112 is the Europe-wide emergency telephone number, supplanting or supplementing (in the case of the UK, which still uses 999 as well) earlier emergency numbers. It is also the worldwide emergency number from GSM mobile phones, redirecting to the local emergency number depending on location.
(Of course, there may be other problems once you reach the emergency services number, but that is outwith the scope of this discussion.)
Universal public emergency services of are surprisingly recent in the history of urban living. According to Wikipedia, the first organized municipal fire brigade was established in Edinburgh in 1824. Sir Robert Peel is credited with establishing the Metropolitan Police in London in 1829. And although the history of the ambulance is much more gradual, civillian emergency medicine and transport seems to have been an innovation of the 1800's.
Regular readers of this blog are of course aware that Jim Macdonald is an emergency medical technician. I, for one, would like to take this numerically convenient moment to thank him for what he does in that role, both online and in the all too real world. Jim, you rock.
It's also appropriate to remind everyone reading this that the emergency number, and the services it reaches, are there for a reason. Call them at need, and let the vehicles by if someone else has done so.
I bring you Recorded Books versions of Carnival (available now) and Undertow (coming the day after my birthday. What a fine present!).
Dust will be along eventually, or so I hear, since I just had a phone call with a lovely man yesterday about the pronunciations of the names in the book.
Looking back at my to-do list (previous post) it occurs to me that the whole point of getting the dratted deadline for Chill moved (it looks now as if it will be published for Fall 2009, so never fear; it is not being pushed back a full year) was so I could take some time off from novels and let my brain regrow.
Yes, Bear. Your inner compulsive workaholic is fooling you again. Take a chill pill and actually let the fallow period be, yanno, kind of fallow. Writing is a self-exhaustive act, and you need to remember that you can't go full-bore all the time.
...besides, there are all these short things I need to finish, and I should finish them.
Dust will be along eventually, or so I hear, since I just had a phone call with a lovely man yesterday about the pronunciations of the names in the book.
Looking back at my to-do list (previous post) it occurs to me that the whole point of getting the dratted deadline for Chill moved (it looks now as if it will be published for Fall 2009, so never fear; it is not being pushed back a full year) was so I could take some time off from novels and let my brain regrow.
Yes, Bear. Your inner compulsive workaholic is fooling you again. Take a chill pill and actually let the fallow period be, yanno, kind of fallow. Writing is a self-exhaustive act, and you need to remember that you can't go full-bore all the time.
...besides, there are all these short things I need to finish, and I should finish them.
- Mood:
nostalgic - Music:WNPR - Live Stream
I am amusing myself by making to-do lists. This is generally a sign that I am not actually yet ready to begin work on any of these projects, but I have recovered enough from the post-novella ennui (the bits of brain I cut off to put in Seven for a Secret and "The Red in the Sky is Our Blood" have not yet grown back, green and bushy.) to feel as if I ought to be working. Still, yesterday was productively spent on book sale stuff, and today, so far, has been much the same. I suspect that probably counts as enough worklike stuff for thse days, though I am going to take a crack at fixing that poem tonight.
How weird, to be working on a poem again after all these years.
I wonder if it's catching.
2008
Revise the mopy Tam Lin poem. Hey, I could do that today and it would be like work.
Revise "The Red in the Sky is Our Blood"
Revise Bone and Jewel Creatures
Write "The Tricks of London"
Write "Mongoose" with![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
truepenny (started)
Finish Chill
Write "Smile" (Bone Garden) (started)
Write "Snow Dragons"
Write "The Horrid Glory of its Wings"
Write S2 Shadow Unit episodes (looks like 2.5 right now, unless stuff changes.)
2009
Rewrite The Sea thy Mistress
Shadow Unit S3
Write Grail
How weird, to be working on a poem again after all these years.
I wonder if it's catching.
