The power of tongues

[desperance]

In this morning's (snailmail) post:

Ace is on the very verge of remaindering the mmp of Bridge of Dreams, so if you were thinking of picking up a copy, now would be the time to do it. Sigh.

But! An insurance company tried to screw me over last month, and I wrote to them to point this out. I may have been a little ... stern. And they have capitulated, instantly and entirely. Hee. I can haz stroppy-letter kreditz.

Also on the power of tongues, Barry is currently curled up immediately beneath this monitor which I am looking at (though you are not). He is washing, as a good boy does; which means his head is rising and falling, and every movement jostles the monitor, so I am reading what I type in a kind of vibratory fashion. I can haz see-sickness nao?

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Not new any more, it's been out a full year. Company policy: any book that's not selling X number of copies per month is remaindered automatically after twelve months. And X is not a moveable number, it's fixed across the range.

I discovered this when they published the Outremer books. Briefly...

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

A year of North Welsh rain upon their marketing dept.

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

I visit Angelsey to participate in the Amlwch Viking Festival (stand on a cliff by the sea in late evening darkness, wave a flaming torch and shout "Odin", burn a ship - great family fun!) every second year, and it's always been generally clear and nice. I think North Welsh Rain is a myth.

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

It tends to depend where in N Wales you are.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

(stand on a cliff by the sea in late evening darkness, wave a flaming torch and shout "Odin", burn a ship - great family fun!)

Can I come and play? Even without a family, that sounds fun...

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

To be allowed to play, you have to be a member of The Vikings (http://www.vikingsonline.org.uk), which I think you'd enjoy, but you're welcome to come and visit Amlch Viking Festival (http://www.amlwchvikingfestival.co.uk/) in 2010 and see us even if you aren't.