News from the deep south reached us in the chilly north

[kinzel]

We got a quick call from Meisha Merlin's home office yesterday...
and it appears that Crystal Dragon is now (finally)shipping to warehouses...
so that those of you who have ordered ahead from bookstores and amazon and BN.com and the like ought to be getting your books within a reasonable time frame.

Those of you who ordered signed copies direct from Meisha Merlin... will be waiting for awhile, since those copies get shipped via a package aggregator trucking company to a central hub, and thence to a Maine hub, and from there to the beautiful Cat Farm and Confusion Factory, where we sign and box them before dropping them in the mail in the Unity metroplex. The process? We have to lug cases and cases of books across the mud flats from the truck to the deck, and then from the deck to the living room... and then sign and box with the aid of the cats... and then drive 28 miles round trip to the post office, closely coordinating our schedule with the post master since the Unity PO has had it's hours cut, it being more convenient to close, dismember, and cut counter hours in rural Maine post offices than those in Florida or Texas.

So watch the skies, we'll let you know when books arrive; the traditional heading for that announcement is "Truck! Truck!"

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[(Anonymous)]

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Crystal Dragon in Canada

[(Anonymous)]

The big online book retailers in Canada don't appear to have Crystal Dragon available for pre-order, is there going to be a later release in Canada or something? Chapters.indigo.ca says "Temporarily Unavailable to Order" while Amazon.ca doesn't even list it.

Thx!

Re: Crystal Dragon in Canada

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I suspect that the "Temporarily Unavailable" is because the warehouses don't yet have the book in stock. As far as I know the new distributor should be getting to the book out to most of the english speaking world RSN.

Once you see "Truck! Truck!" here... check with those sources again, that's my suggestion...

[xinef.livejournal.com]

Umm, that is a lot of hassle. Thank you!

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

We're used to doing it ... and we like to sign for our readers. The hassle comes mostly in not knowing when things will arrive, and in working around the delays that seem inevitable now that we've done this about 8 years in a row... also, the government has made it more difficult over time ... I used to have an 8 to 5 window for delivering things to the PO with having the local PO close for "lunch" and now our time for delivery to the PO is effectively any time between 10:00 AM and 10:30 AM or 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM.