MY BOOK CAME!!!!!

[velvetpage]

I just got the proof copy of my book in the mail. I'm so excited!!!!!!!!

It's one of only two or three copies of this edition - it's got a different cover from the copy that will be for sale, has a very interesting and entirely fictitious author bio, the picture from the icon above as the picture of the author, and it's absolutely beautiful and I love it and I'm thrilled with it and I should be ashamed of this run-on sentence and I DON'T CARE because I'm EXCITED!!!!

Comments

[stress-kitten.livejournal.com]

*squeeeeeeee*

I'm so excited for you. :-D

[neebs.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You go girl!!!! =)

Run-on all you like!!

[catarzyna.livejournal.com]

Simply wonderful!!!!!

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Ahem. "Squeee!". :)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I just realized that I didn't get around to adding you the last time I set out to do so - something sidetracked me and I forgot. The oversight has been rectified. :)

Tell us More!

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

I knew you were working on a book, but I missed the details. What's the title? Who'd you sell it to? What's it about?

Re: Tell us More!

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

The title is "Dream-Carver", and the publisher is Sanguine Inc, because the novel is based on one of their role-playing games (Ironclaw, to be precise.) This book has been finished for about two years now. The one you've heard me talk about it probably the as-yet-untitled Dolphin Book.

It's a furry fantasy (is it necessary to use both of those descriptors, or is fantasy included in the concept of furry?) pirate adventure novel, wherein a mismatched crew of ne'er-do-wells chases long-lost pirate treasure and discovers redemption in the process.

Hmm, I need a better one-line synopsis. That's a place to start, anyhow. :)

When I have a website available on which to order it, I will be certain to let everyone know. Probably multiple times.

Re: Tell us More!

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

It's a furry fantasy (is it necessary to use both of those descriptors, or is fantasy included in the concept of furry?)...

Well, for what it's worth, I'd say that the two are separate. Much of my own work is furry, but setting is more in vein with contemporary/light sci-fi, so I'd hesitate to call any of it 'fantasy,' per se.

[spiralsongkat.livejournal.com]

Congratulations -- that is absolutely fabulous!

[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

Lee.

[toad-hall.livejournal.com]

yay!!
congratulations! that is something to be very excited about :)

[merlyn4401.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo!!! SO awesome!!! :D

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Dream-Carver. I'll let everyone know when and where it becomes available.

[mairesue.livejournal.com]

YOU BETTER!

I am so happy for you! I can't wait to see it and buy it. Congratulations!

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

Congrats on your book (and not your run on sentence).

::B::

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

Many congratulations!

I hope to have similar good news to share with people, soon.

[foxmagic.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Let me know as soon as we can get a copy...:)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

If you're going to Anthrocon, you'll probably get an official copy before I do.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I'm not, though bard_bloom is. But I want a signed copy! :)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

In that case, when is your next road trip up this way? :)

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

Inserting happydance.

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!

[foxmagic.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! :-D I'm thrilled for ya!

And, I wish to buy a copy of your book when it's available!

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I will most certainly be posting the link to the website where it can be purchased. There are over a hundred people on my friends list - if even half of them buy a copy, I'll be happy.

[foxmagic.livejournal.com]

Heck, I expect a much larger turnout than that! :-D

I am so thrilled to know an author! :)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Not half as thrilled as I am to be the author in question. :)

A fairly large percentage of my friends list is married to another portion of my friends list, so a sales figure of 50 books probably means more like 70 friends will read it.

[rallymama.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov!

/me showers the author with confetti!

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! I'll look forward to seeing it.

[kesmun.livejournal.com]

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

...

Ahem.

[danyelle-h.livejournal.com]

how exciting!

[catsarah.livejournal.com]

I'll bring you back a copy of your own book from AC if it's there ;3 Or several...since I know folks that will enjoy it too.

:D

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

Is that ...

Is that a TYPO!?!?!?

AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Actually, there is at least one typo - my last name should have a small v, not a capital - the H is a capital. That's all I've caught so far.

[ex-jaemin.livejournal.com]

Hello

First, congratulations on the book! That's awesome!

Second...er...well, you don't know me at all...though I am a very very close and good friend of Ani's. I have some questions about your book...most directly, how did you go about getting published? And what genre is your book in? I'm curious, as I have no idea how to go about publishing the things I've been writing.

Thanks!

And again, congratulations!

Frank

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid this isn't going to be much help, actually. The book is a fantasy novel based on a furry role-playing game called Ironclaw. My husband did a fair amount of writing for the game, and was play-testing a new supplement with that campaign. Since the book was set in the Ironclaw world, the publisher/author of Ironclaw, normanrafferty, whose comment is just above yours, owns the rights to the setting of my book. So I sent him the finished book, he liked it, and is publishing it. It's an inside deal from start to finish, which isn't to say the book isn't good - it is - just that I didn't have to work very hard at pitching it to publishers.

For advice on how to sell a book, check out mizkit. She wrote an entry a while back, though I can't find it in my bookmarks for some reason, abut how to get published. Hopefully it's in her memories.

[ex-jaemin.livejournal.com]

Heya!

Thank you so much for getting back to me! And thanks for the information and where to look!

Chookachooka on the book, once again...that's congratulations in Korean.

^.^

Thanks!

Frank

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

You're ahead of me... no Marriage of Insects yet.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

It'll come. And, actually, you're ahead of me - you've published other stuff, but this is my first time with my name on the front cover.