Friday, March 20, 2009

Announcement!

Monday, March 16th was a rather nice day. It was an ordinary day, and I was simply driving home from a routine dentist appointment when my phone rang. It was The Agent. Now, I knew he might be calling “early next week”, but I didn’t think that meant Monday on the dot. First thing out of his mouth was “We have an offer.”

Um…what? Excuse me? ‘Cause I could have sworn you just said… Oh holy shit. At which point I’m trying desperately to remember how to follow all pertinent traffic laws. (yes, I know, driving + cel phone = bad)

The Agent gave me the details, and I managed to ask a few coherent (I think) questions. He said we were waiting to hear back from one more editor, and that he would be calling me again before the end of the day to let me know what the final result was.

I hung up the phone and proceeded to freak out, much to the concern of my daughter in the back seat. “Mommy, I think you need to calm down now.” When the six-year-old is the voice of reason, there may be a problem.

The second phone call came and went, and we still only had the one offer, but you only NEED one. And suddenly after being on submission for only six-ish weeks, in the space of a few hours, I am officially a professional author. I mean, someone is going to PAY me to do what I love anyway!

(I told The Agent at one point in the conversation that I would do this for a poke in the eye and a box of donuts. He told me he’d try to get me enough money that I could buy my own donuts. He’s just awesome.)

So here’s the official word on the subject:

I have accepted a three-book deal with Berkley/Roc (the imprint is still undecided) and my editor is Anne Sowards. For those not in the publishing industry, Anne also edits for Jim Butcher (permit me a small SQUEEEE!!!) and Anne Bishop among many, many others.

My first book (Project 2) will be out in stores in the summer of 2010, and I need to bust my butt working on the next two. We have some edits to do on Project 2 (shiny new title coming soon, hopefully) and I’ll be trying to chronicle the process as best I can.

I have to thank every single one of my beta readers. Without them, my book would be shite, my spirits would be low, and I probably would have given up years ago.

18 comments:

JenWriter said...

Congratulations!!! I'm so happy for you! Yay!

BeshterBooks said...

Have appropriatly plastered this everywhere....I will start a virus campaign to get the word out, LOL.

Rose Pressey said...

Fantastic news! Congratulations!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations! That is HUGE!!! Hooray!

Gary Corby said...

Congratulations! It's a wonderful feeling, enjoy every moment.

Good luck with the next one. Next time, you *know* it's going to see print. It makes a big difference!

cindy said...

HOLY GUACAMOLE!!

/bootay shake!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TAS!!!!!

Dan said...

Congrats! I'm going off to mark the date down on my mental 2010 calendar (it has puppies on it).

Yay!

Anonymous said...

Awesome! Crazy amazing awesome! Yay you!!!

Anonymous said...

w00t, Tas, what fabulous news! congrats!!!!

Courtney Allison Moulton said...

Ahhhh That is so AWESOME!! *dances all over your blog* Congrats for basically the 50th time!!

Creative A said...

Hey, I heard the news on Chandlers blog, and had to come over and give my congrats! That's amazing news. Yay for you!

-CA

Auggy said...

*does a nerdly chicken dance, gets tossed out of a grocery store*

WOOO! WOO! YES!

Ahem. Yes. Enthusiastic congratulations.

Karen Mahoney said...

Congratulations! :)

I'm here via JenWriter (we share an agent). I love urban fantasy - can't wait to hear more!

Cheers,
Karen

Kasey Mackenzie said...

Hooray and congratulations!!! They haven't scheduled my imprint yet, either.

Martha Flynn said...

Congratulations! And please do listen to your six year old when driving. :)

Ello - Ellen Oh said...

I just saw this over at Cindy's blog. Congratulations! That is awesome news!

Barbara Martin said...

I came via Karen Duvall's blog, and congratulations on your deal! Enjoy this moment, savour it for lasting benefit. You worked for this and deserve it.

Juliette Dominguez said...

Hey Tas, I'm here via the *fabulous* booty-shaker herself, Cindy Pon -- and I wanted to say CONGRATS that is such wonderful news, it always buoys my spirits to hear of another success! *does a little dance* it's all so good for the writing spirit...