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Today's blog post is here.
It's all about how I got published in the first place, and why my first book was published in the UK, not Australia.
And to answer a question that keeps on cropping up: my next book (after the Stormlord trilogy is done with) will be a return to the Havenstar world - but no, it won't be a sequel. It will have different characters.
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar.
The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere. Book One, THE LAST STORMLORD, is already out; Book Two, STORMLORD RISING, is out in US and Australia and will come out in UK at the beginning of November 2010; Book Three, STORMLORD'S EXILE, will be out in all three countries in August 2011, or earlier.
Cover art by Vincent Chong for the Oz covers and by Larry Rostant for the US/UK covers (Book 1) and Steve Stone (Book 2).
4 comments:
Woo hoo, I loved the Havenstar world. Way to go Glenda.
I just read your blog about Havenstar, you said "The imprint had folded, the books remaindered." could you explain what that means please?
A publisher is the large organization that publishes books. It may be owned by an even larger corporation. e.g. Harper Collins is owned by a Rupert Murdoch conglomerate.
A publisher often divides itself up into imprints, which have varying degrees of autonomy. They do this to make it easier for themselves and for readers and bookshops, - because an imprint deals with a particular type of book.
For example, Harper Collins has the Voyager imprint and that specialises in fantasy and science fiction. So anyone buying a Voyager book knows what they are getting. Some publishers have lots of imprints - romance, sf, literary, chuildren's, young adult etc.
So Havenstar was published by an imprint (Virgin Worlds) which specialised in sf/f, part of the larger Virgin Publishing. It must have had internal problems because there was a quick turnover of editors. Anyway it wasn't a success and lasted less than a year. They took their stock and sold them dirt cheap I don't know where. And that was that.The books were unobtainable. As I said, they were on the top bestselling 100 Amazon titles one day, and unobtainable the next.
Perhaps some obscure bookstore somewhere had a 100 copies, but who knows...
Remaindering can also mean that they were destroyed.
Thanks Glenda, I hadn't known that. Probably some of your other readers didn't either.
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