More book news today… and for once, it’s actually about my book! While we were in Miami airport waiting for our flight to England – only four days later than planned, due to snow – I got an email from my editor and publisher, Amy Einhorn, with her comments on the rewrite to the book that I had been working …
“The Weird Sisters” by Eleanor Brown
January 20, 2011 marks the publication of a great debut novel called THE WEIRD SISTERS, by author Eleanor Brown. Full disclosure here: Eleanor is an Amy Einhorn author, and although we haven’t met (yet) we have been carrying on a rather wonderful email correspondence over these past several months. She is a wonderful and very funny person (if you don’t …
Full Steam Ahead
I’m back in the saddle again. Following delivery of Amy’s notes and edits on the manuscript last weekend, we then exchanged some long emails addressing various matters arising. That was followed by two long telephone conversations towards the end of last week. Result: we have agreed what needs to be changed in the book. Amy’s suggestions were inspired. Some of …
Wow.
This arrived via Fed Ex on Saturday morning: That, dear readers, is my manuscript, with Amy Einhorn’s editorial notes all over it. On the top is a nine page letter addressing both structural edits and line edits. I’m a very lucky boy. It probably goes without saying that Amy’s comments and suggestions are all extremely astute, and will (if I …
Announcement.
This is the post I have dreamed about writing every day for the past five years. I am pleased and proud (and staggered) to report that I have sold the worldwide rights to THE SONGS OF OUR FATHERS to Amy Einhorn, publisher of Amy Einhorn Books, an imprint of Penguin/Putnam. Amy has always been our number one choice of publisher …