Buffy ,'Potential'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Still, even so, isn't it a great book?
It's lovely.
(now you have to seal it up in a plastic case for future collectability and go buy yourself another copy for actual reading)
That's what I was thinking of doing. I figured I could check around to see if an indy store gets it (or order it from one). Amazon was just to make sure I got it ASAP.
I just heard back from the other editors - it's a combined cock-up between Amazon and the distributor. If you want to send your physical address to my profile addy, we ourselves will send you a real non-proof proper copy at no charge.
That's awesome, JZ! Insent momentarily. Thanks. I think it's kind of cool to have the proof version, though.
Feel free to keep it with our blessings -- but, yeah, you paid for a true corrected-and-tidied retail version, and that's what Amazon should have sent you.
Anyone else who preordered from Amazon and got an ARC instead of the final, please ping me.
15 classic SFF novels that publishers rejected.
Statistically, I'm sure publishing is more rejection than acceptance, but I wonder how it feels to let something as classic as Fahrenheit 451 through your fingers, or something that becomes as massive as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
"His mane of dark, tousled hair, chiseled cheekbones, and thick eyebrows were stunning, but some inward pain twisted his eyes and mouth away from beauty and toward something more difficult and profound."
For those interested in poetry, here is the Poetry 180 project, via Writer on the Side.
Sweet Valley High grownup sequel cover released.
Oh god, I kind of want to read that.
They're estranged! The horror!