Quick and perky mailing update.

[seanan_mcguire]

1. I have mailed the first three "delivery by post office" chapbooks. They're going to, respectively, California, New Hampshire, and...Australia. Sometimes the distance my work has managed to travel genuinely astonishes me. (I'm still giggling over how fast the chapbooks went away once I posted them. Zoom!)

2. I have mailed a restock of Stars Fall Home off to the nice people at CDBaby. (My first two CDs—Pretty Little Dead Girl and Stars Fall Home—are now distributed entirely by People Who Are Not Me. This is for the sake of my sanity, as well as for the sake of the folks at my local post office. You can still order Red Roses and Dead Things through my website, but that isn't going to last for long.)

3. As part of my "do all your damn mailing already" campaign, I'm going to be mailing any pending CD orders on Monday, when I mail the prizes for the LOLtest (voting is still open through tomorrow, so please vote). I currently have three CDs in "confirmed and good to ship" status. If you've ordered and have never received a "payment confirmed" email, please ping me so we can try to fix it. If you haven't ordered, now is basically the perfect time to do it and be semi-guaranteed quick delivery of your CD. (I say "semi" because I'm the Rain King, not the Mail Queen.)

4. In other news, Piglet mailed me candy corn. Piglet is now my new best friend.

It's good to be the Princess of Halloween.

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I truly don't understand how you got home from DucKon with chapbooks. Granted, you were pretty much the polar opposite of the pushy huckster with them, but I have a super-power level of obliviousness and I knew you had them, and I got one; further, my mom, who is a second-hand Seanan stalker, picked up mine, looked at it for a couple of minutes, and had to buy her own because it's so awesome. I guess, rather than be troubled by the incomprehensibility of the universe, I should just happily gloat that I've got mine.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

becuz we is all broke. woe. no prettypretty chapbooks for us.

[angel-vixen.livejournal.com]

This. And there was much sadness and gnashing of teeth.

AngelVixen :-)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Brokeness slays a lot of us this season. :(

[princess-kessie.livejournal.com]

Seanan came home with chapbooks because there are poor saps like me in Australia (yes, I'm *that* Aussie) who will never get the chance to see her in person* and thus have to be content with her wordporn poetry and her music. Which, while not as good as the Real Thing^TM, is awesomeness itself. ^_^



*Yes, I know there is every chance she may make it Down Under next year, but that also assumes I can get across the other side of the country to see her...

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I intend to spend about a month in Australia, possibly with my mother in tow. So there is hope! And in the meanwhile, your chapbook is en route, and will keep you company quite soon.

[princess-kessie.livejournal.com]

*loves*

Australia is a big-ass place - and rather pricey to travel across (although coming from the US, your dollar will certainly go further than ours did going over there :/). However, I will never give up hope :)

(I still can't get over the fact you've turned me into a squeeing fangirl *facepalm*)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, I know how big Australia is...intellectually, at least. I'm still trying to figure out where I want to go and how I want to get there; I'm acting under the assumption that I won't get back for years, just to be sure I hit what really matters to me on the first go.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I don't pushy huckster very well. Or, really, "at all." I figure I'll put things out there, and if people take them, that's awesome. I do better when I have Kate with me, but that's because Kate is a different sort of force of nature. (Seriously, if I brought her to SDCC, I'd be able to buy a yacht by the end of the convention.)

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Truly, I'm grateful that you're not the pushy huckster. I hate being the huckster myself when I have stuff to sell, and I hate being on the receiving end of marketing. I just hope that when people like you do make something awesome, the world isn't so deafened by all the screams of "buy this! buy that!" that they fail to notice unless you add to the din.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I find that quiet and perky gets me a lot more long-run and repeat sales. I am content with my lot.

[the-onion-girl.livejournal.com]

I missed out on the bids for your chapbooks. Are there plans to have more available at some later date?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Not currently. Both the chapbooks I've done so far have been self-published as convention exclusives; they're hand-sewn, which means I can only wheedle Beckett into putting so many of them together before she starts chasing me with a fire-axe.

I'll probably eventually wind up with another one, because I've met me, but right now, the blisters from the last one have yet to fade.