Book Sale ‘Nam–Destroy to Protect
Jeff VanderMeer • September 21st, 2007 @ 6:44 pm • Uncategorized
So, it goes something like this: you get the Gaiman bomb dropped on you and you spend all day pulling books, and you’re not complaining but you finally understand that the house is going to look a lot worse before it gets better. We actually had a local orderer and he came over to get his books to save the shipping, and I’m sure we looked like translucent cave animals in a cave made of books, twitchy and hopped up on caffeine and endorphins.
This is what a house looks like at this stage. But, hopefully, by Monday, everything will be processed that’s come in so far and we’ll be more back to normal.
September 21, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Gaiman Bomb!
September 21, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Holy crap! Man, and I thought my apartment looked bad when I did the book sale before moving to Singapore; you win.
Good luck with all the orders; I know how tedious and time-consuming yet necessary it is.
September 21, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Oh, I dunno. It’s time-consuming, but not tedious. We have been putting in cool little extras–single issue comics, all kinds of things, so that’s fun.
jeff
September 21, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Well, how many books were you selling? We’re selling 1,300 plus, in addition to having organized and catalogued our other 5-6,000 books. Not to mention the stuff in the storage unit. Oy.
JV
September 23, 2007 at 8:42 am
You know a lit match would have solved your book problem a hell of a lot faster…
I DID NOT SAY THAT.
September 23, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Wow. Spoken like a true ninja assassin.
September 23, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Oy? I don’t know. All those books . . . looks like a little piece of heaven to me.
Tess: Maybe Mr. VanderMeer’s got a copy of Fahrenheit 451 in there somewhere for you . . .