Wyrdsmiths has a tradition that when anyone sells a short story or makes a book deal they have to buy coffee for everyone at the next meeting. It's supposed to help assuage the feelings of jealousy that often accompany the business-side of the life of a professional writer.
So the coffee is on me next time.
As of Friday, my agent sold three-books in a new series! It's a YA (young adult) about a fifteen-year old girl living in Saint Paul who has a vampire prince for a dad and a mom who's a real Witch. The proposals have a lot of the light, humorous tone of a usual Tate Hallaway novel, so I hope they'll be fun and quick to write... especially since the deadline for the first one is October '09.
Yep, that makes THREE deadlines for Tate/Lyda in 2009. I've got HONEYMOON OF THE DEAD due May 1; RESURRECTION CODE due June 1; and now TO DIE FOR (ALMOST!)due October 15.
I'd complain, but we should all have such problems!
Monday, January 26, 2009
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Congratulations!
Way to go!
My day is getting stranger! I'm really happy for your great news (I LOVE your Garnet Lacey series) yet somehow I overlooked the fact that you're a Twin Citian! I'm a sometimes essayist/journalist trapped in medical management, struggling to get a book out of me, some potential national awards pending through DWAA, but I'm stone cold... and so planning to take a course on Writers Resistance at The Loft... which led me to the Death Pixies, which led me to Wyrdsmiths... I feel like the universe is not so subtly sending me a message!
LOVE to meet you sometime!
That's great news! Congratulations!
Woot! Raise the roof!
yeah you!
Excellent!
-CJD
Fabulous!
Hey, Lori! I teach at the Loft under my given name Lyda Morehouse(as does Kelly sometimes), so look for us in the catalogue.
And to the rest, thanks for the warm wishes.
Con-gargle-u-tate-ions!
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