On Second Thought

[EUOL]

You know, Brenna dreams of starting her own publishing company sometime.  She keeps warning me that someday in the future she is going to hit me up for a novel or two to help her get started....

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

My creative writing teacher has a novel that she hasn't been able to get published. She said the large publishers don't want to publish it because of its tone (a dark one I think she said), and the smalls one don't want to because they aren't sure if it will sell well. I have to read an excerpt for friday's class. I'll let you know how it is, and if its anything worthwhile, it'll get to someone.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Brenna is welcome to talk to Jeffe and I who've talked about soemthing like that (mostly games related) for years.

And Gemm, without knowing your teacher, it sounds like an excuse. <shrug> I could be very wrong though.

[Entsuropi]

Ooo! I'll be the, uh, the european, uh, correspondant and local administrator of, uh, stuff!

[Brenna]

yup, I'm going to own my own company.  I've decided that it'll probably be about ten years from now, because I need more experience in the field and I need to take some business classes in order to learn how to run a company and such.  I also need time to build up capital and contacts.  But I think I can do it, and I have people like you guys to draw upon (mostly a good thing. ), so that's a plus.  We'll see how it goes.  

Now, back to the thesis of doom! (I wrote a 28 page chapter yesterday...go me!) Happily, I only have one more full chapter to write, and then it's in the revisions stage.

Now my only question is this--is the lack of a deadline the only reason my creative writing takes me so long?  I've written almost 100 pages in two weeks for this thesis.  Maybe I just need to convince myself that something is due and I'll write faster...

[fuzzyoctopus]

My dad could give you pointers on starting/running a business, even if not a publishing business.  Heck in 10 years he  might be considering retirement and could help you out.

[Brenna]

I'll definitely have to keep that in mind, Fuzzy.

[House of Mustard]

Great news!

Yesterday I picked up the first copies of the book and it looks great.  I've listened to half of the audio, and it sounds much better than I expected (although the story is a little weird since I had to cut so much for the audio edit).  The book will be shipped on March 1st, so if you live close to the Wasatch Front, then it will be in stores by the 2nd or 3rd.  If you're farther away, it will be longer.  For more info, you can visit the website that Tage is building for me: www.robisonwells.com.  It's still under construction, and very little works, but it gives you more info on purchasing etc...

But the really big news is: They're buying my second book!  I haven't actually heard from the managing editor yet, so I don't know any contract details, but my editor let the cat out of the bag this morning.  She said the revision process is going to go much faster this time, and my hope is that it will be out by Christmas!

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

dude, that rocks. congrats!

[EUOL]

Yes, a hearty congratulations to you!

On a side note, that will put both of your books in the stores six months before Tor gets to my first.  (Sigh.)

Anyway, when's the book signing?

[House of Mustard]

Nothing's scheduled yet.

However, for everyone who's around SLC, you're invited to come to an openhouse at my place:  March 5th, between 6:30 and 9:00.  It'll be very informal--just drop in for a few minutes when you can.

If you need the address, email me.

[Spriggan]

Ahh it ships today, I went to B&N and they didn't have it, all thought I did enjoy hearing the cleark say Robison over and over again.  I'll go check for it on Wensday.

[EUOL]

When/how do you want us to buy the book, HoM?  First day?  At a future book signing?  Through Amazon so your sales rank goes up?

[House of Mustard]

I think that I could sell every copy of the first printing through Amazon and I'd still have a pretty crummy sales rank.  Since there are no book signings scheduled yet, I'd say buy it this week.  I'm tempted to say buy it from someplace other than Seagull, just because other stores will have fewer copies and will be quicker to have to reorder.  Still, I don't know how much of a difference that will make.  I guess my recommendation is: buy early, and buy often.

[House of Mustard]

And try to come to the openhouse.