Third verse, same as the first, a whole lot longer and a little bit worse.

ETA: Book Sale will run through around 1 pm tomorrow, just so you know. Thank you!

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 am moving next week, and any book I mail to you, I do not have to pack!

Fine Print!

Books are sold signed and/or personalized, at cover price (rounded up: I'm taking off the damned pennies) 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.

There are one or two items listed that will sell for more than cover price, because they are OOP or otherwise rare, and I need the money.

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, your lj name, a list of what you have purchased, and your shipping address in the comments section of the paypal form.

Okay, here we go.

I have!

18 copies of the Blood & Iron mass market paperback reprint @ $8.00/each

11 copies of the Whiskey & Water first edition trade paperback @14.00/each

24 copies of the Ink & Steel first edition trade paperback @14.00/each

23 copies of Hell & Earth first edition trade paperback @14.00/each (No, I have no idea where the other copy went)

6 copies of the Carnival first edition mass market paperback @7.00/each

15 copies of the Dust first edition mass market paperback @7.00/each

6 copies of the Undertow first edition mass market paperback @7.00/each

16 copies of the A Companion to Wolves mass market paperback reprint @7.00/each

28 copies of All the Windwracked Stars first edition trade hardcover @25.00/each

17 copies of New Amsterdam trade paperback @14.00/each

2 copies of the Dust audiobook on CD, narrated by Alma Cuervo @ $103.00/each

2 copies of the Undertow audiobook on CD, narrated by Timothy Reynolds, @ $103.00/each


The ones for which I am going to make you pay through the nose:

1 copy of the OOP New Amsterdam trade hardcover: $100.00 

1 copy of the OOP New Amsterdam trade hardcover limited edition with chapbook: $300.00

1 copy of the OOP The Chains That You Refuse 1st edition trade paperback: $45.00

1 set of the complete Japanese edition of the Jenny books, comprising Hammered, Scardown, and Worldwired: $200.00 (yes, I'm totally overpricing this, but as they will be the first and only copies I have ever signed, they will get the coveted date-and-number-one inside, and thus be a completely unique item. So maybe I'm not overpricing them, after all.)

1 Whiskey & Water ARC: $20.00

Apparently, we have entered the phase of post-novel ennui where we do nothing but play Chuzzle and feel useless. I'm also trying to read Brasyl, but having a heck of a time focusing on anything that feels too much like work. This is, of course, a normal part of my cognitive process, and how the recovery thing works. The left brain, lazy slacker that it is, demands time to think about stuff. And since I am currently trying to rearrange my life to give it that sabbatical, I should probably take advantage of it and grab the break while I can.

It's hard for me to remember that the to-do list is never going to get any shorter, you see, and no matter how fast I run I am never going to be finished with it. (Well, I hope not, anyway, because if I am, I need to find a new career.)

So, like Travis McGee, I have to learn to take my retirement in pieces.

One thing about this while writing gig that's challenging is that it's all such intense work. It's self-exhaustive, and I also tend to find people kind of self-exhaustive (I'm used to being alone a lot of the time, and being around people tires me out) and there have been a lot of people this summer. Which is NOT a bad thing, by any means. But it does mean that I feel like I've boiled kind of low, and I probably need to top off again. No matter how good your work ethic, creative work isn't exactly always as amenable to the same kinds of push-through as some of the jobs I've had answering phones, digging ditvches, and so forth.

Which does not excuse one from applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair, mind you, and getting the damned work done.

However, I need to acknowledge to myself that some of this other stuff--conventions, nonfiction, blogging, page proofs, copy-edited manuscripts, research, the works--that's work, too. And it's work that needs to be done, and which can't always happen in the cracks around writing frantically for every waking moment of the day.

A little generosity to yourself, Bear. It doesn't hurt.

So I'm going to give myself a little time. I have got some revisions to get through after Readercon, on "The Red in the Sky is Our Blood," but other than that, we'll take it easy for a little while. I will probably start trying to do four pages or four hours a day again after Readercon, but we'll try for a sustainable pace raher than a huge crush.

In honor of that, my current to-do list.

2008

Revise "The Red in the Sky is Our Blood"
Write chapbook short for Bill.
Revise Bone and Jewel Creatures
Finish Chill
Revise One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King
Write S2 Shadow Unit episodes (looks like 2.5 right now, unless stuff changes.)
Write "Mongoose" with truepenny (started)
Write "Smile" (started)
Write "Snow Dragons"

2009

Rewrite The Sea thy Mistress
Write Patience & Fortitude
Shadow Unit S3
Write Grail.