In Which the Fairy Godmother Department is Heard From
Thursday, June 30th, 2011 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniI hear from Mr. Blyly that he has today received 34 cases, 852 pounds, 680 individual autographed copies of Ghost Ship. In hardcover.
Yes, the street date for Ghost Ship, unsigned, is August 2. Yes, that means Mr. Blyly has received the signed books that required special handling more than a month ahead of that date. No, no one involved in this transaction knows why, but I think we can safely say that this is not Mr. Blyly’s fault. Nor ours.
I trust that this is clear.
Thirty-four cases of hardcover book makes, as I know from long experience of receiving cases of books to sign from Meisha Merlin back in the day, Quite A Large Pile there in the middle of the living-room-or-store. Mr. Blyly would, quite naturally, like to remove this impediment to commerce from the doorway and aisles of his store in as timely a fashion as possible.
So! If you want your book RIGHT NOW, and don’t care to have it personalized (there is a July 15 deadline for requesting personalization; those that request personalizations will have to wait for us — that’s Steve and Sharon — to get our sorry tails to Minneapolis sometime in the middle of August, find a pen and get to work), write to Mr. Blyly at unclehugoATaolDOTcom and tell him that you want your book mailed immediately.
If Mr. Blyly does not receive your direction to mail your book(s) immediately, he will be in honor forced to hold it/them until after the July 15 deadline for personalization requests.
I trust that this is also clear.
Excellent.
I confidently leave the matter in your capable hands.
Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2011-06-30 11:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-30 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-01 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-01 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-01 12:46 am (UTC)Turns out Sharon and Steve are going to make a flying visit to Uncle Hugo's late in August, and they have offered to personalize some of the already autographed volumes IF requested.
So -- yes, we ordered and pre-paid for autographs, which are already in the books (I think they did a magic "sign these sheets" and then bound the sheets into the books, which reduces the shipping). And yes, there is additional personalization possible...
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Date: 2011-07-01 12:46 am (UTC)[edited to add: Never mind. Apparently my reading was wrong. I'd forgotten about the many pieces of paper.]
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Date: 2011-07-01 01:00 am (UTC)And yet there are in the original post, above, words like "autographed" and "signed".
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Date: 2011-07-01 04:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-01 01:04 am (UTC)The books that arrived at Uncle Hugo's are signed (I quote from the post at the top of this thread: "680 individual autographed copies" and yet again "Yes, that means Mr. Blyly has received the signed books"). We signed eight hundred pieces of paper, one by one, and shipped them to Baen to be shipped to the printer, to be bound into those very same volumes that arrived today.
If you want your book *personalized*, then you need to wait until Steve and I and the book are in the same room with a pen -- which will happen in August.
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Date: 2011-07-01 08:08 am (UTC)Seanan's first book was sold out (or close to it) before the publication date, because the stores got it around a month early. Better early than late, I think.
[1] Incidentally I love the term 'infodumpling', it conjures up images of an 'infostew' which is a term with applicability here (the information is in the docs somewhere but it's all been mixed up and bubbling).
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Date: 2011-06-30 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-01 01:08 am (UTC)Woot!
Date: 2011-06-30 11:57 pm (UTC)Sent email as per instructions.
Looking forward to early arrival. Can maybe take it on my vacation instead of waiting until I get back.
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Date: 2011-07-01 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-01 12:48 am (UTC)Sent missive for my two to leave MN.
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Date: 2011-07-01 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-01 01:21 am (UTC)Lorna
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Date: 2011-07-01 01:25 am (UTC)Then I remembered, I'm going to Renovation so I could get them personalized there! Hmmm.
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Date: 2011-07-01 01:31 am (UTC)Happy Dance Time
Date: 2011-07-01 01:44 am (UTC)Thank you Fairy Godmother!
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Date: 2011-07-01 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-01 04:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-01 06:12 am (UTC)One hopes it is merely amusing...
Welp, hubby wants personalization as well, so I guess I have my answer, shallow or not! Huzzah!
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Date: 2011-07-01 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-01 03:07 pm (UTC)Whoa, Nelly!
Date: 2011-07-01 04:43 pm (UTC)earliest I ever get stuff is like 2 weeks ahead of pub date.
I can understand his dismay, though, especially if he has as
little backroom area as I do. This is a fortune that is double-
bladed.
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks, who is up to her eyebrows in Star Trek
books (there's a con next weekend) and Summer Required Reading.
Quite the contrast!
Re: Whoa, Nelly!
Date: 2011-07-02 02:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-05 02:29 pm (UTC)I'm thrilled at the prospect of not having to wait patiently for them to arrive in the mail while restraining myself from grabbing a copy from my local bookstore shelf.