We’re growing by leaps and bounds, and we’re looking to add an enthusiastic, experienced subsidiary rights agent to our team at Foreword Literary. Foreign subrights experience would be especially helpful. If you know of a literary agent who specializes in subrights and wants to work for our amazing clients, tell them to email me at Laurie@ForewordLiterary.com.
Oh, and since we’re a virtual agency, this person can work from ANYWHERE!
Her announcement for her Angel Kin/Angel Sire book deal is so much fun, I can’t compete. Go here to laugh your eyes out: http://www.triciaskinner.com/two-book-deal-with-entangled-publishing/
I couldn’t resist. This is one of the coolest crowdfunding prizes I’ve ever seen. Read what Darren Davis of Bluewater Productions has come up with for the last hours of Julie Kagawa’s Iron King Indiegogo campaign:
LOGAN’S RUN NEWS!!! LIMITED OFFER FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS.
William F. Nolan, the creator of the iconic “Logan’s Run” series, wants to chat with you.
All you have to do is donate $100 to our “Iron King” Indiegogo campaign and we’ll set up a one-on-one conversation with one of the great living Masters of sci-fi via phone or Skype. Have you ever wondered where he got the idea for “Logan’s Run”? What he thinks about the sci-fi genre today? What is going on on the film rights, what he thought of the original film, What’s his favorite food? Or maybe you’d like his opinion on your own Great American Novel idea…all you need to do is pledge to the campaign here: http://bit.ly/ZjE83s
HOWEVER…this offer is only good for 48 hours…it’s over on Saturday at 12pm EST. And there are only five 30 minute opportunities available! This is a once in a lifetime chance that any fan of science fiction must jump at. After you pledge your $100, email me and I will personally set up the call!
Anyone that donates at least $1.00 will get a free e-book of “LOGAN’s RUN: SOLO” the one shot comic book that came out last week. You need to email me when you do.
Here is a cover of “Logan’s Run :Rebirth” #1– the new mini series – that’s starts later this spring.
Email me at ddavis@bluewaterprod.com with questions.
Thanks for your support.
Darren G. Davis
Publisher
Bluewater Productions
Twitter: @bluewaterprod
Happy Friday! Here’s a link to a great blog post collection of advice to writers from literary agents. Yours truly is included. The remarkable Chuck Sambuchino’s Writer Unboxed is a must read for aspiring writers.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING YA NOVEL THE IRON KING GETS ANIMATED
The best-selling young adult novel “the Iron King” is on its way to become a manga graphic novel this summer. Bluewater Productions, a full-service publishing and production company specializing in comics, graphic novels, today announced it is partnering with Piglion Studios to develop an animated comic book version in conjunction with the print release.
Julie Kagawa, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Iron Fey and Blood of Eden series of books for young adults, said “My fans know that I am a huge comic, manga, and anime enthusiast, and I write in a very cinematic and visual manner in part due to my love of this medium”.
Julie’s new title “The Eternity Cure” hits book stores on April 30th. To view a sample of the motion comic book cover: http://bit.ly/Zt5q3S <http://bit.ly/Zt5q3S> The 4-issue “the Iron King” comic book series features the art of Lidia Chan, written by Julie Kagawa and Sara Gundell.
“The moment the Piglion Studio team chanced upon Bluewater Production’s Iron King campaign at Indiegogo, we knew wanted to work with them to make the title come to life as a Motion Panels+ application. We believe giving subtle movements to make it dynamic and interactive at the same time will help augment the readers’ imagination. Piglion Studio is excited to see the success of this partnership and the fans should be too!” Melch Valimento from Piglion Studio.
Bluewater is using Indiegogo to crowd source $10,000 to attract the top talent necessary to produce four such a high-quality comic and graphic novel series. Fans can support this project at levels ranging from $1 to $1,000. Prizes range from comics, to mini clay “Chibi” sculptures handmade by Kagawa, to custom characterizations as comic cameos, and more. To see all the fabulously creative prizes go to: http://bit.ly/ZLl0Zh <http://bit.ly/ZLl0Zh> Those who join the campaign for at least $1.00 will get a FREE digital download of issue #1 of the animated comic book. The campaign ends on May 4th.
