"It was that rare combination of real excitement about the book and excitement about its commercial appeal." On publication day last month The Historian sold more copies than The Da Vinci Code on its first day, and went straight to the top of the New York Times Bestsellers list. The bidding was fierce, her editor at Little, Brown, told the Associated Press. Then Sony bought the film rights for another $2m. You're the expert.' She turned it into a six-day auction and the rest of this happened." Meaning Kostova received a $2m (£1.1m) advance for the book and has now sold foreign publishing rights in 28 languages. She came back within half an hour of the phone call and told her agent: "'Please do whatever you want with this. He said, 'You need to do whatever is right for your book because you poured so much time and love into it for 10 years'." "It was very hard to refuse because I had worked really hard to make a living to even support this habit," says Kostova.
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