WORLD DOMINATION: Step Two
Dec. 15th, 2006 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, I'm good to announce that Superpowers is going to be published in the UK by Vintage Originals. Check out those covers! Gorgeous stuff. I'm going to be working with Beth Coates, who has great taste, obviously. W00t! Thanks to Beth, to Shana, and to our UK agent consult Will Francis, who gave the book my favorite tag description yet: "Superpowers is the weirdest, saddest, funniest, bleakest coming of age novel I've read in a long time."
As an aside, I must note that it's been slightly odd to have everyone involved with the book refer to it as a "coming-of-age" story, since I wasn't thinking of it like that as I was writing it. I was pretty much thinking it was just a story, about people, who did stuff. Not that I have a problem with the description, at all. It's just strange how perspectives differ.
As an aside, I must note that it's been slightly odd to have everyone involved with the book refer to it as a "coming-of-age" story, since I wasn't thinking of it like that as I was writing it. I was pretty much thinking it was just a story, about people, who did stuff. Not that I have a problem with the description, at all. It's just strange how perspectives differ.
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Date: 2006-12-15 05:41 pm (UTC)hee, pretty covers.
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Date: 2006-12-15 05:48 pm (UTC)I know, right? I love the sort of retro/pulpy/classy look.
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Date: 2006-12-15 06:59 pm (UTC)Yay!
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Date: 2006-12-15 06:51 pm (UTC)"Coming of age story" can mean a lot of things, I think. If your characters are figuring out how to be adults or anything remotely like that (like dealing with superpowers!), it's just an easy shorthand. And it carries a lot of positive marketing connotations.
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Date: 2006-12-15 08:48 pm (UTC)Congratulations!
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Date: 2006-12-15 11:45 pm (UTC)Very cool!
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Date: 2006-12-16 03:56 am (UTC);-)
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Date: 2006-12-15 11:50 pm (UTC):: Checks Amazon for pre-order info... ::
:: Checks again... ::
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Date: 2006-12-16 03:03 am (UTC)so are you telling me this book o yours is going to make me weep, laugh, and stare desolately into the distance? (i don't know what the "weirdest"-ness will make me do. i'll just have to cross that bridge when i get to it).
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Date: 2006-12-16 03:58 am (UTC)There is no single appropriate response to weirdness. Results will vary.
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Date: 2006-12-16 04:15 pm (UTC)Graduated yet?
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Date: 2006-12-19 05:41 pm (UTC)So your next step in the whole world domination thing is going to be a translation into Hebrew, right?
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Date: 2006-12-19 06:03 pm (UTC)As to Hebrew, one hopes! Translations are the next project for my agent :-)