Exciting news! Carina Press called me the other day, and offered to publish The Sevenfold Spell. The call came totally out of the blue (they always do, I'm told), since my submission had not even been out a month. I had a LOT of questions, and I'm afraid I pestered the editor quite a bit. I wanted to understand everything and feel comfortable with the terms, and she was very patient.
This is my first fiction sale. I have learned that it is much easier to break into nonfiction than fiction. I published a nonfiction article with my very first try. I started submitting short stories in the 80s. The 80s! Marion Zimmer Bradley sent my first rejection letter!
The fabulous Lisa Nevin read the manuscript just after I submitted it, and she suggested the exact same revisions that Carina Press proposed! Lisa, thanks for being such a great beta partner. Superwench and Carole McDonnell also critiqued a very early copy, and J. G. Paine, who is the pseudonym for another critique partner, is the one who inspired me to expand it to e-book length and send it to an e-publisher. Thanks for your help, everyone!
The tentative publication timeframe is the fall of this year!
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Wooohooooooooo!
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Tia!
Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!!
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing news! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteWell done!
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful! Congratuatlions! {REALLY BIG GRIN}
ReplyDeleteAnne Elizabeth Baldwin
can't we get paper copies also? if not, hopefully my iPhone ereader can read the ebook version.
ReplyDeleteHopefully this is just the beginning!
and thanks for the kind mention of me - you're too generous!
ReplyDeleteThank you, everyone!!
ReplyDeleteLisa, your iPhone should have no trouble with the epub version. There is no plan right away for a print version, although I do understand that an anthology is possible.
Yay, congratulations, Tia! I'm so happy for you!
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