vintage purchased north american rights to my 3rd novel
for 2013 publication (selected coverage: new york observer, wall street journal, hipster runoff, galleycat, vulture, carles, the millions, impose, htmlgiant, slog, tumblr)
- books
- taipei (2013)
- richard yates (2010)
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- shoplifting from american apparel (2009)
- cognitive-behavioral therapy (2008)
- eeeee eee eeee (2007)
- bed (2007)
- you are a little bit happier than i am (2006)
- ebooks
- hikikomori with ellen kennedy (2007)
- today the sky is blue and white with bright blue spots and a small pale moon and i will destroy our relationship today (2006)
- this emotion was a little e-book (2006)
- fiction
- jawbreaker's major-label album
- relationship story
- we will drink our coffee and complete our novels and lay in sunlight and sit in darkness
- the 'can't concentrate' manatee
- the nearly-severely depressed bird
- the existentially fucked megamouth shark
- the disappointed ant
- the vegan muffin
- the gay stepdad
- lisa jarnot
- love is a thing on sale for more money than there exists
- leftover crack in red hook
- sasquatch
- october
- friday
- essays
- the future of the novel
- koko, the 'talking' gorilla
- 'almost transparent blue' by ryu murakami
- 'honored guest' by joy williams
- 'woodcutters' by thomas bernhard
- how to be considerate on the internet
- how to give a reading on mushrooms
- 'great american novelist'
- 10 blogging platforms
- 3 movies i liked
- 3 documentaries by werner herzog
- 'best of young american novelists 2'
- 'kmart realism'
- exactly what i want
- what i can tell you about seattle based on the people i've met from there
- the levels of greatness a fiction writer can achieve in america
- good/bad in art
- poems/relationships
- the word 'nice'
- cho seung-hui's killing rampage
- accounts
- being arrested for 'trespassing' nyu's bookstore
- the great american dialogue about the new yorker's '20 under 40' list
- marina abramovic, 'the staring woman at moma'
- 'audrey' from 'shoplifting from american apparel'
- germany
- sex after not seeing each other for a few days
- reading at 'elliot bay'
- other
- 'the great gatsby' livetweet
- mushrooms liveblog
- 'the hobbit' livetweet
- what i typed on mushrooms on october 23 2011
- top 10 reasons you should read this article
- top 10 unpublished articles of 2011
- top 10 worst fruits to get blowjobs from
- top 10 animals that don't have asses
- top 5 low-level conspiracies jesse eisenberg should accidentally discover
- poetry
- the earliest use of the word ‘sarcastic’
- i see cupcakes exploding
- i was in japan in 1991 or 1992 looking out a window
- i feel weird, like my favorite book is a novelization of 'metroid'
- i felt happy without drinking coffee today
- opposite of song of myself
- i know at all times that in four hours i will feel completely different
- room night
- that was bad; i shouldn't have done that
- the mfa in hamsters
- walking home in cold weather
- i will like the things that i dislike, hate, or am indifferent towards
- in manhattan on 29th street
- music writing
- re 'favorite music of 2012'
- re 'the majority of people are decoys'
- re 'kicked it in the sun'
- playlist re 'richard yates'
- playlist re 'shoplifting from american apparel'
- playlist re 'cognitive-behavioral therapy'
- playlist re 'eeeee eee eeee'
- playlist re 'bed'
- playlist re 'you are a little bit happier than i am'
- charts/graphs
- the contemporary short story
- 'kmart realism' contextualized
- interviews
- sam pink
- ben lerner
- jeff rosenstock
- stza crack
- malcolm gladwell
- tony o'neill
- noah cicero
- chelsey minnis
- michael earl craig
- mazie louise montgomery
- deb olin unferth
- todd hasak-lowy
- matthew rohrer
- joy williams
- stacey levine
- chris killen
- stephen elliott
- stephen dixon
43 Comments:
good job
how much money did you get
i saw in that video that you wanted to get $75,000
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good job bro, congratulations
awesome. even more 'legit.'
that is really awesome. good for you. :)
wsj: I know you've said it before, but what's the basic premise of the novel?
me: A 25-year-old based on myself visits his parents in Taiwan three times, has a failed relationship, experiences drug-induced "intense depression," experiences other thin...gs, gets married, goes on a book tour, feels like his life has distinctly taken on a forward movement toward death.
When do you expect it to come out?
I'm not sure at all, but maybe 2013.
How will it differ from your previous works?
It'll be written in a similar style of my story-collection, "Bed," which I haven't used in a novel before. I predict I'll spend more time on this book than any previous book and that I'll view it as my "magnum opus," though I felt that way with "Richard Yates' also.
Have you ever met Bill Clegg "IRL?"
No.
Have you ever G-chatted with Bill Clegg?
No.
Do you feel happy about the deal?
Yes, I'm very happy. Vintage/Knopf publishes most of my favorite writers: Lorrie Moore, Joy Williams, Ann Beattie, Bret Easton Ellis.
