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Two Book Deal!!A little while back I posted on Twitter that I had preliminary good news, but couldn’t share until it became liminary. Well today is Liminary Day, baby! I am thrilled to announce that we’ve sold the first two books of a new series to DAW. My tentative series title is Magic ex Libris. This will be a current-day fantasy series, and it will be awesome. How is this awesome? Let me share just a few of the ways… 1. DAW is doubling my advance from my last book. (I’ll have more to say about this later, once I’ve gotten over the initial squee.) 2. It will be fun!!! The ideas I get to play with … I don’ t know how to talk about it without major spoilers, but I’m going to have a blast with this. 3. The protagonist of the first book will be a librarian, and everyone knows librarians are made of 110% awesomeness. 4. Smudge will be in it. Oh, yes. That’s right. I’m going to be writing Smudge the fire-spider again. (Those of you who are familiar with my short fiction might have a guess as to how I’ll be bringing Smudge into our world. You’d be right.) My deadline to turn in the first Magic ex Libris book is January of 2012, meaning it’s time for me to get to work writing those two short stories, revising Snow Queen, outlining the new book … oh boy. If you need me, I’ll be at my computer. 42 comments to Two Book Deal!! |
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Incredible news! I can hardly wait!
congrats Jim! Awesome!!!!
Congrats, Jim.
Excellent news, Jim! I wish you the best of luck with the new book, and be assured that I’ll have my preorder placed as soon as Amazon lists it!
whoot to the hoo! Great news & I can’t wait to read them.
Congrats Jim! Have fun!
Congratulations!!! As a fantasy loving librarian who enjoys your work this announcement completely made my day!
Congrats! I know a two-book deal is a HUGE deal. And MAJOR congrats on the advance.
Also, I’m VERY excited to be seeing Smudge again. Smudge is fun. Smudge in a library is cause for concern…
Oh yes … I anticipate much chaos as a result of Smudge’s return
Of course, now I need to dig up the shorts so I can start trying to puzzle out the “how” you alluded to…
Yes Jim — can you post links so we can all read up?
That’s great news. Congratulations.
AWESOME! I look forward to it. Congratulations!!!!
Fantastic news! Congratulations! Can’t wait to see them hit the shelves!
Are all the shorts avail as an e-book or something (hint..hint if you have the rights)..
And congratz!
Good hint! Not yet, but a while back my agent and I mentioned the possibility of trying to do a collection. I need to follow up with him about that…
You da MAN! Congrats!
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer fire spider. Oh, and congrats to you too, Jim
w00t!! Sounds like a great series!
Long time to wait, though. ::sigh:: Waiting, the curse of the bibliovore.
Well, Snow Queen will be out in July of next year, if that’s any consolation!
That is absolutely awesome! Congratulations!
Congrats, dude! That’s great to hear!
Congratulations, Jim! That’s fantastic news! (The new books part is fantastic for readers and the doubled advance is fantastic for you!)
Hooray and congratulations! What exciting news. =)
Congratulations! Although it’s probably at least a year and a half away, I can’t wait to find out more about the new series.
I bet getting a new series (and double the advance!!) has gotta be a great feeling.
It’s a very nice adrenaline rush
Sounds awesome, I LOVE books about librarians, and I love Smudge (even though I ordinarily hate spiders).
OMG! Congrats on the two-book deal, Jim! The new series sounds like tons of fun–good luck with it! XD
w00t! Sounds fabulous. I hope you spring for the good stuff.
Hooray! I love librarians. Congratulations on the book deal, and I’m really looking forward to the Snow Queen’s Shadow – one of my favorite fairy tales.
WOOT! Yay Jim!
My mom was a librarian. My favorite line in “The Mummy” was “I… am a librarian!” Very excited for you!
Hoooorrrrayyyyyy!
Awesome Jim. I loved “Mightier Than The Sword”
Thanks! I think it will be even more fun to play with those ideas in book length
Congrats Jim!
So awesome!! I can’t wait to reads them.Just happy your Smudge listens better then mine:-)GOOD JOB
Sounds great!
“3. The protagonist of the first book will be a librarian, and everyone knows librarians are made of 110% awesomeness.” Yes, yes they are.
Snoopy dance! Snoopy dance!
You had me at Smudge.
Congrats. We’ll try to get you towards that full-time writer thing.
Whoops, late on this…congratulations, Jim!
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