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Some good news out of our house for a change...
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.
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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?
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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.
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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 !
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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!
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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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