Monthly Archives: October 2008

Agenting

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My agent, John Jarrold, has just announced that he’s sold the German rights for Hannu Rajaniemi’s three sci­ffy nov­els (for a good five-figure sum) — all on the basis of one chapter. Congratulations to John and to Hannu. I’m bust­ing to read that chapter! I wanted to dir­ect read­ers to the com­ments that were pos­ted against John’s announce­ment. Read John’s longish com­ment in particular.

BubbleCow

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So this will be two posts in a row about the author Caroline SmailesCaroline, if you’re read­ing this, could you please put an apo­strophe after your name in the title of your web­site? It’s mak­ing me very tense., which is tan­tamount to cyber stalk­ing, but I’ve dis­covered that Caroline (and her hus­band, Gary, him­self an author) provides an online ment­or­ing and ‘word pol­ish­ing’ ser­vice over at BubbleCow.
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