'Dirty Girls'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
I think what I want to do is, rather than have St. Martins send her a copy, I'll send her one out of my own stash (once they arrive here).
But I'm also going to forward the correspondence to Ruth. I got this back this morning, from Professor Heller (part of a longer email):
I do encourage you to re-issue Plainsong, and I will do my part to promote your new series...I can't wait to get started on it!
Civilised, I call it.
Civilised, I call it.
Lovely, I call it. Just like Betsy.
Nic's talking about doing a limited POD run of "Plainsong". I'm wondering if he might not be right. But part of me wants to wait and see how the series does; if the publisher gets enough "Hey! This book, that you printed reviews of on the back! Where is it?" feedback, they may want it back. In which case, well.....heheheheh.
Raises hand.
I'd be good for a POD copy. IJS.
That happens a lot, doesn't it?
Wow! Very nice, Deb. So thoughtful of her.
I actually wondered why you hadn't done that, Deb, and figured it was because the rights were sewn up/too expensive to get back.
Theo, the idea was that there might be a desire for someone else to buy it, in which case, the POD thing would be a legal issue.
That's the kind of thing that you could ask your agent about -- in some ways, an active POD for a book proves to a publisher that the rights are desirable, you can point to a measurable interest in a book. Plus, why would POD degrade the desirability of your copyright? You're issuing completely legal and legit copies of the book so long as you have the rights reverted to you, and if you then decide to lease them to a new publisher, it's much the same as if they adopted the book from another publisher -- it's not First World Rights or anything with "first" in the name, anyway.
True - something to discuss with Jenn, and see what she thinks.
askye's here!