{"id":17765,"date":"2015-05-24T18:32:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T02:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=17765"},"modified":"2015-05-24T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T06:01:09","slug":"john-scalzi-signs-3-4-million-13-book-deal-with-tor-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/news\/john-scalzi-signs-3-4-million-13-book-deal-with-tor-books\/","title":{"rendered":"John Scalzi signs $3.4 million, 13 book deal with Tor Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/john-scalzi-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"john-scalzi\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/john-scalzi-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/john-scalzi.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/>\n<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/25\/business\/media\/science-fiction-writer-signs-a-3-4-million-deal.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a>, John Scalzi and Tor Books announced a new deal for thirteen novels worth a whopping $3.4 million. &#8220;Mr. Scalzi approached Tor Books, his longtime publisher, with proposals for 10 adult novels and three young adult novels over 10 years,&#8221; revealed John Schwartz of the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the included novels will be set in the same universe as <em>Old Man&#8217;s War<\/em>, and at least one will be a sequel to his most recent novel, <em>Lock In<\/em>. Scalzi&#8217;s editor at Tor, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, says that though Scalzi has never had a No. 1 bestseller, he &#8220;backlists like crazy.&#8221; Nielsen Hayden then revealed that Scalzi sells over 10,000 books a month, which is a very respectable number. &#8220;One of the reactions of people reading a John Scalzi novel is that people go out and buy all the other Scalzi novels,\u201d Hayden said.<\/p>\n<p>Scalzi&#8217;s <em>Red Shirts<\/em>, a satirical science fiction, won the Hugo Award for &#8220;Best Novel&#8221; in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy celebration, personally, has just been standing around,\u201d Scalzi told the New York Times. \u201cAnd my wife saying, \u2018Yes, now go take out the trash.\u2019\u201d It seems Scalzi&#8217;s trademark dry humour will remain intact, even under the weight of this mega deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the New York Times, John Scalzi and Tor Books announced a new deal for thirteen novels worth a whopping $3.4 million. &#8220;Mr. Scalzi approached Tor Books, his longtime publisher, with proposals for 10 adult novels and three young adult novels over 10 years,&#8221; revealed John Schwartz of the New York Times. 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