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Today I got this e-mail from my wonderful editor:
I just received the most wonderful email from a good friend of mine about your book. She and I shared a love of the Arthur legends since we were about 13, and read everything we could get our hands on then. She’s a medical student now, I’d sent Twilight of Avalon to her a while back. She said she’s been so busy this is the first novel she’s been able to read in a year. She’d been having a particularly hard time with school and needed an escape and said she sat down and read the book in one sitting. She said, “I feel so wonderful and light! I just had to tell you thank you. I’m going to do my best to channel Isolde tomorrow!” Your book definitely touched her!
Can there possibly be anything better for an author to hear about their work? If there is, I sure can’t think of it. I’ve been smiling off and on all day.
And in other news, I got my first non-English copies of Twilight of Avalon. That is another of those moments that for a first-time author is really fun–and an honor, too. It’s amazing to have words I wrote translated and sent around the world. The books that just arrived on my doorstep are the Brazilian edition, published by Prumo. Here’s what the cover looks like:
Unlike the American cover, I had absolutely nothing to do with this one. The way foreign editions work, the author really has no contact with the publishers at all–everything is done through two layers of agents. So does anyone out there happen to recognize the building pictured? I’d love to know more about it!
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August 8th, 2009 at 11:16 am
I have zero clue on buildings.. It is a pretty cover though! and congratulations on making a busy person sit down and read with delight for the first time in a year!
August 11th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Sorry, no clue, but it looks like an interesting building. Church perhaps?
Congrats on the foreign printing, and that was very cool to hear about the med student story. Good to be inspiring and helpful
September 4th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I love the cover – though have no idea beyond it looking like a church or cathedral. How cool to see your book in another language – congrats!