Books, books, books, not to mention actual reality
Okay, patient people. With some luck your patience might soon pay off and I’ll be back to regular blogging. Friday, I’m scheduled — for the second time — to get Internet at home.
That’s the good news. The bad news is … it’s via Comcast. And opinions on Comcast (oh, thank you, G.W.F.) are so very cheery. However, Comcast was my only alternative. So there it is. If all comes together as hoped, you should see more of me after Monday.
And here’s more in the patience-will-be-rewarded category: By October, I should have two new books out!
One you know about. Backwoods Home should be publishing my Hardyville story-column compilation. I’m guessing when I say October. But it’ll be soon.
The other … well, that one was news even to me until a week ago. The good people at Paladin Press (who took over my titles from Loompanics when that late, great publisher closed its doors) out of the blue asked me if I could put something together for them in very short order. Like, something they could publish before the November elections. Something … er, about good citizenship.
I said, “You sure you want me to write about good citizenship? You’re not mixing me up with somebody else? You know, somebody who actually is a good citizen?”
But nope. Donna and Peder at Paladin knew exactly what they wanted. And I’ll do my best to give it to them, and you. So look for The Bad Attitude Guide to Good Citizenship around mid-October. It will consist, in part, of a compilation of my S.W.A.T. magazine columns — none of which have ever appeared anywhere other than in the printed magazine — and in part of new material, with a few bits adapted from my bloggery.
But now, it’s back to de-cobwebbing my new old house while the roofing guy scrapes moss off the shakes and rids the roof of decades of other strange excrescences …
September 1st, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Good thing the blog doesn’t have sound. Panting and drooling! By Oct I may even be wiggling and squeaking. Keep us posted please for a book bomb date or some such event.
September 1st, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Very cool, Claire! Congratulations!
September 1st, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Excrescences? Definitely a contender for vocabulary of the day.
September 1st, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Hurray for books!!
September 2nd, 2010 at 12:27 am
Shelf space has been allocated :)
September 2nd, 2010 at 5:05 am
Yay! I’ll even stoop to dead trees for “The Bad Attitude Guide to Good Citizenship”. I read books on my iPhone these days, when possible.
September 2nd, 2010 at 6:18 am
Love that badass title! Wonderful news. Felicitations!
September 2nd, 2010 at 6:42 am
Claire, congratulations on the new books. I look forward to them. I do hope your experience with Comcast is better than mine has been. I am sure there are worse things than Comcast, although the only thing that currently springs to mind is possible gonorrhea :-)
Be careful of the pricing insanity. Somehow my “19.95 high-speed internet” ends up costing me $62/month. This does include the most basic cable service (which is $16.95 of that), but if I drop basic cable, my service is “no longer bundled”, so my total bill for only internet will be $64! Yup, get less and pay more. A pricing structure only the sadistic voodoo accountants at Comcast could ever understand.
September 2nd, 2010 at 6:42 am
I can’t wait… but I’ll be broke in October so……….. Bill… May I borrow your copy?
September 2nd, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Let’s see… take all books off three bookcases. Dust, organize by category, author and toss one or two… er, maybe I’ll keep them downstairs just in case.
Hmmm, still no more room on the bookcases. I KNOW! I’ll buy another bookcase!!! Problem solved. :)
Now… where am I going to put the new bookcase? There’s got to be a way to do this…
September 2nd, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Hope you have my luck with Comcast. I’ve had it for 3+ years, and it has worked fine for me.
I’m new here, as you might have figured out. I learned of you, Claire, when you were published in Lew Rockwell’s blog.
I enjoy your blog.
September 4th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
PKL. Remind me then, and, when I’m done, I’ll be happy to loan it to you.
September 4th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
This is great news! I’m quite fond of the SWAT mag articles you write so the new book sounds right up my alley…
September 5th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Claire,
Knowing you like flashlights, I figured you might like to hear about this:
http://www.gizmag.com/rechargeable-led-lightglobe/16265/
This is a good idea for an emergency torch.
September 6th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Oh, there you go J. Baumann … feeding my gadgetry jones. :-)
That’s exceptionally cool — as both a flashlight and a household light. Must have several of those. Must find out more precisely what they cost …
And though I haven’t had much time to respond to comments lately … thank you all for the good wishes on the new books. Gotta go work on the Paladin book right now, but will keep you posted when I know any more details about release dates & such.