Comments on: Think Good Thoughts for Toby Buckell

By: Gennita Low

Gennita Low — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:13:41 +0000

Authors are considered self-employed. The lucky ones get their insurance through their spouse’s job or the Other Day Job. Quite a number of us are running around without insurance, unfortunately.

By: WendyB_09

WendyB_09 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:11:35 +0000

Well, glad I was promoting Toby this weekend.

We have a new neighborhood bookstore down the street. Seeing they had Scalzi on the shelf, but not Buckell, recommended him to one of the owners. Not a scifi reader herself, she was happy to get the 411 on our guy, and was going to bring his books.

By: Bozo the Clone

Bozo the Clone — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:13:53 +0000

I know the IEEE offers a health plan for its members. You’ll shell out big bucks, since there’s no employer contribution, but it’s a better deal than going solo. Does the SFWA have a similar deal?

By: Jeff Hentosz

Jeff Hentosz — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:56:51 +0000

Haplo@17: As continued book sales would be to the advantage in Toby’s pending insurance co-pay, it doesn’t seem wildly off topic to me. So —

B&Ns stock him. Saw two copies of Sly Mongoose at one of mine (Columbus, Ohio) not two hours ago. I know they had a copy of Ragamuffin within the last few weeks, and Crystal Rain still shows up from time to time. Different B&Ns have different stocking criteria. Besides, they don’t “get stuck” with anything. What doesn’t sell gets returned and eventually discounted or pulped.

Border’s issues are, for now at least, not B&Ns.

By: Dave Robinson

Dave Robinson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:25:08 +0000

I wish him well.

By: Haplo Peart

Haplo Peart — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:48:03 +0000

#11 – It’s off topic so I don’t want to noise up the thread too much. I emailed him when I couldn’t find the book. His response was along the lines “Newish, Young author, they don’t want to take a chance on stocking the book, and getting stuck with it.” Note I had asked specifically about Borders, but I wasn’t able to find the book at B&N either, so I assume its the same reasoning.

So I ordered from Amazon…to bad for the Brick and Mortars.

By: MarkHB

MarkHB — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:46:40 +0000

Good Mojo deployed on site, and another shout of him being a jolly good egg here. I agree with Ardaniel Collier @ 15 that this is a Fixable Thing, and therefore this diagnosis would actually be Good News Everyone as there’s a known patch, as it were.

By: Ardaniel Collier

Ardaniel Collier — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:16:47 +0000

Left mine over there and have been pestering him to cheer him up via Twitter as well.

On the upside, Science! has provided us with a lot of workarounds for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and a lot of explanations for how it occurs. Undoubtedly, he’s in for a bunch of genetic testing– which they’ll then conduct on his relatives, to help determine their risk factors and protect them too.

By: MikeB

MikeB — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:40:39 +0000

I’ve already left my best wishes at his site. Let’s face it, Toby is one of the authors we really can’t afford to lose.

By: joelfinkle

joelfinkle — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:39:54 +0000

Jeez, I just saw him on Saturday at WindyCon outside Chicago. He was frantically scribbling a list of books adapted into movies, but it didn’t seem that stressful.