Congratulations, Tao. Sweet
hi tao, you don't know me but i have read your things for a long time and this makes me really happy.
congratulations! that is awesome.
great publisher and interesting ? agent.
i love lorrie moore.
nice. hopefully between now and 2013 or 2014 you'll come up with a better title. just kidding.
can't wait.
Do you (or did you) have any ethical concerns about signing with a major publisher? Other concerns? (i.e. losing indie cred, compromising creative control, outsourcing public relations, et cetera)
how much money, how much money, how much money. buy me a juicer. be Oprah and put a juicer under everyone's seat.
bigup tao. stoked for you. progression.
congrats, Tao. I can't wait to read it. this is awesome.
swag
Just want to say that I think that that is a great title.
congratulations to the maximum, tao.
i'm happy for you bro... i'll be back in nyc in january... i'll buy you a beer, or like... a drug that you like
Hi Tao,
I would like to congratulate you on your forthcoming financial gain. With that said, during the course of your era as a “struggling writer,” I have given you (via PayPal) something to the tune of $30, give or take. Sometimes, Tao, I didn’t even ask for anything in return. No books. No “art.” No nothing. Even though at the time, and still today, $30 meant and still means a lot to me. So while the sum may seem like a modest one, if you knew my current economic standing in society (or lack thereof), you might appreciate the sentiment behind the gesture even more, perhaps even tearing up in the process, thinking of how little I had to give and yet I gave it, my little crumbs, my piddling savings, and yet I still managed to fork over some dough for you with brittle hands made for giving.
Well, now that you are a rich ass mother fucker, I was hoping that maybe you could PayPal $25 to justinrossmorris at gmail dot com.
Of course, don’t get me wrong, I never gave you that money with the intent of asking for it back. No, I did it to support your work, period. The act itself was deontological in nature, not utilitarian by any means. That is to say, my intentions were pure. And I had no ulterior motives. Immanuel Kant himself would have been proud.
However, I’m at point much like your past self where I’m trying to make it as a writer and having a hard time doing it while trying to support myself financially. In fact, this month I will be $25 short for rent. You can empathize with my situation, I’m sure. And I’m also sure you know that how far your $25 will go: it will a) reduce suffering in the lives of at least 10 different people, if only tangentially, because if they knew how desperate I was and ended up being late in paying my rent it would cause them significant grief; b) make my landlords happy; and c) demonstrate your kinship and everlasting solidarity with writers less fortunate than yourself.
I thank you in advance for your donation, and will, no doubt, pay you back at some undisclosed point in the future.
Yours,
Justin
congratulations!
yes.. yes!!! i will follow you everywhere i will follow you into the dark. tao lin i love you and i know that our love is secret, but i wait for you like a lonely light house like an empty room waiting, waiting. my love, my genius, my writer.
tao lin
the light of my life
the light, the light
my heart's aching fight
"So here is some stuff that is not in The Wall Street Journal: The book was sold for $50,000 with a $10,000 bonus if it earns out its advance, with one-third up front, one-third upon delivery of the manuscript and one-third upon publication in the U.S. and Canada."
[http://www.observer.com/2011/08/tao-lin-announces-five-figure-sale-of-taipei-taiwan-to-vintage-tim-oconnell-prolific-tweeter-to-edit/]
In this video [http://vimeo.com/27419643], Tao says it will take him a year and a half to finish this book. This will give leave him $13,333 to live on for the next 1.5 years [until about February 2013].
After he turns in the manuscript, he will have $13,333 to live on until the book is published about one year later [December/January 2013/2014???].
He will have $13,333 to live on from [December/January 2013/2014???] until his death in ~2018.
Pienso que es la falta seria.
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@marshall sweet, that info is available now re money
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@j those concerns were not more than maybe 1.5% of my thoughts related to this
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@david sweet, sounds good re offer
@j.r. email me a paypal invoice if you want $25
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Hi, Nice to see a pretty professionally done blog on the this rich subject.
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I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee and...
ima fux wit it hella hard tao. you fuxin hear me ima fux it hardcover den ima fux wit you softcover den digitalia if you get that shit straight on amazon, sweet ass <3
Keep living the dream Tao! I look forward to the book.
hey dude, are you related to tao okamoto? like you know, asians use their last names first. so are you or are you not? 'cause you kind of look like her lil bro.
hey tao, are you my asian brother?
-tao okamoto victim of yellow fever idealizations
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,976 Paid in Kindle Store
If I buy 227,976 copies of my chapter 1 Orleoflilly.
I can get 78,993.68 in royalty fees.
That means I spent 146,702.56 to be ranked #1 in sales.
killin the game
killin the game
HAHAHHAHAHHA...you have a blog too? Man, you must be working hard to keep this lifestyle of yours up!!
vintage bought that shit? Fuck me Tao, you made it! Why keep tweeting unless you're a cult leader
that's awesome
also:
please write your next book about tilda swinton! or someones mom who looks like tilda swinton. please
one of his tags are hipster runoff
that must mean hes obviously carles.
so ca$h.//
incredible. congratulations. you deserve all the success you find. ill still think your great when you are a cultural force.
I like your books and you seem nice.
Just finished Richard Yates. I never wanted it to end.
i want it <3
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