Ooh, the shiny!

[pbray]

Today's mail brought an ARC for THE FIRST BETRAYAL. Very pretty, with the full-color cover. Much more impressive than the ARCs they used to have, which merely had black typeface on colored cardboard.

Now that the ARCs are being mailed out, any bets on how long it takes one of them to show up on e-bay? My favorite part of this process is when a seller posts the JPG of the book cover with the "Not for Sale" label clearly visible to prospective buyers.

As we get closer to the release date I'll be raffling off an ARC, and a bag of the custom printed M&M's. Details to be posted here in April.

Comments

[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

Hi,
Writer-in-progress and fan of yours.

In honour of the occasion I thought I'd congratulate you in technicolor (tm) but I don't know how to make color in lj comments so you'll just have to imagine your favorite color array. :-)

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

P.S. Extremely cool icon, by the way.

[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[rosefox]

Selling ARCs is so slimy. I save mine until after publication and then donate them to charity auctions at cons.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

That's very good of you.

When I think of how much it costs my publisher to print and mail the ARCs, it irritates me to see people routinely selling the ARCs they receive as "new, never read". Grr. If they aren't going to read the ARC, they should be asked to be taken off the distribution list, or give the books to someone who will.

[larryhammer]

Pretty pretty. Did you pet it when it arrived?

---L.