One of Tony's latest books, The Girl in the Cave has just been picked up by a french publisher!
It will be published (in French) in France - first print run of 7000 copies and an initial sales target of 20 000.
This book has done quite well in Australia - 2000 copies sold in 2 months - so hopefully it will be equally (if not more) successful in France. Then UK, Europe, America - and THE WORLD! *evil chuckle*
No matter what happens, it is still very good news for us, and more specifically Tony's writing career.
A nice Christmas present.
[ December 29, 2004, 08:14 AM: Message edited by: imogen ]
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Congratulations! That's such wonderful news! I'm so happy for you!
I didn't know Tony was a writer - I probably just don't pay enough attention. What genre? Oooh, you provided a link to the book - I'm gonna go read it now. . . Oooooh, I read it! Thanks for the link!
The cover illustration looks terrific, and so does what Tony wrote about it. If I had kidlets, I would sooooo get this. Are all of his books for kidlets?
This is so coool! Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Hey Quid - we're both thinking of you, and your adopted country, right now. And seriously contemplating quid-i-con.
Tony has written 5 books - 2 are for kidlets, 2 for junior high and one for senior high-ish age. He's in the middle of writing a trilogy (*ack*) for a cross-over market - that will be a while before it comes out though.
Hey, would you like a couple of his books? I could send them to you... Not chocolate I know, but english books might be hard(er) to come by in Sri Lanka.
[ December 29, 2004, 07:57 AM: Message edited by: imogen ]
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Oh, and I love the cover illustration. The same guy did illustrations throughout the book.
In my immediate family, we have now bought 4 of the 9 or so originals. Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Wow ! That's news ! I will try to find it as soon as it is published here ! BTW, I can't remember if I congratulated you both on your wedding... I'm very happy for you !
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Imogen! You are incredibly thoughtful and generous!
Yes, English books are more difficult to come across. I actually wrote an article on bookstores just a few weeks ago for the travel magazine here. So yes, if you want, I certainly will not argue with donations of books! I love books as much as I love chocolate, just in different ways. I think a love of books is a fairly universal quality of Hatrackers anyway, isn't it?
You can email me at laurie at laurieashton dot com.
Hatrack is the coolest! Imogen and Tony are the coolest!
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Done.
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
Yay for Tony!
Wow, imogen, this is huge. Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
That is SO cool, imogen! Give Tony a big pat on the back from me...
That looks like an awesome book. Wish we could buy it here -- I might get it for my nephews...
FG
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
Yay! It does look quite neato. I'd buy it.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
However, given it's still an Australian publisher it's more expensive (and less available) than US-published books. We had had, however, an expression of interest for another book from a US publisher - so we can cross our fingers!
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