Bluewater has previously worked with bestselling novelists such as John Saul, SE Hinton, William F. Nolan and William Shatner to develop novel-based comic book series. Interviews are available upon request. Please feel free to use the cover image for your publication.
Bluewater Productions is a full-service publishing and production company specializing in comic books, graphic novels and multimedia. Dedicated to pairing high-quality art with innovative storytelling, Bluewater creates a wide variety of intellectual properties that engage a growing readership and bridge the gap between comic books and the diverse multimedia marketplace. With more titles than ever, including smash hits such as the 10th Muse, VSS and The Legend of Isis; Bluewater has worked with many best selling novelists in developing comic book series. The company also has a line of biographical comics featuring The Beatles, Stephenie Meyer, JRR Tolkien, Justin Bieber, and etc.
Julie Kagawa is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the award-winning Iron Fey and Blood of Eden series. For more information on Julie visit JulieKagawa.com <http://juliekagawa.com> .
About Piglion Studio Piglion Studio, based in Markham, Canada, is focused on creating Motion Panels+, an application that combines a standard comic book and animation with added interactivies. To exemplify this application, the team converted its flagship web comic, Coin & Flour, to Motion Panels+, which can be downloaded from app stores.
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Media Contact: Darren Davis, Publisher Bluewater Productions 360-828-5404 ddavis@bluewaterprod.com www.bluewaterprod.com Twitter: @bluewaterprod
Congratulations to Foreword partner, Gordon Warnock, who just sold an amazing graphic novel memoir, TURNING JAPANESE, by his client MariNaomi. It will become much more than a book. The first of many to come, my friend!
Here’s the Publisher’s Marketplace listing:
Author of Kiss & Tell, MariNaomi’s memoir TURNING JAPANESE, tracing her evolving understanding of her half-Japanese heritage, seeking the language for the first time through employment at an illegal Japanese hostess bar, to Raighne Hogan and Justin Skarhus at 2D Cloud for print, enhanced e-book, and web serial, by Gordon Warnock at Foreword Literary (NA).
Meet our new mascot, courtesy of the artistic endeavors of New York Times/USA Today bestselling YA author Julie Kagawa.
But this cutie pie needs a name. Can anyone guess his true name? (tip of the hat to Julie’s Iron Fey series!)
In a stunning announcement today, new hybrid literary agency, Foreword Literary, has changed its name to Backword Literary, according to founding partner Laurie McLean.
“We feel that there is a retro trend about to engulf publishing, including a backlash against eBooks, back-talking about digital audio books, and backstabbing in general towards digital publishing,” McLean said. “So we’re embracing that backwards trend, hence the name change.
Backword Literary has changed its corporate policies to focus on printed epic fantasies, Southern multi-generational sagas, Hollywood melodramas and very long drawn-out literary novels.
“Anything overwritten, send it our way,” McLean said.
To submit your 1,000-page-plus manuscripts, Backword will be accepting printed submissions only sent to 123 Main Street, Backword, CA, 12345. Or you can call and speak at length to the Backword agents at 415-123-4567.
It is fitting that this deal is announced on March 20th, the International Day of Happiness, because A.R. Kahler’s series, The Immortal Circus, makes me very, very happy. It’s a fast-paced, fun read, filled with magic and terror and great writing. This is the third book in the series that, like the other two, starts out as an eSerial in installments, then is published as a complete print book, ebook and audiobook.
Mr. Kahler is a trained circus performer, an aerialist by trade, so he peppers this series with a lot of inside information. Would you like to see him dangling from chains high atop the Javits Center in New York during Book Expo America some day? I would! And he’d be just the daredevil to do it.
So, congrats, Alex. I know this might be the final act to the series, but your own real life series has many more hits to come. Check out his gorgeous cover to the first book in the series available now!
