My dearest Gentle Reader, January is slinking away in a grey cloud of inclement weather and February is peaking its squat toad-like head above the horizon. In honor of this momentous event, I am determined to give you all a State of the Parasol Protectorate report. Those of you who are already members of the Parasol Protectorate Facebook group have heard much of what follows, but I thought some others might also be reading this blog out of interest in the series, so please excuse the Parasol-centric nature of what follows.
~ Foreign Languages
All three books are out in British Edition (which are larger sized books but the same American language inside). Waterstones and Kobo have the ebook versions of all three up, WHSmiths has Soulless.
The first three have sold to French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Polish translations. Several of these are out already, although I haven’t yet seen copies. So far only Germany has opted for alternate covers, but that will probably change.
Soulless has sold in Hungarian, Japanese, and Thai.
~ Audio Books
Recorded books released both Soulless and Changeless. Blameless should be out in March of this year. Changeless was supposed to drop to audible, but it doesn’t look like it has yet. Hachette Audio will produce the last two books, and they will try to bring them out right around the same time as the print version. Thus, they are aiming to have Heartless out July 1. We are hoping for the same reader.
~ Manga
Some of you will know that I am a huge manga fan, so I am really excited to be with Yen Press. They have been marvelous about involving me at every stage of the project. We have decided on an artist. You should be prepared, however, that this is manga with all the expected big-eyes and youthful styling. But let me just say: girl has the fashion down!
~ Signings for 2011
My appearances for this year are almost settled. There are a few more things still up in the air, mainly competing events I just have decide which I want to do.
~ Other Minutia
I’ve stopped doing blurbs for books and my own short stories for the foreseeable future, this year is already madness, and I just have to focus on novel writing.
I have health insurance (this is very exciting to me but you probably don’t care).
~ The Blog
I may fall off the three a week schedule, but can still expect character studies, more Dear Lord Akeldama columns, various convention reports and fashion thoughts, as well as a some steampunk stuff. I am curious as to what you, Gentle Reader, would particularly like to see more of in the future. Do please let me know what you are interested in or if there is something I haven’t done in a while. I await your comments with baited breath.
A Blameless contest would be amazing! Perhaps some sort of PP trivia thing? Or a who's your favorite character and why?
You're so lucky! I find blurbs harder to do than writing the book! Congrats on the health insurance, though, that is exciting news. Whether you use it or not, it's wonderful just to know that you can.