Coming In October

34 Responses to Coming In October

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   Mandolin says:

   September 18, 2007 at 12:54 am

   Me!

   
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   Robert says:

   September 18, 2007 at 1:09 am

   Most definitely.

   
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   Margot says:

   September 18, 2007 at 5:31 am

   oui.

   
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   Myca says:

   September 18, 2007 at 6:56 am

   Heck yeah!

   
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   Paul says:

   September 18, 2007 at 7:09 am

   Hell yeah.

   
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   Emily O. says:

   September 18, 2007 at 7:45 am

   Yes!

   
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   AndiF says:

   September 18, 2007 at 8:46 am

   I’m in.

   I’d rather have a PDF version, though, than a paper one. I’d be willing to pay the same price.

   
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   Marianne says:

   September 18, 2007 at 9:32 am

   ooo! I would get that.

   
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   will shetterly says:

   September 18, 2007 at 9:59 am

   Great cover! I’ve been living below the poverty line since this stupid war began and I intend to continue that until it is over, so it’s hard to commit to buying new books, but I just wanted to say it looks grand.

   Also, if you haven’t already checked out lulu.com, you might want to, but it’s true that you will get better repro quality if you stay away from POD technology.

   
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    wookie says:

    September 18, 2007 at 10:09 am

    Me too!

    
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    acm says:

    September 18, 2007 at 10:38 am

    whoot!!

    
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    Matt Bors says:

    September 18, 2007 at 10:57 am

    I’d buy one of course.

    
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    nobody.really says:

    September 18, 2007 at 11:11 am

    Lemme think about it….

    
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    nobody.really says:

    September 18, 2007 at 11:12 am

    (Know where I could get an autographed copy?)

    
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    Ampersand says:

    September 18, 2007 at 11:25 am

    Now that you mention it, the main reason I’m not going the Lulu POD route is so I can autograph books for people who want, or do a doodle for people who want, or a sketch for people who want to pay extra.

    
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    Raznor says:

    September 18, 2007 at 11:48 am

    Yes, put me down for one for me and one for my sister-in-law’s birthday.

    
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    Myca says:

    September 18, 2007 at 11:56 am

    Ooooh . . . how much would a sketch be?

    
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    Ampersand says:

    September 18, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    
    I haven’t thought about it, to tell you the truth. Does ten bucks sound fair? What would people find reasonable to pay?

    It would be drawn in pencil or black marker on one of the blank pages at the start of the book, and be along the general lines (in terms of quality and size — this is about seven inches tall — of course they wouldn’t all be this same character!) of the sketch shown on the right.

    I could do easy general requests for characters for no extra charge (i.e., “I’d like the character to be Black, to be female, to have some sort of tattoo,” or stuff like that) or a to-be-negotiated extra for hard requests (“covered in head-to-toe tattoos standing in front of the Supreme Court”).

    I don’t really have anything else to say, but the image on the right will be screwed up unless I fill up a big block of text to make this comment longer. So: yadda yadda yadda. George Bush eats boogers! Hilary Clinton is a big doofus! Cheney is an alien! Blah blah blah! Okay, that ought to be enough.

    
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    Robert says:

    September 18, 2007 at 12:23 pm

    Will you do Buffy-Warren slash sketches?

    Eww, I just squicked myself.

    
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    Ampersand says:

    September 18, 2007 at 12:27 pm

    Will you do Buffy-Warren slash sketches?

    Sure! That’ll be an extra $10,000.

    
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    Robert says:

    September 18, 2007 at 12:56 pm

    Too rich for my blood. For that kind of scratch I could probably get Sarah Michelle Gellar and Adam Busch to make out and let me watch.

    Eww, I did it AGAIN!

    
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    Mandolin says:

    September 18, 2007 at 1:01 pm

    Dick Cheney and Jane Fonda?

    
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    snowe says:

    September 18, 2007 at 2:40 pm

    Buffy/Warren isn’t slash! It’s het.

    ETA: I’d order one of your comic books, too!

    
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    Robert says:

    September 18, 2007 at 3:15 pm

    Oh, I would totally order comic books.

    
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    mythago says:

    September 18, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    Yes!

    
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    David Schraub says:

    September 18, 2007 at 10:32 pm

    I think I’d like one. No sketch (poor college student), but an autograph might be nice….

    
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    Eva says:

    September 19, 2007 at 5:22 am

    Ooo! Ooo! Yeah! Put me on the list of book with autograph seekers. Thanks!

    
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    Michael Moore says:

    September 20, 2007 at 9:02 am

    I’d love two books, autographed.

    
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    Myca says:

    September 20, 2007 at 12:41 pm

    Laugh! Wow, okay, I’d missed your post with the sketch until just now, Amp! That’s awesome! I’ll buy at least 1 with a sketch, and maybe 2.

    —Myca

    
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    nobody.really says:

    September 20, 2007 at 2:00 pm

    Well hell — if Michel Moore’s getting one, that cynches it. Sign me up for a sketch. You take checks signed in pseudonym, right?

    Oh, all right, PayPal then. Have mouse/will click. Say where and when.

    
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    Ampersand says:

    September 20, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    Thanks, everyone!

    I’ll have further info sometime in October, when I actually have the books in hand to sell.

    
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    nobody.really says:

    September 21, 2007 at 6:29 am

    Waiting until you have a product to sell before you sell it? That is SOOOO last century.

    Sell call options on the book. If you sell enough, you outsource the actual production of the book to cartoonists overseas drawing pencil sketches with lead-based … er … leads (?). If you don’t sell enough, you pocket the advance money, file bankruptcy, and then get hired as a CEO of a cartooning syndicate based on your demonstrated “experience and expertise.” I mean, duh.

    Mark my works, Amp: If you persist with this say-what-you-do, do-what-you-say habit of yours, you’ll end up living in some group home on the west cost somewhere, overrun with little kids. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

    
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    Magniloquence says:

    September 21, 2007 at 11:56 am

    I’m definitely interested in buying a copy, and my boyfriend works for Barnes and Noble and says that if I give him the ISBN number (and you publish it in a way such that this is possible), he’ll fast-track it to his store and make sure it gets well displayed. He can’t promise anything huge, but better treatment than otherwise, certainly.

    Oh! And I’d probably buy a signed/sketched version for myself. The B&N takes both kinds, though you obviously wouldn’t be able to personalize anything in the signing/sketch department, but they’ve got special stickers for it and everything.

    
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    Ampersand says:

    September 21, 2007 at 6:06 pm

    Thanks, Mal!

    I haven’t decided if I’m going to get an ISBN or not. I’ll let you know when I do, though! In either case, that’s very sweet of your boyfriend to offer.