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Where do you get your Hinterland?

Sax

11:34 / 10.04.06

I'm sticking this in Convo because I'd like a quick turnaround then it can (Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc) just blow away....

Did you buy my critically-acclaimed and moistness-inducing debut novel, Hinterland, published a year ago by Immanion Press? If so, can you either post here as to where you bought it (bookshop, amazon, other online retailer etc etc) or PM me if you'd rather not admit to purchasing it in public.

Just trying to get a handle on where stuff's selling and where it's not.

Cheers.

lonely as a cloud...

11:48 / 10.04.06

I had it specially ordered from Waterstones. My local bookshop, Chapters, couldn't get a proper copy of it, only a print-to-order jobby (I imagined that wouldn't have been nicely bound with the proper cover and whatnot - am I correct?)

So, anyway - what's the deal with novels 2 and 3, and did anything come out of your agent talking to that production company about making a TV show of Hinterland?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:11 / 10.04.06

Think it was Amazon.

Mistoffelees

12:13 / 10.04.06

I haven´t bought it yet. I´m always buying books, and then I´m not reading them. I could slow this down a bit by putting books on my amazon wishlist, instead of buying them instantly.

This doesn´t work all the time though. Yesterday I was in a kiosk and saw and immeditately bought Wächter des Tages, the second novel by Sergej Lukianenko after Ночной Дозор Night Watch.

But I´ll put your novel on my wish list.

Spaniel

12:25 / 10.04.06

I got it from Amazon

foot long subbacultcha

13:18 / 10.04.06

amazon

Alex's Grandma

13:21 / 10.04.06

Local bookshop - they ordered it in.

Mourne Kransky

13:39 / 10.04.06

Bartered for it with a fierce warrior missing a right breast. Cost me two feminum bracelets and a magic lasso but it was worth it.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

13:40 / 10.04.06

I got it through the library I work at, who in turn got it from Holt Jackson. Does that screw up your pretty graph or pie chart?

Sax

13:50 / 10.04.06

What's Holt Jackson?

illmatic

14:03 / 10.04.06

Haven't brought it yet - is there anywhere you like me to try as an experiment?

Ariadne

Amazon here too.

amazon again

Borrowed from Library - but got them to buy it in, where ever local council libraries buy books from...

Haus of Mystery

16:59 / 10.04.06

Got mine at the remaindered book shop.

Only joking.

Mysterious Transfer Student

17:27 / 10.04.06

From Amazon - as a wishlisted Christmas present from my sister. Meaning that your next novel will come up as a recommendation for her when she logs in, no doubt baffling her as she'll have forgotten what she bought me. (Not a slur on either my lovely sister or the memorableness of Sax's writings - just the truth of the matter, given that I can hardly remember 90% of the gifts I give or receive and pretty much tend to assume that others are similarly forgetful.)

Mourne Kransky

17:53 / 10.04.06

Shame on you, Mistoffelees. Sax has a wife, two kids, two cats and a cocaine habit to sustain off Hinterland sales. Plus I give him special rates, him being a famous author and all, but I still charge the going rate for an hour of my sexual favours.

Mistoffelees

17:55 / 10.04.06

offtopic

@Fat Lee
That bothered me about amazon. But you can open a list, where amazon lists everything you ever bought, and that´s the list they use for their recommendations. You can edit=delete everything (what you bought as a present for example), so you only get recommendations for books you like.

/offtopic

Mistoffelees

17:59 / 10.04.06

Is special rates the same as fancy rats?

Happy Dave Has Left

09:13 / 11.04.06

Amazonian here

Ariadne

09:31 / 11.04.06

Of course, this is just a sly ruse to find out who's bought it at all. Then Sax will put everyone else on ignore.

Whisky Priestess

10:32 / 11.04.06

charity shop

Sax

10:41 / 11.04.06

Really? That's quite cool.

Smoothly

10:47 / 11.04.06

Sax has a book out?

Sax

10:55 / 11.04.06

Yes, I know. I don't really like to mention it much.

Whisky Priestess

12:52 / 11.04.06

Sax - innit? I think it must have been a review copy. Charity shops truly have all the best literature - I managed to fill my entire reading list for this term, (including obscure Thai author) bar one book, from the Kentish Town Oxfam.

Smoothly

13:16 / 11.04.06

Well, it does help that you’re doing a joint honours in Maeve Binchy and Fad Diets.

Amazon.

Don't forget my minor in Holistic Massage (using only broken-up ex-Christmas "gift" sets of bath oil and hand cream from Boots).

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