Christy English

Book Clubs and The Queen’s Pawn

Monday, September 13th, 2010 | Book Clubs, The Queen's Pawn | No Comments

I had a great time this morning talking about Eleanor and Alais with a lovely book club in Wilmington, NC. Thank you Lynette, Phyllis and all the other ladies for hosting me and for asking such interesting questions about The Queen’s Pawn. Alais and Eleanor live on again whenever we remember them…thank you for remembering them with me.

The Cloisters: Where I Outlined The Queen’s Pawn

Friday, September 10th, 2010 | The Queen's Pawn, The Writing Life, Video Blog Entries | 2 Comments

I love this place…I have more than a few videos on my blog of The Cloisters in New York. I just can’t get enough…

Foreign Sales and The Queen’s Pawn

Monday, September 6th, 2010 | Selling Your Work, The Queen's Pawn, The Writing Life | 2 Comments

I have made two foreign sales so far. As a writer, I don’t get involved past signing the contracts. My agent handles everything.

The process begins with the original contract with the US publishing house. When we sold both The Queen’s Pawn and To Be Queen, my agent managed to retain foreign, non-English rights. This allows her to take the locked manuscript, or the novel itself once it is bound and published, and send it abroad to her co-agents in Europe, Asia, and Latin American. These co-agents then take the novel and pitch it to various publishers in their own country. This happened in Turkey, and we made the sale in Istanbul through this circuitous route, from Margaret to her co-agent to the Turkish publisher.

The German sale was slightly different…we sold the German rights at the Frankfurt Book Fair last year, which I found incredibly exciting. The Frankfurt Fair was the first book fair in Europe over 500 years ago, and selling The Queen’s Pawn there really made me feel connected to history in a new and exciting way. I always feel connected to my characters and their lives, but to have my novel sell at the Frankfurt Book Fair made me feel as if my novel was one more link in a huge chain, stretching all the way back to Johannes Gutenberg, without whom we would be nowhere.

The Anne Boleyn Files and The Queen’s Pawn

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 | Reviews, The Queen's Pawn | No Comments

Another lovely review for my ladies, this time on The Anne Boleyn Files…thanks, Claire!

http://reviews.theanneboleynfiles.com/the-queens-pawn-by-christy-english/462

Yahoo Romantic Historical Fiction Lovers Give Away

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 | Give Away, The Queen's Pawn | No Comments

Today is the day to announce the lucky winners of an autographed copy of The Queen’s Pawn…

I picked these names not out of a hat, but out of a lovely ceramic bowl…a little more charming, and since it is summer, I am fresh out of hats.

The winners are:

Amy Bridges

and

Melisende

Thank you all so much for participating…there will be more give aways of The Queen’s Pawn this fall, both on this site and others. I will keep you up to date on those…