…your foreign publisher sends you reviews to cheer you up. This week I got a lovely note from the Korean agent who handles my Korean rights. (Foreign sales require two agents–your [...]
I came back from the American Library Association conference with a bad cold, so it’s taken me this long to post an update. Norton scheduled me to do a signing at their booth at 11:30 AM on [...]
This past Thursday I took off to New York for the yearly national publishing conference, BookExpoAmerica. Last year the conference was in DC, and next year it’ll be in L.A. This year, [...]
In May, a writer’s thoughts lightly turn to…airports. Yes, the spring speaking schedule is well underway. At the moment I’m sitting in the Richmond airport, waiting to catch a [...]
I had word from Norton’s foreign rights department this week that THE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD has now been sold to three foreign publishers. This week’s offers came from [...]
Well, folks, I still haven’t seen much in the way of reviews, but look at the front table of the Barnes & Noble on Merchant’s Square in Williamsburg! I tend to get a little [...]
Yesterday was the deadline for depositing dissertations for May graduation. After a final bit of drama (my advisor emailing to tell me that she hadn’t in fact finished circulating the [...]
This is it, folks! Publication day! (Balloons and streamers?….Hello?…..Hello???) Actually, with your first book you discover that “publication day” is a total bust. The [...]
Although everyone keeps saying, “You must be thrilled!” I’m suffering from serious post-dissertation-defense limpness. (My good friend Lauren says, “Doesn’t it feel [...]
There haven’t been any updates to this blog because I’ve been on family vacation. Just to prove it, here are husband and second son playing chess: and just to prove that I WAS [...]
Much to my surprise, the History of the Ancient World now seems to be shipping from online sites, four weeks ahead of the publication date. You can buy it from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Books [...]
