Sunday, April 14, 2013

Got Contract?

I've received the publishing contract from 47North.  The terms are confidential (according to the terms--but is the confidentiality of the confidential terms itself a confidential term?  I'm making myself dizzy here.).  But, I can tell you that, as far as your typical contract of adhesion is concerned, the document is not the outrageously unreasonable document that one typically encounters.  I am asking that the definition of one term be refined slightly and I think that my request will be accepted, then we sign, and I collect a sizable fraction of the advance.

Yee Haw!

And, to think, it was just in September that I was telling my wife, "Nah, there's no way that I could write fiction."  

 

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Congratulations Paul. Now you can concentrate on the third installment and begin to flesh out the framework for the next project.

jh85 said...

Yay pop the champagne

Jim said...

I must tell you that the first two books were tremendously enjoyable. I bought them as lightweight page turners but they turned out to be much more.
My only concern, besides the pub date slide, is that your publisher's "writer development" support will cause you to change the characters to be less capable and successful (more "human"), and to put in formulaic treatments such as cliff-hangers. Max is a very enjoyable protagonist as is. I really like him. Trust yourself.

Jim said...

I must tell you that the first two books were tremendously enjoyable. I bought them as lightweight page turners but they turned out to be much more.
My only concern, besides the pub date slide, is that your publisher's "writer development" support will cause you to change the characters to be less capable and successful (more "human"), and to put in formulaic treatments such as cliff-hangers. Max is a very enjoyable protagonist as is. I really like him. Trust yourself.

H. Paul Honsinger, Military Science Fiction Author and Retired Attorney said...

Jim, one of the things that caused me to accept the offer from 47North was the knowledge that I have the ultimate say on all editorial changes. It's right there in the contract and I've confirmed it with other authors who have moved from independent publishing to 47North. I'm not going to permit any significant changes to the way the characters are drawn. Tightening the prose, yes--I need help with that. But, I like my characters the way they are.