The Unladylike Adventures of Kat Stephenson have sold in the UK!!!!!!
Better yet, even though the sale only happened a month ago, A Most Improper Magick will be published in the UK in August 2010 - only 5 months from now!
I am just incredibly happy about this. My UK publisher is Templar Books, a fabulous independent publisher that has focused on creating award-winning illustrated books for the last 30 years (UK readers have probably seen their fun "Ology" books - Dragonology, Piratology, etc.), but is now starting a brand-new fiction line, with AMIM as one of their very first novels.
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OK, just give me a moment to breathe deeply and stop hyperventilating with excitement. It has been SO HARD not to share this news until now!
The London Literary Party (TM) that we attended last week was Templar's grand unveiling of their new fiction list at the Covent Garden Hotel, with champagne and canapés - and shiny new British ARCs of A Most Improper Magick as one of the items in all their guests' goodie-bags! I got to meet my wonderful British editor, Emma Goldhawk, as well as a whole bunch of other Templar editors, all of whom were smart and fun to hang out with and - best of all - really excited about Kat's adventures. And I came away absolutely floating with excitement and happiness to be working with a second group of fabulous people, all of whom really get Kat and her family and are making such a perfect British home for them.
(And btw, Templar is planning an author tour, so I'm hoping to meet a lot of British readers in this coming year, too!)
In celebration, it's the perfect day to share another ARC giveaway! This one is being held on the blog of Kim Harrington, a member of The Elevensies whose own first book, Clarity, is going to be published next year.