Alcatraz News

[EUOL]

Well, it's out.  Here's the official list of editors who've gotten a copy of the book via Joshua:

A/Tor/Feder/2-15-06
1/Firebird/November/2-24-06
2/S&S Aladdin/Schutz/2-24-06
3/Harcourt/Tibbot/2-24-06
4/HarperCollins/Dudman/2-24-06
5/Little Brown/Sorkin/2-24-06
6/Houghton/O'Sullivan/2-24-06
7/Hyperion/Bray/2-24-06
8/Knopf/Frey/2-24-06
9/Candlewick/Bicknell/2-24-06
10/Scholastic/Rissi/2-27-06

Ah, the joys of having an agent and being able to do mass simultaneous submissions!  Moshe has an 'A' instead of a number because we sent him the book a week earlier than the others to give him a head start.  

So, children's book people, how'd old Joshua do?  Is this a good list, you think?

[stacer]

Those are some good houses (well, pretty much almost all the houses, minus one very important one in the Seattle area, of course). Let me know how it goes.

[MsFish]

If you get published by Harper I'm going to ooze jealousy.  

[stacer]

Is the Bray at Hyperion Libba Bray? I know that she's married to Barry Goldblatt, but I can't remember if I heard that she's an editor somewhere, too.

[EUOL]

Update:

So far, six of the publishers above have said they want to make an offer, and one has already made an offer.  We'll know better by next week, but things look very good.

[Faster Master St. Pastor]

I think it would be funny if you got picked up scholastic.

[stacer]

Wow, you may get a bidding war for this.

[Spriggan]

Lets hope so, it would be fun to see what comes out of one.

[stacer]

Well, it would never be anywhere near what one might expect of a bidding war in adult books, but it certainly will go above average if more than one house wants it.

[Spriggan]

I'm hoping they'll adding things like new cars for his brother and other imporant things.

[stacer]

Oh, of course. That's the way it should always be.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Wow. Congrats. And good luck!

[Shrain]

Bid! Bid! Bid! Congrats. Can't wait to see the outcome.

[42]

I bid $1.

Now the bidding war is getting intense.

[The Lost One]

I bid two dollars and some homemade mandu. Of course, if you accept my bid, it might be awhile before I start my own publishing company and get the book out.