Kevin's Watch

Stonemaybe wrote:um, what's ARC?

Advance Reading Copy, a limited run of a book made before the book is officially printed. They're given out to booksellers, journalists and even celebrities by the publisher as a marketing tool.

oh!

do book shop staff really do that sort of thing?

(or do they just sell them on ebay???!)

The less scrupulous ARC receivers do indeed sell their copies on ebay, presumably after they've proofed them. Of course, the absolute scum of the earth are the slime who buy them. Such impatience should be punishable by death; and not that weenie lethal injection crap, either. I'm talking 'tie them up with BP execs and force them to watch reruns of Full House until their heads explode' death here.

On the other hand, if it weren't for the leaking of an ARC copy of Lord Foul's Bane from Al Gore to danlo in 1969, Kevin's Watch as we know it may never have existed.

___ wrote:..Of course, the absolute scum of the earth are the slime who buy them. Such impatience should be punishable by death; and not that weenie lethal injection crap, either. I'm talking 'tie them up with BP execs and force them to watch reruns of Full House until their heads explode' death here..

Jealous!!

I'll admit I am jealous, but I'll settle back with my new-to-me copy of Gilden Fire with Fist and Faith's avatar on the cover and a note from him to me on the facecover, which just arrived today instead.

...thanks Fist!

___ wrote:On the other hand, if it weren't for the leaking of an ARC copy of Lord Foul's Bane from Al Gore to danlo in 1969, Kevin's Watch as we know it may never have existed.

OMG, you don't mean...Al Gore invented KW too???

aliantha wrote:

___ wrote:On the other hand, if it weren't for the leaking of an ARC copy of Lord Foul's Bane from Al Gore to danlo in 1969, Kevin's Watch as we know it may never have existed.

OMG, you don't mean...Al Gore invented KW too???

I knew there was an explanation for that Watch start date of 1969 in stats...

(Damn, time flies...AATE already...)

--A

Avatar wrote:

(Damn, time flies...AATE already...)

--A

Time flies my ass....it's been 3 long years (or, for Av, 12,482 posts.)

Creator wrote:Jealous!!

Not as much as you'd think, actually. Waiting for SRD is hard, because his work's so good, but he set the publishing dates way back and I can trust him to keep the schedule. George R.R. Martin, OTOH, he drives me nuts. If you had the ARC of Dances with Dragons, I swear I'd be at your doorstep, waiting to borrow it when you were done.

dlbpharmd wrote:Time flies my ass....it's been 3 long years (or, for Av, 12,482 posts.)

Just seems three years has passed really quickly is all...

--A

Stonemaybe wrote:um, what's ARC?

The ARC of the Covenant, of course.

:rimshot:

Boooooo