You guys maintain the level of awesome SO HIGH it is nearly impossible to keep up with you. The four items I had in the Magick 4 Terri auction have sold for a total of $1200. The short story went to Bill Schafer at Sub Press–who claims he’s actually buying it as a gift :)–and the three sets (sets! they all sold as SETS!) of the books for my nephew went at $100, $250 and $400 respectively. Did I mention you guys are awesome? Thank you all *so much*. The…
that’s customer service.
This afternoon I posted on Twitter saying I kept checking to see if my nephew’s book had shipped from Lulu.com, not that Lulu was late in shipping them (because they weren’t), but because I was antsy and impatient. A couple hours later I got a notification saying they’d shipped. I said yay! on Twitter. “Total coincidence,” I said, “but yay!” The luludotcom guy there said “Total coincidence my foot! I made some calls!” No idea if that’s actually true, since this afternoon would have been a reasonable window to expect…
Magick 4 Terri auction
Just a quick note to say the Magick 4 Terri auction, supporting editor/author/artist Terri Windling, closes in about 24 hours. The “Get your own CE Murphy short story as a Christmas present!” commission is at $350, which I might say is a bargain. The middle grade fantasy novel I just wrote has sold out at $100, is resting at $250 for the second (set of all 4 books, sent to you as I write them!), and lies untouched for the third auction, where you can get the first book for…
So…
…if I was to put a copy or three of this middle-grade fantasy novel I’ve just written up on the Terri Windling auction, would people be interested in that? ’cause I’m not even planning to give this to my agent until I’ve finished the series, but people are asking when they get to read it, so I thought maybe I’d offer a chance. Be one of ten people to read it (that’s all the Lulu.com copies I’m having printed), like. Probably I’d set it up as something like bid whatever…
thinks to do
With any kind of luck this is the last significant Thinks list of the year… by Thursday/Saturday: – revision pass on older nephew’s book – put together Gryphon Beach Tales book for younger nephew – write “Don’t Wreck Your Soul” – write the next Kickstarter short story – do BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER proofs by end-of-year: – write the Terri Windling short story commission – get as much as possible done on the ElectriCity script – get Easy Pickings up on Amazon etc Right now that short story commission–I will write…