We’re mailing today. SOrry for the delay—it was my stupid fault for letting us run out of mailers, which we have to order from the post office, and they took longer than usual getting them to us. They came, and we have them all ready to go today.
The books ordered are going to the P.O…
by CJ | Apr 17, 2013 | Journal | 7 comments
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No worries — it will be a pleasant surprise when they get here!
They are launched.
Got the email telling me it’s on the way. Looking forward to receiving it even though I’ve already read it twice on my Nook. It will feel good to add it to the bookshelf with the rest of the Foreigner collection.
Don’t know if you remember appearing at Future Visions Books in Houston back in the ’90s, but I bought one of your books from Brad after your appearance there that you had signed. I’ve regretted for years that I wasn’t a fan of yours before that signing and missed the chance to meet you back then. Don’t know who I was reading 20 years ago, but I hadn’t discovered you yet. I’m curious now as to which book of yours I did read first, but there’s no way of knowing all these years later.
Lol—I remember that con!
I remember plain as day reading The Gate of Ivrel shortly after it came out in paperback. I sat up and took notice of the author’s name and kept an eye out for it. (I was in Germany at the time, and we were a small base in a big city (WEST Berlin, was how long ago it was) and I didn’t get the other (then) two books till I got stateside again and had access to good ol’ US book stores. But GOI and the first two Faded Sun books, helped save my sanity, when the main “escapist” activity came in a bottle and was no good for your liver. As I said more than once during that time, “I’d rather spend my money on books than booze. A good book you can reread as many times as you like, but I don’t care how good the bottle is, you can only drink it once.” I read the Dorothy Dunnett “Crawford of Lymon” books while I was over there, too. As well as Georgette Heyer, and Bradbury.
Only slightly off topic, saw where Bradbury’s daughter has released his back catalog to ebooks, 16 of which are coming out this month: See: http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/ray-bradburys-books-are-finally-going-digital/
Yikes, I had to go and look up when I got hooked! Back in the early 80s, I remember waiting very impatiently for the library to get a copy of the last book in the Faded Sun Trilogy, so I was probably reading the first two before it was printed… I think I was all of 13 or 14, MAYBE…
I got hooked young, and I know I used to get into trouble in school for reading library books in class…. 🙂
I remember it was “Exiles Gate” that I picked up at the local Stars and Stripes Bookstore at Anderson AFB, on Guam, before I was transferred from Guam to San Diego. I read it on the flight home, April 11, 1988 (the flight off the island was the Navy’s anniversary present to us, although they didn’t know that.) I read it several more times while I was an instructor and students were either taking tests, or were learning how to type on a teletype machine. After that, it’s just been one book after another. I found the “Fortress” series about 20 years ago, (approximate!!!). Foreigner, I bought as soon as it was available.