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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #60 on: July 24, 2006, 03:17:22 PM »
Your books are in the mail!  :)
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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #61 on: July 24, 2006, 03:34:43 PM »
im glad most people had a great time!  it's a lot of work to set up something like this, so it feels really good to have it turn out well.

We have had people coming in yesterday and today to pick up thier copies, so i fully expect to sell out of the 220 copies we ordered within a month.  I wont tell you how many of each book we sold, cause i may get in trouble for that (private compant info and all).

To clarify it all, there was one person in line almost the whole day.  The line started really building at about 3:30 to 4:00 (filled the area infont of Spencers next door to our store).  At about 4:30 and on is when we had to make the secondary line that most people were in.  Hopefully i did an ok job of pullin you guys in without ruffling any feathers!

We still have copies of the book left - although they are going fast.  If anyone still wants one or NEEDS one, com on in.

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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #62 on: July 24, 2006, 06:58:52 PM »
Well, I went to Mansfield today to get a copy.  I actually checked Waldenbooks in the mall and they did not have it - the lady behind the desk said it was not out yet according to her computer. (I said, that's funny, since the release party was this weekend!)

I was going to go to B&N anyway since I had $14 in store credi to help defray the cost.  They had two copies there, and they weren't even in the "new science fiction" section!  They were on the shelf beside all the paperback Elantris-es. Well, now they only have one other copy, so I hope someone buys it soon.   :)

Brandon, i'm just going to ship it out to you and include return postage, could you PM  or email me a shipping address for you?
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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #63 on: July 24, 2006, 07:00:25 PM »
Well Waldenbooks was right the official release is Wednesday, Brandon's singing was a pre-release party.
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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #64 on: July 24, 2006, 07:06:32 PM »
According our niffty amazon link: the official release date is tomorrow.
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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #65 on: July 24, 2006, 07:41:05 PM »
Amazon tells me that my copy is in the mail.  :) Unfortunately, Amazon says that I won't get the book until August 5th.  :( Amazon claims that it is being shipped through USPS (sent on July 22) but USPS claims that it hasn't received it yet. It think somebody in Amazon's shipping warehouse is reading my copy before it gets sent.
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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #66 on: July 24, 2006, 08:17:53 PM »
When I said "take it with a grain of salt" I was referring to the times mentioned by the girl next to me in line, not the student you had talked to, EUOL. I readily believe that people were there since 11.
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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #67 on: July 24, 2006, 09:37:00 PM »
You folks at Walden Books (Diamante and all others) deserve a big hip-hip-hoorah for all the work you did to bring Mistborn to the fans a few days earlier than the intended street date.  The event was well-planned, well-organized, and a lot of fun.

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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #68 on: July 24, 2006, 10:58:20 PM »
Fell,

Wasn't challenging, just giving the sources on my info, which were ambiguous.

Fuzzy,

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Everyone,

Yeah, book doesn't come out officially until tomorrow.  However, some stores ignore things like that.  Others are very strict.  Go figure.  The signing we did was an officially-sanctioned (by Tor) pre-release.
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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #69 on: July 25, 2006, 01:42:51 PM »
Amazon emailed that they already shipped mine, which is nice.  My delivery estimate is the 27th-29th, though.   I hope it comes at the early end so that I have something to read on my flight this weekend!

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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #70 on: July 25, 2006, 06:50:26 PM »
Well, as with Lost one, I also have to wait until August to get mine. Don't know why. It bugs me that they don't give a reason. I can understand waiting till the official release date, but two weeks after? Seems odd.

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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #71 on: July 25, 2006, 09:52:26 PM »
Yeah so I'll be at the Aug. 12 booksigning with a friend (hopefully, we still need to work out logistics though). I'm the kid with the long poofy hair, and I will eventually get around to that hate mail you told me to send you. Just not right now.
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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #72 on: August 14, 2006, 04:24:39 PM »
wow. im so far behind with all this stuff. oh well. will there be another chance to get my Mistborn signed? and which would be closest to Springville Utah?....

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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #73 on: August 14, 2006, 04:26:41 PM »
He posts his signing schedule on his website. I think the next closest will be in Provo on the 22nd (at BYU).
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Re: Mistborn Signing
« Reply #74 on: August 14, 2006, 04:27:45 PM »
EUOL has one this month at BYU, I believe, as well as one in Borders in Provo on the 1st of next month.
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