The World More Full of Weeping — Available NOW!!!
June 18th, 2009(There's a whole blog post to be written about just how flippin' cool this whole thing is with the new book, but right now I'm going to stick to the cold hard facts)
The limited edition of The World More Full of Weeping, my new novella, is available for pre-order NOW.
That order page is pretty straightforward, but I'm going to lay it out for you here as well (with a little extra information, in the spirit of full disclosure):
The World More Full of Weeping is going to be available this fall in two editions: a limited edition hardcover, and a trade paperback.
The limited edition hardcover:
– will include the novella The World More Full of Weeping
– will include an essay (Places and Names) which explores Henderson (the town in which the novella is set), my writing process, and how a ritual human sacrifice created a whole community
– and will include a previously unpublished story, The Small Rain Down, also set in Henderson, which will NOT appear in the trade paperback.
– the limited edition hardcover will be, duh, a hardcover, signed by the author and the cover artist (Erik Mohr, and damn but didn't he do a good job!), and numbered.
– the limited edition will only be available for 60 days.
That's right, 60 days. The size of the edition will be determined by the number of pre-orders placed in that 60 day period. Ergo, if 50 people order the book, 50 copies will be printed, and copies will be numbered x/50. If 73 people order, 73 copies will be printed, and copies will be numbered x/73.
– the pre-order period will run from mid-June (NOW!) to mid-August. Following the end of the pre-order period, the books will be printed, names will be signed, and they will be delivered in late October/early November.
– the limited edition is $35 US. (I have to be honest: at first that price gave me pause. My natural insecurity balked, and then I realized: a previously unpublished novella, essay and story, signed and numbered, a beautiful little edition… Hell, I'd buy that! After all, I've spent WAY more than that on other limited editions. And just yesterday I spent double that on the Folio Edition of AS Byatt's Possession, a book which I already have 2 or 3 copies of… Ah, book people…)
– does that all make sense? If it doesn't, please ask me for clarification.
The trade paperback edition:
– will include the novella The World More Full of Weeping and the essay Places and Names
– will be published in mid-September
– will be somewhere less than $15.
– will be available in bookstores across Canada (fingers crossed), and in the usual on-line haunts.
So, to summarize:
limited edition hardcover: available now through mid-August, will be released late October/early November (but if you want it, you gotta get it now!)
trade paperback edition: available mid-September, at a bookstore near you!
Again, if you have any questions, let me know!
