The Old Races deal has been this very exciting saga, and I’m going to use it to illustrate how, as a professional writer, you ought to choose your hills to die on. Also to tell you about how cool my agent is, and the sorts of things that go on behind closed doors while you’re trying to work out a book deal. So this is how it went (cut for length; LJ readers can click through above):
for those of you…
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HAH!
HAH! *beams idiotically* The astute among you may have noticed that last week I mentioned Ted and I were going out to dinner to celebrate, and that I’d go into the details of celebration later. Now it is later! I am *button-poppingly pleased* to announce that my publisher, Luna Books, has made an offer on HEART OF STONE and its two sequels (currently titled HOUSE OF CARDS and HANDS OF FLAME). For those of you playing at home, this is the gargoyle trilogy, which is as a whole known as…
thinks
thinks to do over the next couple days: 1. email about travel routes for the pets 2. call about audi 3. call about corporate housing go over to rent corporate housing 4. photograph & list furniture for selling 5. call carpet cleaners 6. go through boxes & make storage unit run 7. watch more smallville 8. call about student loan consolidations 9. call utility companies 10. add things to this list as i think of them 11. call & see if anybody can recover the mac hard drive for me…
*laughs out loud*
*laughs out loud* My interview with Dragonpage is online and available to listen to now! But the front page at Dragonpage says, “Interview with David Eddings & C.E. Murphy”, which is much, *much* cooler than the actual truth, which is that there are interviews with David Eddings and C.E. Murphy, not a single interview in which we are both interviewed. *laughs more* (My bit of the interview starts at the 28 minute mark, FWIW.) I made some hot chocolate, and that perked me right up, and now I’ve finished my…