Ooooh, Pretty

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1. Peter says:
   March 23, 2010 at 5:40 pm

   This may be a dumb question, and if it is I apologize, but what’s an “ARC?”
2. John Scalzi says:
   March 23, 2010 at 5:49 pm

   An early edition of the book sent out to reviewers.
3. milieu says:
   March 23, 2010 at 5:51 pm

   ARC = Advanced Reader’s Copy.

   It’s a trade paper sized version of the book in a nearly ready to print form. It usually doesn’t have a cover illustration, and it may still have typoes.

   You occasionally find them in used bookstores, despite the prominent “NOT FOR SALE” label.
4. Andrew says:
   March 23, 2010 at 5:52 pm

   Advanced Readers Copy, is the full term. When I worked at a bookstore, we got a bunch of them.

   That’s a great cover, John! Did you have any control over it?
5. Shawn Powers says:
   March 23, 2010 at 5:53 pm

   This may be a dumb question, and if it is I apologize, but what’s an “ARC?”

   It’s a big boat, full of animals. No, wait… that’s not right. ;)

   (ARC = Advanced Reader’s Copy)
6. Jeff Zugale says:
   March 23, 2010 at 5:54 pm

   Very sweet! Me likey art like that.
7. Geoffrey Kidd says:
   March 23, 2010 at 6:02 pm

   I finally discovered your response to one of my earlier comments on your blog (I don’t usually do follow-ups) that you dislike my repeated requests for eBook editions.

   However, I state as a matter of fact that if the electronic edition is not available for purchase on or before June 8, there’s not a chance in hell that I know what I’ll be doing that day. Since it’s a Tuesday, there is *some* hope that it’ll be available as part of fictionwise’s Monday update.
8. Pam Adams says:
   March 23, 2010 at 6:11 pm

   Gorgeous! [does happy dance]
9. Peter says:
   March 23, 2010 at 6:11 pm

   Thanks for the answers, all. I probably should have figured it out, but thanks to sick kids, my brain is a bit sleep-deprived.

   And it’s a very attractive cover.
10. Chat Clussman says:
    March 23, 2010 at 6:29 pm

    Oooh, that is pretty.

    I hate to admit this—and it’s probably the designer in me—but the books I buy are influenced by the cover art. In this case it’s a good thing because that cover speaks to me.
11. Jeff Hentosz says:
    March 23, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    ARC, n: what Joan was of.
12. Jeffrey Beumel says:
    March 23, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    Going to have to get this ordered at B&N the next time I head to Columbus :D
13. Latasha Ewell says:
    March 23, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    This is nice, but all your covers seem to be good. Have you ever had to suffer thorough a horrible one? And if so, do you fight it? Or as an author is it better to just not make a fuss about these things?
14. Bob Portnell says:
    March 23, 2010 at 7:48 pm

    “So now you know what you’re doing on that day.”

    I think someone might still be on a Phineas and Ferb kick.
15. Jay Lake says:
    March 23, 2010 at 7:50 pm

    Oooh, nice. Me want ARC, too!
16. David Weinstock says:
    March 23, 2010 at 8:40 pm

    Love the cover artwork!

    Looking forward to reading this!
17. Geoffrey Kidd says:
    March 23, 2010 at 8:48 pm

    Jay Lake: If you want ARCs, they’re available over at: http://www.webscription.net/c-2-advance-reader-copies.aspx

    I just finished Flint and Spoor’s “Threshold”, and it’s bloody-[beep]ing marvelous.
18. Jay Lake says:
    March 23, 2010 at 9:39 pm

    @17. What I actually want is an ARC of this book, seeing as how I have a story in it and all… :)
19. John Scalzi says:
    March 23, 2010 at 9:42 pm

    Geoffrey, you’re doing that thing you do, which is trying to make everything about ebooks. Please don’t. It’s tiring.
20. Geoffrey Kidd says:
    March 23, 2010 at 9:59 pm

    @18 Can’t help you there. Good luck.

    @19 By your command…
21. Thomas M. Wagner says:
    March 24, 2010 at 12:02 am

    The release date for this edition: June 8. So now you know what you’re doing on that day.

    Reading China Miéville’s Kraken?

    I KEED! I KEED!

    (Probably be reading Kraken in a couple of weeks anyway.)
22. dance says:
    March 24, 2010 at 12:51 am

    Pretty….does anyone know what font that is? It’s nice. Or would it be hand-drawn lettering?
23. Lorien says:
    March 24, 2010 at 3:36 am

    Is there any way for a bookstore to get on some kind of list to receive ARCs of your books? I have been pretty feverishly hand-selling Old Man’s War and the rest of the series, and my co-worker has been doing the same with Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded. If we get ARCs, it would be that much easier to hand-sell books starting they day they come out. I am one of those booksellers who likes to actually read a book before telling someone that they should.
24. Dirty Wizard Hunter says:
    March 24, 2010 at 6:11 am

    The cover looks retro 70s.
25. John Klima says:
    March 24, 2010 at 8:26 am

    Hmmm, given that’s my 14th wedding anniversary, I suspect I’ll be purchasing this for my wife as an AWESOME gift?
26. Kyle Maxwell says:
    March 24, 2010 at 11:31 am

    Here’s hoping my local independent bookstore carries it. Every time I talk to them about pre-orders, they kinda look at me funny, which is odd because they’re quite large and otherwise modern.
27. AJ Shephard says:
    March 24, 2010 at 1:22 pm

    *Sets the egg timer to 76 days*
28. Lee Whiteside says:
    March 24, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    I’ll have to check with Mysterious Galaxy to see if they can arrange to have some to sell two weeks early at Phoenix ComiCon….
29. Christopher Hawley says:
    March 26, 2010 at 12:49 am

    AJ Shephard @27 wrote:
    > *Sets the egg timer to 76 days*
    76 days?!  Clearly you prefer your eggs boiled until very very hard.
30. The Gray Area says:
    March 29, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    I’m a very average kinda person and I don’t love the cover art. It’s blah. I’m just saying, since I think a book needs all the help it can get on the shelf. Nothing in this grabs me or makes me want to pick it up. Other than your name. It needs space ships and a hot babe with a ray gun. And maybe a robot.
31. Mark Stephenson says:
    April 29, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    Isn’t this the ink and paper version of the Audible.com audio series, which I have been thinking of downloading?
32. Greg says:
    April 29, 2010 at 5:03 pm

    A realistic and hopeful future?

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