{"id":439,"date":"2017-11-17T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2017-11-17T22:26:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T04:26:32","slug":"and-over-in-paksenarrions-editions-plus-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/17\/and-over-in-paksenarrions-editions-plus-news\/","title":{"rendered":"And Over in Paksenarrion’s Editions…Plus News"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found out only this afternoon that the omnibus edition of THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION is out of stock, and being retired (after 25 very successful years in print!!)\u00a0 so that the debut of the 30th anniversary of\u00a0 edition of Sheepfarmer\u2019s Daughter <\/em>(to be followed at intervals by Divided Allegiance<\/em> and Oath of Gold<\/em>) can step onto the stage without the venerable edition sniping any sales.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s unfortunate (in my eyes) that the stock ran out right before the holidays, when (as all authors hope) Christmas stockings are filled with our books (OK, my<\/em> books are what I\u2019m hoping people get as gifts\u2026<G>)\u00a0\u00a0 There are still a few copies at Amazon, and may be a few at some stores.\u00a0\u00a0 If you hurry.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not going to be reprinted.\u00a0\u00a0 At least, not until the 30th anniversary books have had their run.\u00a0\u00a0 I may have a box or two in the storage unit, and will look, but it\u2019s not going to be hundreds of books.\u00a0 Right now, with Thanksgiving coming on, I don\u2019t have time to look for them.<\/p>\n

So what will be coming in the 30th Anniversary editions?\u00a0 Well, for one thing I wrote an essay for each book, which you\u2019ll have to read to find out what it says.\u00a0\u00a0 Trade paperback size, new covers, all that.\u00a0 And the omnibus is still available as an e-book<\/em>, just not as an in-the-hand monster.\u00a0 Guess I should get busy and see if I can finish the BIG map and get it ready to print out as a poster.\u00a0 Someone might want to buy one, maybe?\u00a0\u00a0 (The irony would be if, after I finished that map, painted it, and printed it up all prettified\u2026I found the long-lost original map and they didn\u2019t look anything at all alike.\u00a0 But as in real life, what one map-maker maketh, another map-maker re-maketh, only\u2026differently.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0 yesterday I dealt with some more (the last?) Inquisitor’s questions about INTO THE FIRE, sent those off, and got one of those auto-reply notices that they’re not there and are off the next day as well, which are sometimes more annoying than no answer.\u00a0\u00a0 I mean, I know I emailed the reply after business hours on Thursday, so wasn’t expecting a reply, but being told “out of the office until X” after being told in the original question set to return the answers by Y (rather than “thanks for speedy reply” felt like a “Ha, ha, I’m off for a long weekend,\u00a0 low-life serf, and will attend to you at MY leisure…” with no acknowledgment.\u00a0\u00a0 I guess my snowflake-ness is showing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But when I put in the extra effort to do something early…I’d rather have no answer until the X of return than making it clear the rush job I was told about isn’t a rush at the other end.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I know.\u00a0 Not good attitude.\u00a0\u00a0 And the auto-answer proved my email had actually arrived, so I should’ve been reassured by that.\u00a0\u00a0 But the day had already included Microsoft’s update hanging up my computer for hours when I needed a phone number in it and had several urgent calls to make, plus some other problems including the determined idiocy of my Senators and Congressional Rep, so…I was already grumpy.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I have had in my very own hands an ARC of COLD WELCOME and it looks scrumptious.\u00a0\u00a0 Unlike most of my other ARCs, it doesn’t have the generic purple-and-white cover that I’ve had before (with Del Rey logo all over it) but the actual cover art *in full living color.*\u00a0 Hot diggety dog!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Despite having a friend sitting at the same table, helping me do prep for the big Thanksgiving dinner, I couldn’t resist opening it, checking certain pages, and so on.\u00a0 It is an uncorrected proof version–there are things to be fixed–but not only do *I* like it, but my agent (who called later to tell me about the DEED omnibus going out of print and explain why)\u00a0 says he read the first pages and liked it, too.\u00a0 So on the whole, the day was a good one, with much accomplished in the Thanksgiving prep, AND a new (gorgeous) ARC I can show off on Thanksgiving.\u00a0\u00a0 So YAY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found out only this afternoon that the omnibus edition of THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION is out of stock, and being retired (after 25 very successful years in print!!)\u00a0 so that the debut of the 30th anniversary of\u00a0 edition of Sheepfarmer\u2019s Daughter (to be followed at intervals by Divided Allegiance and Oath of Gold) can Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,38,43],"tags":[39,44,7],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editions","category-into-the-fire","category-paksworld-stuff","tag-into-the-fire","tag-paksworld-stuff","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}