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Subscribe!New Year, New Book
Monday, January 04, 2010
Hope everyone's New Year is off to a great start. When I hear "2010" now, the first thing I think of is my new book. I know that sounds insanely self-centered, but allow me to explain:
I had lunch with my editor back in July of 2008 during a visit to New York. I had recently sent her a second draft of The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, and things seemed to be moving right along. I asked her when Random House was planning to release the book, and she explained that, given the long lead times required for publicizing and producing a novel, Firefly Brothers theoretically could have been ready for fall of 2009, but they'd decided instead to push it back a few months so my little volume wouldn't be buried in the noise of the Big Fall Books, when bestsellers like Stephen King and Richard Russo and Barbara Kingsolver (and, um, Sarah Palin) get all the attention. Which meant that my book was slated for "Winter 2010." Sitting there a day before Independence Day, in the year 2008, the thought of 2010 was borderline science-fictionally futuristic. It seemed like forever. And it kind of has been.
But, at long last, 2010 is here, which means my book is less than a month away from being published! Rumor has it I should be getting some hardcovers in the mail any day now. Better still, good reviews are already trickling in: Publishers Weekly recently gave it a starred review, predicting that readers "will be engrossed," and Amazon just named it one of the Best Books of the Month, calling it "an exciting and provocative tale about the vagaries of justice and truth." (Side note: Being named a Best Book of the Month means that if you buy it from Amazon this month, you'll get a 40-percent discount, if you're into that sort of thing. Not that I'm recommending the Kindle-addicted Amazon over actual, real bookstores or anything.)
That's all for now, but hopefully there will be more good news soon...
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I had lunch with my editor back in July of 2008 during a visit to New York. I had recently sent her a second draft of The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, and things seemed to be moving right along. I asked her when Random House was planning to release the book, and she explained that, given the long lead times required for publicizing and producing a novel, Firefly Brothers theoretically could have been ready for fall of 2009, but they'd decided instead to push it back a few months so my little volume wouldn't be buried in the noise of the Big Fall Books, when bestsellers like Stephen King and Richard Russo and Barbara Kingsolver (and, um, Sarah Palin) get all the attention. Which meant that my book was slated for "Winter 2010." Sitting there a day before Independence Day, in the year 2008, the thought of 2010 was borderline science-fictionally futuristic. It seemed like forever. And it kind of has been.
But, at long last, 2010 is here, which means my book is less than a month away from being published! Rumor has it I should be getting some hardcovers in the mail any day now. Better still, good reviews are already trickling in: Publishers Weekly recently gave it a starred review, predicting that readers "will be engrossed," and Amazon just named it one of the Best Books of the Month, calling it "an exciting and provocative tale about the vagaries of justice and truth." (Side note: Being named a Best Book of the Month means that if you buy it from Amazon this month, you'll get a 40-percent discount, if you're into that sort of thing. Not that I'm recommending the Kindle-addicted Amazon over actual, real bookstores or anything.)
That's all for now, but hopefully there will be more good news soon...
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