Friday, June 24
Wha ?!?
And I quote the Book Standard chart alert: "The $2 million advance that Little, Brown paid Elizabeth Kostova for her debut novel, The Historian, begins to pay off as the historical thriller about a hunt for the real-life Dracula debuts at No. 1 on the Fiction Chart: The novel sold 70,000 units its first week. Kostova has yet to make any TV appearances—the first is scheduled for Good Morning America on June 28—but she has been the beneficiary of positive press, both in key advance-review publications like Kirkus Reviews and mainstream outlets like USA Today, Entertainment Weekly and Newsweek. The Historian is likely to have a long run as a bestseller, touted as it has been as the next, next, next Da Vinci Code, and with a movie adaptation already in the works: Sony Pictures Entertainment bought the rights for a reported $1.5 million."
So that's $3.5 million, in advances and rights, not counting what's coming from sales? Yowsa. Makes me want to end my vacation and get back to work on my novels.
But happily, it's only barely begun -- my vacation, that is. I've taken June off from writing, as my two regular readers already know -- and we're taking off Monday for three weeks in Norway. So consider the Edge of Nowhere officially on hiatus until the weekend of July 17. The dogs are lucky because the house-sitters are ready to take over, so away we go. Full reports -- or at least partial or sketchy reports and perhaps a few photos -- to come. maybe even from on the road, if we can find one of them internet cafes….
Later!
So that's $3.5 million, in advances and rights, not counting what's coming from sales? Yowsa. Makes me want to end my vacation and get back to work on my novels.
But happily, it's only barely begun -- my vacation, that is. I've taken June off from writing, as my two regular readers already know -- and we're taking off Monday for three weeks in Norway. So consider the Edge of Nowhere officially on hiatus until the weekend of July 17. The dogs are lucky because the house-sitters are ready to take over, so away we go. Full reports -- or at least partial or sketchy reports and perhaps a few photos -- to come. maybe even from on the road, if we can find one of them internet cafes….
Later!
