Writer Unboxed

Valued WU contributor Sophie Masson just sent us this update:

The Madman of Venice has just sold to Germany (making it its fourth territory)! And an anthology of stories I compiled and edited, called The Road to Camelot (first published in 2002), which are stories for teens about the youth of Arthurian characters such as Merlin, Arthur, Lancelot, Guinverere etc, by several great Australian authors, is to be reprinted by Random House Australia in August/September! Juliet Marillier is one of the writers who has a story in this anthology, along with Garth Nix, Isobelle Carmody, Kate Forsyth, and many more, including yours truly! The success of the hit BBC series, Merlin, has contributed in no small part to our wonderful collection getting a new lease of life!

Congratulations, Sophie!

In other good news, the Authors Guild is now offering health insurance to writers living in New York, Massachusetts and Florida, plus nationwide dental health coverage. It’s not perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction (ht Publishers Weekly).

More tidbits as we get ‘em . . .

Kathleen Bolton is co-founder of Writer Unboxed. She has written two novels under the pseudonym Cassidy Calloway: Confessions of a First Daughter, and Secrets of a First Daughter--both books in a YA series about the misadventures of the U.S. President's teen-aged daughter, published by HarperCollins.