Fledgling, Saltation, and! A Poll

[rolanni]

I have finished entering the back-logged orders for Fledgling and Saltation. As of this moment, we have 164 Saltation and 214 Fledgling available for adoption. These are for books-signed-by-the-authors. Which will, please note, probably arrive directly to your mailbox some time -- even some Very Long-Seeming Time -- after you could've picked it up in a store. This is because we will be signing and mailing each of those books ourselves. Auctorial fingerprints, no extra charge!

If you're interested in adopting, please drop me a note at rolanniATkorval.com (where The Usual replaces AT).

The rest of the bookkeeping can take a hike for the evening. Also? The chest of drawers did not get built, though the pieces of same have been decanted and counted. Perhaps tomorrow. Or, perhaps tomorrow we'll be grasshoppers and go see Up!

I wondered over on Facebook this morning whether I really needed to hang on to all of the hard-copy submission drafts for various novels. I mean, what's the point? And! If I shredded them and used them for mulch, then I could, like, get rid of a file cabinet! Believe me, there are fewer thrills so heady as getting rid of a file cabinet, especially when there's the possibility of replacing it with a bookshelf. Andy Funk suggested that we auction the drafts off, which I thought was kinda silly (sorry, Andy), because -- Hello? Piles of Old Paper that only have one side available to draw on.

However, in the course of my explorations today, I opened the bottom drawer of one of the file cabinets in my office, discovering the original 'scripts for Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors and Carpe Diem. Not only was this Very Scary (no wonder I don't have any room in the file drawers!), but -- now I can't get the drawer closed.

Which leads me to wonder anew if Andy's idea has merit after all -- would anybody pay for this paper? -- or if shredding is the way to go?

Your opinion counts!

[Poll #1419696]

Comments

[sraun]

I chose the museum option. I don't know how feasible it is. My next choice would be auction them off. My 10th or 12th choice would be shred them.

Would it be possible for you to scan them so you have electronic copies before doing anything else? Or more accurately - do you have convenient access to a way to scan them? At work we have some very nice Canon multi-function devices that have paper feeders, and you can scan & e-mail stuff to yourself. Does your employer have one by any chance?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The problem with donating things to museums is that...museums are understaffed, and cataloging stuff is people-intensive work. All of which means that a lot of stuff that's donated winds up in the back room or in the basement in cardboard boxes, waiting for somebody to get around to them.

Would it be possible for you to scan them so you have electronic copies before doing anything else?

Well, Arnold was kind enough to give us electronic copies of all of the books we placed with Baen, which is pretty much everything.

do you have convenient access to a way to scan them?

Steve has one of the multi-function machines that photocopies, faxes, scans and bakes bread. It is agonizingly slow for anything more than page or two. At work, I have its slower and dumber cousin -- it only scans one sheet at a time, no faxing or baking of bread, and it's slower.

[sraun]

Yeah, that's why the 'if feasible' comment on the museum option.

I wonder if anyone close has access to quick machine? I'd volunteer to run them through my work machine, but I'm really bad now-a-days at anything getting things done when thye involve protons, neutrons & electrons, as opposed to just electrons.