What’s in your email?
The simple act of logging into Outlook this morning reminded me of what fun it can be to have this job. I never know what might have conjured up overnight, either in response to some question I’d sent out earlier or some topic brand-new and surprising. My email is like Forrest Gump’s [...]
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You Cast Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
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Manga & Graphic Novels
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Cage Match–2012!
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Tim Zahn’s “Judge’s Call”
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50 Page Fridays
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Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith collection
publishing
Reading literary agent Janet Reid’s interesting post on the reasons she rejected manuscripts last year gave me the inspiration to tally up my own thanks-but-no-thanks to see what came across my desk during 2009. We moved offices last February and I’ve never relocated my copies of reject letters from January and February ‘09, but from March through December I passed on 133 manuscripts. Here were the reasons why:
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Attention all novelists-in-training: Check out Borders’ Babel Clash if you’d like to follow what looks to be an informative blogging stint by Naomi Novik, beginning today. Her first post talks about the worldbuilding she used to create her Temeraire series, as well as how she made the all-important choice of [...]
So, yesterday I just found out from The Editor that BITTER ANGELS has done well in its first month. Very well, in fact. I was, as you can imagine, thrilled to hear it. I was also relieved, because, well, you know, it might easily not have done well and that would have [...]
Read MoreSome of my authors have begun tweeting about their writing progress. Perhaps they are unaware that I can use this new tool to spy on them as their deadlines approach. Those who are going to be on time have nothing to fear. It’s those who are twitching and moaning about being late, o so late, [...]
Read MoreBookseller Molly Bolden, author Cherry Adair and I did a critique of manuscript first pages at the Jubilee Jambalaya Writers Conference last weekend in picturesque Houma, Louisiana. Participants (anonymously) handed in the first page of whatever work they had in progress, and American Idol-like we took turns commenting on what was good and bad about [...]
Read MoreI spent far, far too many hours this week writing catalog copy for my fall ‘09 Del Rey titles. Yes, I know that the catalog is our reps’ most important selling tool. Yes, I realize that booksellers refer to it for vital publication info. Yes, I should be happy that so many good books will [...]
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Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
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Star Wars: The Millennium Falcon Owner's Workshop Manual
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Embassytown
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Mass Effect: Deception
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Star Wars: Shadow Games
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The Human Blend
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
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Star Wars: Riptide
Paul S. Kemp
Howard Sherman
I absolutely know for a fact that some of the personality traits in the characters in books I've...