I've heard much worse tales about Llewellyn -- . It's getting
tougher & tougher now matter what way you go, isn't it?  Atill, I'm
anticipating the release of "A Rose in Time" around X-mas. 
Review copy will soon be available if anyone here would lik


>Here's my experience with "The President's Astrologer", which
was not so great
either.  After a couple of years of unsuccessfully trying to get an agent, I
was lucky enough to find a publisher on my own, Llewellyn, and it only took
about six months to proceed from readers to acceptance.  I will say the few
heady months between acceptance and actually holding the book in my hands were
unbelievably exciting.  Then reality set in.
>
>The first printing was 5,000 copies.  The publisher budgeted $10,000 for
promotion, a lot of which was squandered on a poorly conceived, unsuccessful
weekend in Washington DC to introduce the book.  I was against this, pushing
for New York City where the only expenses would have been a few cabfares.  The
rest of the budget went for ten days of booksignings in Florida, promotional
postcards, etc.  The book was one of three finalists for the PMA's Benjamin
Franklin award for fiction, something that thrilled me but was totally ignored
by Llewellyn for promotional purposes.
>
>The final outcome:  Llewellyn gave it one year--then analyzed the sales. 
There were only 3,000 copies sold, which to me sounded wonderful, but to the
publisher was the kiss of death.  They decided not to go into a second
printing, and a couple of months later, remaindered their entire stock.
>
>Practical results:  I had a lifetime's ambition realized and my bio is now in
Contemporary Authors, Vol.178.  I got all the rights back to "The President's
Astrologer"--for a few glorious months, there was interest shown by a
television  producer and I thought I'd have the last laugh on Llewellyn. but it
came to naught.  I now have an agent, but so far he's had no luck selling the
two other novels I've written since.
>
>Barbara   

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