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These go on sale for the first time as e-books March 20th and you can pre-order them now. These are the first two middle grade titles Terri and I editing for S&S. They are still in print, combined in a hardcover format sold by B&N called The Dark of the Woods.


A Wolf at the Door
(kindle) http://tinyurl.com/7ndo4te

(nook) http://tinyurl.com/6rvm3fa

Table of Contents
The Months of Manhattan Delia Sherman
Cinder Elephant Jane Yolen
Instructions Neil Gaiman
Mrs. Big Michael Cadnum
Falada Nancy Farmer
A Wolf at the Door Tanith Lee
Ali Baba and the Forty Aliens Janeen Webb
Swans Kelly Link
The Kingdom of Melting Glances Katherine Vaz
Hansel's Eyes Garth Nix
Becoming Charise Kathe Koja
The Seven Stage a Comeback Gregory Maguire
The Twelve Dancing Princesses Patricia A. McKillip



and

Swan Sister
(kindle) http://tinyurl.com/76cwtcg

(Nook)http://tinyurl.com/7yqu2a6

Table of Contents
Greenkid by Jane Yolen
Golden Fur by Midori Snyder
Chambers of the Heart by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Little Red and the Big Bad by Will Shetterly
The Fish's Story by Pat York
The Children of Tilford Fortune by Christopher Rowe
The Girl in the Attic by Lois Metzger
The Harp That Sang by Gregory Frost
Tom Thumb: A Life in Miniature by Bruce Coville
Lupe by Kathe Koja
Awake by Tanith Lee
Inventing Aladdin by Neil Gaiman
My Swan Sister by Katherine Vaz

Terri's in town and we've been brainstorming about new projects and trying to figure out how to get our out of print titles back into print and into e-book form. With such a large backlist it's tedious and complicated to figure out the details: which anthology rights have reverted, which e-book but not print antho rights have reverted. Even which books are in or out of print.

I've discovered that getting older anthologies reissued is crucial to the income stream. Having B&N's Fall River Press acquire reprint rights to Blood is Not Enough and A Whisper of Blood plus Snow White, Blood Red is a godsend. But they didn't acquire e-rights which means I/we can resell them.

However, we have to request permission from the contributors to these books (once books are OP the previous contract is null and void). Luckily through email, this process is not as awful as it would be pre-email.

Then there are titles that were supposed to be published as e-books as part of the print contract. If they are not, within a specific time, those e-rights revert, even if the print book is still in print. So those books are available to re-issue as e-books.

Now I/we have books that are OP and we'd like to resell --1) we need permission from the contributors and 2) most (obviously not all, as B&N didn't) publishers who want to acquire older books want both print and e-book rights. So we need to hang on to those e-rights as part of the package.
Get it? As I said, complicated.

Anyway, in the middle of checking the rights situation (with my input, my agent's assistant made up a graph of the e-rights situation to all my books-- separate from the print situation)...I happened to look up Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears and Black Swan, White Raven, two volumes of Terri and my adult fairy tale series that were originally published by Avonova and reprinted by Wildside. Wildside has e-rights and we were told they'd get both books out by the end of 2011.
I forgot about this until looking back at my records.

Which is the long way around announcing that lo and behold Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears is indeed available for kindle and nook:

http://tinyurl.com/6sa6ho7


http://tinyurl.com/84jdpr2

Black Swan, White Raven is now available as well.
http://tinyurl.com/7vycabq  

for the  kindle


it not yet out. Both books are also for sale as trade paperbacks-alas RS,GT does not have the lovely cover shown.

I've been going through most of my anthology contracts in preparation for selling e-rights to those not yet available in electronic format. (I'll be contacting contributors for those books OP.

But while checking things out, I've discovered that some of my books(with or without Terri) are already available as e-books and I had no idea. For those interested:

Troll's Eye View
kindle and nook

The Coyote Road
kindle and nook


The Beastly Bride
kindle and nook


Poe for the Kindle and
at Waterstones

not Nook--the nook is currently being negotiated.

The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy for the kindle