Quick Friday

[kinzel]

Contracts ...

I told Rolanni I'd have something done today, Friday, when she gets home from the college. Now ... it looks like I need to write about 4000 unanticipated words to get that done... oh, my. I'll start that in a few minutes, you betcha.

Our printer is sending 6 somethings of "office use" trade papers of Liaden Universe® Companion Volume 2. Might arrive today. The problem I'm having is trying to figure out if they've sent 6 copies or 6 cases. News at 11? The *real* problem is that the online page showing how many of what has been dispatched has ... untraditional... abbreviations making it hard to decipher. So, if you see a post later today of the traditional "truck, truck" variety, you'll know I know.

And if I haven't mentioned it here, I should. The traditional -- "Oh, the hardback will be a few days more" is happening ... and this from a printer unrelated to the previous 5 or 6 inflictions. Go figure.

When it comes to keeping your health records online. For example, Microsoft seems bent on owning your records and your computer...
http://www.linuxmednews.com/1191521272 ... it seems to say here that if you use their new "service" they can mess with your computer at whim, and let anyone they name mess with it at whim, to protect themselves. Let the sicko beware?

And if you hurry, this link may show you a pretty good photo of a heron flying along above the Sebasticook... one of the several rivers we cross nearly daily. http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/includes/global2/centralmaine/photos/071005-lg_1855010167.jpg
... a great area this is for bird watchers...

To words, to words!

Comments

[jack_calls_dances]

So...it it completely too late to order a copy of Volume 2?

J

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Actually ....

you, your best friends, your family, your local libraries, your local bookstores ... are all encouraged to order early and often. Buy them as presents, award them as prizes, keep one in your convention go-bag.

We have (due in, not yet on-hand) about 10 cases of "extra" -- as in not-yet-ordered -- hardbacks due in and about 20 cases of not-yet-ordered trade paperbacks. This is in some ways better than LUC#1 where we essentially ran out of hardbacks before the books arrived. When we went to DragonCon a couple years ago we sold several cases of trades at that con alone, so we'll reserve a few cases for cons, I guess. But still, there are books calling out for you.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

I already ordered a hardcover, but if the trade paperback is the actual first edition (even if just by a few days), then I'd like to add one of those to my order. Can I do that?

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Hello Seth,
we can probably work that out ... I can't mess with the finances right now since we're closing in on deadline with Duainfey. I'll try to remember to drop you a note. Just for the record, the binding on the trade was finished about three days before the binding on the hardcover and the delay now is due to getting the wrapper on the books, which I take it is a hand-intensive and so time-intensive project.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

And if I haven't mentioned it here, I should. The traditional -- "Oh, the hardback will be a few days more" is happening ... and this from a printer unrelated to the previous 5 or 6 inflictions. Go figure.

Makes me wonder if hidden in the undereconomic brush there is only one real hardback bindery, probably hidden in the wilds of Ireland or one of those private schools around Boston, so that no matter who you think you are contracting with, the truth is that you are dealing with Delays-R-Us. Nah, that would be too wierd for fiction, right?