Congratulations ... but keep it secret
Can we all say a big cloudy Congrats to SecretSpi, who's not only
won the EarlyWorks prize but got a lovely little publishing deal to
boot, with Circaidy Gregory Press.
I know our not-very-Secret friend has already mentioned this on the site, but I reckon she was too modest. She won a competition! She's being published! What more do you want?
Yes: it's a small press and a small advance, but that's sort of missing the point. There are lots of really good, really small publishers who do pay peanuts and don't get monkeys. I don't know what Tindal Street offers by way of average advance, but I bet it's tiny. Yet you couldn't imagine a punchier or more successful publisher: I guess no publisher in the country has a higher ratio of prize wins/awards amongst its authors.
So by my reckoning, our less-than-entirely-Secret friend earns herself as many congratulations as anyone else who gets herself a book deal. Thanks to to WW editors John Dougherty and Susan Davis who helped her get this far.
And watch this space: agents like people who have won comps, got deals, and are breathing down the neck of bigger and better things. I reckon we haven't heard the last of this ...
I know our not-very-Secret friend has already mentioned this on the site, but I reckon she was too modest. She won a competition! She's being published! What more do you want?
Yes: it's a small press and a small advance, but that's sort of missing the point. There are lots of really good, really small publishers who do pay peanuts and don't get monkeys. I don't know what Tindal Street offers by way of average advance, but I bet it's tiny. Yet you couldn't imagine a punchier or more successful publisher: I guess no publisher in the country has a higher ratio of prize wins/awards amongst its authors.
So by my reckoning, our less-than-entirely-Secret friend earns herself as many congratulations as anyone else who gets herself a book deal. Thanks to to WW editors John Dougherty and Susan Davis who helped her get this far.
And watch this space: agents like people who have won comps, got deals, and are breathing down the neck of bigger and better things. I reckon we haven't heard the last of this ...
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Very well done!
Any book deal, no matter how small the advance, is a book deal and I'm sure SecretSpi is very proud of herself - I would be. Here's to the future xx
And hey, if getting a publishing deal isn't worth blowing your cover for I don't know what is.
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