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Cinder Spires Books / Re: Typo: trying to help, not criticizing
« on: October 28, 2015, 11:38:09 PM »
Whew!!!!!!

I think I read that here a couple years ago, now that I think about it. What's needed is MORE of the good ones, and less of the dumb bosses who say, "Just run it through spell check. It'll be fine."

 ;D ;D ;D


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Cinder Spires Books / Re: Typo: trying to help, not criticizing
« on: October 26, 2015, 09:00:33 PM »
Shecky-

Did I do something wrong in my comment? If I did, I'M SORRY!!  :'( :'( :'(

I meant to be snarky and was talking about the way reading ANY error ANYWHERE makes me react. I tend to be a Grammar Nazi IRL ...

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Cinder Spires Books / ARGH!
« on: October 19, 2015, 07:25:59 PM »
Two things:

(1) Darn it! That darn Jim Butcher caught me again! Another series I'm going to have to follow and get involved with. Now I have to wait another (year? 2?) to see what happens next to people I have started to care about! Rowl, what happens to you?  ;D

(2) I waited (patiently, sort of) until after I read the book to ask this. On the cover art, bottom left, there's something sparkly. I can't tell what it is. Anybody know what it is? I've stared and stared, and tried to interpret both before and after reading the whole thing, but I dunno! What's the sparkly thing bottom left?

We won't even get into the hat situation ....

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Cinder Spires Books / Re: Typo: trying to help, not criticizing
« on: October 19, 2015, 07:19:41 PM »
Saw that one, too. Fortunately, in the entire HUGE book, there's ONE typo, and one grammar edit error. Just for my own peace of mind, I've taken to going into all (my own) books with Wite-Out and a fine-point pen and correcting the errors manually. Some books (not necessarily Jim's) are FULL of them. Copy editing is a dying art, apparently.

Does your jaw twinge when you see one? Get a shiver down your back? Make you stop reading and stare for a minute, completely losing the thread of the story? Me, too.

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Cinder Spires Books / Re: Sample Chapters?
« on: September 01, 2015, 11:23:42 PM »
Oh, the agony! I want desperately to read Jim's new book, but I don't want to spoil it for mysel! I want a completely new experience from the very first word when I open the cover the first time. But I want to read the sample chapters! No! Yes! No! Yes! [runs screaming down the street, pulling out grey hair]

HELP!!!!!!

 :-\ :-\ :-\ :'( :'( :'( :o :o :o :o

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Not that I'm petty or anything, but whyfor not does Jim come to New Mexico? :'( :'( :'( I'm too poor to drive up to Colorado for a signing! We have the Southwest Writer's Workshop here. It's a large writer's group that even has a conference every year (at least it used to...) Tell him all about the perks of coming to the High Desert. He can take the Breaking Bad tour! The Old Town Ghost Tour! (My daughter is a guide for that...) Go up the world's longest tram! Lose money at an Indian casino!

Please, please, convince Jim to come to Albuquerque (or even Santa Fe) for a signing! ;D ;D ;D You know how B I G the West is, the drive is too F A R !!!!

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Cinder Spires Books / Okay, I'm a fan...
« on: March 21, 2015, 04:44:04 PM »
I just never realized it... I didn't understand the term "steampunk", so I checked out a book full of short stories in various steampunk styles. I loved them all. I realized that I had been reading the genre off and on for years! Now I can't wait for Cinder Spires to come out! Of course, I was pretty positive I was going to love anything Jim produced, anway...

I'm glad he's working on Harry again, though. I miss him, and Mouse, and Murphy, and Michael, and Molly, and Thomas, and MISTER!!!!!!!!

(Talking cats! Woo-hoo!)

Oh, BTW, I decided that The Artful Detective from Canada (on Ovation) is very steampunky. The detective, William Murdoch, is always inventing stuff that shouldn't exist in 1899. Check it out!

WiccanEagle

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Cinder Spires Books / Re: Cover art
« on: March 21, 2015, 04:39:28 PM »
I now have my new screensaver! Until the next Dresden book cover, of course!
Thanks!

WiccanEagle

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Cinder Spires Books / Re: Cover art
« on: February 16, 2015, 08:16:27 PM »
So COOL! Thanks for the info! Can't wait to see it!

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Cinder Spires Books / Cover art
« on: February 12, 2015, 07:17:13 PM »
So, now that we have a release date, I need to start reading some steampunk to learn what the genre's all about. When do we get to see the cover art so we can get excited about the characters and making up WAGs about them? Do we know yet who's doing the art? Will there be an audio version, too? I don't suppose Marsters will be doing it? (Not important for me, I don't do audio. I can't pay attention well enough and miss all the good stuff.)

I need to get really, really excited about this, since it's going to be so long before the next Dresden book. Butcher addict gotta get her fix somehow! I can only re-read the whole series once every two or three months, you know...

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Calendar Event Discussion / Re: Where would YOU like Jim to appear?
« on: June 17, 2011, 09:17:54 PM »
 ??? ??? :'( :'( :'( STILL no Albuquerque????

I admit it's hot here, but after all, he DID write about Camp Kaboom and needs to see what he was writing about!

Besides, I STILL can't get to any of the other locations.... Can't afford the virtual signing, either. Can't WAIT for the book to get shipped...

I'm a mess.....................

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Get the best of both. Order GS from the virtual signing. That'll be your copy to keep.
Buy GS on release day from your local bookshop. Read it, then donate it to one of the libraries near you which haven't ordered it. (Yes, I know it seems beyond belief, but there are actually libraries which haven't seen the light and don't own all of Jim's works.)

$27.95 - that isn't chump change but it's roughly comparable to a casual dinner out for two.
Wouldn't you rather give up the one night at a restaurant to instead pick up a Burger King burger for each of you, then scurry home and curl up to read it?
And by donating, you could be spawning any number of future fans from that library offer, who'll become just as dedicated as we are???
And Jim's smidgen out of the two purchases will be going toward keeping him focused on what we want him doing, namely writing. No sense in letting him get dreamy-eyed about putting down the keyboard and finding something else to do in his life. Something less painful than writing, like bamboo shoots under the fingernails, or testing out beds of nails for mystical yogis...


Hey! I figured out how to quote!

This is actually a good idea, if I had the extra $27.95. BUT, that's actually not a dinner out, it's more like a month's lunches at work, or a 1/3rd a tank of gas to get to work, to make the money to buy the book, etc........  :'( So, somebody will just have to video the Q&A at one of the signings (or all of them....) and I will live vicariously through you lucky people!

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Wouldn't I have to wait until AFTER the release date to get a signed book from a virtual signing? I've waited this long, I might explode if I had to wait longer!

Besides, I like giving my local independent book store my business. Keeps THEM in business....

Besides 2, the whole idea is to be in the presence of THE MASTER...... (will he be bringing a Mister stand-in so you can be in the presence of The Master?)

Now I'm just blithering....

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Well, somebody please video this for me. There's no way I'd be able to get there from Albuquerque.  :'( We're out here in the middle of nowhere where nobody ever comes.  :'( :'( :'(
Have fun everybody. Think of me here, all alone, missing everything, crying over my unsigned copy of Ghost Story....

(Have I elicited any pity yet?)

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Calendar Event Discussion / Re: Where would YOU like Jim to appear?
« on: December 27, 2010, 04:24:00 PM »
ALBUQUERQUE!!!!! He could get the entire Southwest from here!

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