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i like signed books, but only if they’re signed in person. i enjoy meeting authors, so i don’t usually buy signed stock copies on the chance that i’ll get to meet the author someday. it’s unusual for me to get books signed if i haven’t already read them, b/c when i go to a signing, it’s almost always b/c i read the book and liked it enough to go meet the author.

Yes!!!

Like Rebecca, I tend to get signed books only when I hear or meet the author. The book I get signed might be one I’ve already read, or a new book by an author I already like.

A notable exception was grabbing a copy of “foundling” by d.m. cornish at the reading matters conference this year. I’d never heard of him let alone read his book. I got a copy signed based largely on his illustrations, hearing him speak, and exchanging a very small amount of words with him.

at the same conference I sort of went backwards with margo lanagan & got an older book “black juice” signed since this was one of the first YA books I read & was largely responsible for getting me excited about ya lit.

I’ve never bought a signed book that I haven’t read or whatever. I just keep a look out for when authors are in town and get them signed then.
I think it was Patrick Carman who came a few years ago to do a signing and he told me approx. what each of my books were worth now that he had signed them. That was really funny. (: I love getting books signed and talking with authors.

I, too, am only interested in a signed book if I’ve met the person. It’s a nice way of remembering the meeting. But it is a bummer when you have a book personalised to you that you no longer want . . .

Capt. Cockatiel: Really? That’s hilarious! I doubt my signature adds much value. Also I thought the signature only added value if the book wasn’t personalised.

I’m so jealous of those people. Darn

Justine: I don’t know. He was a funny guy… all, “Oh! This book actually has an extra chapter in it! it’s worth about fifty dollars!” and i was like, “umm… okay? i wasn’t planning on selling it…” But I don’t really know anything about it. He just went on and on about first additions to me. I have no clue if he was right or not. I know nothing about signatures adding value. Nothing at all.

i LOVE signed books! there so foolio. i have this signed book by this guy whos name i cant pronounce. i can hardly pronounce the book! plus its like 200 years old! it was my grandmas. yet, it is in the front of my bookshelf. hehe.

-Lizzy-wa OUT!

such a shame… wish I were still living around those parts. O well, it was much better meeting you in person. Several months ago when you ran by my school in Tyler, Texas, on account of the Landers, who i believe are related to Scott Westerfeld. You told me that if I liked Holly Black then I should read CITY OF BONES by Cassandra Clair and get back to you once i had read it. Well I finally got the book a few days ago and haven’t been able to put it down since. Only just now did I finish this phenomenal book that made me want to laugh, cry, scream, dance, etc., etc. Thank you for the recommendation. I can hardly wait for the next two volumes!!!

well..talking about personalised signed books..this one seemed to do ok:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/potter-tome-conjures-big-auction-price/2007/10/26/1192941297119.html

“Two other Potter books signed by the author - one a paperback with the inscription “To Ella - I know your Mum!!! And she beat me in the quiz but we won’t mention that - love from Jo (aka JK Rowling)” - fetched £1,250 ($A2,844).”

I have a strange obsession with collecting signed books. It really began last year at the Texas Book festival where I got several books I had not read. I’d never even heard of the authors before I saw some of them speak. My obsession also led me to Humble when you were there, but I still haven’t read the MM books (sorry, I’m getting there, but I’m also finishing grad school) but of course I got you to sign one. My latest additions are Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willams (such a rock star), Hero by Perry Moore (found out about it by seeing him speak) , and …Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. (I’ve only read Knuffle Bunny so far.) And i got many other books signed at the festival. You really should come to the Texas book festival one year. It’s amazing.

Heh. I’ve -assigned- one of your scholarly books this semester, but I don’t think it would have occurred to me to ask you questions about it, since it seems so obvious that you’ve shaken that particular dust off your shoes years ago.

What’s your favorite YA scifi book?

I enjoy reading your scholarly books, nonetheless. But don’t worry, no questions.

Susan: Thank you! I hope the students find it useful.

Hilary!: My favourite YA sf book that’s in print is Scott’s Uglies series. I know he’s my old man, but I really enjoy those books.

I’m more of a fantasy reader though. I can give you a long, long, long list of my fave YA fantasy books.

