CarrollBlog 5.13
eBay is amazing. I have not even seen the finished cover of the American edition of THE GHOST IN LOVE, but I just learned some enterprising soul is already selling a bound galley of my new book on eBay. Come one, come all-- Buy your GHOST for only five dollah! Get it half a year before that masterpiece hits the stores! It's always interesting to see what these bound galleys fetch at auction. Some people collect them religiously-- the Completists. The ones who want every edition of every book by an author. Other people just like to read a favorite writer's new book as soon as it's available and the bound galley is usually the first one out. Aesthetically they're nice to hold and read-- the same size as the hardback, but with a soft cover they're less bulky. Plus how hip you are when seen on a bus reading the cool new novel *months* before anyone else gets to see it.
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Tonight my voice will stare at you forever...
I click on SEND,
And send you this perfumed, magic hour.
Frederick Seidel
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a weird one from BS:
http://colorwar2008.com/submissions/youngnow