UPDATE: Patrick Nielsen Hayden of Tor Books has responded, in equal verbosity.
Sounds like someone needs to get on the case… Tor Books Gemma, I'm sorry to say we don't have future Girl Genius omnibuses planned at this time. Gemma Peri Please tell me that the next 3 omnibus editions for Girl Genius are coming Soon! Patrick Nielsen Hayden has a Facebook page. If you have stayed with me all through this screed, then I would like your help. Personally, I think that the problem is that we're this little studio alllll the way out on the west coast, and thus, easy to ignore. It may take five years, but really, who cares? Eventually, we, like many other confusing things that he cannot make money from, will go away.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden has decided that he can ignore us. The only conclusion I can come to, is that Mr. We'll even buy the remainder sitting in your warehouse.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden has apparently decided that we're too much trouble. Okay, what can we do about this? But now, Mr. Because our contract with TOR says we can't publish "a competing product" for five years. However, if they just can't wrap their heads around it, which seems obvious since after three years they have yet to sell through the initial print run (We'd have done it in 16 months- and that's with no advertising, which is a fair comparison, as they did no advertising either), then we'll just sing a chorus of "So Long, It's Been Good To Know You", and then we'll publish them ourselves, because if there's one thing we know how to do, it's publish and sell Girl Genius graphic novels.īut we can't. I mention that we've been selling graphic novels fairly well for quite awhile, and that we'd cheerfully give them pointers. Fair enough, I am occasionally like this with The Experiments. We even have a face-to-face meeting at worldcon the next week where he explains that TOR just really doesn't know how to sell graphic novels, and when someone takes on a job they don't know how to do, they tend to just stick their fingers in their ears and hope that eventually, it goes away. Hayden, asking him if our editor is dead, or just fired? This question surprises him, as he saw her in the office that morning. We are Slow to Take Offense, here at Studio Foglio), I write to Mr. So after a year of this (yes, an entire year. Today, Phil Foglio posted about Tor Books, the current publisher of his graphic novel series Girl Genius with Kaja Foglio, giving him the silent treatment,
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