Yes!

It’s a long story, which I can’t tell right now, because someone was instrumental in getting me put forward for Perseus’s attention and I can’t mention their name because they haven’t finished their contract negotiations yet.  We heard the good news several weeks ago but we decided to wait until we signed -but due to my bad news regarding my employment, the other author said “go ahead”.

It seems that Perseus (under their Running Press imprint) are going to launch two gay historical romances - Transgressions and the other one in Spring 2009 and that’s just wonderful news - not just for me and [the other author] but for the genre in general. They plan to print in paperback and to put them into stores, - which so far, no-one else has done in a blanket fashion.  It will be a risk for them, but they have a reputation for taking those sorts of risks, and all publishing is risk isn’t it?

I’m still pinching myself, because - although both R W Day and my mother insisted that Transgressions was “more mainstream than I realised” - I didn’t think that it would ever happen. I don’t think any author does think that, do they? They may travel hopefully, but I don’t think they believe in the arrival. Plus the gay historical has been cracking the egg of birth for a couple of years and is still not being recognised - but perhaps that will be changing.  I really hope so.

Will of course keep you posted as the fun starts here.