Comments on: The Last Colony Auction Winner; Announcing “The Sagan Diary” http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bryan Price http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89876 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:39:55 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89876 Get my name in one of your books? And get it signed?

Done!

]]> By: Karl Cook http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89875 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:48:36 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89875 Apologies for the crude html, and of course I signed up for the leather-bound volume.
KC

]]> By: Karl Cook http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89874 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:59:43 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89874 Ahhh, Scalzi-
This is one of the reasons I click in day after day- to have an
opportunity to have my name memorialized in the back of a limited
edition leather-bound volume for all posterior, er… posterity- what a
guy!
Not to mention the fact that you’re approaching literary sainthood with
the auction idea for the John M. Ford Book Endowment. Really. What a
guy! Krissy should be proud.

Thanks, John.

KC

]]> By: Ted Lemon http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89872 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:56:49 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89872 You know, if you’re so bullish on the Baen Webscription model of sales, it would be really nice if you could figure out a way to include this story in that model. No offense, but I really, really don’t want a hardcover book. I like your writing, and I want to support you as an author (not that you need my support) and I totally understand the attraction of a hardcover book, having opted for hardcover myself when given the choice.

But as a reader of a nice piece of fiction, hardcover sucks – the book is heavy, and it takes up a ton of shelf space, and it doesn’t fit in my backpack if I’m traveling. So your hardcover-only policy is, if not making a criminal out of me, at least making it so that I read your books at my parents’ house, where they don’t mind being buried under dead trees. And once I’ve read the book, best intentions aside, I have no real reason to buy a copy when it comes out in paperback, so you wind up losing a sale.

]]> By: Ted Lemon http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89873 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:56:49 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89873 You know, if you’re so bullish on the Baen Webscription model of sales, it would be really nice if you could figure out a way to include this story in that model. No offense, but I really, really don’t want a hardcover book. I like your writing, and I want to support you as an author (not that you need my support) and I totally understand the attraction of a hardcover book, having opted for hardcover myself when given the choice.

But as a reader of a nice piece of fiction, hardcover sucks – the book is heavy, and it takes up a ton of shelf space, and it doesn’t fit in my backpack if I’m traveling. So your hardcover-only policy is, if not making a criminal out of me, at least making it so that I read your books at my parents’ house, where they don’t mind being buried under dead trees. And once I’ve read the book, best intentions aside, I have no real reason to buy a copy when it comes out in paperback, so you wind up losing a sale.

]]> By: Jeff B. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89871 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:29:22 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89871 “I hope your kids are, you know, not six or something.”

No, no. Two boys, eighteen and twenty-two. They’ll eat this stuff up.

John, I probably have one/one-trillionth the traffic you do, but I’ve plugged this on my blog nevertheless.

Bill Schafer: Thanks for the clarification. I’ll be sure to order soon.

]]> By: Jon Marcus http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89870 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:18:04 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89870 Congratulations and thanks, Bill!

Leatherbound goodness. Mmm, count me in! But…how many of those 12,500 words are gonna be on the In Memoriam page? :)

]]> By: Gwen http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89869 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:36:02 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89869 Hmm…dead trees, dead cows, dead people. Sounds good to me!
One fully-leatherbound limited-edition signed book with a character with my name in it sold! (Well, not yet; I have to get the person with, you know, a *bank account* and my money to buy it, but it’s as good as sold.)

]]> By: Nathan http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89868 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:35:56 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89868 Hey Scalzi,

Is there any chance you’ll be assigning ranks in the same order that people placed their orders.

It’d be fun knowing I’d get to boss around a bunch of space soldiers…….well, from the beyond, at least.

]]> By: John Scalzi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89867 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:38:18 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/10/10/the-last-colony-auction-winner-announcing-the-sagan-diary/#comment-89867 Patrick: Yup.

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