Promotion: "Lieutenant Samuel Blackwood (deceased)" by Emma Collingwood

[caduceus]

Dear all,

allow me to interrupt your regular LJ f-list reading for a little bit of advertising. ;)

Comments

[oloriel]

The question I've been meaning to ask for a while...
if I order it at Amazon, could I get it autographed by you and erestor? Or do they have stock copies, and I'd have to send my copy to you both? (Which I totally would, I'd just like to know ;))

[caduceus]

Thank you! That means a lot to me that you're interested in it, and in the printed version! :)
Well, if you order via Amazon, that book would have to take a detour and you wouldn't get it any faster because they only print on demand... which means you'd have to wait 2-3 weeks for it and then send it around to both of us to get it autographed. If you don't mind waiting a bit, the best solution would be to email Erestor directly about this. She has some books left from a larger shipment, could sign your copy, mail it to me and I could then get it to you at little to no extra cost because it'd be a small book sent inside Germany.
At least I think that's the best way to do it. :)

[oloriel]

Sounds reasonable, will do that!

And what can I say... I'll never get the same happy moments with e-books that I have with "real" books, even if my real books tend to end up with dog-ears, tea stains and, if they accompany me on journeys, pressed flowers somewhere in between the pages... *coughs*

The oddest instance of the latter was Peoples of Middle-earth which suddenly had a gentian flower between the pages. Now I haven't ever been to somewhere that has gentian with that book, nor would I have plucked gentian if I had been. I was really confused until months later I discovered more gentian between the pages of an old book I'd inherited from my grandmother's book cellar (Captain James Cook's Die Suche nach dem Südland in some early 20th century edition). It seems that someone in my ancestry used to press flowers in the books they took on journeys, too. How Cook's gentian made its way into the pages of Peoples of Middle-earth is still a mystery, though ;)

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