Jeri Smith-Ready

I'm somebody!

Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here!
Harry Hartounian: Boy, I wish I could get that excited about nothing.
Navin R. Johnson: Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 - Johnson, Navin R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.
--The Jerk (1979)

A dream just came true.

I received my Lunch Weekly Deluxe, the "deals" report that Publisher's Marketplace sends out every Sunday. Every Monday morning I read it and wash down the bile of envy with a cup of coffee, thinking, someday I'll be in it, hopefully before I'm too old to read the itty-bitty typeface.

This week I'm actually in it! My deal is at the top of the Science Fiction/Fantasy section:

EYES OF CROW author Jeri Smith Ready's BAD COMPANY, about a cadre of vampire DJs and the con artist trying to save their "lives," to Jennifer Heddle at Pocket...in a two-book deal, by Ginger Clark at Curtis Brown (NA).

"NA" means North American rights, which means my agent can sell the foreign rights separately (which is a good thing). Not that Canada isn't a foreign country, but generally when agents speak of "foreign" rights, they mean to non-North American countries.

And the "..." is the part where it says how much they're paying me. Because that's a secret known only to me, my agent, and the thousands of people who buy a $20/month subscription to Publisher's Lunch.


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Last day to Vote for Meadow!

And check out Chapter Three of "The Wild's Call."

Labels: vampire series, writing life

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