You know who you are. Thank you for buying books, making donations, and supporting us in so many ways. We appreciate it very, very much. The software on Closed Circle doesn’t let us say it individually, but thank you ever so much. Your messages of encouragement are deeply appreciated.
Thank you.
by CJ | May 6, 2010 | Journal | 25 comments
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You are welcome. ๐ ๐ ๐
There is so little we can do; supporting CC, making donations are small steps that accumulate. ๐
And gracefully phrased, as always.
Our pleasure!
Are you kidding? We are exercising our (enlightened, of course) self-interest! (Heinlein had a saying about that) The better this whole thing works out for you, the more books you’ll write (cackles, rubs hands together). If it makes you feel any better, we’ll call ourselves the “SFTPOOFA” (Society For The Preservation Of Our Favorite Author). Back in my navy days, we’d make a word out of it: “suff-poofa”! ๐
Oops! Make that “Suft-Poofa.”
CC could sell T-shirts with it… we could identify each other at conventions. “Hey, you’re a poofta? I’m a poofta too!” hee hee hee hee hee. Ah, I probably wouldn’t be giggling so much if I’d had more sleep. ๐
Nudge nudge wink wink…
Know what I mean? Know what I mean? A wink’s as good as a nod to a blind man. I’d buy that T-shirt!
I picked up my copy of Deceiver last night! My Fiance had to make me put it down to come to bed. I’m already reading it this morning! My local bookstore was sold out of your lastest book btw. They ordered in 100 copys and all were gone!
The book has arrived! Yay!
Deceiver has arrived here (Germany), too. EUR 17,90 at amazon.de
Amusing that it arrived in Germany and middle US (Nebraska) at the same time. Mine was from Barnes and Noble. I am working like mad (you can tell, right?) so that I can just sit down and read!
I don’t work next week, Amazon.fr sent me today a mail announcing the arrival for May 11th. Houra
Deceiver has arrived here too! I can’t wait to dive into it.
Excellent, excellent volume! I got the hardcover from my German postman yesterday, finished it today and put up my review on GoodReads.
These two months have been good, with P.C. Hodgell’s Bound in Blood and now your Deceiver out. Of course with both books in a series I’m left with the want for more RIGHT now. Not to mention that both of you put a heck of a lot of development into a short space of time inside the book, I hope that means we’ll get many more books in both series.
Also I wish both BAEN and DAW would let you two authors write volumes of at least 500 pages. Ah well.
You’re welcome! I don’t think I have all 50? 60-some that you’ve written, though. Dereliction of duty that I will try to correct ;~)
CJ, 82Eridani’s comment makes me think up a potential useful piece for your website here (but also potentially additional work for you unless you have it somewhere): could you post a list of all your books… and maybe short stories or short stories in books (Legions in Hell stories, esp., given my druthers). If you keep a running list for resume purposes, perhaps it wouldn’t be so difficult. And you could star and link those that also appear on Closed Circle. Mostly, I am thinking that I don’t know all that you have written and am always delighted when I stumble across a work. Having a list, and esp. one that marks sequels and where one can order copies in print would be lovely. Jane and Lynn could/should do so too.
I’m not trying to create extra work for you, but I think a list of published works would complement this website nicely.
Raesean – a list is always good but you can find nearly everything on http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk .
Oh, I didn’t know that (but then, I also didn’t think to search for this). Thanks!
There’s also a not-very-up-to-date bibliography on my website, at http://www.cherryh.com
Thanks for the link, tulrose. I am definitely missing the faery and fantasy stories from my collection.
Why aren’t the Destroyer series in ebook?? I have bought almost everything you’ve written in the last 25+ years, with many of them in hardback. But I am not buying any more dead trees. My Sony Reader is a constant companion (what is this ‘TV’ of which you speak??)
And while I’m ranting, what’s with the ebook pricing??? Baen is the only publisher who has a good policy. I don’t mind paying ~$5 for an ebook, and hope that the author is getting a good part of that. Your CC site also looks promising – but WAY too few books (true of the Baen Free (sometimes) Library as well). I will NOT pay anything close to the hardback price for an ebook. I’ll start watching tv first.
I don’t pirate ebooks – only use legal copies – but I strongly suspect that the current pricing models will lead to a LOT of piracy. Many readers feel that they are being ripped off – myself included.
It takes about 40 man-hours to prep an e-book that has no errors (there are no such animals); it takes 100 and up man-hours to get one ready that has problems; and it can take two months of pretty steady work. The e-book formats change constantly, and we do all the work ourselves,because we’re the ones that know what was supposed to be there before it got mangled. We have been at this since mid-December, and what you see is what we’ve been able to get time to do (among books to which we hold the e-rights, which is another issue) while doing our regular writing.
Meanwhile Amazon and Penguin are having a dispute over profits, and over that I have no control.
I have the rights to some but not all of my books. All that you see on Closed Circle is done by us, and it’s a lot of work. When you buy a Closed Circle book 100% of the price goes directly to the author. If we could sell enough of them, we would write books directly for Closed Circle, but we’re not there yet.
btw – just bought three books from CC, including two of yours. I’ll buy every one you put out there!
Thanks. Be patient with us. We’re slow, but we try to do good stuff.
Thanks for the quick response. Don’t know if it would be any help, but I proof read my wife’s paper’s before they go out (research physician), and read huge quantities of sci-fi / fantasy. I would be willing to help out with proof reading for typo’s, misspellings, malapropisms, etc – which are the largest part of errors which I have seen make it to print – if that would be of any assistance.
If so, I can be contacted off line at davis underscore gentry at yahoo dot com. Replace the symbol terms with the symbols and remove all spaces.