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| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/27/2008 1:04 PM | the fabulous agent said it was okay to
share the good news.
last thursday, i accepted a three book offer
from greenwillow, an imprint of harpercollins.
my editor was so enthusiastic and wonderful
from the start. the book went to auction, but
in the end, i felt she would be the best fit
for me and my books.
the offer is for spirit bound, its sequel, as well
as a childrens picture book. she had googled me
and found my blog, saw my brush work and a random
post i had made the previous day about my dream
to do a picture book with my own art one day. and
she put that in the offer!
to say i'm amazed and astounded is an
understatement! don't let anyone tell you that
having a blog under your writing name
isn't worth doing!!
thank you to everyone in this forum who
has offered advice and encouragement. i still
remember our nanowrimo thread in 2006 when
i wrote 35k in words of spirit bound.
you guys are awesome!
and altho i'll be on the YA shelves when the
book comes out, i'll always be a fantasy writer
foremost at heart. *hugs*
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| Posted By : Jared Evers - 5/27/2008 1:19 PM | Wow, congratulations! That's fantastic! Must be a nice payoff, eh?  |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/27/2008 1:20 PM | thanks, jared!
i still can't believe it myself.
typing it out hasn't helped yet. haha!
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : Jared Evers - 5/27/2008 1:25 PM | Take a day or two to just enjoy that feeling, is what I say. Open a bottle of something and watch a couple good movies, for example. Or brag to all of your friends and family. I'd probably do that first.  |
| Posted By : Daniel Ausema - 5/27/2008 1:28 PM | Wow, that's super exciting! Congrats!
Twigs and Brambles (my writing blog) |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/27/2008 1:30 PM | thanks, jared!
great advice!!!
i'm spreading the word now! =D
and thanks, daniel!
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : C.L. - 5/27/2008 1:38 PM | Wowee! Big, big congrats!
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| Posted By : Lyn - 5/27/2008 1:44 PM | Congrats congrats congrats (for each of the three books) plus another congrats just because that is awesome news.  Wow!
Lyn from ResAliens
Reviewing Zines at The Fix
Reviewing Short Stories at My Blog
And Promoting Strange Worlds of Lunacy |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/27/2008 2:01 PM | thank you!!!
i'm hoping talking about it will make
it seem more real. haha!
it hasn't completely sunk in yet and i've
had the long weekend and all...
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : Rob Santa - 5/27/2008 2:15 PM | WOOHOO!
Rob Santa
Hopelessly Addicted Writer of Speculative Fiction
and CEO of Ricasso Press |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/27/2008 2:23 PM | rob, i've come a long way since subbing
my first bad chapters on critters. thanks for
pointing me in this forum's direction. =D
mystic, thank you!! my blog isn't as rockin'
as it could be, as i've been distracted of late!!
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : Jordan Lapp - 5/27/2008 2:32 PM | Congrats! Fantastic news! And to auction too.... they were fighting over you!
Jordan Lapp
Managing Editor
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| Posted By : John M. Whalen - 5/27/2008 2:36 PM | | That definitely qualifies as a "brag." Definitely. Congratulations! It probably won't sink in until you actually see the book on the shelf. I love it when a plan comes together.
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| Posted By : UnclePete - 5/27/2008 3:21 PM | Woo HOO! Many, many congratulations!
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"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." --Thomas Jefferson
www.creativeguypublishing.com |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/27/2008 3:25 PM | | thank you so much, everyone!!
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| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/27/2008 4:23 PM | someone told me about the pub lunch blurb--as i don't
pay for the extended deal annoucements :
May 27, 2008
Children's:
Young Adult Cindy Pon's SPIRIT BOUND, set in an ancient kingdom based on Chinese folklore, myth and magic, to Virginia Duncan at Green Willow Books, in a three-book deal, for publication in April 2009, by Bill Contardi at Brandt & Hochman (NA).
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : RHFay - 5/27/2008 4:26 PM | Wow, wow, wow.
That's all I can think of saying.
Wow!
Congrats!
"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!"
Richard H. Fay - Azure Lion Productions
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| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/27/2008 4:34 PM | richard, my sentiments exactly.
thank you so much for the well wishes!
