On a first-come, first-served basis for members of this site: 8.00 each, signed to you or just signed, plus US postage, which will probably work out to about 6.00. Overseas is worse. I’ll give more detail on that when I figure it out.
So it’ll be something like 14.00 total. Postage is a pain, or packaging is a pain.
I’ll likely be getting some HB copies of Protector, but they haven’t arrived yet.
I have your signature on a rejection letter stored in my bank vault. Very kindly letter, by the way. I couldn’t have anything more personalized than that, but thanks! >giggle, snork<
Hi CJ,
May I request an Intruder, signed to me? It’s funny: I was looking around a Melbourne SciFi bookshop just last week, hoping so see it there. Too eager.
Take care,
Chris
I would dearly treasure a copy of Intruder with your signature. Where do I post the $14 to? (I’m in Washington State, too, but on the other side.
I read Nabokov’s Butterfly, about book collecting, and the author voiced a regret about the end of single author collecting – which inspired me to start collecting your books. I aim for one hardback and two paperbacks of each. (Why? so that I can lend them out and not worry if they don’t return.) I keep the spreadsheet in my purse and duck into used book stores here and there. I am debating if internet purchases are against the rules in this game.
I hope it’s not against the rules, mhmele. Second hand mail order is how I get most of my out of prints now of days!
First time to leave a comment but I’ve been visiting your site and reading your blog for years. I would be interested in a signed copy of Intruder. It sounds like a great deal to me for $14.00.
I’m sorry. A signed copy of Protector. I was looking at the Intruder picture when I sent my comment.
Alas, you’ll have to wait a year on a paperback of Protector. The HB is just now out.
Oddly enough, I was thinking about Protector the other day and whether or not copies would be available to purchase at CC. I’d rather spend the extra and buy the HB straight from the source, even though buying it online for a deep discount is tempting.
Luckily, I can buy the ebook first and wait for the HB to become available here. (provided they definitely send you copies)
*waves hand in air* ooh! me! me! *grin*
Also, I don’t think internet counts against you for book collecting…especially with harder to find titles. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find hardbound copies of the Tales of the Flat Earth collections from Tanith Lee? Eesh. I’d had a pair (gifts from my Dad) that went missing in a move. Took me over ten years to replace them.
Did you get any feedback from your agent about the UK ebook issue? I’ve had no response.
Tempted by Inheritor, to keep the series consistent on my bookshelf. But it will probably land in the UK within the next 6 months. … I’m kind of resigned to having to wait.
I haven’t. Darn it. We used to coordinate with the UK re rights and release date, and aren’t now, and I don’t know which end of the operation is the cause. I’ll continue to ask. I’ve budged this industry before.
I keep expecting the email saying the HB of Protector has shipped. It’s due here April 2. Surely it will ship by Saturday to arrive the 2nd.
I recall a few readers at Shejidan were eager for the PB of Intruder.
I’ve had good results ordering used books through Amazon. Some of CJC’s backlist titles in used PB are now going for $25 and up. However, there are bargains to be had, always in used books, and often the books are in good condition.
Whups forgot to speak real words instead of fangirl in my request: yes, I’d love a copy signed to me. *large, cheesy grin*
I’ll lay some copies aside. I’ve got to figure the postage and packing question to see if I can do it more cheaply.
On a parallel note, any word on getting out some of your backlist in e-format? How much of that is under your control? I had a couple of people asking about some of the Alliance-Union books that don’t seem to be out noway nohow.
I am in control of some of those and I think the next thing to come out is some of the DAW titles I have been given in trade for some of the DAW books to which I hold the e-rights: notably Brothers of Earth, Hunter of WOrlds, and Wave Without A sShore. I need to exercise those rights before somebody forgets how that goes, since the agreement is verbal.
I’ve got the words, but I’ve promised Jane that I am not going to interrupt her work on her own upcoming release of the rest of the Netwalkers’ Trilogy for any work on mine.
She comes first right now. She’s stood back and supported me, and now I’m hoping to do the same.
Out of curiosity, and perhaps a delicate issue, which option does the author the most good? In my case, the options for “Protector” are Barnes and Noble store, B&N online, or Amazon online. I’m most likely to go to B&N and buy the book. But which option, including purchasing a signed copy from you, is best for the author, short and/r long term, reputation/marketing5 vs. net receipts?
Or maybe you don’t wish to get into this discussion since you may need to support all possible outlets/markets.
Actually, if you buy it from me, all the money (except postage) comes to me. Ditto anything from Closed Circle: Closed Circle is just a way of saying Jane, Lynn, me, each of us: there’s no operating expense, since we do it all.
But B&N is just fine. Keep them fed, because if they go down, Amazon will run the world.
I just saw they bought “GoodReads”. Once upon a time we had antimonopolistic laws.
Amazon is the reason I bought a NOOK….
I’m just saying….
grumblegrumblemonopoliesgrumble
The feds have investigated Amazon for monopoly issues and apparently haven’t got the power to make it stick.
That would fetter business, and of course we need the largest corporations to compete on world markets. 😉 Anti-trust hasn’t been popular since Reagan’s time.
OK I used to work for B&N in two capacities, one very servile, one as a consultant editor/writer of a little newsletter they put out for SciFi/fantasy about 15 years ago. I also briefly (1 mo.) worked for Borders (what a catastrophe that place was!).
To Weeble’s point, I had a Kindle for about 10 months, the type with the keyboard on the bottom ($139). Or rather I had 7 of them under warrantee; the design was defective, and I had to keep getting it replaced. I think the case was too weak and it would bend, breaking some aspect of the screen and/or (twice) shorting out something internally, or so the customer service rep (N.B.: he was in Costa Rica) said at the time. Customer service was generally very good.
I could have kept replacing it, but instead I got my little cheap Nook with the screen that lights up so I can read at night. No problems in 7 months. As an added bonus, it reads e-pub; even with calibre I have found that I can’t convert some of my kindle format books to e-pub because of DRM restrictions. THat has me going mumble, mumble. I also have an e-Rocket machine (year 2000 tech) around here that would work just fine if I could get a copy of a functioning operating system to reboot the thing.
If you’re interested, Technology Review (MIT) has a good article/column on the subject written by a year 2000 pioneer in the field. Saw it maybe a year or two ago. As you may expect, he felt the chief problems with the slow implementation of the concept was the desire (fantasy, I hope) to assume world domination, or at least microsoft-like wealth, through control of the word. For as ye know, in the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was ….
(Ever wonder what that read like in Hebrew to a tribesman in 1000 B.C.E,? Maybe Bren would have an informed guess?)