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From: Lyn Miller-Lachmann <lynml_at_me.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:13:33 -0500
Thank you for your research and insight, Norma Jean. I'm sorry to hear about the untimely death of Frances Lincoln, as I always valued her publishing house, back from my days of editing MultiCultural Review. And I can attest to the problems resulting from the ownership/distribution change because that happened to Gringolandia's publisher as well, after the sudden death of Curbstone's founder/editorial director Alexander Taylor. While Gringolandia was out of stock for a crucial four months in summer 2010 and a translation deal appeared to have fallen between the cracks, I am happy to report that Northwestern University Press, acted decisively to get things moving again. Since becoming the novel's publisher, they have reprinted it at least twice and sold Italian translation rights. I am quite happy with the support Gringolandia has received, and when I see the folks from Northwestern at AWP at the end of the month, I'm going to try to sell them on publishing more historical/multicultural titles for crossover readers through the Curbstone Books imprint.
What does concern me, though, is that this kind of extreme bad luck ends up killing both worthwhile books and the careers of the authors who wrote them. There has to be a way of getting around that.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann Gringolandia (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 2009) Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013) www.lynmillerlachmann.com www.thepiratetree.com
On Feb 13, 2014, at 5:55 PM, Norma Jean Sawicki wrote:
>> I have done a fair amount of research and am happy to say I would safely bet against ideology being the reason Journey of Dreams has had disappointing sales. Instead, it was caught in a shift in ownership, as well as a shift in distribution..a potential nightmare for every writer…..and for the publisher, too...
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:13:33 -0500
Thank you for your research and insight, Norma Jean. I'm sorry to hear about the untimely death of Frances Lincoln, as I always valued her publishing house, back from my days of editing MultiCultural Review. And I can attest to the problems resulting from the ownership/distribution change because that happened to Gringolandia's publisher as well, after the sudden death of Curbstone's founder/editorial director Alexander Taylor. While Gringolandia was out of stock for a crucial four months in summer 2010 and a translation deal appeared to have fallen between the cracks, I am happy to report that Northwestern University Press, acted decisively to get things moving again. Since becoming the novel's publisher, they have reprinted it at least twice and sold Italian translation rights. I am quite happy with the support Gringolandia has received, and when I see the folks from Northwestern at AWP at the end of the month, I'm going to try to sell them on publishing more historical/multicultural titles for crossover readers through the Curbstone Books imprint.
What does concern me, though, is that this kind of extreme bad luck ends up killing both worthwhile books and the careers of the authors who wrote them. There has to be a way of getting around that.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann Gringolandia (Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press, 2009) Rogue (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013) www.lynmillerlachmann.com www.thepiratetree.com
On Feb 13, 2014, at 5:55 PM, Norma Jean Sawicki wrote:
>> I have done a fair amount of research and am happy to say I would safely bet against ideology being the reason Journey of Dreams has had disappointing sales. Instead, it was caught in a shift in ownership, as well as a shift in distribution..a potential nightmare for every writer…..and for the publisher, too...
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Received on Thu 13 Feb 2014 05:14:18 PM CST
