Current location:	The Nerve Center (aka My Office)
Current mood:	ecstatic
Current music:	the sound of a vacuum cleaner down the hall

A Brief Brag . . .
As my legion of adoring (and ever-lurking) readers know, it is often a mixed emotional bag here at the publishing office. Most days I am in a perpetual state of being pissed off when it comes to how the school operates (or, rather, fails to operate) procedurally, a chunk of other days--like yesterday--are just kind of boring as we wind down the semester and its production cycle. Then, there are a very few days where things happen that are just outstandingly great. Today, this morning, happily (for the moment) is one of those last kinds of days.

Basically, we sold the foreign rights for India to one of our textbooks to a publisher in India. They will pay us a thousand dollars up front and then 10% of their sales--paid twice a year--for the next three years. I mean, can you believe it? It's like money for nothing! It's weird, I read in one of my many publishing books that selling subsidiary foreign rights--while never as much as direct sales--can be a signficant source of secondary income. So, I found a guy to act as an agent for several of our books at the Frankfurt Book Fair--this is where the majority of foreign rights get sold--in Germany this last October. Then, THIS!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing, I tell you, just amazing. I mean, really, who'd a thunk?