Shara: And I’m thrilled that people have read them and found them useful!

okay then, what are your favorite ya fantasy books?

Yeah! What are your fave fantasy books? And seeing as how I’ve already read *Uglies*, I’d like to know another one of your fave scifi novels, or you could just reccomend one to me that you think is really cool. Hopefully I’ll not have ever read it before.

[…] though I spent more than eight years doing nothing but read science fiction. My standards are very very high and my tolerance for less […]

blargh. i am not much for the academic-y stuff either. but eight years.

i dislike reading scholarly works as well. *shudder*

The Norton one looks nice. I like the pixie dust inside a tornado inside the glass there.

Frankly, I am not shocked at all! You are totally award worthy. I’m even more proud of you than I was yesterday! Who knew it was possible?
too bad you had to miss the ceremonies.

Where will you put them all? Y’all are going to have to get a huge display case. Or build lots of shelves. Maybe MJ will go with you to IKEA to get some. Between the two of you, I think you’re going to run out of available surfaces to put awards on. fast.

In case you run out of room before you get those shelves, here’s an idea. You can put one (obviously one that’s hard to break) in your bathroom (the one that people generally use when they come over). Emma Thompson says that she keeps her Oscar in there. It gives people time to practice their acceptance speeches in private. In front of a mirror. You might want to put up a sign to remind people to wash their hands before picking it up. Or find a disinfectant that won’t ruin it. I’m just sayin…

Congratulations!!!!

mucho mucho congrats. Time to build a shelf.

Ooh, I’ve never seen the Norton award before. It’s really magical looking!

congrats! the norton is my fave. its so… shiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Congratulations! I like the Andre Norton. And it’s for MorM. Feminists are a lot plainer than sci-fi freaks.

The Andre Norton award is officially one of the coolest looking awards EVER! I want one of those. congrats, Justine! You deserve it.

ooooooh, the norton award is so pretty. yum.
ha, i’m not the only one who thinks so either. wonder who the designer is.

Congratulations!

Wicked!

Mazel tov!

Congratulations, dear!

Congratulations!

Excellent! Congrats!

(I’m giggling at “stoked beyond stokage” and looking forward to the next time I feel like that, just so I can say it too )

I didn’t even SEE this one! I feel like all you do is win awards! That is how good you are!

SO WELL DESERVED!

Yay! Congrats, Justine!

Yayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! w00t!!!!!!!!!

i love yore name. where dose it come from?

dang. Two continents. Sometimes I wish I existed on two continents. That would be fun.

Congratulations Justine, I’m looking forward to reading it. Drift comes out this week too. I’ll check for us both at the bookshop later.

Pxx

Hurrah! Congratulations.

I, like, totally want the 3-IN-1 version. Seems like it might be a rather excellent way to read the trilogy, actually.

Congratulations!

Of course, that’s not gonna stop me from going out today and trying to find a nice, warm copy of Book 3. Its out there, somewhere, waiting to be found.

The hunt is on!

D

Hi, Justine. Long time reader, first time poster. Yay for the ad; are you thinking about putting up more on BlogAds or through Google’s ad network?

I have to work all day today, but I totally plan on going to Borders and looking for after I get off!!

Looks like The Magic of Reason to me (not or)…

As for ODI in New York, I don’t know how feasible that would be. Would an American football field be wide enough? And do they play cricket on artificial turf?

that article is from back in january. they subsequently decided to play the games in ireland, just before india start a summer season against england. this isn’t the first time the extremely lucrative indian tv market has led to a one-of series, and i doubt it’ll be the last.

I must be quite mad, since I’ve been checking my Amazon account a number of times yesterday and today to see whether they have changed the status of my Magic’s Child order to ’shipping soon, you can’t add anything to this lot any more’.

[checks again]

nope. not yet.

[kicks amazon. but gently, because we don’t want to tick it off]

Thanks for all the kind thoughts! I’ve yet to see Magic’s Child in a shop, but. I’m trying not to be alarmed given that some give the pub date as Friday . . .

Adam Rakunas: Yay for the ad; are you thinking about putting up more on BlogAds or through Google’s ad network?

