Penric progresses to paper!
I just received the carton of my author's copies of Penric's Progress yesterday fresh from the printer, still a thrill after all these years. So it's officially Done. Very nice!
Coming January 7th (or thereabouts) to bookstores, ferex:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/penr...
Uncle Hugo's here in Minneapolis will, as always, have signed copies in-store and mail order: http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s...
Likewise Dreamhaven: http://dreamhavenbooks.com/
We won't catch pre-holiday sales, but I'm hoping for some of that after-boost, when folks go off to deploy their gift certificates or whatever.
It's going to be very interesting to find out just how much of a treebook-reading audience is left these days. It will be a tricky judgment call -- I've fallen out of the queue of the reliable book-a-year writers, so have lost brick-and-mortar bookstore shelf space just by the attrition of time. On the other hand, striking cover. On the other other hand, reprint collection. So many variables!
Ta, L. (Having my holiday surprises in January this year, apparently.)
Coming January 7th (or thereabouts) to bookstores, ferex:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/penr...
Uncle Hugo's here in Minneapolis will, as always, have signed copies in-store and mail order: http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s...
Likewise Dreamhaven: http://dreamhavenbooks.com/
We won't catch pre-holiday sales, but I'm hoping for some of that after-boost, when folks go off to deploy their gift certificates or whatever.
It's going to be very interesting to find out just how much of a treebook-reading audience is left these days. It will be a tricky judgment call -- I've fallen out of the queue of the reliable book-a-year writers, so have lost brick-and-mortar bookstore shelf space just by the attrition of time. On the other hand, striking cover. On the other other hand, reprint collection. So many variables!
Ta, L. (Having my holiday surprises in January this year, apparently.)
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Big grin. I'm now madly writing emails to Uncle Hugo.I'm the guy who asked about the best way when buying eBooks to ensure you get the best slice of the pie; my heart though is in hardbacks - I have most of yours that way already.
Have a wonderful Christmas with your nearest and dearest in your semi-retirement.
Peter L
I love the cover! I am one of those needing to downsize, and ebooks are going on my kindle with paper books going to the local library book sale. But so tempting! I just love the Penric and and Des books.
Elizabeth wrote: "I love the cover! I am one of those needing to downsize, and ebooks are going on my kindle with paper books going to the local library book sale. But so tempting! I just love the Penric and and Des..."Well, speaking of libraries, maybe you can get yours to buy a copy and store it for you. Libraries can be very useful that way...
Ta, L. Who has also downsized. Looking, or more likely not looking, at the stuff in my cupboards that I haven't touched in the five years since I moved, I should probably have pitched more.
I am looking forward to seeing this. I have had a copy on order for the library where I volunteer for several months. So pleased to be able to add Penric to their collection. (I own the eBooks and Audiobooks purchased when they came out, but our tiny library patrons need paper.) And that means I will be able to read the new intro type material written for this edition, without having to purchase the Kindle combo-version.
I've had a problem with Penric. Neither my local library nor my local Barnes & Noble seem to have heard of them. Having been a fan since back in the '80s when Miles was coming out, and a great fan of the other Five Gods books, I'd really like to read these. I really need to get back with Amazon to get the books, if they're still available there.
Lucy wrote: "I've had a problem with Penric. Neither my local library nor my local Barnes & Noble seem to have heard of them. Having been a fan since back in the '80s when Miles was coming out, and a great fan ..."Well, natch. The Penric novellas were (and are) original indie e-publications. And Subterranean Press, which did the limited fancy hardcover chapbooks, does not distribute through regular bookstores.
This Baen edition is the first one generally available on paper, and the first compilation. However, I don't expect it to be widely reviewed through the sorts of mags librarians use to select their acquisitions, because it is a reprint. If you folks want to see it appear in your libraries and bookstores, you are going to need to ask. (Please do!) It will not spontaneously generate.
ISBN-10: 1982124296
ISBN-13: 978-1982124298
for anyone having trouble finding it in their databases. Although I'd think the Baen catalog wouldn't be obscure.
Ta, L.
(Re: Subterranean, they are sold out of both morphs of "Penric's Demon", and only have the leather-bound signed edition still in stock for "Penric and the Shaman", "Penric's Mission", and "The Flowers of Vashnoi". https://subterraneanpress.com/catalog... if you are curious.
However, Uncle Hugo's bookstore here in Minneapolis still has copies of the trade editions (not leather) of all but the first SubPress -- and all of theirs are signed. http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s... They do lots of mail order.)
Thank you for the inspiration.