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The reissue of
Gold is tentatively set for April 23. The six-month period for Penguin to reprint the novel before the rights automatically revert to me ends April 13, based on my request Oct. 13. Penguin confirmed receipt of my request and that they have up to six months to decide whether to reissue or let the rights revert to me, but I have heard nothing else from them since then.
In any case, once the six months is up and presuming Penguin does not opt to reissue the book, I will proceed with the plans to publish
Gold as an ebook in the KDP Select program and as print on demand with Lightning Source. Pedernales Publishing has once again come up with a great cover and they are ably handling all the formatting.
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| Old Paperback Cover |
As I note in a Foreword to the New Edition, the world now seems closer to the global financial catastrophe depicted
in
Gold than it did when the novel
was originally published. As the financial crisis that started in 2008
demonstrated, markets are more interconnected and fragile than ever. And in the
summer of 2011, the U.S. government came within a hair’s breadth of defaulting
on its debt – a calamity that once was the exclusive preserve of fanciful writers
of fiction.
Gold was in many
ways prescient and for that reason is surprisingly relevant today. Some of the
technology in news distribution and commodities trading has changed, but the
essential dynamic of the markets and the role of information remains the same.
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