FYI ...

[3scoremiles_10]

For those who care or are interested, book related info is behind the cut. Everyone else, feel free to ignore.

Comments

[shezan]

Novel or History?

And Amazon dot anyxhere, here I come!!!!

[3scoremiles_10]

Oh, sorry, should have said. Historical fiction. I'm not qualified for the serious stuff. ;)

[arysteia]

This is actually very exciting. You can be nonchalant all you want, but I don't believe you. I get an autographed copy, right? And a drunken read through with good champagne?

[3scoremiles_10]

I am not being nonchalent. Any calm you sense is totally fake. I am quietly freaking out on the inside.

No, seriously. And the champagne thing definately sounds like a good call.

[arysteia]

It's a date then. :-D

[3scoremiles_10]

Or, you know, we could just skip to the alcohol right now.

Please?

;)

[susa_938]

Oh, good - the ritual burning of Manfredi draws ever near!

Well - the ISBN I found, for those who like to know these things, is 1-86950-596-4; price $36.99 in NZ.

And I agree - it is very exciting. Now freak out all you like, but keep blowing the trumpet; this is going to be the best Alexander and Hephaistion novel since...well, since Renault (and that's not meant to be an insult).

And wish I could be there for an autographed copy and drunken read-through with champagne. *sigh*

[3scoremiles_10]

Huh. So, no pressure there then ...

*scuttles off to argue with rewrites some more*

[susa_938]

Huh. So, no pressure there then ...

Ermmm....well, that was my version of taking the pressure off and reassuring you....I'm obviously not very good at it! You know what I think anyway, so I'll shut up, and let you tussle with those last minute rewrites (more rewrites?).

And you obviously don't suck at titles either.

[3scoremiles_10]

(more rewrites?)

Until they prise it from my cold dead hands.

Or, more properly, until they do the first type-set and it gets cast in stone. Well, ink. You know what I mean. ;)

[qaddafi]

I'd heard about this on the grapevine, but the confirmation is still making me ecstatic! It's not too early to reserve a copy, is it? (And, no, it won't be a problem to order it overseas.

I'm impressed on so many levels. Being about a month from submitting a manuscript of my own, I'm in awe of you. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't HarperCollins only accept agented manuscripts? (Of course, if you got an agent first, the question is moot.) Or maybe they're nicer down there. Oh well, I'm sure your book will be the best Alexander historical fiction ever, and I'll be your fangirl :)

[3scoremiles_10]

I think NZ is one of the few places where you can get away without using a literary agent for this sort of stuff. It means you're shooting blind of course, hoping that someone will pick your work out of the slush pile, but blind ignorance and chance can be good like that.

Good luck with your submission, hope it works out.

[as_im_babbar]

That's the best news I've had in a long time. I cannot wait. And thank God for the internet so I won't have to wait forever in the UK.

Good luck with the last minute panic. And thank you for remembering to let us all know the date.

The day I receive the book I'll buy a bottle of champayne and drink to you and your baby.

Big, big congratulations darling, enjoy it all.

[3scoremiles_10]

The panic levels fluctuate. I'll manage. ;)