The extra space in the box was to contain the ambient AWESOME.
Haven't you killed me enough for one day?
Mal ,'War Stories'
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."
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 24, 2009 11:03:01 am PDT #9354 of 28404
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Sue - Jun 24, 2009 1:48:45 pm PDT #9355 of 28404
hip deep in pie
Does Clovis have invisible minions?
Fay - Jun 24, 2009 3:17:48 pm PDT #9356 of 28404
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Free invisible devilbunny with every book! That should totally be on the publicity material!
erikaj - Jun 24, 2009 6:19:58 pm PDT #9357 of 28404
Always Anti-fascist!
I got one, too The book, not Evil!Harvey.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 24, 2009 10:06:16 pm PDT #9358 of 28404
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
xpost with F2F -
We've seen a few photos from the signing so far. This one - [link] - is not only the best photo from this bunch but probably the best photo of both of us together in a long time.
ETA: And while I know the Amazon sales rank is a mysterious and shifting thing whose numbers are hard to correlate to real life, I've kept an occasional eye just to see how it's doing relative to other times I've looked. Right now, at a little after midnight, the sales rank (in books) is actually the highest I've ever seen it - 6,021.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 24, 2009 10:28:18 pm PDT #9359 of 28404
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
And just to prove how weird Amazon can be, we're currently #82 in Graphic Novels. Um, yeah. Graphic novels. One behind "Green Lantern Rebirth" and one ahead of a JLA deluxe collection.
Of course, what really makes this interesting is that the Kindle version is at #88.
I wish I knew what ranking it would be if they were combined.
ETA: And within the Kindle store, it's riding at the portentous ranking of 3,113.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 25, 2009 7:29:40 am PDT #9360 of 28404
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, I am large with the A Separate Peace hate. In fact, I feel rather spiteful about it, and happy whenever someone says something bad about it, which is an oddly personal reaction to the book.
My feelings for A Separate Peace can be summed up by a parody I wrote (I think for class), where the slight twitch of the branch isn't enough to dislodge Phineas, so he has to jump up and down on the branch a few times to dislodge him (and I think I even had him need to stamp on Phineas' hands).
I had Jilli sign a bookmark, as I don't think I will be able to make it to the NY signing. Too much going on at work right now.
Volans - Jun 25, 2009 7:53:14 am PDT #9361 of 28404
move out and draw fire
That photo from the signing is ADORABLE.
ETA: Do you guys market the curlybat table runners? Because WANT.
Aims - Jun 25, 2009 9:04:19 am PDT #9362 of 28404
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I bought TWO copies of GCS today! I am giving one to my co-worker whose daughter is quote, "Going Goth". YAY BOOK!!
Jessica - Jun 25, 2009 9:27:21 am PDT #9363 of 28404
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've only had time to skim the intro so far, and the book is making me wish I had more of a personality in high school. I was never confident enough in what I liked to develop a coherent look, and the result is as an adult I present myself far more generically than I'd really like to. (And with a mortgage and a toddler, I have too much debt to completely redo my wardrobe anyway. Woe is me!)
I have decided I'm going back to the blue hair very soon though. I'm tired of this natural look.