In Which There are Surprises

[rolanni]

The first surprise is that the German editions of the first three Liaden Universe® books are up for preorder at Amazon.de. Reserve your copy now of Der Agent und die Söldnerin, Eine Frage der Ehre, and Gestrandet auf Vandar. Nice art. Interesting spaceships. I note that Shan does not appear as a sabertooth tiger with a fondness for high-tech explosive devices. This is a Good Thing.

The second surprise is that I now have a MySpace page. I know, I know, a bunch of y'all have been insisting for Some Time that I get my act over to MySpace, but, yanno, Life, and also a chapter a week without fail for manymany weeks. We have the fact that my brain went boom! in the middle of the chapter scheduled to be written this weekend to thank for my getting on the stick with this.

Another book surprise -- the Ace edition of Crystal Soldier is out!

And for the final (Ghod willing) surprise on the weekend: Kit Jimenez accidentally "took" her house back into inventory, whereupon she needed to quicksnatcheverythingelseback! too, to prevent them from raining down upon the blameless landscape. Sigh.

On the bright side, I have an AWESOME dress to wear to the Talis Portal on Info Island next Sunday, March 11, at noon, Second Life time. kinzel and I (it says here) will be discussing the whys behind our first, second, and third forays into electronic media, and how demand has changed since we started publishing BPLAN Virtuals Disk-Top ebooks in the late 1980s. Be there or be somewhere else.

Edited To Add: While my muse is off sunning herself in some pleasant clime, ogling the cabana boys and sipping rum through a straw, I updated the Coming Attractions page.

Comments

[saruby.livejournal.com]

So, how do I order books at Amazon.de? Everytime I have tried to order from one of the other country sites, I get told that I can't, because I have already ordered from the U.S. site. Stupid, if you ask me. I use Visa, which has a varying exchange rate. I mean, I can use my Visa card in Europe, why can't I buy things from Europe? Of course, I haven't read any German for years and years, but this should be a good opportunity, since I already know the story.

I always wondered what would happen if you moved a skybox, without moving the furniture inside. It's a great visual.

[saruby.livejournal.com]

Ok, I spoke too soon. Whatever problem I had the last time, seems to have been corrected. However, given the cost of shipping, I think I may wait until I can get them all at the same time. Just under $30 US seems a lot for 1 book and the shipping shouldn't go up that much for 3.