It's not a favor. The bookseller would be making money.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - Jul 24, 2007 10:43:11 am PDT #9780 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Jesse - Jul 24, 2007 10:44:40 am PDT #9781 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And I guess they also must just be thinking it's not wrong to do. It's against the rules but not wrong.
Like counting cards in a casino!
Allyson - Jul 24, 2007 10:46:51 am PDT #9782 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
There aren't any booksellers that I know of.
lisah - Jul 24, 2007 10:47:00 am PDT #9783 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Like counting cards in a casino!
Exactly. That would be really easy for someone with that ability to rationalize. Especially if they thought that everybody they were competing against was also counting cards.
brenda m - Jul 24, 2007 10:47:37 am PDT #9784 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Hee. That just happened in an ep of Bones I watched the other night.
Jesse - Jul 24, 2007 10:48:21 am PDT #9785 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Here's the difference, though, at least to me -- you're playing against the casino (which makes the rules against counting). You're not racing against the cycling federation (which makes the rules against doping).
Daisy Jane - Jul 24, 2007 10:50:24 am PDT #9786 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
But also, pleased to bring you, courtesy of Suela, possibly the craxxiest person on the internets: [link]
Really? Craxier than the "His wife? A horse." guy? Why yes, I was amusing myself with F_W wiki last night, why?
Borlaug's success in feeding the world testifies to the difference a single person can make.
I think he was part of one of Penn and Teller's Bullshit! shows.
sumi - Jul 24, 2007 10:52:07 am PDT #9787 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
bon bon - Jul 24, 2007 10:53:43 am PDT #9788 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
If I had a nickel for every time I used this boilerplate in a Legal Contract or Other Document:
Because there are many who are from the United kingdoms, this will be a Federal Harassment suite. According to the law in the United States, this is punishable by a number of years in a Federal Penatentraty.
amych - Jul 24, 2007 10:56:03 am PDT #9789 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
There aren't any booksellers that I know of.
Talk to Vroman's, since you already have a contact there. Any bookstore can get your book in tomorrow at wholesale price -- it's worth asking if they'd let you take a case along and bring back the money for whatever you sold. They're already ordering in quantity for the book party, and you'll do them some favors by talking them up at the ComiCon event. (They might even send along someone to handle the selling part for you, especially if they have a staffer who's interested in going anyway). This is seriously the kind of thing we did all the time when I was working in an indie (and other stores do it too, but start where you know someone so you don't have to pitch the book before you even start on the remote sale business!)