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : Saanen - 5/27/2008 6:19 PM | WOW!! Massive enormous gigantic CONGRATULATIONS!!! Well done!
Kate Shaw"Comparative Anatomy" Space Squid (forthcoming) "Snow Magic" Fictitious Force (forthcoming)
"Newton the Baker's Boy" Strange Worlds of Lunacy, Residential Aliens/CrystalWizard Productions " Silent Skies" Byzarium (March 2008) "The King's Messenger" Renard's Menagerie #5 "Honeymoon" Desolate Places, Hadley Rille Books " Sawmill Road," " Bad Luck," " How My Sister Lost the Game," " Sick Day" Every Day Fiction"Trompe L'Oeil" Staffs & Starships #1 "Sea and Sky" Black Dragon, White Dragon, Ricasso Press "Final Episode" and "Night Court" available on AnthologyBuilder.com |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/27/2008 6:26 PM | thanks kate and CW!
cw, my editor seems to want the book out for
summer 09. we need to discuss deadlines and dates
as that seems soon to me. i'm trying not to panic.
not so much on the revisions of spirit bound
but on writing novel 2. =X
i know i can do it, but i'm not pros like some of
you guys!! eeee!
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/27/2008 6:37 PM | thanks, cw! i'm glad you have faith
in me!! *breathe*
no, i didn't! i wasn't going to add myself
as a published author until i got published!
and i'm sticking by that!
hee!!!
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : H.P. Lovesauce - 5/27/2008 6:54 PM | Holy ****ing shit.
Cindy!! Way to go! |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/27/2008 6:56 PM | hp, my sentiments exactly.
again. haha!
thank you!!
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : HTKuehl - 5/27/2008 7:27 PM | Triple congrats! Pop a cork, have a really nice dinner with family or sig other (or both), and be proud of yourself. It's a great achievement and I can't wait until your book(s) hit the shelves.
"Learn to paint pictures with words." ~ Brian Jacques
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Forthcoming:
"Miscommunication." The Drabbler: SETI Calling, June 1, 2008.
"The Death of Zeke." AlienSkin Magazine, Aug/Sept 2008.
"The Final Goodbye." Ruins Metropolis. Hadley Rille Books, 2008.
"Dalamar's Quest." Flashing Swords, February 2009.
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| Posted By : Constance - 5/27/2008 7:28 PM | Wow! Awesome! Congrats!
Constance
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| Posted By : Camille Alexa - 5/27/2008 9:55 PM | Outstanding!
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| Posted By : darkbow - 5/27/2008 10:04 PM | cyn, you have my most heartfelt congratulations! I told you you would make it!!!
"Beneath a Persian Sun" upcoming in Carnivah House's "Infinity Swords" anthology
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| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/27/2008 10:15 PM | aww, thanks, everyone!
and ty, you've been an inspiration ever
since i learned you wrote a trilogy in one go.
with your recent short stories sells, i think
your own star is rising!
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : Bill Ward - 5/27/2008 10:40 PM | Wow, that's tremendous Cindy, double-plus congrats!
billwardwriter.com |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/28/2008 12:18 AM | thank you, bill!!!
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : Gustavo - 5/28/2008 10:21 AM | WOW!! My most heartfelt and sincere congratulations. Spectacular news indeed!
WOW.
Visit my livejournal! http://bondo-ba.livejournal.com/
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| Posted By : Jason T - 5/28/2008 11:00 AM | Absolutely wonderful. Congratulations.
Jason Thummel
"Mortismagus" in Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press Forthcoming 2008
"The Gift of the Unspoken God," in The Infinity Swords, Carnivah House > >, Forthcoming 2008
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| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/28/2008 11:33 AM | thank you, guys!
and i still have a whingey, i got my butt kicked
in my first critique over at critters around here
some where. haha!
it's been quite a journey, and so many
of you have been there to help and advise.
i'm truly grateful.
y'all make me laugh, too. yay!
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : nathan - 5/28/2008 12:26 PM | Xiaotien!
YEAH!
How great it this? IMO you are such a great example for us other writers on the board. We've known you from the first. You walked us through everything every step of the way.
