So cool.

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Terrifying thought.

Thank you. Via Amazon it's available in Europe as well.

Nice. Your daughter did a beautiful job on the design and layout. Like the division into Lamplight, Moonlight, Streetlight, and Starlight.

Excellent. Can't wait to get it! Congrats!

It is almost $7 cheaper on B&N for some reason. But they do not have a nice picture there.

Hmm, I see you're not. I can't explain that. I'll ask support at Ingram Spark, which is the outfit that produces the non-Amazon editions. Publishing this way is a complex business.

Independently--"self-publishing".

I DID NOT TYPE BAUMANN. Gaiman.

That seems to apply more to what you said than what I said.

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No. Just because it's a book of essays, which isn't his usual thing.

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I love it that the light park of the cover is exactly the same color as the blog. Of course, only the illuminati will notice that.

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I've sent the Amazon link around to a list of friends. I think you'll get at least a few "recruits" there.

No, I mean the background of the text on the back.

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Oh, I just remembered, your copy came from a different printer from the one I have. If you order from Amazon it's produced by a totally different company (CreateSpace) from the one you'd get (probably) from other outlets (Ingram Spark). The only copy I have on hand at the moment is the former and you have the latter. Actually I like it a little better.

My copy came by today's post. I opened it at random and read the piece about the hitchhiker with great enjoyment. I look forward to reading more.

Never ordered from them so I don't have any experience. Btw I queried Ingram Spark customer support about the missing art work etc and they said it might take up to four weeks for all that to show up. Odd...

Thanks, Paul. I think reading pieces at random is probably a good approach. It would make a nice bedside book.

Oh btw, Stu: you said something about doing a book signing at P&P. Last week I listened to a web presentation about marketing your book and laughed when they said "If you don't patronize your local independent bookstore, do not present yourself at their door wanting to have a signing." Ouch. Guilty. I ought to patronize them, but everything I want would be a special order and require two trips there (one to order, one to pick it up). And someone told me they charge for special orders now.

That might have more to do with the monitor than the book.

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I was reading the blog on my kindle fire and wanted to respond to something, so I opened my laptop because it easier to write here. Since I just happened to have them both on LODW, I noticed that the background looks completely different on the two devices.

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That's funny. On my little Toshiba, it's gray--almost bluish gray. Or at least it was until I just put it next to the phone, on which it is really bluish gray, which made the computer look more yellowish. On the Kindle Fire, It's completely different. It's a greenish beige. It's pretty much that way on my bigger laptop and on the book.

Is this like the black blue gold white dress?

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I had to do annoying things with my money, like spend it on my children's education, instead of my own amusement and enjoyment. Humph! But finally, as you know, I bought it (through Amazon), and it arrived yesterday.

I've read several essays, somewhat at random, and they were all enjoyable. I laughed out loud at various bits e.g. in "Idiot Wind" (which I thought was hilarious) and actually cried over bits in a couple of the essays about men and women. "Apes with Violins" was just as good as I remembered it.

It really is nice to be able to flick through them in book form.

Congratulations!

Thank you. I'm of course delighted that you're enjoying it.