A sale! or, creative accounting for writers

[erastes]

I'm thrilled to say that Carina have taken a second novella from me. It's the vampire novel previously known as Chiaroscuro which will be renamed very soon.  I'm really looking forward to working with Deb Nemeth again, she is an amazing editor—and I would kill to have her eagle eyes.

Hurrah hurrah! It's always an amazing feeling when you sell a book, but a repeated sale to a publisher is even better, it sort of says "you aren't a flash in the pan."

They want to rename it for several reasons but mainly because an easier search word would be better, which I strongly agree with. I can hardly spell it myself. (Had to use spellcheck to get it right, above…) as long as it's not "Love's Painty Splendour" or something like. Or "The Vampire's Artist Fuck-toy." LOL.

What do I mean by creative accounting?  Well, my goal is to write and to sell two books a year. I only managed to write 1½ books last year: Muffled Drum and half of "I Knew Him." And now I've rewritten Chiaroscuro and will finish IKH…so really I won't have written anything this year, but I've already sold one for next year! and I sold 3 THIS year, so it evens out, because I used Junction X which I wrote years ago!

Yes, It makes no sense to anyone but a justifying procrastinating author, but hey!

Cava tonight. It's a tradition.

Comments

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congratulations :) And it's great that Chiaroscuro will have the chance to be seen by more people, as it deserves to be properly appreciated.

*g* I'm currently re-writing an old story which has been accepted for publication twice now without ever being released. Hopefully third time will be lucky for this one. No sense to waste a good story!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've reworked it a bit, and I'm sure Deb Nemeth will make me rework it even more! :D

Exactly waste nothing, I wish I could work out some way of reworking my "Shoulder of Giants" dystopian HP novel but it's so mired in the canon.

Looking forward to all your new stuff!

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the problem with good fanfiction - the tighter you tie it into canon the harder it is for it to stand on its own.

Thanks! You too. I know you say that you haven't been writing as much as you like, but you're still putting out new stuff at quite a rate. It's a good rate too. Certainly there are authors I've stopped reading because I just can't keep up with how much stuff they put out. It gets to feel like a chore, rather than a treat, when they put out yet another thing.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Oh good news indeed! And I really hope they let you have a good title, though I quite liked Chiaroscuro. It stuck in the mind, even though it's a pita to spell.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I quite like Blood and Oils but I doubt they'll let me have that! Thank you!

[feed-your-muse.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's great news. Enjoy the bubbles. :-)


Merry

[erastes.livejournal.com]

thank you! Just waiting for the sun (or at least the rain) goes over the yardarm... :D

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congratulations!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[oceankitty1.livejournal.com]

Hurray! Pat on the back and big hug :)
I'm so happy for you :D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you! :D

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Stevie. *squishes the Brigadier*

[beckyblack]

Excellent news!

I suppose chiaroscuro is an obscure kind of word to most people - though not to me, I went to art school many moons ago! So a change to something easier to Google is sensible I suppose.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[iulia_linnea.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you!