2008
Revise "The Red in the Sky is Our Blood"
Revise Bone and Jewel Creatures
Write "The Tricks of London"
Write "Mongoose" with
truepenny (started)Finish Chill
Write "Smile" (Bone Garden) (started)
Write "Snow Dragons"
Write "The Horrid Glory of its Wings"
Write S2 Shadow Unit episodes (looks like 2.5 right now, unless stuff changes.)
2009
Rewrite The Sea thy Mistress
Shadow Unit S3
Write Grail
- Mood:
fallow - Music:WNPR - Live Stream
Today I received a copy of an announcement that was sent to the university community via the mass e-mail system. The announcement was for a proofreading workshop. The subject line:
INFORMATIONAL: Your subject line goes here.
PS I'm thinking if they're smart, they'll make it work for them in the session -- "See, it can happen to anybody!"
INFORMATIONAL: Your subject line goes here.
PS I'm thinking if they're smart, they'll make it work for them in the session -- "See, it can happen to anybody!"
- Mood:
amused
Heads-up.
Janis Ian is going to be on All Things Considered on NPR tonight, for those of you who are fans.
Janis Ian is going to be on All Things Considered on NPR tonight, for those of you who are fans.
- Mood:
hungry
Guys, when you send money, you really do need to put your identifying information and what book/s you ordered in the comment field, or (unless I can figure it out from the amount) I have no way of knowing who you are!!!
- Mood:
confused
oooooooooooh(Previous link redacted, as the poor eggs were getting overviewed!)
I am playing a silly game involving social networking and dragon eggs. Basically, the idea is for people to click on the images above, which helps keep the eggs and/or hatchlings warm and nourished until they can grow into adult dragons.
Yeah, I know. Humor me. *g*
I am playing a silly game involving social networking and dragon eggs. Basically, the idea is for people to click on the images above, which helps keep the eggs and/or hatchlings warm and nourished until they can grow into adult dragons.
Yeah, I know. Humor me. *g*
- Mood:
amused
We've had thunderstorms every afternoon/evening since Friday, some of them fairly severe. A tree fell on a neighbor's house Fri night, and Saturday I lost power for about 7 hours (changing diapers by flashlight? NOT an experience I'll cherish!) Sunday during the day I was out doing some errands and ran into one of my faculty members outside CVS, who informed me that the University had lost power for several hours on Saturday as well.
Our UPSs only give you about ten minutes of uptime, so this did not bode well. Further, my good employee left for a new job in May and my employee of dubious work ethic was taking a long weekend to spend time somewhere with no phone and no cell coverage, leaving NO IT staff available until mid-week.
So, to make a long story no shorter, on Monday after I dropped the older daughter off at camp I fully intended to go see the big stinky flower, but on my way I stuck my head in at work just to make sure things came back up cleanly. They Had Not. Our entire network was down and people were starting to freak out in a big way, and were consequently very happy to see me (and of course everyone wanted to know when I'm going to be back from leave, which makes me wonder how big a mess I'll be walking back into in August.) Of course, it's been too long since I've done much hands-on IT stuff (because normally my days are filled with meetings and people-wrangling and trying to keep the minions on track) and I'd only had about three hours sleep a night for the last, oh, three months, so I kinda stood there stupidly for far too long trying to get my brain going before I could get my act in gear.
Anyhow, I *did* get everything that was down back up, but the last bit of it took me giving up and calling one of my counterparts in another department for some consulting help to do it -- and in the process of trying to explain the symptoms of the problem to him the solution became apparent to me all on my own, so it turned out I just needed someone to talk it through at. All in all it took me a little under four hours, by which time the babies (who had spent all that time being passed around among the office staff, who were fighting over who got to have a turn holding them) were cranky and I was out of foodstuffs for them. So we went back home, whereupon everyone fell asleep, and I never got out the door again to go see the stinky plant.
On checking the webcam this morning it was clear that the flower had begun to close already )-: Still, I was feeling especially stubborn about it, so after I picked up the older child from camp this afternoon we went straight to the Smith Botanical Garden and, babies in hand, went to see the thing.
