the sad tale of a wandering ARC
Jan. 12th, 2008 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kateelliottA copy of the ARC (Advanced Readers Copy)--aka an Uncorrected Proof--of Shadow Gate is up on eBay.
ARCs are generally sent out to potential reviewers, in the hopes of generating a review to help stoke and enflame reader interest in an upcoming book. I happen to know that the ARCs for ShG did not go out very long ago, so clearly this one came in to some person on some list and was promptly tossed online for a quick buck.
The upside: presumably the person who purchases this ARC is looking forward to reading it. Unless they have some reason to believe that it is an investment whose appreciation will fund their child's college education, in which case I have a bridge to sell them.
Anyway, ARCS for Shadow Gate are out there making their way through the cold, cruel world, which means that the published book is due in bookstores in another--what?--three months. Which means I need to get busy on book three.
Marit was pretty sure she had been murdered. She recalled vividly the assassin’s dagger that had punctured her skin, thrust up under her ribs, and pierced her heart. Any reeve--and Marit was a reeve--could tell you that was a killing blow, a certain path to a swift death. In the moment when life must pass over into death and the spirit depart the body, the misty outlines of the Spirit Gate unfold. The passage between this world and the other world had opened within her dying vision. But her spirit had not made the journey.
ARCs are generally sent out to potential reviewers, in the hopes of generating a review to help stoke and enflame reader interest in an upcoming book. I happen to know that the ARCs for ShG did not go out very long ago, so clearly this one came in to some person on some list and was promptly tossed online for a quick buck.
The upside: presumably the person who purchases this ARC is looking forward to reading it. Unless they have some reason to believe that it is an investment whose appreciation will fund their child's college education, in which case I have a bridge to sell them.
Anyway, ARCS for Shadow Gate are out there making their way through the cold, cruel world, which means that the published book is due in bookstores in another--what?--three months. Which means I need to get busy on book three.
Marit was pretty sure she had been murdered. She recalled vividly the assassin’s dagger that had punctured her skin, thrust up under her ribs, and pierced her heart. Any reeve--and Marit was a reeve--could tell you that was a killing blow, a certain path to a swift death. In the moment when life must pass over into death and the spirit depart the body, the misty outlines of the Spirit Gate unfold. The passage between this world and the other world had opened within her dying vision. But her spirit had not made the journey.