I’m not in charge of the ads. That’s down to Penguin. I’d rather spend my money on good food and wine

And thanks for posting!

John H: As for ODI in New York, I don’t know how feasible that would be.

I’m too lazy to google, but I’m pretty sure there’s been an odi in North America. Toronto, maybe? Dunno how they did it but I’m pretty sure it was on fake grass.

Jonathan: All power to the Indian tv market!

There are cricket pitches in Toronto, dear. BC is apparently a cricket hot bed, but Toronto is the other major center in Canada.

But playing in NYC is plain daft. The Bay Area is stuffed full of cricket fans (most of them India supporters). We’d provide a large and knowledgeable crowd. I mean, where is Willow TV headquartered?

WOOT!

great add and cover. just loved the book (will write more)
in 1992 took three canadian colleagues to see the West Indies defeat a world 11 at toronto skydome (now rogers centre). closed roof and artificial turf. of course there were no ausies in the world 11.

congrats. i haven’t seen your book yet, but will certainly keep an eye out.

congratulations!

so other than the tezuka, vaughn, and minekura (saiyuki), which manga have you liked best? I’d love to read more raves.

PS. Minekura has the first volume (mostly set-up, but fun in its own right) out of a new series, wild adapter. Check it out!

An argument of scholars?

A debate of scholars?

Of course, it doesn’t really matter since the question is academic.

hurrah for you! now you can put ‘award winning author Justine Larbalestier’ on a stamp and stamp it on everything you own.

a tweed of scholars?
an abstract of scholars?

Mazel tov! May it be only the first of many!

A thesis of scholars? A degree of scholars?

Fabulous introducing and editing, and have a lovely day!

I was going to say a gaggle of scholars. Anything that voluble has got to be a gaggle.

(Also, gaggle is just a cool word. Gaggle, gaggle, gaggle.)

I think an award for editing an anthology has got to be, like, the Sisyphus Award. You win points for pushing the rock up the hill, and for not “accidentally” releasing it at such time that it might cream any of your contributors on its way back down again.

That is ever so awesome. Woo!

(Also, for the record, ZOMBIES!!! Unicorns, pshaw.)

Congratulations!

Have fun next week.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Ben_%28literary_group%29

Hmm.

Children of Ben?

Writers That Rock?

Congrats! I wish I could go see you, but I couldn’t even get down to Texas. I definitely can’t get to New York!

Huzzah!

scribblers, footnote variety

Congrats, precious gem!

Editor! Editor! Editor! Oi! Oi! Oi!

Thank you everyone! I am indeed deeply chuffed.

Veejane: I think an award for editing an anthology has got to be, like, the Sisyphus Award. You win points for pushing the rock up the hill

Amen, sister, amen.

Klages: Tee hee. Twill be my one award for editing so I am enjoying the hell out of it.

Hi Justine. And let me add my congratulations to those of others. The award is definitely one for editing. If you check out my name at amazon.com you will see the books I have edited and understand my commitment to good editing and to making sure that it is recognized. Here are the criteria by which the award nominated books are judged:
SUSAN KOPPELMAN
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FOR JUDGES OF BOOKS ENTERED INTO THE
Annual SUSAN KOPPELMAN AWARD COMPETITION

Please: your response to the book(s) you judge is due no later than April 10, 2003

Remember: This award is for editorial work. Did the editor(s) make good feminist choices and is the editorial rationale for those choices clear to you? Did the editor(s) structure a book competently, imaginatively, cohesively, innovatively, coherently, and responsibly? Is the edited book a creation or a conglomeration? Is the book an important ground-breaking contribution or is it “follow-up” work?
The following concerns are to be addressed as you consider the book(s) you are reviewing for the contest:

1. Is the book feminist? (Briefly, what do you mean by that?) The following comes from the original announcement of these awards by the Women’s Caucus for the Popular and American Culture Associations:
“The committee’s consensus in reviewing the criteria for all of the awards was that the works selected should be feminist rather than merely scholarship by women or even about women. By feminist, we meant interpretations based on an understanding that the history of the patriarchy is the history of a world in which men–as represented by patriarchal institutions, in groups, and as individuals–have unlimited and non-reciprocal access to all of women’s resources–physical, intellectual, spiritual, emotional, creative, reproductive, sexual, economic, and so on. It is rooted in the belief that the future must be different from that history and that the difference must be based on a system in which women control their own resources. ”

2. Is the book concerned with popular (of any nationality) or American culture? (Do you have a clear idea of what you mean or think “those in the know” mean by “Popular Culture” and/or “American culture?”)

