Hostage, the sequel to
Stranger, is out now. The e-book is $4.99; the paper book will be released in a few months.
Sherwood has put up
a detailed post about why we chose to self-publish Hostage. It’s well-worth reading in full, but the short version is that we finished Hostage a year ago. If we stayed with Viking, it would be two more years before
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Being able to put out a book in a reasonable amount of time seems like one of those things that ought to be an industry standard. (As a point of research/data, I never waited more than a year between book delivery and publication when I worked with Penguin USA. On the flip side, covers were presented to me for comment, not correction or input.) We did have cover input, and made some corrections - the initial cover was basically the same, but the central figure was posed differently, the buildings looked like European castles, and the eater roses looked like tentacles. I love the cover. And by pure coincidence, the silhouette made it much easier for us to continue in a similar vein. There was no way we could afford a photo shoot, and there are no stock photos of a Korean girl and a Latino boy posing together in non-modern clothes, even if we painted in a chain ( ... )
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I think, like in all instances where the middle ground is in danger of vanishing (I'm finding it eerily close to income disparity issues, if less urgent to most), this will eventually hit a change-or-die crisis point, and may already be there.
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