First, I'll get it out of the way. Yes . . . my agent was finally able to post the deal I have:
The Magickeepers, by Erica Orloff, a middle-grade fantasy series about a rogue clan of Russian magicians who escaped Tsarist Russia, and who now hide their true identities in modern-day Las Vegas, and their battle against dark enemies to reclaim relics stolen from them by Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sold by Jay Poynor to Lyron Bennett, at Jabberwocky, in a three-book deal.This is the "fantasy trilogy" I have been vaguely referencing. If you came to the online "chat" we had, I told the small group then about it. But I had to wait until counter-signed contracts arrived before I really spilled. Consider the cat out of the bag--it's on Publishers Marketplace (I actually didn't know that, but two people dropped by my Comments section last night and told me it was).
And here's the thing . . . I love writing for a living. But sometimes contracts take a LONG time. I actually had this deal last September. But things dragged on--clauses and so on. Then signing. Countersigning. Signing an addendum. This is the part they DON'T tell you about in Author School. Either that, or I missed that class. Slept right through it.
And you want to know why I am more excited about this than almost any deal? Because it's one I've wanted for a long while. To write something my kids could REALLY be a part of. The younger kids, that is. They get to be on the ride with me. And considering the writing biz is usually solitary . . . that's the sweetest perk of all.
So there you go. Is there anything else you wished they told you at Author School?
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