I received my reversion of rights letter on Saturday for my young adult novel Hannah's Garden and am now very excited. I have sent to this place, to have the novel returned into a file that I use to upload to an e-reader. I am also working with a couple of local artists to get the cover designed and I hope a few small interior bits and pieces, such as chapter headings.
In the meantime, do enjoy more from the artist whose work is included here, Svetla Dorosheva. Her work is so fabulous — combining the calligrahper's steady hand with the sensual lines of a Beardsley, the rich elaboration of an Adrienne Ségur and the delicacy in her children's drawings of a Marja Lee Kruyt. Yeah…that good. Have a look at the collection of Weird and Wonderful Fairy Tale Illustrations and What is Man? I realize I have only used the black and sepia drawings — but her color work is lovely. Have a look at The Former Lives of Flowers.
Wow, beautiful, thanks! Look forward to sharing with students.
And you’re invited to stop over at RavenWood Forest for more of the Moveable Feast conversation on blogging… even an invitation from Terri in the comments that maybe you might chime in here…
Thanks for the invite, Valerianna…I just saw the email from Terri and will try to stop by there today!
Look forward to reading your ebook & love Sveta’s work! I hope she gets that book published I want to see it & will have to learn some basic cyrillic, very curious indeed!
Man oh man, this is gorgeous art.
I keep coming back to look at this work… It has captivated me! It whispers stories in an ancient, primal language, but is also so very refined, incredible!
Mmm, I like this. Good comparisons, too–I had the same thoughts.
What are you doing with the book? I shall have to root around and see if you’ve said. I have gotten several rights reversions and have just told a university press that I’ll give them rights to one book. I need to be a little more active in these things!
Hi Marly,
I have sent it out to a place to have it returned to a word document (I want the final edit — not my last mss version!). I linked the place I sent it to in the post above. It was one of the less expensive places to have it done. I will work an artist here to get a book cover designed and then Amazon makes it pretty easy to upload it an e-reader format. I have been following a number of authors who have decided, what the hell, why not dust out old op books and make them available. If I sell it for $2.99 — it’s a better deal than the cheapest used copy of 1 cent plus $3.99 in postage. It also means a much wider range of people are willing to take a chance on your work…which if they like can translate into better sales of new books.
Doing it yourself is more work than trusting and paying a publisher to do it all on your behalf. But maybe it’s time to learn and take more responsibility — we do already in promoting ourselves with blogs, why not in producing our work as well?
One woman who wrote romances and couldn’t get her work bought by a publisher put out a very inexpensive e-book edition and made close to $35,000 on the first book. Four books later, and now publishers want her.