I don't know how it happened so quickly, but it's again that time of year when I beg friends, family, fans, and random passers-by to consider picking up Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow as a Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hanukkah/Solstice gift for the Space-Age Boomer or curious kid in your family. The new paperback is a real bargain!
(Of course I also appreciate it when someone gives Mom's Cancer as a gift, but I can't bring myself to crassly flog it. That would be wrong. However, I have no such qualms with WHTTWOT. Crassly flog away!)
But wait, there's more!
As I have since the hardcover came out, I'm happy to offer a signed bookplate FREE to anyone who asks, giving you an autographed book without you and me going to the trouble of actually mailing a book back and forth. Just e-mail me your postal address via the "About Me" profile box at upper right, tell me if and how you want it inscribed, and I'll put it in the mail for you the next day. Stick the bookplate inside the front cover (or wherever) and you can have a signed book wrapped and under the tree in a week.
This offer is good anytime (not just Christmas) while supplies last, which at the rate I'm unloading bookplates will be about April 2037.
Just about the best compliment I can get is when a reader likes one of my books enough to buy it for someone else. My sincere thanks.
In a remarkable coincidence, at the very moment I was reading this blog post I got a text message from Husband with a pic of WHTTWOT on the shelves at our local independent bookstore, Westminster Books (www.westminsterbooks.com). You are far-flung to this tiny corner of Atlantic Canada, my friend. We've bought a couple of copies of both Mom's Cancer (donated to the local hospital) and WHTTWOT. Thanks for creating wonderful books we want to share.
ReplyDeleteThat's very nice of you to do and nice to let me know, as well. Thanks. Send me the picture! I've got just the spot for it.
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