It was not quite as tall as I had expected, mostly because the box it is planted in is actually elevated a fair distance off the floor. However, it was still easily 5' or more and had a very distinct Little Shop of Horrors look to it, like a bad plant prop out of an early Doctor Who episode or something. While it definitely smelled, the smell was quite faint and thus rather disappointing. I don't know if it stopped smelling because it was closing up or if the stinkiness has just been greatly exaggerated, or if it was just not enough to compete with the nether end of one of the two kids I had in hand. I suspect the first answer, but it'll be several years before I get another opportunity to figure that out.
The battery charger for my camera is currently on walkabout, but I brought along older child's camera and she took some pictures. Unfortunately there was no one else about at the moment that we could ask to take one of us all. Anyhow, here it is, the Giant Stinky Penis Plant, Amorphophallus titanum:
(Since there's no admission fee, on our way out we stopped at the desk to make a small donation and I got into a bit of a conversation with the caretaker. He told me that there was a group of kids in earlier that had been poking at the plant and had managed to make a big hole in one leaf, though that was not evident when we'd been looking at it. Why don't people watch their children and/or teach them some basic respect for things? Arrrrghh! No wonder we keep ending up with so many poorly behaved adults...)
Our UPSs only give you about ten minutes of uptime, so this did not bode well. Further, my good employee left for a new job in May and my employee of dubious work ethic was taking a long weekend to spend time somewhere with no phone and no cell coverage, leaving NO IT staff available until mid-week.
So, to make a long story no shorter, on Monday after I dropped the older daughter off at camp I fully intended to go see the big stinky flower, but on my way I stuck my head in at work just to make sure things came back up cleanly. They Had Not. Our entire network was down and people were starting to freak out in a big way, and were consequently very happy to see me (and of course everyone wanted to know when I'm going to be back from leave, which makes me wonder how big a mess I'll be walking back into in August.) Of course, it's been too long since I've done much hands-on IT stuff (because normally my days are filled with meetings and people-wrangling and trying to keep the minions on track) and I'd only had about three hours sleep a night for the last, oh, three months, so I kinda stood there stupidly for far too long trying to get my brain going before I could get my act in gear.
Anyhow, I *did* get everything that was down back up, but the last bit of it took me giving up and calling one of my counterparts in another department for some consulting help to do it -- and in the process of trying to explain the symptoms of the problem to him the solution became apparent to me all on my own, so it turned out I just needed someone to talk it through at. All in all it took me a little under four hours, by which time the babies (who had spent all that time being passed around among the office staff, who were fighting over who got to have a turn holding them) were cranky and I was out of foodstuffs for them. So we went back home, whereupon everyone fell asleep, and I never got out the door again to go see the stinky plant.
On checking the webcam this morning it was clear that the flower had begun to close already )-: Still, I was feeling especially stubborn about it, so after I picked up the older child from camp this afternoon we went straight to the Smith Botanical Garden and, babies in hand, went to see the thing.
It was not quite as tall as I had expected, mostly because the box it is planted in is actually elevated a fair distance off the floor. However, it was still easily 5' or more and had a very distinct Little Shop of Horrors look to it, like a bad plant prop out of an early Doctor Who episode or something. While it definitely smelled, the smell was quite faint and thus rather disappointing. I don't know if it stopped smelling because it was closing up or if the stinkiness has just been greatly exaggerated, or if it was just not enough to compete with the nether end of one of the two kids I had in hand. I suspect the first answer, but it'll be several years before I get another opportunity to figure that out.
The battery charger for my camera is currently on walkabout, but I brought along older child's camera and she took some pictures. Unfortunately there was no one else about at the moment that we could ask to take one of us all. Anyhow, here it is, the Giant Stinky Penis Plant, Amorphophallus titanum:
(Since there's no admission fee, on our way out we stopped at the desk to make a small donation and I got into a bit of a conversation with the caretaker. He told me that there was a group of kids in earlier that had been poking at the plant and had managed to make a big hole in one leaf, though that was not evident when we'd been looking at it. Why don't people watch their children and/or teach them some basic respect for things? Arrrrghh! No wonder we keep ending up with so many poorly behaved adults...)
