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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #225 on: August 05, 2004, 06:52:11 PM »
I'd think they sent him galley proofs to read, in which case it'd be right on schedule for a paperback, I'd think, especially with a small print run.
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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #226 on: August 05, 2004, 06:53:31 PM »
It's a small publisher.  Keep in mind that from acceptance to publication is generally only 12 months--as opposed to the national market which is much longer.
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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #227 on: August 05, 2004, 07:00:44 PM »
Still doesn't seem like much time.  If I got a book like that, I'd want a month or more to find the time to read it, and know that I'd still be able to give them a quote in time to be of any good.
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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #228 on: August 14, 2004, 02:10:54 PM »
Well, it's official.  I'm a real, honest-to-goodness Professional Author.  I got my first check in the mail yesterday.  It's odd to think that I've been working on On Second Thought for two years, and just now I'm starting to see some cash.  However belated it might be however, it's nice to see it.
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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #229 on: August 14, 2004, 02:34:00 PM »
Welcome to the club.

*Gives HoM a fake cigar.

If this is the royalty check off those 4500 copies you sold in the first month, it ought to be a pretty nice chunk of change.  Congrats!
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« Reply #230 on: August 14, 2004, 04:18:10 PM »
It is.  It will pay my tuition this fall, and pay off a few credit cards.  It's sad to know that it will all be gone in a month.  (But it's nice to know that the bills will be gone too.)
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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #231 on: August 14, 2004, 05:42:18 PM »
Yeah, I know that feeling.

Incidentally, I'm in the opposite boat as you.  I got my advance last year, and I'm STILL waiting for the book to come out.  I don't think I'll feel like a real author until I can hold it in my hands.
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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #232 on: August 19, 2004, 05:32:32 PM »
It took long enough, but On Second Thought has finally been reviewed in Meridian Magazine.  I'm quite pleased--not so much with the review itself, but because Meridian has a pretty big readership.
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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #233 on: August 19, 2004, 05:36:21 PM »
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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #234 on: August 19, 2004, 05:45:26 PM »
Hum.  It's laudatory, but it's kind of a poorly-written review.   A big long summary of the plot, followed by a rather unimportant tangent, with finally one single paragraph review of the book.

Anyway, congrats.
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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #235 on: August 19, 2004, 05:56:49 PM »
Yeah--that was my complaint.  She doesn't really critique anything--just tosses out a few compliments and muses about the importance of humor.
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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #236 on: August 19, 2004, 08:36:34 PM »
"Too much is the new enough." Hmmm, where did that come from HoM? It's strikingly familiar.
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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #237 on: August 19, 2004, 10:13:47 PM »
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Hum.  It's laudatory, but it's kind of a poorly-written review.   A big long summary of the plot, followed by a rather unimportant tangent, with finally one single paragraph review of the book.

Anyway, congrats.


Exactly my thoughts.

Also, her bio is as long as the review. Who the heck cares who her parents are or where she met her husband? The only thing that matters as far as her reviewing goes is when her new reviews appear, and *perhaps* one or two shining points from her professional life.

(I started this posting at 7:30 and realized right in the middle of it that I had to run out. Good thing my computer didn't crash, because I wouldn't have remembered it!)
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Re: On Second Thought
« Reply #238 on: August 20, 2004, 10:43:49 AM »
'Too much is the new enough' comes from some font design site, talking about the state of web design.  (At least, that's where I saw it.  I wouldn't be surprised if they lifted it off of something else.)
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