Wow...I want this contract
This is what Skippy’s been doing – he found 2 toy mice and he’s in heaven.
14 pages on Alex yesterday. Almost done....may write 2 different endings, see which one works.
Busy day today, running the boy around. Sigh.
I saw this on Lori Perkins’s blog, from the New York magazine.
What do you think?
“Ballantine Pays $3.75 Million for a Literary Novelist's Vampire Trilogy?
Justin Cronin, a.k.a. Jordan Ainsley
Courtesy of Random House
Last week, we hear, agent Ellen Levine at Trident Media closed a deal for a postapocalyptic vampire trilogy with editor Mark Tavani at Ballantine.
Now, if we reported on every postapocalyptic vampire trilogy out there, we'd never have time to write anything else. But this postapocalyptic vampire trilogy sold, we hear, for a whopping $3.75 million for North American rights. Impressively, the deal was made off a 400-page partial manuscript.”
This should be it for Alex….I’m on the last scene. At least….till revisions ;)
And what in blue blazes is this???
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5 comments:
LOL! Yeah, that WAS a pretty nice contract to get.
And what WAS that Kablouey thing? Is that a movie coming out? I'd laugh if I wasn't so confused by it. LOL!
Wow...now there's a good agent! Wouldn't I love even a fraction of that.
Dayam! What is it with the ginormous contracts for lit fic? That's fantastic money, but now there's the pressure of making it all worth it -- for the publisher and the author (who, I would imagine, would be very stressed in addition to elated).
Kablouey -- weird.
I'd heard about the contract. It'll be interesting to see how the book does.
How cool to see Terri Garr again. I saw her on a show talking about why she left Hollywood. I guess she's back.
Jennifer, it's a movie, with JDM, filmed in Austin a couple of years ago. Just no idea what the blue thing is supposed to be!
No kidding, Kelly!
Trish, true about the expectations!
Mary Beth, I remember The Historian got similar $$. I have it on my iPod but haven't listened yet. Have you read it? Did it live up to the hype?
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