The Wisdom of Barry Lyga
on December 18th, 2010I thought I’d be on the home stretch of my graphic novel with Barry Lyga, oh, sometime early November. My best laid plans were laid to rest. Good news, the Lyga GN cover has been approved. Very close to the end now, and am already putting in time on Gone to Amerikay again.
This week’s required reading is an insightful and important commentary by Barry on the Bookscan system and what Amazon.com’s new service means to authors. Bookscan is a sort of Nielson ratings system for books. The secret list with its mystical knowledge is now available to creators. Barry was among the authors consulted to beta test the scheme.
Many authors don’t understand these things and many don’t care to… But for those authors who do care about numbers (i.e., the ones checking their Bookscan numbers on Amazon), it behooves everyone involved to make sure they do understand numbers and business and publishing. Is it more work? Is it frustrating? I’m sure it is. But the author/agent/publisher relationship is a business relationship, and it’s the sort of relationship where the more everyone knows, the better off everyone is.
And not required reading but fun anyway, Barry reviews the new Spider-Man musical, and gets an option on his novel Boy Toy. Congratulations, Barry!
so… when do we see the cover?
When the publisher says so! LOL!
They are trying to keep everything about this under wraps, including the title. Which is why I keep calling it “The Lyga Book”.
*SPOILER*
Barry Lyga’s “Twilight”
That could be a title like say ‘The Twlight of the Lyga’ or ‘The Book of Lyga’ or
‘Sundown on Lyga’….
Clash of the Lygas? When Barry Met Lyga? Barry Lyga and the Healthy Dayglows?
Goth Girl Redolent?