Date: 2010-02-01 06:00 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-02-01 06:08 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] acchikocchi.livejournal.com
*flaps hands in excitement*

Now just how do we get one of these 21 hand-bound and signed copies...? Or is that the whole run? *peers at website*

Never mind me, I spectacularly failed to notice "400 copies" on the line directly below. Story of my life!
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Date: 2010-02-01 06:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imnotandrei.livejournal.com
That's OK, I made the same mistake, and had the same heart-stopping moment. ;)

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Date: 2010-02-01 06:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] windbourne.livejournal.com
EXCITING! :D

Date: 2010-02-01 08:45 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-02-01 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ambyr.livejournal.com
Oh, yay! I've bought a book from them before, too, and they're really lovely.

Date: 2010-02-01 03:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com
Yes; Henry's the one who also published "Forever Peace. To Stop War" by Joe Haldeman and Judith Clute and "Hope-in-the-Mist" by Michael Swanwick . . . .

You have to ramble around his site to uncover treasures - kind of like exploring a house with hidden doors & secret passages . . . You can start here:

http://avramdavidson.org/wessells.htm

and his rather delicious blog is here:
http://www.endlessbookshelf.net/

Date: 2010-02-01 09:30 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ewein2412
YAY! don't know how you managed to keep that sekrit.

Date: 2010-02-01 03:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com
Only my utter devotion to Henry, who told me to keep it under wraps until he got the page up. Oh, and it took me a couple of days to contact Tom - my heart was in my throat, I can tell you - but we couldn't announce anything til we had an artist to announce, too!

Date: 2010-02-01 11:09 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-02-01 11:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] just-ann-now.livejournal.com
The check is written and going in the mail this morning.
(Edit:I emailed Mr. Wessells immediately, and he told me that mine was the first order.)
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Date: 2010-02-01 04:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com
Congratulations! Yes, he told me he got one first thing - yay it was you!

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Date: 2010-02-01 02:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nutmeg3.livejournal.com
Woo-hoo! e-mail sent, and check waiting for the mailman to come by and start it on its journey.

Date: 2010-02-01 02:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jess-ka.livejournal.com
Ohmigosh I'm so excited! Ordering one today. Yay!!!

Date: 2010-02-01 02:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] martinimade.livejournal.com
What a beautiful book/art object. Must write check.

(And, FWIW, I missed the "400" part, tpp.)

Date: 2010-02-01 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com
Aw, thanks! Yeah, Henry's printing only 400 - no idea whether they'll sell out upon printing, or he'll have boxes in his basement for years to come . . . but you wouldn't want to take that chance, would you? ;)

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Date: 2010-02-01 02:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thumbelinablues.livejournal.com
Squeaky! That's a good sekrit. Are the interior illustrations in the style of the cover?

Date: 2010-02-01 03:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com
No - they'll be classic Canty, as far as I know - haven't seen any sketches yet!

The cover is a detail from, says Henry, "the 1579 Plantin Valverde-Vesalius, one of the great popular medical works from the scholarly printer in the lowlands."

(Henry's day job is at a rare book shop on Madison Avenue!)

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Date: 2010-02-01 03:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phoenix64.livejournal.com
Hot diggity dog!

Date: 2010-02-01 04:03 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2010-02-01 06:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aamcnamara.livejournal.com
Oh, man. Awesome!

Date: 2010-02-01 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icecreamempress.livejournal.com
Wow, how beautiful that looks! Hooray!

Happy!

Date: 2010-02-01 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hakumeiun.livejournal.com
Just one more reason this is looking to be a great year. My order is so, so very placed!

Re: Happy!

Date: 2010-02-02 12:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com
Henry's gone off on a business trip - when he gets home and opens the mailbox, will *he* be surprised! I hope. In my dreams I picture an avalanche of little white envelopes pouring out on top of him . . . .

Date: 2010-02-02 02:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spacklegeek.livejournal.com
Mine will be one of the little white envelopes Mr Wessells finds upon his return! I'm reading Swordspoint right now - I sort of read the books in reverse-publication order, starting with TPOTS, because that's what the library had - but I love it. I dreamed about Richard and Alec last night. Yes. I just admitted that.

This will be a lovely done-with-the-semester gift to myself in May! :D

Date: 2010-02-02 02:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com
Well, they are designed to be read in any order you like. So go for it!

I am utterly thrilled to hear you dreamed of them. It makes them seem so real...
From: [identity profile] yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com
Eeeeee, I WANT it!! *fangasms* Ooh, I haven't heard from Riverside in ages!! God, I hope I can find this local - if not I've got to subscribe to whatever this is again. :C

But WORTH IT! And ooh, it's got its own illustration too! Though I STILL want to know where Alec learned to slice and dice - maybe the story will answer it?

Going back through and hunting the snippets you posted now. Ooh, the double-narrative and more pieces of the puzzle that's Alec's life...squeal!!

Oh, I can't STAND it!!!

<3

Date: 2010-02-03 09:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rubygirl29.livejournal.com
I'm greedy and I want more! As a librarian, I have recommended Swordspoint to so many readers of fantasy and SF. And they all want to know when you will write more of Alec and Richard and Riverside. I don't know if 400 copies will be enough!

Date: 2010-02-04 04:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com
Oh, thank you! You/they already know about THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD & THE FALL OF THE KINGS, right?

There are also various short stories- it's all explained (nearly coherently) here:

http://www.sff.net/people/kushnerSherman/Kushner/world.html

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