Book burning

Posted on July 30, 2002 @ 17:40 in General

Right... if you happen to know some powerful spells to ward off evil and bad luck, feel free to cast some in my direction :-)

Today my publisher informed me that the shipment containing 115 copies of my book, destined for the US market, has been destroyed by fire. The sea freight container holding the shipment of books, among other things I presume, was still in Liverpool, UK, where it was broken into and set on fire around 4AM on July 20th. Insurance is taking care of things I understand, but it means yet another delay to my book becoming available overseas.

More wrongs don't eventually make a right! First my book somehow got listed with a wrong subtitle. Then Amazon and Barnes & Noble decided to list my book as "Not yet published" with the WRONG subtitle. When the book was released the international distributor for some reason had trouble getting it listed in their online database; they've got it listed now, but you can't find it when searching on my name, just by searching on the title?! After the book was released Amazon and Barnes & Noble remained rather unaware of its existence, keeping it listed as "Not yet published".

The book is available through Barnes & Noble now, but it's still listed with the wrong subtitle. Amazon.com still doesn't seem to know the book is already released and available and they also still got the wrong subtitle. If you're in Europe you can try Bol.com, they just have the wrong subtitle listed and for some reason put this English title in their Dutch books category. Then if you're in Holland or Belgium, you could try Proxis: they got the wrong subtitle and a ridiculous price because instead of getting the book through the Dutch distributor, they get it from the UK distributor.

See how I could use some potent magic here?

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  1. your guy's printing stinks, i can hardly read it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Posted by allan on June 04, 2004 @ 22:42

  2. Constructive criticism is always appreciated.

    Posted by Frank on June 05, 2004 @ 02:00

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