Thinkin bout how not a single American publisher was willing to give Iron Widow a chance and that's why I'm with a Canadian publisher but once the book deal was announced, public interest blew up and it ended up selling in 7 other territories at 4 auctions and a prempt 😶
https://twitter.com/kurestinarmada/status/1416139533402394626
Kind of hate how American publishing tastes gatekeep books for the rest of the world tbh. Like if my agent didn't happen to submit Iron Widow to my Canadian publisher, it would've languished in my computer. It would've never made it to those international pubs that fought for it.
Feeling very surreal because Iron Widow is a book that should not have made it into traditional publishing since American publishers didn't believe in it. But it squeezed through via Canada, and once the actual reader community saw it, they responded
I'm extremely grateful for the hype Iron Widow is getting, but I've wondered so many times over this past year - how many other stories like it have died on sub because American publishers weren't willing to step out of their comfort zone?
Zetian, crawling outta the trash pile of the 14 American publishers that rejected her: 
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