Taking a break from all that staring
Well, no, not really. I am getting some writing done. But I am also staring a lot. I hate that part about writing a new novel but I guess it's just part of the process. (You'd think I'd get used to that after 20 years, but I don't.)
You know, last night I was on Amazon, looking at all the various stuff I'll need to do to get Twilight of the Immortal promoted, and what to my wondering eyes should appear????
Yes, a hardcover edition of my 2004 novel, When the Night Stood Still. Which means it came out as a bookclub edition 7 years ago. Funny how no one (i.e. the publisher) ever mentioned that to me.
This happened to me in Paris, as well, back in 2001. Well, it happened to my book Neptune & Surf; it didn't physically happen to me. And I only find out about these unknown-to-me editions when they start popping up on the Internet as being for sale.
I also found one of the original trade paperback editions of When the Night Stood Still selling for $79.95(!!) -- and what was also interesting is that even used copies of the paperback sell for no less than 20 bucks!
Frankly, I always liked that novel a lot (it's one of my Hollywood novels) but I didn't like the sex in it. I thought it was a really fun story but they (Barnes & Noble, the distributors) made me put tons of sex in it and I didn't think it needed all that sex. But oh well. Time marches on! I survived and now people are paying a minimum of $20 to read all that unnecessary sex.
I also noticed that a new/first edition of Neptune & Surf in the original trade paper is selling for $118. Hey, if you guys could take up a little collection amongst yourselves and then give me the $118, I could buy the book!! ha ha
And then I saw a couple of hardcover editions of Freak Parade selling for over $72. What gives??? (I think I know what gives...people are shady.) It could be that they're signed editions, but jeez, the hardcover, brand new, already sells for a whopping $49.95. You could buy that, mail it to me, have me sign it and send it back to you and it would still cost you less than $72.
Still, it's interesting to me, these collectors. I have to ask myself, why? I have no idea why.
[$118.00, gang!] [If you've never read it, Neptune and Surf are names of two streets in Coney Island.]
You know, last night I was on Amazon, looking at all the various stuff I'll need to do to get Twilight of the Immortal promoted, and what to my wondering eyes should appear????
Yes, a hardcover edition of my 2004 novel, When the Night Stood Still. Which means it came out as a bookclub edition 7 years ago. Funny how no one (i.e. the publisher) ever mentioned that to me.
This happened to me in Paris, as well, back in 2001. Well, it happened to my book Neptune & Surf; it didn't physically happen to me. And I only find out about these unknown-to-me editions when they start popping up on the Internet as being for sale.
I also found one of the original trade paperback editions of When the Night Stood Still selling for $79.95(!!) -- and what was also interesting is that even used copies of the paperback sell for no less than 20 bucks!
Frankly, I always liked that novel a lot (it's one of my Hollywood novels) but I didn't like the sex in it. I thought it was a really fun story but they (Barnes & Noble, the distributors) made me put tons of sex in it and I didn't think it needed all that sex. But oh well. Time marches on! I survived and now people are paying a minimum of $20 to read all that unnecessary sex.
I also noticed that a new/first edition of Neptune & Surf in the original trade paper is selling for $118. Hey, if you guys could take up a little collection amongst yourselves and then give me the $118, I could buy the book!! ha ha
And then I saw a couple of hardcover editions of Freak Parade selling for over $72. What gives??? (I think I know what gives...people are shady.) It could be that they're signed editions, but jeez, the hardcover, brand new, already sells for a whopping $49.95. You could buy that, mail it to me, have me sign it and send it back to you and it would still cost you less than $72.
Still, it's interesting to me, these collectors. I have to ask myself, why? I have no idea why.
[$118.00, gang!] [If you've never read it, Neptune and Surf are names of two streets in Coney Island.]
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