I love days like this!
Because I am that much closer to reading a book I’ve been wanting for a year now!
David Anthony Durham, the author of the extremely well-received Acacia, now has Advanced Reader Copies of his new book, The Other Lands!
What does that mean? It means the rest of us will be getting a chance to read the book as it is dispersed into the ether. I’m sure my copy will arrive soon for maintaining David’s website, but ARCs are also sent to bookstores and to book reviewers. Often many of these end up for sale on eBay.com or abebooks.com—despite them not being for sale. The good thing: Most of those people who “buy” the ARCs will also buy the hardback book, which makes it semi-legal like downloading music you already own on CD.
So if you go after one of these ARCs and read The Other Lands, make sure you do it right! Buy the hardback book when it is released on September 15th and give the writer his due!
And The Signed Page might just have signed copies of The Other Lands! More on that later though.
In the meantime, keep your eyes open!
I definitely looking forward to (hopefully) getting an ARC, too, but I'm sure it's a done-deal for you, Shawn. :-) This will be one of the most eagerly awaited books of 09, right up there with A Dance of Dragons, The Desert Spear and The Gathering Storm!
Don't forget Wise Man's Fear possibly! Man, we are going to have a great fall season if all of those books come out...
... wink, wink, nudge, nudge, George! ;)