I was at Powells in Portland, OR today. (They are possibly one of the biggest used book stores west of the Mississippi.) Grrr. No copies of Night Calls. I really hope your publisher reprints it. There seems to be a big after market demand still. I'm going to grab one off of Amazon to enable one of my friends.
I do mean to make a post about that, but it's been busier this weekend than I thought. Meisha-Merlin is now dead in the water, and it's good we didn't go to contract, because I'd be trucking books back to my house like Steve Miller and Sharon Lee.
A new regional press down here is interested, and we're talking to an adult F&SF line and a couple of YA lines. So...I'm hoping that by Labor Day I will 1) have finished Spirit Tracks, and 2) have sold the Allies again, or my ghost mystery. Because I need money, and if nothing happens soon, the minute I stop having overt medical problems, it's back to school for a Masters in something I can do 20 hours a week.
I hope it all works out in the end. At least there still seems to be a demand. It's odd how the industry seems to have gone. I'd have never guessed that the Luna imprint from Harlequin would be putting out so many things. It seems like what I would have considered the standard companies who used to put out so many interesting books have given up.
It seems like what I would have considered the standard companies who used to put out so many interesting books have given up.
I think they're out there, but I know what you mean -- the things that stand out for me right now are books like Laura Anne Gilman's Retrievers books, or DEAD WITCH WALKING. I also enjoy straight mysteries, and Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse books.
And NYC thinks those last ones are aberrations -- that no one wants to read about the center of the country. Ha!
The only problem with Luna is that I like some relationship stuff, but I don't like the obsessive-compulsive romance 51% of the book kind of story. And half the Luna books are the OC stuff, more traditional romance with fantasy trappings. The SF/F booksellers are very careful about Luna -- I know one bookseller, that if his partner (female) doesn't like the book, they won't carry it. She is not into traditional romance.
But we need to think good thoughts. My books are my gift to the world -- the gift back is people loving them, and someone paying me to write so it doesn't take so long between books! So -- toes crossed, as we need our hands to type...
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A new regional press down here is interested, and we're talking to an adult F&SF line and a couple of YA lines. So...I'm hoping that by Labor Day I will 1) have finished Spirit Tracks, and 2) have sold the Allies again, or my ghost mystery. Because I need money, and if nothing happens soon, the minute I stop having overt medical problems, it's back to school for a Masters in something I can do 20 hours a week.
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I think they're out there, but I know what you mean -- the things that stand out for me right now are books like Laura Anne Gilman's Retrievers books, or DEAD WITCH WALKING. I also enjoy straight mysteries, and Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse books.
And NYC thinks those last ones are aberrations -- that no one wants to read about the center of the country. Ha!
The only problem with Luna is that I like some relationship stuff, but I don't like the obsessive-compulsive romance 51% of the book kind of story. And half the Luna books are the OC stuff, more traditional romance with fantasy trappings. The SF/F booksellers are very careful about Luna -- I know one bookseller, that if his partner (female) doesn't like the book, they won't carry it. She is not into traditional romance.
But we need to think good thoughts. My books are my gift to the world -- the gift back is people loving them, and someone paying me to write so it doesn't take so long between books! So -- toes crossed, as we need our hands to type...