The book of my enemy has been remaindered

[desperance]

Actually the title of this post is probably not true - there's nothing like conspicuous success for inspiring true enmity, I find - but it's still a good line. And the converse is absolutely true, that the book of my friend may be pre-ordered.

My talented and delightful colleage Daniel Fox - that's moshui, to those of you in the know (read him! he posts about writing! not idiotic cats and cooking!!) - is publishing a fantasy trilogy with Del Rey, and the first of this, Dragon in Chains, may be pre-ordered now: from Amazon.com or from Amazon.co.uk.

Pre-ordering is good. It indicates demand; it makes the publishers smile; it makes the bookshops order more. We like this.

Also, you will like this book. How not? It has a dragon! In chains! Also armies and an island and pirates and paddy and fishermen and palaces and barricades and temples and stuff. Lots of stuff. Few come through unscathed, for such is the nature of stuff.

And a dragon.

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

And jade: jade's good. And magic...

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

One book herewith pre-ordered. Does your friend Daniel also learn Chinese? Because if he does, I have a spare set of a rather good Hong Kong cop show, dubbed into mandarin and subbed in complex characters looking for a home. (37 episodes all on VCD). I have an English sub'ed version so can provide plot explications.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Ooh, now. Y'know? He might very well be up for that...

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It's the psychic cop show with Yuen Biao, Moses Chan Ho and Kevin Cheng (who is new and is playing a cute-but-dangerous bi-guy).

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yes pleeeeease...

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I'll post it out in the next few days.

[cinderberry.livejournal.com]

Chains are, of course, a good thing, but you oughtn't say bad things about writing about cats. Because they are superior to other topics of discussion.

*this comment was sponsored by Sabine the Wise and Fluffy*

[annathepiper]

Hee, now that? That is a BLURB. :)

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Um. I read that as "the enemy of my book has been remaindered" which is still a tantalizing thought - although, admittedly nothing to do with the actual, you know, *point* of your entry, but hey.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh lordy, can we? Please? Can we institute the swift remaindering of unsympathetic critics? I have a little list...

(One in particular, the man who wrote the highest-profile review I've ever had, half a page in a major national weekend paper - and he didn't just slag the book, he mocked it. Pointed and laughed, like a playground bully. I'm happy to say he was sacked shortly afterwards for being relentlessly negative about everything - and his own career as a novelist never took off - but these are small comforts. I had a plan once to post a photo of him on my website, and every visitor could kill one pixel, so that slowly over years he would be destroyed. Remaindering is better.)

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

Tell Danny that there is another pre-order in for his book and I'm really looking forward to it.