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.
The Bay City Rollers, now that's music.
Giles ,'Sleeper'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
JZ - Oct 14, 2010 7:48:26 am PDT #12634 of 28297
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 14, 2010 7:51:24 am PDT #12635 of 28297
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
That's awesome, JZ! Insent momentarily. Thanks. I think it's kind of cool to have the proof version, though.
JZ - Oct 14, 2010 7:55:23 am PDT #12636 of 28297
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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.
§ ita § - Oct 19, 2010 1:47:00 pm PDT #12637 of 28297
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Polter-Cow - Oct 19, 2010 1:53:04 pm PDT #12638 of 28297
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
"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."
megan walker - Oct 20, 2010 6:16:10 am PDT #12639 of 28297
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
For those interested in poetry, here is the Poetry 180 project, via Writer on the Side.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 8:03:08 am PDT #12640 of 28297
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Steph L. - Oct 20, 2010 11:00:04 am PDT #12641 of 28297
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Sweet Valley High grownup sequel cover released.
Oh god, I kind of want to read that.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 11:21:12 am PDT #12642 of 28297
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They're estranged! The horror!
Amy - Oct 20, 2010 11:23:24 am PDT #12643 of 28297
Because books.
I feel so out of the loopy that I never read Sweet Valley books. I did audition to write one once, though.