yeah, looks like a Monday all right....

[lagilman]

Project Updates: After today, The Vineart War #3 is my editor's headache for a few weeks. And me? I get to start on PSI#4, polish up the Small Press Project, and put together the proposal for The Sektrit Projekt! Whee?

New Book Updates: Yep, WEIGHT OF STONE is officially out tomorrow. Of course, it's unofficially already been delivered to some people. Not that I'm dying here, waiting to see if they love it or hate it, or anything.... and remember, there's still time to request a signed bookplate, as per my earlier post on the topic...

website updates I've made 'em. Mainly updating where I'll be, going forward, including at least one trip out to the SoCal area....

General self-serving but useful info Love books, but can't afford to buy everything you want to read? You did know that you can request that your local library buy it, right? If it's not on their list already, your request might make it appear on the shelf....

For any writers/publishing folk reading here and not on twitter via @PublishersWkly From @The_Millions: Gail Gauthier writes about rejection, not having an agent, & trying to get back into the game

and a bonus? 6th thing: having what my sister refers to as a 'reality based moment" I've put down in writing - and sent copies to family members -- my wishes regarding both worst case medical scenarios, organ donation, and funeral preferences. Yeah, I don't expect any of this info to be needed any time soon - but I'd rather my family not have to face "what should we do?" questions if it does. They'll have enough to deal with. I'd strongly advise y'all to do the same, if you haven't already. It's not morbid, it's a gift to those you care about.

Comments

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

While I wish her luck, my first reaction to that Gail Gauthier reaction is derision.

[lagilman]

Really? Mine was sympathy and a certain level of empathy, as I know all too well it can happen to any of us....

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

And as I said, I do wish her luck. She made some mistakes, and I hope she can recover from them.

I find her comparison to be off in a couple of ways, mainly the implication that Someone Did This To Her. The "Someone" I see that did this to her appears to be her own strategy.

[lagilman]

Interesting. We seem to have taken very different interpretations away from the article.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

One of the implications I took from it was that her novel was the only thing she worked on for that time. On rereading, she doesn't say that, nor does she say anything about her sales during that time.

She does say she was comfortable on the midlist, which (again, implication I'm picking up) sounds to me as if 1)she had a formula that was working, 2)makes me wonder why one novel would crash her career instead of being a setback, and 3)makes me wonder how the marketing and books that got her onto the midlist could have suddenly failed her that badly.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Sounded to me as though Gauthier is a casualty of recession, like a lot of us. Strategies in both writing and marketing that worked well a few years ago don't do so any longer, and the reasons are primarily economic.

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

PSI#4 already? We've only been allowed to read the first one, so I hope this means #2 and #3 are well on the way to publication.

[lagilman]

#2, PACK OF LIES is scheduled for February 2011. #3, TRICKS OF THE TRADE, is currently in revisions and scheduled, I think, for November 2011. #4 is gonna kinda kick out all the stops....

[spiffikins]

I *just* finished reading Flesh and Fire and wanted to let you know that I ended up really enjoying it, and will definitely be picking up the next ones in the series!

I didn't know anything about it other than it wasn't in the Retrievers series - and it took me a bit to get into it, because I'm so *not* a wine person :)

I really enjoyed the world-building, and the painstaking character-building - I'm really excited to read what happens next!

The *only* thing I can't figure out (and I realize this is totally not in your control, I'm sure) - what is *up* with these new "slightly taller" mass market paperback books? The form factor is just..weird to me.

[lagilman]

*purrs like a (relieved) purring thing...*

Yeah, I had nothing to do with the format choice. I find that I like the taller form, whose name escapes me before coffee, because it's easier to hold while reading (like a trade paperback) but it makes it damn annoying to try and shelve....