![]() And until I went through this process, I’d be the first to tell you that that’s bunk. A lot of people will tell you that who you know is what gets you published. The real answer is, nobody really knows exactly why some books get talked about and some books don’t. So how did this happen? How does a little book that was rejected at nearly every other publisher as being “unmarketable” and had its first contract cancelled for similar concerns get so much… well – as people kept putting it online – “buzz”? But I also read a lot of other books in 2011 that I thought were a lot better, some of which didn’t make any awards list and many of which are still earning out their (probably substantially larger) advances. Looks like a smashing good success all around when you string it all together like that, doesn’t it? In fact, it looks almost miraculously easy, as if I must have written some kind of exceptional book or something. I’ve also just sold UK and audio rights for all three novels in the series. ![]() I earned out my advance in about six months and sealed the deal for the third book in the series not long after that. ![]() It went on to win the Kitschy Award for Best Debut Novel and was nominated for a Nebula Award as well as a Locus Award for Best First Novel. In 2011, after much angst and delay, my first novel, God’s War, came out from Night Shade Books. ![]()
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