Various conversations around the con, with booksellers and others, and a little online detective work have led me to believe that the reason that Ink & Steel isn't (a) appearing on bookstore shelves and (b) selling in reasonable quantities, despite fabulous reviews, is that it's not in the order system at a certain major industry distributor under my name or the title, though it can be located by ISBN.
So, I guess Monday we get to see if this can be sorted out, or if we're going to lose the series over what amounts to a data entry error.
Yes, the life of a writer really is this perilous. (No, I'm not terribly frantic about this. Yet. There are a lot of ways this can break, and many of them might wind up proving beneficial to my career in the long run.)
In the mean time, what you can do--you know, if you are so moved--is if you want a copy of Ink & Steel, and you cannot find it at your local bookstore, write down the ISBN (978-0451462091), go in with it, and ask them to order that book. You might also point out that it's third in a series and there's a computer glitch at work, and thus the book is not being auto-ordered. If you felt like it, I mean.
I have the best job on Earth, baby.
- Mood:
indescribable
They want them back Oct 15.
Did I mention the 7,485 words I still need to cut from Ink & Steel, and the final revisions for that and Hell & Earth (for which I do not yet have an edit letter) both due Nov 1, which functionally means Oct 30, due to the abovementioned convention?
I'm not even thinking of the two novellas I need to try to write before I start Chill.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
The rock isn't going to cut it anymore. If anybody wants me, I'll be under this gun.
But right now, I'm going to walk down to the bank, and then come home and eat some oatmeal and do the long-put-off writeup post for CM 3x02, thank you for your patience.
- Mood:
somebody had better be getting me drunk at wfc - Music:The Pogues - Streams of Whiskey
And now I really need to go work on this novel, since we're going mountain biking in three hours.
Item the second: WisCon was just as I expect it to be, which means it is still the best con.
Item the third: Bill from SubPress just pinged me to say that he expects the hardcover of New Amsterdam to sell out within the next 2-3 weeks.
Item the fourth: I have A Companion to Wolves ARCS, and lots of them. I am considering running a reader contest.... also, whoever it was that I talked to at WisCon, please remind me?
Item the fifth: I also have the editorial letter and returned marked up manuscript for Dust. Guess that's what I'm doing at Sycamore Hill.
Item the sixth: I also have a short story to write before said writing workshop. For which I leave on the 5th. Oops.
Item the seventh: And a copy of Doris Lessing's new book to review.
Item the eighth: Book Report #43: Jessica Snyder Sachs, Corpse:
Much, much better than Mary Roach's Stiff. This book focuses on the centuries-long struggle to find ways to pinpoint time of death, in broad overview.
Item the ninth: tomorrow I need to go to UPS and buy cat food. Even though the Presumptuous Cat hates me a lot.
Item the tenth: After WisCon, I may never eat again.
Item the eleventh: If my Criminal Minds pimping has interested you at all, the Emmy-submitted second-season episodes may be viewed here.
Item the twelfth: If you want me know anything for the remainder of the summer, better come tell me, for I won't find it out on my own.
Item the thirteenth:
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truepenny and I drew a rough map of the Iskryne (the world in A Companion to Wolves) and sooner or later I need to convert it to a pretty one....Item the fourteenth: It's kind of hot and sticky here. Do not want.
Item the fifteenth: I destroyed two pairs of jeans at WisCon, which is some kind of personal best....
- Mood:
jubilant - Music:Mandy Patinkin - Johanna
Guess I'd better get on that. As soon as I write this slapfight between Dust and Azrael. And a new bio for Bantam Spectra, since I don't live in Las Vegas anymore.
I've got a pint bottle on Jameson's, a pot of jasmine tea, and a bag of potato chips.
Very little can stop me now.
I am however beginning to wonder if my goal of reading 100 books in 2007 was realistic.
Unless I can count my own?
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- Location:on the road to find-out
- Mood:
loved - Music:Cat Stevens - Into White
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