Thursday no-roadkill report, with added books

[jhetley]

Rain overnight, with the prospect of New! Clean! Dry! Canadian Imperialist Infiltrator air. So, once the roads started to dry out a bit, I headed out for my bike ride. Not _totally_ roadkill-free, I saw a squashed garter snake out in the bog, but it was a small snake.

Water up over the road through the bog again, in August. Usually that's a spring thing, shows you how wet the year has been. Or maybe the beavers have plugged a culvert. And the air is _not_ dry yet. I came back rather damp.

Further along the lines of DRAGON'S TEETH, I received a couple of review copies via Fed Ex this morning. It is now a bound quasi-bookish object, although Ace doesn't go whole hog and put real covers on the things. Just gray cardboard. Wonder how many books you have to sell to get real covers on ARCs?

15.31 miles, 1:03:25

Comments

[iamjw.livejournal.com]

Well, it's definitely new and clean(ish), but based on today I'm not sure it will be exactly dry. Mind you, we're working on it.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Wonder how many books you have to sell to get real covers on ARCs?

More than Terry Pratchett did a few years back.

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

Wonder how many books you have to sell to get real covers on ARCs?
Does anybody get real covers on their ARCs? I'd thought they were supposed to be proto-books, rather than the real thing.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I've seen a few. One was Diana Wynne Jones, although I can't remember the title. Had the preliminary disclaimer on it and all, not for sale, but a real cover.