German Jennifer
Sneaking in just ahead of the UK, the German edition of Jennifer
Government comes out today. It’s called Logoland, because
“Jennifer Regierung” doesn’t sound nearly so cool. Or so I’m told. Frankly, I’ve never understood this translation business. How do my characters know how to speak German? I don’t know.
The German publisher has gone with a different cover: to the best of my knowledge, they’re the only ones in the world do that. Genius? Insanity? You decide.
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Jennifer Government hits bookstore shelves across in Australia and
New Zealand today, as what may be the world’s largest paperback. This thing is enormous. It’s like one of those giant Fosters cans they put out in other countries to trade off the stereotype of Australians as hard-drinking beer guzzlers, even though in Australia Fosters cans are just the normal size. Ah, marketing. But I digress.
Later today I’m going to check out bookstores and quietly move all their Jennifer Government copies to more prominent locations. (Oh come on, other authors do it.) I just need to limber up first. They are really big paperbacks.
Syrup returns
“It’s baaaaack.” Hmm, it really is hard to get the inflection right on that. But the point: Syrup is back in the US & Canada! It went briefly out of print in what was a terrible, dark time for, I think I can say, all of humanity. But especially me.
What this means: whether a bookstore has copies on its shelves or not, it can order some. So feel free, if your bookstore doesn’t have a Syrup, to demand they get some. Pound the counter, too. That makes you more persuasive.
Back in black & white
Great news: Viking is going back to the presses! Yes, copies of
Syrup, which have been increasingly hard to find in the US &
Canada lately, will soon be nestled on bookstore shelves again.
To all those people who wrote in for the SaveOurSyrups e-mail campaign: thank you so much! Your support really helped.
I don’t yet know when the new Syrups will be available. If you’d like to be notified when the book comes out, e-mail [email protected].
Wallpaper your world
I was browsing around for some new desktop wallpaper the other day, then I remembered I had a novel with a really cool cover. If you want your desktop to look this fancy, grab it now from the
Extras section.
This is extra cool for Brits, Aussies, and Kiwis, because the book isn’t out there yet and nobody will know what the hell it’s about, thus bestowing upon you a mysterious air of innate coolness. Of course, you won’t have read the book, so you just have to take it on faith that it’s any good. Mysterious airs of innate coolness never come risk-free.
I can’t get no love
The film option period has expired, and I don’t see any Syrup
movie posters around featuring Matt Damon, so I must have the rights back. This means I get to sell them all over again, which isn’t a bad deal, really. Apparently some writers make a pretty good living just re-selling film options to their books, with no film ever being made. Not bad work if you can get it. But… I’d love to see the film get up.
There’s some interest from a few different production companies, so we’ll see how we go.