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Tomorrow (Wed. 8th of SEPTEMBER! Not AUGUST!) I'll be doing a book signing in the evening at Flights of Fantasy (www.fof.net). Mountain Magic is the main subject; I'll see if I can bring a couple copies of DK with me, but it's actually becoming unavailable unless Jim reprints it soon...

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Unless you mean the 8th of September, rather than the 8th of August, would you mind sharing your time travel secret with us?

BAH. Fixed it. I just don't WANT time moving that fast.

And congrats for the book selling enough to start becoming unavailable! I'm hoping this means good things for the royalties you're getting from it?

Alas, it doesn't work that way. Unless Jim reprints, I believe that I will never see royalties on DK. I *think* I need to sell about 11,000 books to "earn out" the advance. 10,000 were printed.

("Why the hell would he not print enough for both of you to make money?" you ask? Well, it's simple; because to print PBs affordably priced, you print them... in lots of 10,000. So his real choice was print 10k or 20k.)

So Jim now has to decide if he wants to bet that, over the next (say) 3 years he can sell several thousand more. If he thinks he can, then (and only then) will he reprint.