Something absolutely wild happened...
May. 24th, 2023 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catherineldfAnd I hardly know how to process it. If you read my journal regularly, you know there's generally a lot of "wild" to choose from, but this is a whole nother level.So right now, in the midst of planning for WisCon (will be there in person! Look for me in the Dealer's Room and around. J is coming with me so my ability to plan before 6:00 is a bit off and I will have to play it by ear), guest blogs and interviews, the new Queen of Swords Press book release, last week's exhausting but wildly successful Rochester MN Pride, and sundry other things, what do I get but a serious inquiry about media rights for Silver Moon? If you've been around in publishing for a bit, you know it's not wildly uncommon to get queries about new books. I've had 2 other inquiries in the past, neither of which amounted to anything. But this is a pretty significant production company! I'm very curious about how they heard of me and my menopausal werewolf novels because my press is still pretty small and I'm hardly a household name in the genre. But I don't want to look too uncool by asking.
That said, the WGA is in the midst of a big strike and while I'm not a WGA member, I don't want to cross the picket line, so I have sent them a copy of the book and a polite note saying that I would love to discuss the possibilities if indeed it might work for them, but will not be signing or negotiating anything until the strike is settled. In the meantime, pretty, pretty egoboo! I don't have any big expectations, but I do have an in to a media rights agent or two just in case something looks more likely. And the strike is settled. Fingers crossed!
In other Silver Moon news, the audiobook edition comes out on 5/30 and is up for preorder now! Blood Moon will be out on 6/30. I suspect the production company heard about through Tantor's marketing and will ask if I get a chance. And of course, it came out in a German translation through Ylva Press last year so who knows? I admit the whole "smol press publisher plugs the hell out of her menopausal werewolf books, with the help of some awesome fans, and manages to more or less negotiate foreign rights sales and audiobook sales unagented" sounds pretty amazing on paper. But I have to admit that they came looking for me. :-)
Also coming up this week, because it all needs to happen at once: watch this space for the new Pride StoryBundle! Melissa Scott and I have found some gems this year and we are once again designating Rainbow Railroad for our charity. Goes live on 5/31 and runs all the way through June!
That said, the WGA is in the midst of a big strike and while I'm not a WGA member, I don't want to cross the picket line, so I have sent them a copy of the book and a polite note saying that I would love to discuss the possibilities if indeed it might work for them, but will not be signing or negotiating anything until the strike is settled. In the meantime, pretty, pretty egoboo! I don't have any big expectations, but I do have an in to a media rights agent or two just in case something looks more likely. And the strike is settled. Fingers crossed!
In other Silver Moon news, the audiobook edition comes out on 5/30 and is up for preorder now! Blood Moon will be out on 6/30. I suspect the production company heard about through Tantor's marketing and will ask if I get a chance. And of course, it came out in a German translation through Ylva Press last year so who knows? I admit the whole "smol press publisher plugs the hell out of her menopausal werewolf books, with the help of some awesome fans, and manages to more or less negotiate foreign rights sales and audiobook sales unagented" sounds pretty amazing on paper. But I have to admit that they came looking for me. :-)
Also coming up this week, because it all needs to happen at once: watch this space for the new Pride StoryBundle! Melissa Scott and I have found some gems this year and we are once again designating Rainbow Railroad for our charity. Goes live on 5/31 and runs all the way through June!