home sweet home

I'll do more posting later, but let's just say quickly that the London Book Fair trip was interesting. I made it, we were on some of the last planes to Heathrow that weren't turned around, but we got to go to Paris/Charles De Gaulle instead and when we were able to book Eurostar didn't take advantage of the 7-hour bus ride the airline was offering. And the cloud lifted in time for us to go back to NYC on our originally scheduled flight. But 2/3 of our appointments cancelled because they could not make it to London.

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  1. Jim C. HinesApril 23, 2010 at 11:32 AM

    Interesting indeed! Glad you made it home.

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  2. AnonymousApril 23, 2010 at 1:42 PM

    Actually took the train once from Calais to Paris. Nice way to see some of the country at a reasonable speed.

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  3. AnonymousApril 23, 2010 at 1:43 PM

    Took the (conventional) train once from Calais to Paris. Nice way to see the countryside at a reasonable speed.

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  4. MariaApril 24, 2010 at 3:55 PM

    Welcome back.

    Question: With all the talk lately focused on ebook rights and percentages and how those compare to print percentages...would you consider talking about audio
    rights and a common percentage?

    Is audio negotiated like print rights with a tiered percentage for the author? (x sold gets 7 percent, the next y sold gets 10, etc) or is a straight percentage given to the author with some sort of standard beginning percentage based on the popularity of the author?

    Is such a percentage typically higher or lower than print percentages?

    Thanks! (I realize you may not have time or inclination to cover such topics and either way, no worries.)

    Maria

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  5. UnknownApril 24, 2010 at 10:35 PM

    Sounds as if your trip to Texas might have been more enjoyable.

    Welcome home. Looking forward to reading new posts.

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