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• brucecohenpdx commented on Where to get signed copies of "Rule 34"
  UPS tracking reports my copy is in Portland and on a truck for delivery. This seems unlikely, as it's 9:30 in the evening, and that's the same status it showed at 2 PM this afternoon. My guess is that, as it's Saturday evening and there's no delivery on Sunday or Monday (it's US Independence Day, when we celebrate being invaded by truly lame aliens who do manage to disintegrate the White House), the package will arrive sometime Tuesday. I can wait (impatiently). And I'll be at Powell's in August, asking you to sign it, unless I have to go back...
• Charlie Stross commented on Where to get signed copies of "Rule 34"
  I read in Phoenix once, a couple of years ago. I'm not going there under my own steam ever again: climate sucks, inaccessible without aircraft or a long drive, and so on. (This might come as a surprise to you, but I've got other things to do than tour small towns a long way from home doing readings. For one thing, I find it very hard to write while I'm travelling. For another, the actual profit from doing a signing in a medium-sized city is probably around 10% of the cost of getting there, staying overnight in a cheap hotel,...
• Charlie Stross commented on Where to get signed copies of "Rule 34"
  SD is, alas, about 500 miles south of anywhere I'm going this year. Except possibly Hong Kong....
• Charlie Stross commented on Where to get signed copies of "Rule 34"
  Usual mixup with official release dates? I got my (english, trade paperback, via amazon.de) copy 10 days ago. It looks to me as if the embargo on shipping English language copies didn't get applied outside USA/UK. (Not to worry, the SecretBookPolice will be along in a few hours to confiscate your copy ...! :)...
• Charlie Stross commented on Where to get signed copies of "Rule 34"
  COSine is my only current planned North America trip of 2012 so far. (I hope to be at the worldcon in Chicago, but I won't be making my usual February trip to Boston because I'm guest of honour at a convention in Glasgow the weekend after Boskone -- the jet lag would be epic)....