Happy Birthday! to Philip Jose Farmer, who would have turned 93 today.

I just sent out an e-mail to Pete Crowther over at PS Publishing asking if he might be interested in trying to reprint The City Beyond Play as an e-book by way of Fictionwise. (This was actually a coincidence of timing, by the way ( Read more... )

As far as I can tell, PS Publishing is now sold out of all three editions of The City Beyond Play, not quite two years after they released it. What an odd feeling. Not surprising, though, since Uncle Phil died in February--most of his obituaries, even the one on CNN, mentioned it as his last book. That would explain the sales spike ( Read more... )

... when you discover your signature for sale on eBay. (Scroll down a bit for the picture.)

Now if I could just figure out how Copy #0 wound up for sale. Aren't those usually copies that go into the publisher's archive, or to the primary author, or some such thing?

As I wrote this morning, and as I guess a lot of people know now, Philip Jose Farmer passed away peacefully in his sleep this morning, at the age of 91 ( Read more... )

Our library reference database now has an EBSCO search box that you can use to search everything in the myriad databases we subscribe to--punch in your search term and POOF! Research magic happens ( Read more... )

...I just ran across my first reference to a library (other than the one I work for) buying copies of The City Beyond Play.

Go Calgary! (*Big Stinky Cheesy Grin*)

Pete Crowther sent me the happy news today that The City Beyond Play has gone to the printer--and asked me if I could write short bios for myself and Phil Farmer. That's easy enough...except when I try to think of a bio for myself that doesn't sound completely lame when juxtaposed with one for Philip Jose Farmer ( Read more... )

At 8:52 pm last night (Writing Computer time, which is about an eager five minutes ahead of the Real World Eastern Standard), I finished the first draft of The City Beyond PlayNearly three years of anticipation and wondering if I could pull it off...2 1/2 weeks to write ( Read more... )