And Now It Can Be Told

[handful_ofdust]

After my week of nuttin', honey, and my vague birthday plunge into what-the-fuck-have-I-done-with-my-life-ville, today is my seventh wedding anniversary, and...last night, I got some amazing, probably life-changing news:

ChiZine Publications (CZP) is buying A Book of Tongues, on the strength of Chapters One to Seven. I'm signing the contracts next week; they need a full manuscript by November. And whatever else happens, because it's CZP, I therefore know the cover will be brilliant.

So--today I jumped right back on the horse, and floored that fucker: 1,039 words into Chapter Eight, pedal to the metal. Because I guess I maybe don't suck. And I guess I also know what I'll be doing for the rest of the year.;)

Comments

[autobotsrollout.livejournal.com]

Hooray that it sold!

(I know nothing about ChiZine. Is this SUPA-BIG or just biggish?)

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Biggish, I'd say. The Chiaroscuro is a great webzine, and like I said, the product they've picked up/produced thus far at CZP looks incredible. Better yet, I retain mass-market rights, so if I want to try and sell it to another publishing house for paperback publication, I can. This worked out very well indeed for people like the chick who wrote The Drowned City.