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By: Alice Pope,
on 10/30/2007
Blog: Alice's CWIM blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By: April Henry,
on 3/6/2007
Blog: So many books, so little time (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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The first has fake grass, chocolate and white chocolate in the shape of sheep, and a rave from Robert Parker, who may be a big name but wouldn't be my go to guy for a quote for a book where a sheep solves the mystery.
The second has a bow made out of crime scene tape. Wonder who got stuck tying hundreds of bows?
These are the kinds of things publishers do when they have spent a lot of money on the book and want to recoup it.
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By: Alice Pope,
on 10/30/2007
Blog: Alice's CWIM blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Uglies trilogy, Inheritance trilogy, Extras, Scott Westerfeld, Christopher Paolini, Add a tag
The New Publishing Math: Trilogy = Four...
After finishing the third book in Scott Westerfeld's Uglies trilogy, I was really excited to find that Extras was coming out, a fourth book in the once-was-a-trilogy- now-is-a-series. Now it's being reported that Christopher Paolini's best-selling Inheritance trilogy will have a fourth book, officially changing it from a trilogy to a "cycle." At 5 p.m. EST today a video will be available on Paolini's website offering an Exclusive Message about this development, which I'm sure will be very exciting to fans of the fantasy trilogy series cycle.
I probably shouldn't admit this in cyberspace, but I gotta say that Christopher Paolini is not exactly a favorite of fine. Every time I hear him interviewed I sort of get this powerful urge to kick him in the shins. Does he have to use 15-syllable words I must look up? Did he really say that if they're looking for a family to live alone in a biosphere for five years he and his parents and sister are so there? Does he really think having his work edited feels like splinters of hot bamboo being driven into his tender eyeballs?
Maybe I'm being too grumpy. I've never met him, and he may be a perfectly nice young man with whom I'd enjoying having a beer (or forging a sword). But for now I can only suppose he's some sort of eccentric young genius who I could never possibly understand.
I'll be sure to check out his video.
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By: April Henry,
on 3/6/2007
Blog: So many books, so little time (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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The first has fake grass, chocolate and white chocolate in the shape of sheep, and a rave from Robert Parker, who may be a big name but wouldn't be my go to guy for a quote for a book where a sheep solves the mystery.
The second has a bow made out of crime scene tape. Wonder who got stuck tying hundreds of bows?
These are the kinds of things publishers do when they have spent a lot of money on the book and want to recoup it.
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Oh, Alice! This is why I love you: righteous snark. I concur, and also? The books are really hard to read.