Janet asks, "How are foreign rights going?" The answer is, I don't know. We've had a lot of expressions of interest but until the ARCs are available the foreign publishers can't read the book and won't make an offer, no matter how much buzz they've heard. I think my agent sent the plain-cover galley to some foreign publishers and will send ARCs to the others in the next few weeks. This is one of those (many) areas in which I know not very much, because my agent doesn't update me as negotiations are going on. He'll tell me when we've gotten an offer he thinks is as good as we can get; if I want something different -- more money, a larger print run, a closer publication date, whatever -- I'll tell him and he'll try to get it. Usually, though, he's already tried to get as much as he can, so I don't ask him to go back and get a publisher to improve on an offer they've already negotiated with him. Unlike some agents, mine never summarily rejects a final offer he thinks is very low. He'll pass it on to me with a recommendation that we don't take it, or, as in the case of one Eastern European publisher whose best offer was $384.00 -- yes, folks, three hundred and eighty-four dollars -- we decided to take it just for the kick of being translated into that language.