I've Been InPersonned!
Just a note to say that the National Catholic Register ran an interview with me on their front-page column "In Person." I'm honored! The article is called Fighting Dragons (cool title) and if you subscribe to the Register, you can read it here. This past week was Catholic Colleges Week, so I think that's why they ran it with the subtitle "Catholic College Helped Author Face Crises." I actually haven't seen the article myself, but I've heard from some folks who enjoyed it. So if you get a chance, check out the Feb. 17th issue of the Register and let me know what you think!
Comments
God Bless,
Claire
I hope you rethink that for the sake of children who need good reading material.
God Bless
Veronica
(I couldn't say that! Barbara Nicolosi would never forgive me!)
I'm sorry I wasn't more clear in the interview. I certainly wouldn't mind if any of my books were picked up by a large secular publisher. I have been on the lookout for an agent for quite a few years, but thus far haven't found one that thinks that the Fairy Tale Novels would find a welcome home with a secular publisher.
However, I think what I meant to say was, for most of my life, I had the idea that I wouldn't be "successful" unless I made it to the NY Times Bestseller list. But after Joshua died, we were so moved by the support of the Catholic community that I felt that if my books only make a couple thousand Catholic families happy, that'll be "success" enough for me.
But of course, every author wants to see as many people as possible enjoy her work, so I'll continue to work to sell more books and possibly the sales figures will convince publishers to take fiction with Catholic themes more seriously.
I actually do have plans for another series of books that would be interesting to secular publishers, but for now (the next five years) I hope to focus on building up the Catholic fiction market to get more books out there for faithful Catholics to read.
BTW, I encourage Catholic authors who come to me to write for a secular audience first because, as you said, Chesterton and the great Catholic writers all wrote for the general population. We need to be out there being salt and light and leaven to the world. That's our ultimate mission. The question is on what is the best strategy to make that happen.
I hope this makes more sense...?
Bless you
Veronica
Amazon has some of your books and some used that are going for a high price. Need to get them reissued, I think.
Veronica
To clear up the confusion, the first book in the Fairy Tale Novels Series was originally titled *Snow White and Rose Red* and was published with Bethelehem Books.
Then Bethlehem decided to put the book into paperback and change the title to *The Shadow of the Bear.*
They also published the second book, *Black as Night.* Then a few years ago Bethelehm decided to shut down their original fiction line (they specialize in reprints) and so turned down the third book, *Waking Rose.* After extensive discussions with Bethlehem, my husband and I decided to publish the third book ourselves, and Bethlehem agreed to give us the rights to publish our own versions of *The Shadow of the Bear* and *Black as Night.* So this is what we have done, through Lulu. We are still trying to decide if we are going to keep self-publishing, or sell the rights to another publisher. Because of that, we haven't purchased an Amazon distribution package.
Hence the books of mine that are on Amazon are either the remaining copies of the first editions of the books Bethelehm published, or copies being sold by Amazon merchants. But you can get all of my books directly from my website, www.fairytalenovels.com.
Confusing, I know!
http://reginadoman.blogspot.com/2007/10/making-books-into-movies.html
And yes, Book 4, The Midnight Dancers, is hopefully coming out early this summer! Say a prayer: I'm working on editing it right now. There's a post about it under "Frequently Asked Questions" on the sidebar of the blog if you want to know more about it.
I HAVE to remember the name of the book...I'm praying as hard as I can!!!
~~Grace a.k.a on the verge of tearing my hair out at the thought of having to wait until early summer..AAAAHHHH!!!