The books are here! The books are here! Okay - November to August - I had faster service from my real publisher. But 500 copies arrived by truck. This isn't quite good news- I ordered 200 copies in November, figuring on selling 150 at a local outlet (not an unreasonable expectation - they sold at least that many of my first book) and using 50 copies for promotion. Unfortunately, before they shipped I received an email from Booksurge asking me to confirm that I'd ordered 500. I didn't check, stupid me, assuming that Booksurge has acces to the same information I do. If someone orders direct from, say, Amazon, I receive something like $7. I was charged $5.6- for these copies, I have to give 1/2 the cover price to the outlet selling them, which means I make $2.40 per. I'm cutting my own throat here.

But we all move on. More later.