Press announcement, to calm the hubbub, bub:

Anyone wishing to buy a copy of Sam right now who doesn't want to deplete Allyson's stock, ping me. The publishers have about a dozen copies on hand right now, and they can get the printer/distributor to spit out as many more copies as are needed. They're also engaged in a highly professional campaign of focused and highly concentrated whoop-ass yelling at Amazon in an effort to straighten everything out.

In the meantime: if you have a pending order in with Amazon and they're not sending Sam, file a complaint. If you don't have one but had been planning on placing one, consider either asking your local indie store to get a copy for you or pinging me. Until it's all settled (and it will be, to our satisfaction, or cities will burn), we will match Amazon's price and ship one hell of a lot faster.

eta: And, ta-dah! Though Amazon can't manage to keep enough copies on hand to cover their own preorders, the publishers have wisely set up their own storefront through Amazon, so feel free to order directly from us. Satisfaction, including cuddly wee bats, motherly barn owls, rodent lullabies, and a bare minimum of one glorious cathedral and three magnificent bridges, guaranteed.

Those participating in the gift exchange, please remember to ask your giftee things on elfster or to get the file of useful information from Deena. Also, it's never too early to send notes.

Hi. I'm going to be reviewing/recapping "The Walking Dead" at least, from the 3rd ep on (I may be going back to do 1 and 2, depending on time)on my new blog: owltlet.wordpress.com

I'll also be reviewing books and movies there, as well as assorted sundry other things. (I'm trying to build a web presence, and well as a slew of writing samples on a variety of issues to build a freelance portfolio.

If you can stop by, thanks. There's not much there yet, but I plan to do a review of "Winter's Bone," the book and movie this week.

Thanks!

I hereby announce the ad-hoc, loosely confederated Onerous Task Support Group Hour.

Basically, we have designated an hour and everybody that wants to play can address that one thing which they have been putting off for too long: Making that phone call, or responding to that email, or canceling that thing, or backing up that system, or debugging that code, writing that documentation, scrubbing that surface, filing those invoices, paying those bills, organizing that closet.

For anybody who is interested our first Onerous Task Support Group Hour will be on:

Thursday, November 18th.
2pm EST / 11am PST

We had our pictures done at Sears and they sent me a coupon for no sitting fee and 40% off a regular priced item that I can forward to friends which expires December 28th. If anyone wants me to forward it to them send me a message at my profile address.

Reporting on behalf of Hec, who is stuck in traffic but hustling home as quick as he can (from completing his first onerous task), I would like to announce that Onerous Task Time commences now! Taskers, meet you in Natter.

I ordered some copies of The Amazing Adventures of Sam the Bat through the link that JZ provided upthread. Guess what arrived today?!! Completely effortless ordering and receiving process. Couldn't be happier. Okay, I'll be happier when I get the kids' reactions when I give them. For now though, I think I'm going to read me some adventures.

Hey, all.

For fun, I've created a Gift Guide Tumblr. [link]

I'm suggesting cool gifts, and marking who I would "buy" them for (you know, if I was a rich man, LADADADADADA).

Some of my "buys" are for Buffistas, and I also think I have some really good ideas that people might take advantage of. I'm trying to post at least 4 suggestions a day till 12/20.

It's set up so people can also make suggestions, which I moderate. Might be useful, might be a fun little time-waster on slow days.

Since Typo suggested I do this, as it's release day for STARS, you can check out this page on my site: [link]

Down at the bottom, there are direct links to amazon, B&N, Borders, and IndieBound, which will hook you up with your nearest local indie bookstore. For YA authors, it's especially important to support the indie bookstores but I'm good with whatever works best for an individual.

Thank you again, guys! So much.