- Mood:
a little disappointed
Video of a meeting of the fonts.
- Mood: amused
The original article has now been deleted, but Gawker has it enshrined in screen shot form: Wait, what happened to Barack Obama?
Fine Print!
Books are sold signed and/or personalized, at cover price plus (for mass market paperbacks) $4.00 shipping and handling per each book within the US, $10.00 shipping and handling over international boundaries--for trade paperbacks and hardcovers, this will be $6.00/$11.00, respectively. This covers the cost of packaging as well as shipping, and paypal's cut of the proceeds, and seems roughly equitable with what used book retailers charge.
To purchase a book or set of books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve. Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served.
I will reply to your comment to let you know how much money to paypal, and to what address. When paying, please include your real name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form.
Okay, here we go.
Currently on offer:
Twelve copies of the hardcover first edition, first printing of A Companion to Wolves, $30.95 shipped within the USA.
ARCs are "advance reading copies," which is to say bound galley proofs of the book, usually without cover art. They often contain errors that will be corrected in proof, and are not for sale--they're giveaway copies. However, several of my publishers either sent me more ARCs than I could get rid of, or unloaded a bunch of leftovers on me after the book was published, so I have some spares.
One ARC of A Companion to Wolves, which I will sell for cover price of the book, so $30.95 shipped within the USA
Three ARCs of Whiskey and Water, which I will sell for cover price of the book, so $20.95 shipped within the USA
Three ARCs of Carnival, which I will sell for cover price of the book, so $10.99 shipped within the USA
...and that's everybody.
Books are sold signed and/or personalized, at cover price plus (for mass market paperbacks) $4.00 shipping and handling per each book within the US, $10.00 shipping and handling over international boundaries--for trade paperbacks and hardcovers, this will be $6.00/$11.00, respectively. This covers the cost of packaging as well as shipping, and paypal's cut of the proceeds, and seems roughly equitable with what used book retailers charge.
To purchase a book or set of books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve. Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served.
I will reply to your comment to let you know how much money to paypal, and to what address. When paying, please include your real name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form.
Okay, here we go.
Currently on offer:
Twelve copies of the hardcover first edition, first printing of A Companion to Wolves, $30.95 shipped within the USA.
ARCs are "advance reading copies," which is to say bound galley proofs of the book, usually without cover art. They often contain errors that will be corrected in proof, and are not for sale--they're giveaway copies. However, several of my publishers either sent me more ARCs than I could get rid of, or unloaded a bunch of leftovers on me after the book was published, so I have some spares.
Three ARCs of Whiskey and Water, which I will sell for cover price of the book, so $20.95 shipped within the USA
...and that's everybody.
- Mood:
overbooked - Music:Don Henley - Dirty Laundry
Back from Readercon and also an excellent vacation in Connecticut. Corambis is due July 31st, so (a.) expect intermittent at best blog activity until then and (b.) if something happened while I was gone that you want me to know about, please post a link in the comments. Because the whole catching-up-on-LJ thing is just not happening.
Fine Print!
Books are sold signed and/or personalized, at cover price plus (for mass market paperbacks) $4.00 shipping and handling per each book within the US, $10.00 shipping and handling over international boundaries--for trade paperbacks and hardcovers, this will be $6.00/$11.00, respectively. This covers the cost of packaging as well as shipping, and paypal's cut of the proceeds, and seems roughly equitable with what used book retailers charge.
To purchase a book or set of books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve. Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served.
I will reply to your comment to let you know how much money to paypal, and to what address. When paying, please include your real name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form.
Okay, here we go.
Currently on offer:
Five copies of the hardcover first edition of New Amsterdam (out of print!), $31.00 shipped within the USA.
