happy joy print run news

[ellenkushner]

My editor just told me they've already gone back to press for more copies of The Privilege of the Sword - just 13 days after its original pub date. Misty-eyed, I say, Thank you for your support of this novel. (I know it was you guys; you're, like, my LiteraPosse!) And thanks to all the reviewers and bloggers who made it part of their wordplay.

Comments

[suzanna-o.livejournal.com]

I've been looking for it in bookstores, and I noticed that Amazon is out of stock. That explains it! Congratulations! :)

[coppervale.livejournal.com]

Holy Cow... That's amazing.

Congratulations!!!

James

YEAH, WELL....

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

. . . or, it may just be that they began with some embarrassingly low print run, and have just now realized the error of their ways - But let us be Positive about this, and accept the warm congratulations in the spirit in which they are offered!

Re: YEAH, WELL....

[coppervale.livejournal.com]

Hey Ellen -

I just found out some delightful news (to me!): Simon & Schuster are launching my book tour with several events in NYC - including a big event already planned at Books of Wonder, who are going to be showing my originals.

As you're going to be one of the other guests at the event, I'll be able to give you a copy of DRAGONS myself. I am very much looking forward to meeting you!

Best,

James

[cofax7]

Just picked up the last copy on the shelves at Book Passage in SF.

[lotus-faerie.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's amazing news. Congratulations!

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodness! Congratulations!

[shelly-rae.livejournal.com]

Congratulations Ellen! A second printing is wonderful news. I'm rereading Swordspoint, doling out the words like they were little tender morsels. Sometimes I read a paragraph or a page over again just to savor it. At this rate, it will take me until October before I dig my teeth into my copy of Privilege. No doubt by then I'll devour it like the book glutton I truly am, but then, I can always read it again...
Anon

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Considering how many times I rewrote the buggers (laboring mightily over each comma), I am glad to know they invite a similar re-reading!

Seriously - first, I am very grateful for the compliment. But, second, I do think a lot of work these days is cranked out to be cranked in - just breeze through it for the events that happen, and then toss and forget. I know they're supposed to be relaxing, but I find those books hard to read.

I have to grin when I read your description of your process - it's the only time I've ever seen anyone describe the way I read Elizabeth Knox - especially THE VINTNER'S LUCK. Have you read that one?

[shelly-rae.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Elizabeth Knox yet but after googling (did you hear that Goggle doesn't want us using that as a verb--like that's gonna happen) her I've added her and The Vintner's Luck to my list of books to eat, err read.

Privilege of the Sword.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry about the anon posting, but I don't have a Live-journal account. I just want to say that I'm very happy that I picked up this fantastic novel. I've only purchased it today and already I'm 127 pages into it. It's quite different from the "fantasy" books out there in that I love it's focus on the characters. To me, I could see it as a play. I can see it being acted out. That's brilliant.

Anyway, just wanted to say thank you and I'm looking forward to picking up your other books!

Sincerely,
John Wehr JR.

Re: Privilege of the Sword.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I do think p. 127 is especially good.
May I ask how/where you heard about the book?

Re: Privilege of the Sword.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, I was just wandering around through my local Borders bookstore. I saw the spine and I thought "hm, that's a neat title." I picked it up, read over the back and then sat down and proceeded to read 35 pages of it in the store. Bought it right after.

-John

[avirr.livejournal.com]

I think you get the credit, what with writing such good stuff that we readers leap on the hardback as soon as we can.

Which reminds me, Other Change of Hobbit did not reply to my email...

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Hi, Avi! nice to hear from you. I hope you get a response from OCoH soon - thanks for supporting them! The gorgeous hardcover will be out from Small Beeer Press in September - meanwhile, the papeback is available from Bantam.

[mneme]

drcpunk has already bought two copies!

I think she's getting addicted. :)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's excellent! And that's even with me and eternaleponine pooling our resources since two books we craved came out on the same day -- TPotS, and Poppy Z. Brite's Soul Kitchen. I bought yours, and eternaleponine bought the other, and then we swapped copies. eternaleponine is buying her own copy when it goes to mass market paperback (so all her editions will match), and, through a complicated series of transactions, the copy of Soul Kitchen is now officially mine, with the purchase of a second copy deferred until "later." (I got it damp at the beach. I was supposed to replace it, but then there was another book that she wanted more that I picked up for her instead... a Borders 10%-off deal and a 3-for-2 offer also came into play, as did the fact that right now we're sharing a house... I said it was complicated).

Ah, if only I had the money to buy ALL the books I wanted, and to buy extra copies to give as presents.

But I'm so glad that they're doing another print run, instead of letting it languish in "out of stock at publisher" the way Swordspoint did for so long! I must have bought four or five used copies before it became available again, because I wasn't willing to risk not getting it back when I loaned it, and people Needed To Read It.

Yay!

[safirasilv.livejournal.com]

How wonderful!

[klages.livejournal.com]

Yes!! There is yet hope for a rational and just universe, in which the good are rewarded (and the wicked are punished? -- well, maybe that's a bit much to ask of real life...)

Devouring Privilege

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Ellen, I pre-ordered Privilege after my partner and I attended your and Delia's late night reading at WisCon and it arrived a little over a week ago. It's like Jane Austen but with swordfights ... wonderful! Thank you for honoring us with an adventurous story both well thought out and craftily written. I read parts aloud to my partner and left it by the bed insisting she read it next.

What sold me on your work was not just the reading but hearing you speak on the Watersheds panel and enjoying your remarks on process.

Thank you!

Rachel Gold
(Storybrat@yahoo.com)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Happy happy joy joy... Same thing happened to me, only even earlier: they had to reprint 'Bridge of Dreams' pre-publication, and it's the kind of news that really does make you want to run around and hug people. So I did...