Emily Dickinson

[greygirlbeast]

First, the fact that there is Good News should be acknowledged. My lit agent (Merrilee) and I received this e-mail late yesterday from Liz, my editor at Penguin:

Good news for you - the print order just came through and we're printing a very respectable 7,000 copies of Daughter of Hounds. (Your pre-order campaign worked beautifully, Caitlín!)Which

Comments

[lunablack]

As I'm afraid I've said out loud while reading this...day-um! What a frelling lot to go through for a few quotes from someone who's been dead quite a while and who probably wouldn't mind a bit anyway. Glad you found all the pieces for the lawyers and whatnot tho.

::continues grumbling from previous day, periodically shrieking, "Estate of, my ass!", off into the distance::

[greygirlbeast]

I love your Klaus Nomi icon.

Yep. It's several shades of drad.

[thingunderthest]

I've become really annoyed with the way copyright works in the US, with renewable copyrights, copyrights of translations, etc.

Of course it is marginally better then patent law in a few places.

Congrats on the pre-sale totals.
So we shoot for 10,000 on the next pre-order?

[greygirlbeast]

So we shoot for 10,000 on the next pre-order?

10K would be nice... :-)

[thingunderthest]

'right then, see what we can do.

[jtglover]

Glad to hear about the DoH printing! That must come as welcome news after the recent folderol with other books going (if briefly) out of print.

I'm also glad to hear that Emory came through on the poems. Copyright is getting crazier every year, and this incident demonstrates the tangible benefit of a library holding onto multiple printings/editions of authors' works. Likewise, the benefit of keeping physical copies vs. storing digitized versions and tossing the physical part.

The pictures of Woodruff were nice. I'd applied there for a position as a Humanities/History librarian but was unfortunately just rejected. Could be worse, though, as I'm interviewing this month for positions in Richmond, VA and Salem, MA. Salem should be fun, given my hotel will be in Marblehead, both of which I last saw ten years ago on a Lovecraft-heavy visit to New England.

[greygirlbeast]

Likewise, the benefit of keeping physical copies vs. storing digitized versions and tossing the physical part.

Indeed. The first thing I did was point them to the relevant volumes at Project Gutenberg as proof that I was quoting the early, pre-1923 texts, but production and legal wouldn't accept Project Gutenberg as a valid source.

[mellawyrden]

I like those purple walls. They look sort of eggplant in the picture.

[greygirlbeast]

I like those purple walls. They look sort of eggplant in the picture.

Yurgh. That shade of purple may be good for many things, but not the walls of a library.

Says I.

[mellawyrden]

True. I wasn't thinking about context. I've been on an eggplant jag lately.