Five copies of the sold-out, seriously out of print, limited-edition trade hardcover collector's edition of New Amsterdam (these are not numbered copies, being outside of the regular sequence of the edition, and I will figure out something to do on the title page to distinguish them from the regular run of the limited edition. Possibly a fingerprint or something) with associated chapbook of a related short story about Abby Irene before she met Sebastien. These will be shipped insured, so the shipping will cost a little more, but given the price of the edition, it doesn't seem like a significant chunk of change, somehow. $210.00 shipped within the USA.
(I am hanging on to a few copies of this against future need, or to give away as auction items for Worthy Causes.)
Nineteen copies of the first printing of the trade-paperback reprint of New Amsterdam, $20.95 shipped within the USA.
And, if we happen to run through those,
Fourteen copies of the second printing of the trade-paperback reprint of New Amsterdam, $20.95 shipped within the USA.
Next post, A Companion to Wolves and some ARCs!...
Books are sold signed and/or personalized, at cover price plus (for mass market paperbacks) $4.00 shipping and handling per each book within the US, $10.00 shipping and handling over international boundaries--for trade paperbacks and hardcovers, this will be $6.00/$11.00, respectively. This covers the cost of packaging as well as shipping, and paypal's cut of the proceeds, and seems roughly equitable with what used book retailers charge.
To purchase a book or set of books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve. Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served.
I will reply to your comment to let you know how much money to paypal, and to what address. When paying, please include your real name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form.
Okay, here we go.
Currently on offer:
Five copies of the sold-out, seriously out of print, limited-edition trade hardcover collector's edition of New Amsterdam (these are not numbered copies, being outside of the regular sequence of the edition, and I will figure out something to do on the title page to distinguish them from the regular run of the limited edition. Possibly a fingerprint or something) with associated chapbook of a related short story about Abby Irene before she met Sebastien. These will be shipped insured, so the shipping will cost a little more, but given the price of the edition, it doesn't seem like a significant chunk of change, somehow. $210.00 shipped within the USA.
(I am hanging on to a few copies of this against future need, or to give away as auction items for Worthy Causes.)
Nineteen copies of the first printing of the trade-paperback reprint of New Amsterdam, $20.95 shipped within the USA.
And, if we happen to run through those,
Fourteen copies of the second printing of the trade-paperback reprint of New Amsterdam, $20.95 shipped within the USA.
Next post, A Companion to Wolves and some ARCs!...
- Mood: overbooked
- Music:Def Leppard - Stay With Me
Fine Print!
Books are sold signed and/or personalized, at cover price plus (for mass market paperbacks) $4.00 shipping and handling per each book within the US, $10.00 shipping and handling over international boundaries--for trade paperbacks and hardcovers, this will be $6.00/$11.00, respectively. This covers the cost of packaging as well as shipping, and paypal's cut of the proceeds, and seems roughly equitable with what used book retailers charge.
To purchase a book or set of books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve. Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served.
I will reply to your comment to let you know how much money to paypal, and to what address. When paying, please include your real name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form.
Okay, here we go.
Currently on offer:
Two copies of the trade paperback first printing of Blood and Iron: A Novel of the Promethean Age, $20.00 shipped within the USA.
Twenty-five copies of the trade paperback first printing of Whiskey and Water: A Novel of the Promethean Age, $20.00 shipped within the USA.
Next post, New Amsterdam!...
Books are sold signed and/or personalized, at cover price plus (for mass market paperbacks) $4.00 shipping and handling per each book within the US, $10.00 shipping and handling over international boundaries--for trade paperbacks and hardcovers, this will be $6.00/$11.00, respectively. This covers the cost of packaging as well as shipping, and paypal's cut of the proceeds, and seems roughly equitable with what used book retailers charge.
To purchase a book or set of books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve. Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served.
I will reply to your comment to let you know how much money to paypal, and to what address. When paying, please include your real name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form.
Okay, here we go.
