cornet full of …
Galleys Ahoy
On Monday morning, the nice UPS man knocked on my office door with a package from New York. In it were five galleys, or Advanced Reading Copies, or ARCs, of A GOOD AMERICAN. These are, essentially, final softcover versions of the book (it will be published in hardback) complete with (brilliant) cover art, embarrassing author photo, blurbs, and what-have-you. Penguin …
Take Cover!
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, a little apprehensive. But I …
New York Stories
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 evenings ago, as I pretended …
Oops.
Yeah, so this is still sitting on my desk. Deadline, schmeadline.
News Round-Up
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 the text, to the point …
Foreign Rights
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” book) that wasn’t published in …
Covers and Blurbs
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, fingers crossed, touching wood, etc., …
Book Looks Like Book for First Time Shock
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 a book. Except that it’s …
Great Writers Coming to Columbia, MO!
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 Brown, whose debut, THE WEIRD …