News news, wonderful news!

[erastes]

Ok. I've been sitting on this news for WEEKS and I thought at one point I was going to explode with excitement. You'll see it everywhere I am, so I apologise for the cross-posting but hey - I never do it normally.

Ready?

Perseus Books has picked up Transgressions!!!!!!  Running Press to be precise.

I KNOW!!!!  *bounce*  It's a long story, which I can't really detail yet because the other person involved hasn't signed their contract yet, but they have said that I can go ahead and squee due to my recent bad luck. And the publisher said that I could announce it weeks ago but I didn't want to for superstitious reasons. And I signed my contract today!! So. SQUEE!

Perseus have a good name, but this is a new venture for them and a risky one too I suppose, they do a little bit of gay fiction, Simon Shepperd and others, but not a huge amount.. The idea is (as far as I know at the mo) is to try out some gay romance - put the books into bricks and mortar stores and see how they run. It's all still very much ground floor stuff so I have no more details to share but.. well, let's say that the author advance is an average for a new author in a genre market - proper professional rates. (Although - unless it's £500,000, I'm not that bothered about an advance because it just means you wait longer to earn anything else, but still, it's still nice to get a professional rate!)

I'm excited personally, of course, but more than that I'm excited for the genre as a whole. Both Transgressions and the other book being published at the same time (Spring 2009) are gay historicals so I hope that people buy these books and it will lead the way for Perseus picking up more and more gay romance in the future. With Alyson selling, and with pubs folding left right and centre, it's great to see someone running with a new venture isn't it? And yes, it's risky but where's the fun in life if you don't risk? 
 
It was also nice to see recently that Waldenbooks were putting gay romance on some of their shelves and it was running out of the store!

In other news: I found it very amusing when Catherine Tate relayed the story of her cat's adoption. Apparently she was going to take one cat from the shelter but they said "there's a problem" - turns out that it had a prolapsed anus so she decided not to adopt.  A little later they called her and said they had another she might like... "but... there's a problem" they said. "What's the problem?" she asked. (thinking it would be more icky medical stuff "Well... he's GINGER..." 

In fury, she adopted him immediately!!

Comments

[nassima.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful news!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you, darling! I'm still pinching myself.

[storm-grant.livejournal.com]

Rising from my death bed to say congrats!!!
How very thrilling!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I was just sending you condolences!

Thank you!!

;)

[sleveen.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! It doesn't seem real, still.

[thescarletwoman.livejournal.com]

♥♥♥

that is SO fabulous news! Congrats!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? Mainstream!!

Thank you!!

[lunalelle.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic news! Congratulations!

Be sure to direct us to an Amazon page when it gets to that point. :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

And all the bookshops!!

Thank you!

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

How fabulous! Congratulations! Very excited for you!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you! My flist rocks!

xxx

[sionnain.livejournal.com]

Oh, YAY! Congrats, hon!! This is excellent news!!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie. I am still a little like.. feeling that it's unreal!

xxx

[semioticwarrior.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Congratulations!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

xxx

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Weeebouncybounce! What crackin' news! How you managed to sit on that I'll never know, lol. You do know this is my reason for selling my life on Ebay, don't you? So I can buy boypRon. ;p

Hahahaha a ginger pusskat, just like Puss!!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! I'll have to repay the compliment and buy some of your stuff!

Thanks!

xxx

[aunty_marion]

Very good news! Conga Rats!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you hun!

:)

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! Keep us posted with the news.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I've been dying to tell everyone, specially you and Lee, but I was just too scared it wouldn't happen!

:)

Thank you!

xxx

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS!!! It does sound like your writing career is taking center stage... good thing you'll have time to attend to it!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's certainly going to need some hard work in the next few months, that's for sure - with 2 novellas and 2 novels to worry about!

Thanks hun - I was dying to tell you!

xxx

[madrigalist.livejournal.com]

SQUEE!!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

How on earth did you manage to need to edit "Squee"?

*laughs*

THANK YOU!!

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Huge congrats! :-D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I've nearly exploded for keeping it in!

xxx

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

You GO! Hooray for you, I'm over the moon. More to buy, more to read, someone's encouraging you! Yahoooooooo! (Good for all of us really)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

That's the best thing - it's hopefully great news for the genre. hope hpe hope hope hope.

Thanks you!

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's fabulous news :)

You're amazing!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'm not amazing - I'm just very VERY lucky - in the right place at the right time, and that never happened to me before!!

Thank you!

xxx

[gweneiriol.livejournal.com]

congratulations!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Aw thank you!

xxx

[mysid.livejournal.com]

YIPPEE! HOORAY! YOU GO, GIRL! [Doing the happy dance for you!]

Take that evil ex-boss!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, she'd KNOWN about it several weeks ago (but had shown NO interest, as she never has about any of my successes - she only likes my failures)

Thank you, hun

xxx

[clarelondon.livejournal.com]

Many congratulations!!!!!!
^_______^

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

xxx

[shiawmeimei.livejournal.com]

Major congrats! This is wonderful news. Snoopy dancing for you!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Aw - what a great icon!

Thank you!

xxx

[leatherdykeuk.livejournal.com]

How super!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I've been beaming like a FOOL for weeks, but simply haven't been able to say anything.

If it all goes wrong NOW...

Thanks hun!

xxx

[jamie2109.livejournal.com]

Yay!!! Congratulations! brilliant news!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

xxx

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the sale and pending publication! And may it make you money, too, so you can go on writing without too much stress.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I hope so, but I won't see more than half the advance until publication. Writing (if one is lucky and if one continues to be so) is like a snowball, and takes a long time to get going.

Thank you hun - I have a wonderful core of friends and it's wonderful that so many of my flist from when I was in fandom are still here and still cheering.

xxx

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Squee! That's fantastic news! I'm so pleased for you. And I'm pleased for us as a whole - all the m/m writing authors - because a new bricks and mortar publisher is wonderful! I'd love to see the genre breaking out into the mainstream, and I'm sure you're the one to put it there!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Alex. I just hope it all happens. I'm very much "when i see the book in my hands, I'll believe it" sort of person.

I am just thrilled to bits that a mainstream publisher has seen the way the wind is blowing and is acting on it.

xxx

[lyras.livejournal.com]

Oh, fantastic! Congratulations. xx

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you, hun!

xxx