Books! With Glue!
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pameladeanI quite forgot to mention that the other cheering occurrence, possibly better than vitamins, was that Sharyn sent me advance copies of the first two Secret Country books in their shiny new matching reprint covers. Long ago, when the Scribblies were newly published, Steve Brust observed that the profound difference between the page proofs and the final actual book must be attributable to the glue. The glue has done its magic again.
David came upstairs with the camera Just in Case the package should be those books, and took a photo of me holding them up, which is now on my website. I can never remember the URL. Okay, here it is.
http://www.dd-b.net/pddb/
They are really quite beautiful.
Pamela
David came upstairs with the camera Just in Case the package should be those books, and took a photo of me holding them up, which is now on my website. I can never remember the URL. Okay, here it is.
http://www.dd-b.net/pddb/
They are really quite beautiful.
Pamela
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Date: 2003-08-14 01:16 pm (UTC)A chocice of phrase which can give the impression, even for a matter of seconds, that only those two are being reprinted, must be getting satisfactory screams from more people than just me. Do you know when in December The Whim of the Dragon is due ? Likely too late for Christmas presents to cross the pond, but heck, I can buy it for people's birthdays.
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Date: 2003-08-14 01:20 pm (UTC)I don't know when in December, but somebody reads this journal who might.
Pamela
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Date: 2003-08-14 01:44 pm (UTC)Ahem. Really, though, I'm sure I'll buy the whole set in the new release. Though I still won't quite believe it until I see it. I'm half convinced it will rain purple kangaroos the next morning, and Diane Duane will release Door into Starlight the following week.
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Date: 2003-08-14 02:03 pm (UTC)OTOH, my habit with getting books signed is to get the author to sign the old, beloved, dog-eared, yellow-paged version of the book and then to retire it with honors and buy a new copy for reading, so the obvious answer here is to arrange to be in the right place someday to have you sign the original books... :)
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Date: 2003-08-15 09:31 am (UTC)I don't reliably to to more conventions than Minicon at the moment.
Pamela
Re: Books! With Glue!
Date: 2003-08-14 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-08-14 04:36 pm (UTC)The cover for Whim is quite spiffy too; all red with a fantastic sunset and a not-too-shabby Belaparthalion inside the globe. It's a lovely set.
Pamela
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Date: 2003-08-15 08:06 pm (UTC)(I would wish you less weirdness of publication history, and I would wish me more of your books. But as we can't always get what we wish for, this looks pretty good, too. Congrats. They, and you, look great.)
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Date: 2003-08-17 03:29 pm (UTC)Realistically, a lot of the people whom I knew when these books were available will now have children about old enough to like them. So in a slightly more over-arching sense, that's very good timing.
Pamela
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Date: 2003-08-14 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-14 04:42 pm (UTC)in answer to the question up above
Date: 2003-08-14 04:58 pm (UTC)i expect whim of the dragon to appear in two months, due to the december pub.
i am so glad you all like the covers!!!
oh, and
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Date: 2003-08-14 06:04 pm (UTC)I covet those books, though I can bear it because I know they will be in the bookstores soon, along with the mysterious FIREBIRDS about which there has been some library buzz.
But it is hard, very hard, to have to wait on WHIM OF THE DRAGON so long. I am still annoyed with a departing Housemate for taking their copy and thus breaking the Household set; I have not read it since then.
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Date: 2003-08-14 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-14 06:53 pm (UTC)I look forward to them being out.
ooh, gorgeous!
Date: 2003-08-14 06:55 pm (UTC)(Can't wait to acquire my own set....)
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Date: 2003-08-14 09:20 pm (UTC)B
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Date: 2003-08-14 09:39 pm (UTC)MKK
Hooray!
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Date: 2003-08-17 03:31 pm (UTC)Thank you all for admiring the covers and being so sweet.
Pamela
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Date: 2003-08-15 01:01 am (UTC)....and the covers are lovely, too. I am so glad those books are being reprinted; they're so dreamlike and hypnotic and not at all like other children-escape-into-other-worlds books I know. For some reason (I live in Seattle) I scoured the used bookstores and was able to find The Secret Country and Whim of the Dragon pretty easily, but I had a hell of a time getting hold of the 2nd one. And since I wanted to read them in sequence, that was damned frustrating....
moi
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Date: 2003-08-15 09:33 am (UTC)I do know one person who started with Whim and didn't mind much, but it leaving out the middle is really not anything I could recommend.
Pamela
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Date: 2003-08-15 04:48 am (UTC)