3. Is the book well done?
a. is the writing clear, jargon free, and accessible (that, of course, is part of being ideologically feminist). Or is it the kind of jargon-bound writing that might mean tenure this year but in ten years will doom the book either to total obscurity or public ridicule?
b. is the scholarship accurate, competent, professional? Is the subject matter contextualized if historical?

4. Is the book useful?
a. does the book present new material or else old material in a significantly new way?
b. how does it compare with other (if there are other) works like it? (And what other works like it do you have in mind?) If there are no others,
c. does this book identify a new field, clarify a hitherto obscured, buried, suppressed, mis-represented women’s cultural tradition, give us something new not only worth having in itself but that will enable us to add to it as we continue with our own work and lives?

5. Is the personal political and the political personal?

6. If an edited or co-edited book, is the editorial rationale clear to you as a reader of (1) introductory and/or prefatory materials and (2) the body of material included? In other words, do you understand why that particular bunch of stuff is included in that order, in those juxtapositions? Does the combining of parts enhance each part and create a whole greater than the sum of its parts? Do you know if there was other material that could have been included? If yes, do you understand why these things were included and the others were not?

7. If a co-authored book, do you understand the reason for the collaboration? Why was the work done by more than one writer or editor? How is the collaboration different from what would have been accomplished by the authors working separately? (Pooling knowledge from different perspectives, different fields of experience, different fields of expertise, etc.)
Do you, as a reader, feel benefited, enlightened, if you will, by having the collaboration rather than two or more separate works on the subject?

8. Is it clear who the audience(s) is (are) for this book? Is that audience(s) appropriately, respectfully, addressed?

9. Does the book pay real attention to the differences among women by representing appropriately the range of women’s races, ethnicities, regional, spiritual, religious, and nationality backgrounds, ages, physical/corporeal realities, sexual preferences/ orientations, class, and so forth.

10. Is the title appropriate for the scope of the work? Or have the editors/writers chosen a title that is more than could have been accomplished within the covers of a single book? Have the grandiose claims made in the title served to (further) marginalize or silence those excluded in some way from the contents? Does too broad a scope implied by the title mean that other publishers will be unlikely to publish another book on the subject, even if this one covers it inadequately?

11. Do you recommend this book for a Koppelman award?

Your name: ________________________________________

Your email address: ___________________ Your phone number: _____________

Book Title: ______________________________________________

Book Editor(s): ___________________________________________

Publisher: ___________________________________

Additional Comments:

Susan Koppelman: Thank you so much for explaining about the award! Now I’m even more proud than I already was.

I’m particularly proud that the judges thought Daughters fit this critierion: is the writing clear, jargon free, and accessible. I was very determined that it meet those standards.

Thank you for creating such an excellent award.

Justine! congrats on this most excellent award!

Am look forward to reading with you on Wednesday, see you then –

xoxo
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I love Stephen Colbert. But when you change a lot of baby diapers, not washing your hand ever again is something you don’t even want to joke about.

Oh, I LOVE *The Pinhoe Egg.* It makes me even happier than *Conrad’s Fate*, and I read that 3 times.

Congratulatons!!!

congratulatons!!!!

Awwwwesome!!!

Thank you, anonymous!

Good for you, Justine!

In the unlikely event it comes to that, we’ll dream up some new awards for you.

Thanks, Maggie!

Tee hee, David. That’s so sweet of you, but don’t you think there are enough awards as it is?

well, that’s not to say we can’t get rid of some of the other ones to make room.

Generic adderall….

Adderall xr side effects. Adderall abuse. Smoking adderall. Buy adderall no prescription….

Hey what’s with the capital letters?

Karen: Hey what’s with the capital letters?

Sometimes they call to me.