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: 2003-08-15 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