Post-Boskone: Sibyls & Spaceships online orders now live

[gerisullivan]

During the Boskone Dead Dog party, sfrose updated the NESFA Press e-commerce site and asked papersky to post an announcement on her LiveJournal. A few minutes later, the orders started arriving. Actually, the first one showed up just before Jo posted -- someone was watching very closely, or was just plain lucky.

Monday afternoon, I went to the NESFA Clubhouse to help unload the truck as much as I could. That turned out not to be very much -- my left knee is pretty much fully recovered, but four consecutive days of 15,000+ steps following the previous week of taking it really easy left both of my knees tender and not working all that well today. The right knee in particular is really unhappy, probably because it's been doing the heavy lifting while I compensated for the bum left knee.

Okay, enough of that. I cleaned coolers, pulled heavy road cases, pushed flatbed carts, and did whatever else didn't require me to climb stairs while carrying things. And because I was curious, sfrose let me help by sorting the e-commerce orders that came in since Saturday afternoon while she worked on the Wednesday night-Friday batch and the Friday-Saturday batch.

My batch contained a satisfying stack of orders for Sibyls & Spaceships and Lifelode. My favorite part was seeing where they came from. In the first 18 hours of online sales, NESFA Press received orders for the Walton GoH publications from 14 states and 2 foreign countries: CA, MO, CO, NJ, VA, MA, TX, NM, DC, WA, NY, ID, NC, and IL, plus Australia and the United Kingdom. Please note, I jotted the location info on a piece of scrap paper and didn't double-check it -- I could well have missed a state or country (or two) in there.

Not bad considering that it was nighttime in most US time zones for at least half of those 18 hours. Not bad at all.

Comments

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

You saw mine, then!

[tanac.livejournal.com]

and mine :)

[papersky.livejournal.com]

That's because I have friends all over the world. (The canonical next line is "None in this country, but all over the world!" Tony Hancock.)

[thirdworld.livejournal.com]

For me, "Next year Jerusalem," has become many things. This year I go home, after many "Next years," and one of the things on that ever-growing list is Boskone. One year I'll get there. One year my finances will be in order. Maybe next year.

[decadentdave.livejournal.com]

Just wonderin'...

My friend France bought a copy of the "Music Teller" print in the Boscone art show on the weekend. This is Robert Pasternak's print of me singing to children, I'm not sure if you recall it. France didn't realize it was actually me in the print. Now I'm curious as to how the print might have got there. I'm thinking, if anyone knows you might know.

Any thoughts?

Many hugs.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Dave, that was my print of "Music Teller" -- it was one of 12 framed pieces of art I put in Boskone resale section of the art show as part of my "Shop at Geri's" debt reduction program. Three sold, and thanks to your comment, I now know who all three pieces went to.

I'll miss having the image here on my office wall, but I won't miss having the debt even more!

[cogitationitis.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly certain that there's a bunch of people out there who 'watch' the nesfapress page.

[decadentdave.livejournal.com]

That is so cool! I willl be sure to tell France. I love the idea that the print has gone from one great home to another. I'm not so glad to hear that you are struggling just now.

Loads of hugs. Sadly I can't make it to Minicon this year but I will be at Balticon at the end of May. any chance you might be there?

[sethb.livejournal.com]

But I doubt most watching software checks every few minutes.