Just heard from my editor this morning: Putnam has sold rights to Blood Oath to Heyne, which means the book will be published in Germany as well. That’s right, Burns verkaufen der Kraftwerk, baby.
Suddenly I’m sweating the grammar of the few German phrases I worked into the book. At the time, I was pretty confident [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘My Brilliant Career’
June 4, 2009
Danke Schoen, Darling, Danke Schoen…
May 21, 2009
They’re On To Me
Uh-oh. This search query brought someone to my web site a couple days ago:
“illuminati chris farnsworth”
This either means I’m the target of a conspiracy or involved in creating one. Maybe both.
Either way, it’s better than the people who arrive here looking for weird porn.
May 18, 2009
The Human Target
Add another one to the “Hey, I pitched that idea” file: the Human Target. Christopher Chance, a master of disguise, impersonates other people in order to draw out threats against their lives. Obviously, it didn’t happen with me, but I’m glad to see the character is coming to Fox this fall.
I’m also glad to see [...]
April 3, 2009
I’m Huge In England
My editor at Putnam — and I’m still getting over how cool it is to write that, “my editor at Putnam” — sent me this bit of good news this morning:
Anne Clarke at Hodder and Stoughton has acquired UK and British Commonwealth rights from Lance Fitzgerald at Penguin Putnam, New York, in a three-book pre-empt [...]
March 24, 2009
Interview About the Vampire
Blood Oath made Liz Kelly’s Celebritology column today. Kelly did the very cool photo illustration of Clive Owen herself.
D.C. Now Hip Enough for Vampires
No doubt about it: Since the changeover in administrations, Washington, D.C. has become a veritable magnet for celebs, for once actually earning it the moniker “Hollywood on the Potomac.” So it isn’t [...]
March 23, 2009
So I Got That Going For Me…
From today’s issue of Publishers Weekly:
Putnam Preempts Farnsworth’s Vampires
Rachel Kahan at Putnam preempted Christopher Farnsworth’s debut, Blood Oath, and two subsequent novels, via Alexandra Machinist at Linda Chester, who made the major six-figure world rights deal amid multiple initial offers. The series of books centers on a vampire sworn to protect the U.S. president against [...]
March 21, 2009
The Opposite of Jumping The Shark
Believe it or not, “Dollhouse” got good last night. Joss Whedon, you magnificent bastard.
Full recap available at HitFix.com.
Some thoughts, however, that didn’t make it into the recap due to time/space issues:
Is it a bad sign for the show that this was the most absorbing episode yet, and its lead actress was barely involved? Eliza Dushku [...]
March 7, 2009
This week on “Dollhouse…”
My recap of this week’s episode of “Dollhouse” is up at HitFix.com. In this episode, Echo becomes a safecracker. Until she loses all memory during the job. Hijinks ensue.
March 6, 2009
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February 28, 2009
Welcome Back to the Dollhouse
My latest recaps of Joss Whedon’s TV series “Dollhouse,” available at HitFix.com: “The Target” and “Stage Fright.”