Currently on offer:
Twenty-five copies of the trade paperback first printing of Whiskey and Water: A Novel of the Promethean Age, $20.00 shipped within the USA.
Next post, New Amsterdam!...
- Mood: overbooked
- Music:Def Leppard - Stay With Me
Fine Print!
Books are sold signed and/or personalized, at cover price plus (for mass market paperbacks) $4.00 shipping and handling per each book within the US, $10.00 shipping and handling over international boundaries--for trade paperbacks and hardcovers, this will be $6.00/$11.00, respectively. This covers the cost of packaging as well as shipping, and paypal's cut of the proceeds, and seems roughly equitable with what used book retailers charge.
To purchase a book or set of books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve. Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served.
I will reply to your comment to let you know how much money to paypal, and to what address. When paying, please include your real name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form.
Okay, here we go.
Currently on offer:
Sixteen copies of the mass market paperback first printing of Undertow, $10.99 shipped within the USA.
Twenty-six copies of the mass market paperback first printing of Dust, $10.99 shipped within the USA.
Twenty-seven copies of the mass market paperback reprint of Blood and Iron: A Novel of the Promethean Age, $11.99 shipped within the USA.
One copy of the March 2008 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction, containing my story "Shoggoths in Bloom," classed for purposes of this sale as a MMPB. $8.99 shipped within the USA.
Three copies of Subterranean #5, containing my novella "Lucifugous," with totally! awesome! Tim Truman art, classed for purposes of this booksale as a hardcover, $12.00 shipped within the USA.</a>
Four copies of Subterranean #6, containing my novella "Limerent," classed for purposes of this booksale as a hardcover, $12.00 shipped within the USA.
Next post, trade paperbacks of the Promethean Age books...
Books are sold signed and/or personalized, at cover price plus (for mass market paperbacks) $4.00 shipping and handling per each book within the US, $10.00 shipping and handling over international boundaries--for trade paperbacks and hardcovers, this will be $6.00/$11.00, respectively. This covers the cost of packaging as well as shipping, and paypal's cut of the proceeds, and seems roughly equitable with what used book retailers charge.
To purchase a book or set of books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve. Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served.
I will reply to your comment to let you know how much money to paypal, and to what address. When paying, please include your real name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form.
Okay, here we go.
Currently on offer:
Sixteen copies of the mass market paperback first printing of Undertow, $10.99 shipped within the USA.
Twenty-six copies of the mass market paperback first printing of Dust, $10.99 shipped within the USA.
Twenty-seven copies of the mass market paperback reprint of Blood and Iron: A Novel of the Promethean Age, $11.99 shipped within the USA.
Four copies of Subterranean #6, containing my novella "Limerent," classed for purposes of this booksale as a hardcover, $12.00 shipped within the USA.
Next post, trade paperbacks of the Promethean Age books...
- Mood: overbooked
- Music:Ani Difranco - Loom
For those of you who missed the previous announcement, I am selling books. Because I have a lot of books. I mean, a lot of books. Boxes of them. And I would like that bookshelf back.
Also, I just bought a new laptop to replace my five year old HP refurb, which has become unreliable, and selling books will help pay for that.
Fine Print!
Books are sold signed and/or personalized, at cover price plus (for mass market paperbacks) $4.00 shipping and handling per each book within the US, $10.00 shipping and handling over international boundaries--for trade paperbacks and hardcovers, this will be $6.00/$11.00, respectively. This covers the cost of packaging as well as shipping, and paypal's cut of the proceeds, and seems roughly equitable with what used book retailers charge.
To purchase a book or set of books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve. Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served.
I will reply to your comment to let you know how much money to paypal, and to what address. When paying, please include your real name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form.
Okay, here we go.
Currently on offer:
Two sets of the Jenny Casey books in mass market paperback (the only edition that exists)--Hammered, Scardown, and Worldwired. The copies of Hammered I have are third printing; the other two books are first printing. Each set is $32.97 shipped in the USA.
