[SIZE="3"]This morning, after months of wrangling, my agent officially sealed the terms of a 3-book contract to bring Repairman Jack to the young-adult market. Unless your initials are JK or your first name Lemony, the YA market pays considerably less than what I get for adult novels. But I feel if I pass on the offer I will regret it later. I want to do these books. I need to do them. The stories are sitting in my head. I simply have to put them on paper. (“Simply” – hah!)[/SIZE]
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"It means 'Ask the next question.' Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created." Theodore Sturgeon.
fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]This morning, after months of wrangling, my agent officially sealed the terms of a 3-book contract to bring Repairman Jack to the young-adult market. Unless your initials are JK or your first name Lemony, the YA market pays considerably less than what I get for adult novels. But I feel if I pass on the offer I will regret it later. I want to do these books. I need to do them. The stories are sitting in my head. I simply have to put them on paper. (“Simply” – hah!)[/SIZE]Congrats on signing the deal, sod the money, think of it as giving them their first pack of cigarettes for free, hehehe.
Not sure if you've answered this before, but will you fit them into your current schedule, still producing a full fledged RJ novel a year, or will the adult books slow down to allow for these puppy Jack stories?
Dave
Dave Wrote:Not sure if you've answered this before, but will you fit them into your current schedule, still producing a full fledged RJ novel a year, or will the adult books slow down to allow for these puppy Jack stories?
[SIZE="3"]They're only 60k words -- about half the 110-120k length of the adult books -- so I'll fit them in between.[/SIZE]
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"It means 'Ask the next question.' Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created." Theodore Sturgeon.
I think you're going to have a hard time restraining yourself from your violent tendencies. Dying to see if Little Jack pops out any eyeballs on the playground. Looking forward to it (if not for myself, for my nephews).
fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]This morning, after months of wrangling, my agent officially sealed the terms of a 3-book contract to bring Repairman Jack to the young-adult market. Unless your initials are JK or your first name Lemony, the YA market pays considerably less than what I get for adult novels. But I feel if I pass on the offer I will regret it later. I want to do these books. I need to do them. The stories are sitting in my head. I simply have to put them on paper. (“Simply” – hah!)[/SIZE]
This is great news - I can hardly wait for the first one! Soooo... any idea when a series title will be chosen?
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fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]This morning, after months of wrangling, my agent officially sealed the terms of a 3-book contract to bring Repairman Jack to the young-adult market. Unless your initials are JK or your first name Lemony, the YA market pays considerably less than what I get for adult novels. But I feel if I pass on the offer I will regret it later. I want to do these books. I need to do them. The stories are sitting in my head. I simply have to put them on paper. (“Simply” – hah!)[/SIZE]
That is very good news! Congratulations.
XamberB Wrote:I'll drink to that!
Make mine a double! Excellent news.
Scott
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Geat news indeed. Couple of questions: what age will these books be aimed at? Obviously I'll be buying for myself, but I'm wondering when I can subject my kids to my favourite author. And my neices. And nephews. Question 2: do you know when we can expect the first book? Not that I'm impatient...