I think this is incredibly useful stuff, and please do go on if you have time -- it's stuff I knew absolutely nothing about when I started and am still less informed about than I'd like. I was definitely your FTN saying yes to everything, I'd probably have thrown in zorinth if they'd asked. Patrick told me in that phone call "Get representation. Get an agent." And that's why I have an agent, so I have someone who understands all this contract stuff for me.
I kept British rights for Farthing, because I think it ought to sell in Britain. (None of my other books are published in Britain. I was pretty sure they wouldn't be. T&C is under negotiations with German and Chinese publishers, but not British. I just don't generally write to a British mass taste, and I knew this.) Anyway, in keeping British rights, I also got to keep rights to a hilarious selection of other countries, most of them tiny islands. If a St. Helena edition ever comes out, I'll let you know -- and as for Pitcairn Island, I think I could email it to everyone there in one cc...
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Date: 2004-09-15 06:08 am (UTC)I kept British rights for Farthing, because I think it ought to sell in Britain. (None of my other books are published in Britain. I was pretty sure they wouldn't be. T&C is under negotiations with German and Chinese publishers, but not British. I just don't generally write to a British mass taste, and I knew this.) Anyway, in keeping British rights, I also got to keep rights to a hilarious selection of other countries, most of them tiny islands. If a St. Helena edition ever comes out, I'll let you know -- and as for Pitcairn Island, I think I could email it to everyone there in one cc...