One orphaned copy of Worldwired, first edition, $10.99 with shipping in the USA.
Fourteen copies of the mass market paperback first edition of Carnival. Each copy is $10.99 shipped within the USA.
Two copies of Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine, which is a trade paperback anthology containing my story "Orm the Beautiful," along with many other fine works of fiction. $19.95 shipped within the USA.
Eleven copies of my first collection, The Chains that you Refuse, including twenty-odd early stories and a poem. $20.95 shipped within the USA
Next post, Undertow and Dust.
Also, I just bought a new laptop to replace my five year old HP refurb, which has become unreliable, and selling books will help pay for that.
Fine Print!
Books are sold signed and/or personalized, at cover price plus (for mass market paperbacks) $4.00 shipping and handling per each book within the US, $10.00 shipping and handling over international boundaries--for trade paperbacks and hardcovers, this will be $6.00/$11.00, respectively. This covers the cost of packaging as well as shipping, and paypal's cut of the proceeds, and seems roughly equitable with what used book retailers charge.
To purchase a book or set of books, please comment on this entry with your name and the books you would like to reserve. Because I have limited quantities of each title, this is strictly first come, first served.
I will reply to your comment to let you know how much money to paypal, and to what address. When paying, please include your real name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form.
Okay, here we go.
Currently on offer:
Fourteen copies of the mass market paperback first edition of Carnival. Each copy is $10.99 shipped within the USA.
Two copies of Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine, which is a trade paperback anthology containing my story "Orm the Beautiful," along with many other fine works of fiction. $19.95 shipped within the USA.
Eleven copies of my first collection, The Chains that you Refuse, including twenty-odd early stories and a poem. $20.95 shipped within the USA
Next post, Undertow and Dust.
- Mood: overbooked
- Music:King Crimson - In The Court Of Crimson King (Abridged)
By the way, anyone not certain about trying e-books (and not wanting to unpocket hard-earned cash in case the experiment fails) can find a rich variety off free offerings for the rest of the week on Tor.com--I don't know if this link will work here but if it doesn't (I'm not sure about the whole log-in thing) just go over there, and looked for "E-Book Bonanza".
I spotted one by S.C. Butler called Reiffen's Choice, opened it, read a couple of pages (the formatting is really clean and easy on the eyes) and loved it, so one click and I've got the book right here.
I spotted one by S.C. Butler called Reiffen's Choice, opened it, read a couple of pages (the formatting is really clean and easy on the eyes) and loved it, so one click and I've got the book right here.
I was hunting for the damselfy I got a blurry picture of two days ago, when I spotted a tiny fly hopping around on wet mossy rock right at the "flow-over" part of the upper water garden. These shots aren't very good, but they do show how much beauty can be packed into something only 1/8 inch (~3mm) long.
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makinglight : Open thread 112 [+0] - matociquala : Audiobooks! [+0]
- matociquala : your death sits in that cage and hears you [+5]
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cranky_editors :: sukipot : Whoops. [+2] - matociquala : remember those who win the game lose the love they sought to gain [+2]
- matociquala : Re: Book sale paypal payments... [+13]
- zanzjan : (no subject) [+0]
- matociquala : timewaster central.... [+25]
- zanzjan : The Giant Stinky Penis Plant, in a roundabout way [+4]
- cranky_editors :: smofbabe : For Fellow Font Geeks [+12]
- cranky_editors :: ligia_elena : Reuters goof [+4]
- matociquala : Book Sale Post the Fifth! [+34]
- truepenny : home is the hunter, home from the con [+6]
- matociquala : Book Sale Post the Fourth! [+32]
- matociquala : Book Sale Post the Third! [+30]
- matociquala : Book Sale Post the Second! [+28]
- matociquala : Book Sale Post the First! [+37]
- sartorias : E-Books [+28]
- e_moon60 : 80 acres: Tiny beauties [+1]
- sartorias : My stuff [+21]
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