The Announcements Keep On Comin’!
On Saturday I announced that The Night Weaver was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award® in the “Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel” category. Days may have passed, but I’m still in a daze about being mentioned alongside such magnificent authors, and to see my book listed beside such amazing works. It’s been pretty unreal, to be honest. Unreal, but utterly glorious.
The good news, however, doesn’t end there.
Today, I am delighted to announce that I have signed with the wonderful Italia Gandolfo from Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Literary Management!
In other words, I finally have representation!
It’s such a load off knowing someone has my back in the business, you know? I mean, yeah, I was doing okay on my own—as okay as an unrepresented author can do on their own—but I’m fully aware that I would never have been able to reach my career goals without someone in my corner.
What Exactly Does This Mean?
Well, if you’re at all familiar with the industry, you’ll know that every author has a variety of rights (book rights, film rights, graphic novel rights, etc.), and those rights need to be sold off for them to be transformed into books, movies, graphic novels, whatever. The problem is, most companies don’t accept unsolicited submissions from authors, which means many of those rights are never utilized by authors. This is where having an agent helps: They go out and market the hell out of your stuff, sell the rights to the highest bidder, and voila, you have some spare change in your bank account.
Sometimes, those rights are just sold off and nothing happens to them.
Sometimes, those rights are never sold…
But if you’re an extraordinarily lucky author, your book gets turned into a movie or TV show. Maybe your book is translated into 64 languages. Sometimes you go big in Japan—in my opinion, this is how you know you’ve made it.
Okay, But What Does This Mean For Shadow Grove?
Shadow Grove is still Shadow Grove, and apart from maybe some minor tweaks to The Night Weaver, nothing is changing in the story. My publishing schedule is going to have to be amended a bit, true, but this series is going to be completed come hell or high water. This will not change. 
