[IRTF] Books!

[mabfan]

So, just after the Jewish holidays came to an end, Nomi and I headed downstairs to run errands, only to find the first shipment of pre-orders and books for the publication party on our (figurative) doorstep.

Books! Michael A. Burstein and the first shipment of copies of I Remember the Future. Photo copyright ©2008 by Nomi S. Burstein.

If you pre-ordered, you'll still have to wait until after the pub date for your books to arrive, as I won't be signing any until November 2, the date of the party.

It's a real book. Wow.

Comments

[cellio]

Woo hoo!

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Yasher koach! I can't wait for the party!

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I might talk to you off line about asking you to help us move stuff to the party, if you think you might have the time and inclination...

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I think we can help out, perhaps in exchange for free food... er, um... right. :-)

[cdozo.livejournal.com]

That must feel really good. Congratulations.

[tapuz.livejournal.com]

wow, indeed!

Congratulations!

[fynixsoul.livejournal.com]

I got a call from my mother the other day telling me you'd gotten a write up in the Hunter Highschool Alumni letter. That's when you know you've made it! :-)

[norda.livejournal.com]

Exciting!

I owe you e-mail. Nomi too.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

You'll email us when you can.

We still need to exchange the Doctor Who books...

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Will you have autographed copies we can order directly from you? :)

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

That's...an interesting question. The ones I have on hand now are the pre-ordered HCs and the books from the publisher I'm supposed to sell at the publication party. Any leftover books are supposed to go back to the publisher.

However, if you decide to order a copy from Apex now, and indicate in an email that you want a signed one, I do have some extra HCs for the party. If they don't all sell out, I imagine I can sign it and have it sent to you...

Let me check with Apex and get back to you.

[elul-3.livejournal.com]

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

If you want to see a copy early, I can show you one, but I'm not allowed to give you your pre-ordered copy until the party.

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

Highly awesome! I'll be sure to get one.

[agracru.livejournal.com]

Hurray Michael!

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, that's a tall stack of boxes! I think I've sold that many *total* since mine came out. Congrats!

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

Woooo! Books!

[xochitl42.livejournal.com]

[ahem]

SQUEE! :D

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

Wow! :-) Can I buy one when I am out there next week? I just left a message with Nomi that I would e-mail you guys today and we can make plans for next week while I am in Boston.

Congratulations on the book!

Hope you had a good Yom Tov. Now it's back to a routine, Tishrei has left me all confused about time :-)

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

When will you be around? I'm doing a signing at Pandemonium in Cambridge on the night of Saturday November 8, if you can't make it to the pub party.

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

I fly in on Wednesday morning and then back to SF the following Tuesday. I might be able to make it, but spending Shabbat in Worcester so it might be difficult.

I am going to write you and Nomi and e-mail later today.

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

My book's in one of those boxes! That makes me very gleeful.

Will you be going to Worldcon in Montreal? I'd love to buy you a beverage-of-your-choice if you are.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

We are hoping to go to Worldcon in Montreal. It would help if one of the new stories in the book got nominated for the Hugo. :-)

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

I hope one of the stories does get nominated, then! (Not that I didn't already. But I shall hope extra hard). My folks live in Montreal, and I was going to have to quit my job in September anyway, so I'm quitting July 31st and driving down for Worldcon and then spending the rest of the month flitting about that part of the world. Montreal knows how to throw a party, and the Palais des Congrès is a great convention centre. I'm going to be recommending Hurley's on Crescent as a great pub/restaurant to everyone.

[ianrandalstrock.livejournal.com]

That's an impressive stack of book boxes (either that, or a remarkably short author). Makes the one box I got of mine seem downright puny [pout].

Have fun with it!

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Well, don't forget that those boxes aren't full of copies for me. Those copies are the pre-orders I have to sign and the ones meant to be sold at the pub party.

[ianrandalstrock.livejournal.com]

Which, indeed, is even more impressive: pre-orders. Go you!

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

Congrats! ... and that's a nice tower of boxes there. *g*

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov! But if I didn't know what hat you were wearing I'd have thought you were wearing a bad toupee in that pic. I did a double-take, as it was. :->

So you'll be sending all the candidates a signed copy?

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Candidates?

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

President/VP...I'm sure Sarah would love a copy.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Ah.

I think I'll let them wait for the movie to come out...

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Did you have to carry all those upstairs???

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Um, well, yeah. Otherwise someone could have stolen them.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm glad neither of you was injured in the process.

[malkaesther.livejournal.com]

Wow, looks like you did a good job on getting the word out for those pre-orders. We are looking forward to getting our signed copy. We are also really disappointed that it is not working out for either of us to come to the signing party.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I sure hope they gave you enough to sign some more pre-orders, seeing how they're still selling them, even as of today.

Naturally, I signed up for one. It wound up taking much longer than I would have liked, but the site only takes PayPal and THOSE idiots took five full business days to move the money from my checking account to my PayPal account- three days AFTER my bank debited said account for the funds.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

That's odd. As far as I knew, the pre-orders for signed copies had a deadline of October 15. (I even posted about that right here, at http://mabfan.livejournal.com/401783.html on October 8.)

I'll look into this; however, I think I might be able to get the publisher to send me an extra HC for signing for you.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Okay, I checked with the publisher. It turned out to be an error; the website was supposed to switch over to simply say "Hardcover" and not "Signed Hardcover" after October 15. It reads correctly now.

However, because you did order it as a "Signed Hardcover," the publisher is sending an extra hardcover copy for me to sign to you. Thanks for letting us know that it still read that way; it would have been bad had people started getting the unsigned hardcovers and asking us about that...

Wow...

[happypete.livejournal.com]

Pretty cool to have a stack of books to sign almost as tall as you are. I'm guessing that you also had to pre-sign a batch for the local bookstore so that they could have them ready to go on launch day?

prettypammie and I are so excited for you...and I can't wait for my copy to get here.