As far as I know, no publisher out there takes her seriously anyway.
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
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."
Amy - Oct 24, 2012 9:10:32 am PDT #19998 of 28370
Because books.
Kate P. - Oct 24, 2012 9:51:08 am PDT #19999 of 28370
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Are you not supposed to sell those? I think the place I sell books explicitly says they do buy advance proofs and etc.
Huh, Jesse, I would be surprised at that. I know a few bookstores that buy/sell advance copies, but none that advertise doing so, since it's generally prohibited, if not outright illegal.
Jesse - Oct 24, 2012 9:54:49 am PDT #20000 of 28370
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I will look again! Maybe it says they don't.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2012 10:14:39 am PDT #20001 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have to say--I love online detective work, when it's used to ferret out frauds and not creepy stalkering stuff.
Consuela - Oct 24, 2012 11:14:37 am PDT #20002 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
As far as I know, no publisher out there takes her seriously anyway.
But why then send her these free copies to review?
Amy - Oct 24, 2012 11:23:06 am PDT #20003 of 28370
Because books.
She's been doing it forever? There are dozens of teen book bloggers who request ARCs and get them, and most of them aren't really professional. All I know is we never used her reviews for any of the romances of ours she reviewed.
This is one of the reason publishers have gone to NetGalley for review purposes. It's cheaper, and it means fewer physical copies of the books are floating around.
Amy - Oct 24, 2012 11:23:06 am PDT #20004 of 28370
Because books.
Didn't need to say it twice.
flea - Oct 24, 2012 11:51:19 am PDT #20005 of 28370
information libertarian
Our local independent bookseller has been donating boxes and boxes of ARCs to the kids' school library. We love them! I got 2 grocery bags full of 8-12 year old books this morning.
Polter-Cow - Oct 24, 2012 2:25:46 pm PDT #20006 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Duma Key is destroying me. Thanks for telling me to stick with it! It really did improve as it went along, and this last third is the King I was expecting and hoping for, but I don't know if it would be this effective if I hadn't spent so much time getting to know and like these characters.
Really sad about Ilsa. Even though I knew it was coming, I thought that maybe somehow there would be a twist and he'd save her. "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!" I yelled when it was finally true.
Scrappy - Oct 24, 2012 2:38:06 pm PDT #20007 of 28370
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I just read The Buddha in the Attic, which is all kinds of wonderful. [link] It's a poetic little gem of a book about Japanese brides coming to America at the trun of the century. It's told in first person plural ("we"), which seems like it would become gimmicky, but it doesn't. I REALLY loved this book.