This is exactly how you become a success as a writer, just exactly the way SFReader's own X became the next Stephanie Meyer. I couldn't be happier.
You put your bottom in a seat until you had a commerically viable product finished. Write edit write edit.
You shopped it around to an agent over and over again, each rejection encouraging you to send out more copies to more agents. You didn't decide to go other routes or get discouraged. You took the lumps and steamrolled along.
You got an agent.
Now you're a superstar!
You're my hero.
Congrats.
VIEW IMAGE"Writing the wet dreams of teenage boys" - Lindsey Llyod, Tangent Reviews
Tarantino himself has been forward and unapologetic about his influences. In a 1994 interview with Empire magazine, he said, "I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then tough tills, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages." |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/28/2008 12:34 PM | nathan, thank you for your kind words!
i think we all work hard to live our writing dreams.
never lose the passion! rejection is a giving.
as long as you still believe in your story and
love to write, keep going!!
and truly, no one but another writer can
understand this.
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : MichaelEhart - 5/28/2008 3:36 PM | Cindy, I am so proud of you!
Click here to buy my book!
The Servant of the Manthycore from DEP
Illustrated by Rachel Marks, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock
Read me in 2008!
"Without Napier" Every Day Fiction, April 9
"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press, Spring 2008
"To Destroy All Flesh" Return of the Sword, Flashing Swords Press, Spring 2008
"Only His Name" Every Day Fiction, March 30
"An Exorcism Straight, Hold the Elvis" They Are Not What They Seem, Janrae Frank, ed., TBA
"The First Trial of Jermaish the King" Flashing Swords #10, May 2008
Still in print!
"The Stars by Law Forbidden" Unparalleled Journeys II, Journey Books, 2007
"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, Tenoka Press, 2007
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| Posted By : ScrewMoonshine - 5/28/2008 4:26 PM | Woot!  Very nice going, Cindy! That sure seemed quick; guess you've really got one enticing novel there.
Who would have thought the lady who started a discussion topic on words that elicit dirty thoughts would go on to become a successful YA author? 
Very happy to hear this. Guess it means that I'll get to read your book all the sooner.
Robert Orme |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 5/28/2008 6:05 PM | thanks, michael! btw, my friend picked up
your book and loved it. he said he'll be buying
any other books coming out in the future--so
get writing! =)
robert, haha! that thread didn't get as many
responses as i'd hoped. and can someone delete it
now? just kidding!!
those were the days before i knew i was writing YA. ;*)
and i was on submission for 6 weeks to publishers.
4 weeks of thumbs twiddling, then it went down the
final two weeks, and fast!
cindy pon
paint and prose |
| Posted By : frightfest - 5/29/2008 11:40 AM | WOW! Outstanding news.
It is not the bang that terrifies, but the anticipation of it - Alfred Hitchcock
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| Posted By : BethS - 6/2/2008 9:09 AM | I've already given my congrats to you privately, but in public I was going to say some grand thing about how inspiring you are, and then saw that Nathan beat me to the punch.
So--what he said!
Love and hugs
Beth
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| Posted By : carnifexpress - 6/2/2008 12:14 PM | Awesome job!
Armand Rosamilia
Visit Carnifex Press for more information!
The Freehold site is now up!
Carnifex Metal imprint
Look for "Lords of Justice" and "Freehold: Beginnings" in 2008 as well as "Metal Queens" from Carnifex Metal!!
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| Posted By : xiaotien - 6/2/2008 12:20 PM | | thanks, everyone!!
beth, you helped to really hone my beginning pages! it truly made it stronger! i'm eager to get mye ditor's revision letter to see what suggestions she has.
cindy pon
spirit bound, greenwillow / harpercollins may '09
visit my website :
paint and prose |
| Posted By : C.Cevasco - 6/10/2008 11:55 AM | That's incredible news!  Please accept my somewhat belated congratulations!
Chris
Christopher M. Cevasco, Editor/Publisher
Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction
http://www.paradoxmag.com |
| Posted By : xiaotien - 6/10/2008 11:57 AM | thanks, chris.
congrats are like birthday presents, it can
never be too belated. =D
cindy pon
spirit bound, greenwillow / harpercollins may '09
visit my website :
paint and prose |
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