An article about James Bond in the Baltimore Sun, wherein I am extensively quoted.
I get the closing paragraph, and I really like it. Sometimes you read interviews with yourself and you want to crawl under the rug, but I’m proud of this one.
Archive for Events and Publications
The book is shipping!
If you ordered The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book via Amazon, you may already have a copy. I am starting to get happy mail from people. At last! At last!
Event Report: Witch Festival, Smithtown, NY
I was pretty much floored by the New York Witch Festival.
Despite the fact that my host had described it to me, I had pictured something much smaller. I just couldn’t wrap my mind around the right visual. I was expecting, I dunno, six speakers, twenty tables, a medium-sized room, a lot of schmoozing.
Instead, it was a huge ballroom with easily 200 tables. It was jammed with people, with vendors, with readers, with shiny distracting things. Jammed. Plus a steady schedule of workshops, live music, and a Samhain ritual.
My workshop went really well and was very full. I sold every book I brought with me (which wasn’t that many, but that’s because I don’t usually sell all that many, even at big events.)
Plus, I dunno, I was suddenly moved to be in Long Island, the birthplace of traditional Wicca in the U.S., the home of the oldest Gardnerian covens in the U.S., some of which are still running. I was touched by that; I felt rooted.
Update on the Ultimate James Bond Fan Book
A lot of people are asking, and believe me I want to give good answers.
The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book is about to go into a second printing. The first printing was an exclusive, shipped to Barnes & Noble, and given front-of-store table space in their 120 biggest stores. Woo hoo!
Unfortunately, there were some things that had to be left out of that printing. The main thing is that the second printing will have a rather lavish index. It will also correct some typos and a handful of factual errors. (See, that’s the thing about writing late at night; instead of a typo, you actually type the wrong actress’s name. The whole name. In the wrong movie.)
The second printing was scheduled to be out in stores by October 1. You may have noticed that October 1 has come and gone, and this isn’t an announcement about oh thrill oh joy the second printing is here. My poor editor has discovered that a lavish index has some drawbacks. Mostly in her ability to sleep at night. This is a highly specialized project, and almost impossible to farm out to assistants who aren’t super-familiar with it. So she’s suffering alone. As did I.
The revision should go to the printer on Tuesday the 10th, at which point, it’s just a matter of printing it. Don’t forget, though, that black ink takes longer to dry. (The black ink is soooo pretty, though.)
Several people have asked me if Amazon will be shipping the first or second printing. I honestly don’t know. I thought the first printing was an exclusive to B&N, but someone told me last week they saw it in Borders. So I can’t be certain.
Once the second printing is out, I will have copies available for autographing if you’re willing to pay the extra shipping cost.
In the meantime (shameless plug), you can shop at my James Bond Store.
Good news
Thanks to all of you who crossed fingers and lit candles. If all goes according to plan, The Study of Witchcraft will be out in time for Samhain ’07. I’ll give more details after the contract is signed.
Huzzah!
Cute Adorable Sales Pitch
I just upped my bandwidth, which also ups my monthly fee. No big, but I thought it was a good time to remind you:
Thanks.
Cross all fingers! Light all candles!
I have tantalizing news from a publisher, who is “very impressed” with The Study of Witchcraft. It still has to go through a committee process, so please, send your successful thoughts my way.
The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book
Here’s the scoop.
The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book is in Barnes and Noble now, in a special printing done just for B&N. The second printing will be out September 30th.
The special B&N printing was a bit rushed. The second printing will have a lengthy index, missing from the B&N printing, and it corrects a number of typos and formatting glitches.
So I’m torn. I want you flooding B&N and buying tons of copies of TUJBFB. On the other hand, I want you to wait a couple of weeks more and buy the best possible version.
Praise the Goddess!
I finished the index. And how was your three-day weekend?
I found something even less fun
You know how indexing isn’t fun? Turns out re-doing the index to put words and phrases into categories is even less fun.
Allow me to point out that this is a forty-two page index. And if I remembered what all these fucking things referred to I wouldn’t need the index.
Later.
